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A Systems View Across Time and Space

Table 1 Comparison between the current article and related works

From: Hack your organizational innovation: literature review and integrative model for running hackathons

Articles

The current article (2022)

Komssi et al. (2014)

Pe-Than et al. (2018)

Olesen and Halskov (2020)

Valença et al. (2020)

Jaakola et al. (2021)

Criteria

      

Focus

State-of-the-art review on planning and executing hackathons in a step-by-step fashion

Non-systematic review of hackathons in the technology and software domains

Non-systematic review on how to design hackathons in light of specific goals

Review of the hackathons’ usage in research

A systematic review focusing on corporate hackathons in the IT industry

Case study on how to execute short-term events in the tech and software domain in a step-by-step fashion

Methodology

A systematic review of the literature

Non-systematic review of the literature and case studies

Non-systematic review of the literature and case studies

A systematic review of the literature

A systematic review of the literature

Case study

Does it offer a process model?

 

x

 

x

  

Stages of the process model

Divided into pre-, during-, and post-event guidelines, emphasizing project continuity

N/A

Divided into design choices and strategies based on goals

N/A

Divided into pre-, during-, and post-event guidelines

Divided into pre-, during-, and post-event guidelines

Main Contribution

Offers an in-depth, research- and practitioner-oriented, step-by-step model on how to best execute hackathons (regardless of domain or subject) and secure their success and continuation based on empirical literature

Details how hackathons are commonly used in the technology domains and describes such hackathons, their challenges, and outcomes

Describes hackathon participants’ and stakeholders’ organizational and personal goals and provides design guidelines on how to best achieve them

Maps how hackathons are used as both tools for research and subjects of research based on empirical literature

Focuses on corporate hackathons and offers a step-by-step model on how to execute them and secure their success based on empirical literature

Provides and tests a general step-by-step model on best executing short-term events (of which hackathons are one type)