Selection of crowdsourcing formats: simultaneous contest vs sequential contest

Purpose The online crowdsourcing has been widely applied in the practice. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the all-pay auction contest in crowdsourcing, wherein a seeker posts a task online and the solvers decide whether to participate in the contest and in what extent to spend efforts on their submissions. Design/methodology/approach The authors specifically consider two classic contest formats: simultaneous contest and sequential...