A lie never lives to be old: The effects of fake social information on consumer decisionmaking in crowdfunding

23rd European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2015

Volumn 2015-May, Issue , 2015, Pages

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

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crowdfunding; Facebook Likes; Fake Social Information; Perceived Quality; Signaling

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SIGNALING; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CONSUMER DECISION MAKING; CROWDFUNDING; CUSTOMER PRODUCTS; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; FACEBOOK; PERCEIVED QUALITY; SOCIAL INFORMATION; SUB-OPTIMAL CHOICES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 85007524576     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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