An optimal charging strategy for crowdsourcing platforms

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an optimal charging strategy for a third-party crowdsourcing platform. Design/methodology/approach Based on the auction theory, the Stackelberg game theory and the systems theory, this paper presents a new model from the perspective of risk sharing between solution seekers and the crowdsourcing platform, given the utility maximization of the seekers, the crowdsourcing platform and the solvers....