Crowdsourcing in Logistics

Autor(en)
Andreas Mladenow, Christine Bauer, Christine Strauss
Abstrakt

The introduction of crowdsourcing offers numerous business opportunities. In recent years, manifold forms of crowdsourcing have emerged on the market – also in logistics. Thereby, the ubiquitous availability and sensor-supported assistance functions of mobile devices support crowdsourcing applications, which promotes contextual interactions between users at the right place at the right time. This paper presents the results of an in-depth analysis on crowdsourcing in logistics in the course of ongoing research in the field of location-based crowdsourcing (LBCS). This paper analyzes LBCS for both, ‘classic’ logistics as well as ‘information’ logistics. Real-world examples of crowdsourcing applications are used to underpin the two evaluated types of logistics using crowdsourcing. Potential advantages and challenges of logistics with the crowd (‘crowd-logistics’) are discussed. Accordingly, this paper aims to provide the necessary basis for a novel interdisciplinary research field.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Rechnungswesen, Innovation und Strategie
Externe Organisation(en)
Universität zu Köln
Seiten
244-251
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/2837185.2837242
Publikationsdatum
12-2015
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
502052 Betriebswirtschaftslehre, 102029 Praktische Informatik, 502050 Wirtschaftsinformatik, 502017 Logistik
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Information systems, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Science Applications
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/537c8e91-a89d-4feb-876e-573e22cef421