It affordances and donor motivations in charitable crowdfunding: The "earthship kapita" case

23rd European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2015

Volumn 2015-May, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Choy, Katherine ^a   Schlagwein, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Case Study.; Charity; Crowdfunding; Crowdsourcing; IT Affordances; Motivation

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CHARITY; CROWDFUNDING; IT AFFORDANCES; MODEL LINKING; MOTIVATION THEORIES; OFFLINE; ONLINE MODELING; SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 85007518229     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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