Personality matters: How signaling personality traits can influence the adoption and diffusion of crowdfunding campaigns

24th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages

  Thies, Ferdinand ^a   Wessel, Michael ^a   Rudolph, Jan ^a   Benlian, Alexander ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crowdfunding; Five factor model; Personality traits; Text analysis

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE;

ADOPTION AND DIFFUSION; BEHAVIORAL INTENTION; CROWDFUNDING; FIVE-FACTOR MODEL; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; NOCV1; PERSONALITY TRAITS; POTENTIAL INVESTORS; TEXT ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84995769344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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