An empirical examination of users' information hiding in a crowdfunding context

International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2013): Reshaping Society Through Information Systems Design

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 343-361

  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

Anchoring; Crowdfunding; Information hiding; Privacy; Social comparison

Indexed keywords

ANCHORING; ANCHORING EFFECTS; CROWDFUNDING; ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES; EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION; INFORMATION CONTROL; INFORMATION HIDING; SOCIAL COMPARISON;

DATA PRIVACY; HARDWARE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84897740969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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