An investigation of effort-accuracy trade-off and the impact of self-efficacy on Web searching behaviors

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 331-342

  Kuo, Feng Yang ^a   Chu, Tsai Hsin ^b   Hsu, Meng Hsiang ^c   Hsieh, Hong Ssu ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Effort and accuracy trade off; Self efficacy; Web search

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MOTIVATION; ONLINE SEARCHING; RESEARCH;

EFFORT AND ACCURACY TRADE-OFF; GOAL MOTIVATION; SELF-EFFICACY; WEB SEARCH;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 2442515360     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(03)00032-0     Document Type: Article

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