The hidden cost of accommodating crowdfunder privacy preferences: A randomized field experiment

Management Science

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 949-962

  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

Anonymity; Crowdfunding; Priming; Privacy; Randomized experiment

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; DATA PRIVACY;

ANONYMITY; CONTROL MECHANISM; CROWDFUNDING; INFORMATION CONTROL; ONLINE PLATFORMS; PRIMING; PRIVACY PREFERENCES; RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84928975497     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2014.2069     Document Type: Article

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