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Notes

  1. http://www.goldcorp.com/.

  2. http://www.dm.de.

  3. http://www.netflix.com.

  4. http://www.telstra.com.au.

  5. http://www.microsoft.com.

  6. http://www.dell.de.

  7. http://www.brainpool.de.

  8. http://www.dhl.de.

  9. https://www.freelancer.com.

  10. http://www.testbirds.de.

  11. http://99designs.com.

  12. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/18/volunteers-british-museum-crowdsourcing-archeology.

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Acknowledgments

The authors express their gratitude to the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung (HBS), the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) for assistance in writing this article. This catchword was composed as part of the project “Crowd Work – Arbeiten in der Wolke” financed by the Hans-Böckler Stiftung.

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  1. Information Systems, University of Kassel, Pfannkuchstrasse 1, 34121, Kassel, Germany

    David Durward &  Jan Marco Leimeister

  2. Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen, Unterer Graben 21, 9000, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Ivo Blohm &  Jan Marco Leimeister

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Durward, D., Blohm, I. & Leimeister, J.M. Crowd Work. Bus Inf Syst Eng 58, 281–286 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-016-0438-0

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