How should crowdfunding platforms alleviate information asymmetry between creators and crowdfunders? In traditional financial markets, public companies are required to disclose potential risks to their investors, and such risk disclosure requirements are enforced by legal and fiduciary...

Social media listening is the practice of collecting and analyzing user comments on social media in an effort to assess consumer sentiment surrounding a particular brand. In this research, we contribute to the social media listening research and propose a brand favorability measure, based on...

Topic modeling methods such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) are powerful tools for analyzing massive amounts of textual data. They have been extensively used in information systems and management research to identify latent topics for data exploration and as a feature-engineering mechanism...