Chicken and Egg? Interplay between music blog buzz and album sales

PACIS 2009 - 13th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: IT Services in a Global Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Dewan, Sanjeev ^a   Ramprasad, Jui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blogs; Music industry; Social media; Word of mouth

Indexed keywords

BI-DIRECTIONAL; GRANGER CAUSALITY; LEAST SQUARES ANALYSIS; MAKING DECISION; MUSIC INDUSTRY; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWO STAGE; WORD-OF-MOUTH;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SALES;

BLOGS;

EID: 84855703314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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