| Creators: |
Bruckner, Moritz T. and Frenzel, Adeline and Veit, Daniel |
| Title: |
Trust Building and Risk Mitigation via Smart Contracts on Amazon Mechanical Turk |
| Item Type: |
Conference or Workshop Item |
| Event Title: |
(Proceedings of the) 26th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) |
| Event Location: |
Virtual |
| Event Dates: |
August, 15-17, 2020 |
| Projects: |
IDI |
| Type of Paper / Paper No.: |
(ERF) |
| Date: |
2020 |
| Divisions: |
Informationsmanagement |
| Abstract (ENG): |
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) allows organizations and individuals to benefit from a collective source of intelligence, skills and insights from a global population, but MTurk withdraws from responsibilities and the obligation of overlooking payment transactions. Consequently, there is no contractual agreement between the crowd worker and the requester on when payments should be authorized. Requesters even obtain ownership of the work without having to pay for it. This situation of lock-up poses a serious issue for crowd workers. As a solution to this problem, the present study introduces smart contracts to transactions on crowd work platforms, arguing that smart contracts can mitigate risks from lock-up situations and support trust, through non-alterable terms and conditions imprinted into the code of a smart contract. This research conceptualizes an online experimental study to validate the trust building and risk mitigating effects of smart contracts in crowd work transactions on Amazon Mechanical Turk. |
| Forthcoming: |
No |
| Language: |
English |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Smart Contract, Crowd Work, Lock-Up, Trust, Risk, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Experimen |
| Citation: |
Bruckner, Moritz T. and Frenzel, Adeline and Veit, Daniel
(2020)
Trust Building and Risk Mitigation via Smart Contracts on Amazon Mechanical Turk.
In: (Proceedings of the) 26th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), August, 15-17, 2020, Virtual, Paper (ERF).
ISBN 9781733632546
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