Don't Wait! how timing affects coordination of Crowdfunding donations

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 547-556

  Solomon, Jacob ^a   Ma, Wenjuan ^a   Wash, Rick ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdfunding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CROWDFUNDING; EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATIONS;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84959284821     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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