Impact of wikipedia on market information environment: Evidence on management disclosure and investor reaction

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1043-1068

  Xu, Sean Xin ^a   Zhang, Xiaoquan Michael ^b  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Financial market; Information aggregation; Information environment; Management disclosure; Social media; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FINANCE; FINANCIAL MARKETS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WEBSITES;

INFORMATION AGGREGATION; INFORMATION DISCLOSURE; INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT; MARKET UNCERTAINTY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS; VALUE OF INFORMATION; WIKIPEDIA;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84887483487     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2013/37.4.03     Document Type: Article

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