This paper essays an approach to the emergence of new business models based in collective intelligence through the inclusion of crowdsourcing in business processes. To contextualize this phenomenon, we present a brief sate of art, highlighting some key terms fundamental to understand collective intelligence and its impact in the business environment and on how organizations are changing the way...

This paper examines agency as a mechanism that can predict cultural differences in human motivation. In elaborating on the theory of self-construal (Markus & Kitayama, 1991) and drawing on past research on culture, we propose that people from cultures stressing independence are more personally agentic, whereas people from cultures stressing interdependence are more collectively agentic—which re...

Recent research has hypothesized that empowerment can arise from collective action through collective self-objectification (CSO), defined as action that actualizes participants' social identity against the power of dominant groups. Activists (N = 37) described several experiences that made them feel empowered (and disempowered). Among the various explanations they offered for these feelings, th...

The authors aim at illuminating several fundamental and powerful yet theoretically obscure aspects of collective actions in social media. The reader will gain an advanced and deepen our understanding of collective action in the new generation of (ICT) enabled by Web 2.0, also referred to as social media, to help critical decision and policy making. The developed theories will be a valuable and ...

Although substantial research has explored the emergence of collective intelligence in real-time human-based collaborative systems, much of this work has focused on rigid scenarios such as the Prisoner’s Dilemma (PD). (Pinheiro et al., 2012; Santos et al., 2012). While such work is of great research value, there’s a growing need for a flexible real-world platform that fosters collective intelli...

This research elaborated and empirically tested the individual action component of the collective action model as applied to individual contributions to organizational information commons. The model extended prior theory and research by making six elaborations on the classic collective action model based on unique characteristics of information goods compared to material collective goods. The s...