Bonus, disclosure, and choice: What motivates the creation of high-quality paid reviews?

International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1763-1777

  Wang, Jing ^a   Ghose, Anindya ^a   Ipeirotis, Panagiotis G ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Betweensubjects experiment; Choice freedom; Completion contingent rewards; Econometric analyses; Performancecontingent rewards; Review quality; Sponsorship disclosure; User generated content

Indexed keywords

CHOICE FREEDOM; COMPLETION-CONTINGENT REWARDS; ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCECONTINGENT REWARDS; REVIEW QUALITY; SPONSORSHIP DISCLOSURE; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84886526501     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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