Cable news wars on the internet: Competition and user-generated content

Information Systems Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 301-319

  Sabnis, Gaurav ^a   Grewal, Rajdeep ^b  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cable news; Competition; Social media; User generated content

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INTERNET; MARKETING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

FIRM PERFORMANCE; MARKETING STRATEGY; PREDICTIVE POWER; SOCIAL MEDIA; TIME SLOTS; USER GENERATED CONTENT (UGC); USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

CABLES;

EID: 84959184887     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2015.0579     Document Type: Article

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