Putting Money Where the Mouths Are: The Relation Between Venture Financing and Electronic Word-of-Mouth

Rohit Aggarwal
Rohit Aggarwal
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Operations and Information Systems, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84113
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Ram Gopal
Ram Gopal
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Department of Operations and Information Management, School of Business, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269
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Alok Gupta
Alok Gupta
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Department of Information and Decision Sciences, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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Harpreet Singh
Harpreet Singh
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Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA
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Operations and Information Systems, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84113

Department of Operations and Information Management, School of Business, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269

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Alok Gupta

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Department of Information and Decision Sciences, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

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Harpreet Singh

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Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA

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Published Online:26 Jun 2012https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.1110.0402

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