PhD defence: Nathan Rietzler

PhD defence: Nathan Rietzler

  
In order to obtain the PhD degree, Nathan Rietzler has submitted his thesis entitled:  

Crowdsourcing Processes and Performance Outcomes 

Crowdsourcing has become a prominent external search method to generate inputs to organizations’ innovation efforts. This thesis investigates how the design of crowdsourcing processes can help to generate ideas and solutions (individual level) that the organization can then evaluate and translate into innovation performance (firm level). The first chapter examines how enabling cooperation between competing individuals influences idea quality and how different cooperative processes alter this idea quality. The second chapter focuses on the influence of competition on how individuals cooperate and the drivers behind these decisions. Moving to the firm level, the last chapter studies the relationship between the use of crowdsourcing as an innovation method and innovation performance, as well as boundary conditions that positively influence this relationship.

Primary Supervisor: 
Professor Christoph Grimpe 

Department of Strategy and Innovation 

Copenhagen Business School 

Secondary Supervisors: 

Associate Professor Marion Poetz 

Department of Strategy and Innovation 

Copenhagen Business School 

Assessment Committee: 

Associate Professor Mercedes Delgado (Chair) 

Department of Strategy and Innovation 

Copenhagen Business School 

Professor Linus Dahlander 

Lufthansa Group Chair in Innovation

ESMT Berlin 

Professor Christoph Ihl 

Institute of Entrepreneurship 

Hamburg University of Technology 

Thesis: 
The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk

Reception: 
The CBS PhD School will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence in Atrium outside the defence room, Kilen.