Prosuming, or when customers turn collaborators: coordination and motivation of customer contribution

  • This article investigates the phenomenon of increasing integration of customers and users into the organizational creation of value, focusing primarily on the dissolving boundaries between production and consumption. Concepts such as "prosuming", the "working customer", "produsing" and "interactive value creation" have been used to describe this phenomenon. Within the framework of a research project at the Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, this debate was investigated theoretically as well as empirically in three case studies. The research question is as follows: Why do customers participate in "new types of prosuming" or "interactive value creation" and how are these processes coordinated by the firms? The results show a considerable range of motives and forms of coordination: The customers’ primary motives to voluntarily assume tasks and activities were both intrinsic and extrinsic in nature. The organizational models identified range from strategies of rationalization to prosuming as a basic business model to the collaborative and interactive value creation between the company and the web-community.

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Author:Birgit Blättel-MinkORCiDGND, Raphael Menez, Dirk Dalichau, Daniel Kahnert
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-115013
ISBN:978-3-86395-020-0
Parent Title (German):New forms of collaborative innovation and production on the internet : an interdisciplinary perspective
Publisher:Universitätsverlag Göttingen c/o SUB Göttingen
Place of publication:Göttingen
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2011/09/08
Year of first Publication:2011
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2011/09/08
Page Number:25
First Page:153
Last Page:176
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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License 3.0 “by-nd”, allowing you to download, distribute and print the document in a few copies for private or educational use, given that the document stays unchanged and the creator is mentioned. You are not allowed to sell copies of the free version.
Source:In: New forms of collaborative innovation and production on the internet : an interdisciplinary perspective, S. 153-176
HeBIS-PPN:276334019
Institutes:Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0