In a world where funding institutions and venture capitalists dominate the digital product development landscape, crowdfunding engages a global crowd to finance visionary ideas and address underrepresented needs. However, despite recognizing the challenges of managing crowd expectations, there is limited understanding of how developers navigate these challenges following the successful funding of their proposals. This webinar elaborates on a comparative, longitudinal, and in-depth grounded investigation, illuminating the prevalence of "resource adversity" within crowdfunded digital development projects. While adversity compels developers to seek additional funding and advocate for changes in various project aspects, this study offers a perspective that departs from resource-centric viewpoints and emphasizes resourceful decisions to proactively establish resilience, resist precarious changes, and facilitate the release of high-quality products and post-adversity benefits.
As part of Leeds University Business School’s International Women’s Day series, the podcast discusses how women are advancing the field in information systems, and what the challenges of being a woman in the tech industry are.
How can researchers study different perspectives in a systematic yet innovative way? Extant literature suggests that methodological discussions for unpacking and comparing different perspectives are rare. This presentation introduces ‘the adaptive method for comparative causal mapping’. Applicable to various settings, the method provides researchers with analytical capabilities to explore similarities and differences across various perspectives at map level, constructs’ level, and between-constructs’ level. I explain the method through its utilisation in studying ‘How do key stakeholders in agile software development perceive barriers to effective knowledge sharing?’