Online talk: does it matter?

Managerial Finance

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 423-436

  Sabherwal, Sanjiv ^a   Sarkar, Salil K ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Financial markets; Generation and dissemination of information; Internet; Stock prices; Stocks and shares

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015639355     PISSN: 03074358     EISSN: 17587743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074350810872813     Document Type: Article

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