Putting money where the mouths are: The relation between venture financing and electronic Word-of-Mouth

Information Systems Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3 PART 2, 2012, Pages 976-992

  Aggarwal, Rohit ^a   Gopal, Ram ^b   Gupta, Alok ^c   Singh, Harpreet ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Blogs; Electronic word of mouth; VC funding; Venture funding

Indexed keywords

BLOGS; DECISION MAKING; INVESTMENTS;

ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC WORD OF MOUTHS; ELECTRONIC WORD OF MOUTHS (EWOM); EXTERNAL FINANCINGS; VC FUNDING; VENTURE CAPITAL FINANCINGS; VENTURE CAPITALISTS; VENTURE FUNDING;

FINANCE;

EID: 84871604333     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1110.0402     Document Type: Article

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