Crowdsourcing for a better world: On the relation between IT affordances and donor motivations in charitable crowdfunding

Information Technology and People

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 221-247

  Choy, Katherine ^a   Schlagwein, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affordances; Hermeneutics; Interface design; IT artifact; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958965563     PISSN: 09593845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/ITP-09-2014-0215     Document Type: Article

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