Cultural differences and geography as determinants of online prosocial lending

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 773-794

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdfunding; Cultural differences; Geography; Microfinance; Prosocial lending

Indexed keywords

STATISTICS;

CROWDFUNDING; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; GEOGRAPHY; MICROFINANCE; PROSOCIAL LENDING;

FINANCE;

EID: 84923413682     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2014/38.3.07     Document Type: Article

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