A Synopsis of Enterprise Crowdsourcing literature

In the past few years, researchers have provided a desirable sense of clarity regarding the general term crowdsourcing and what it constitutes. However, with its emergence, several derivatives of the term have appeared in scientific literature. This research article focuses on enterprise crowdsourcing as one of the recent derivatives, which, due to its ambiguity, requires further discussion and clarification. Thus, the article aims to reveal the various nuances of how the term enterprise crowdsourcing is interpreted by diverse scholars. As the term has now gained reasonable momentum in available crowdsourcing literature, it is time to reflect. In this work, a systematic literature review is applied to survey different explanations of the term and to derive its constitutional characteristics. Additionally, the article provides an overview of crowdsourcing applications deployed in an enterprise context for both primary and support activities of the value-added chain. Finally, this paper concludes with suggestions of how to prevent misinterpretation and what key questions should be addressed in future research.