An empirical examination of the antecedents and consequences of contribution patterns in crowd-funded markets

Information Systems Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 499-519

  Burtch, Gordon ^a   Ghose, Anindya ^b   Wattal, Sunil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdfunding; Economics of IS; Electronic commerce

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

CONTRIBUTION BEHAVIORS; CROWDFUNDING; DIGITAL JOURNALISMS; ECONOMIC POTENTIALS; ECONOMICS OF IS; EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION; SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSIONS; SUBSTITUTION MODELS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84884701635     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1120.0468     Document Type: Article

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