Should recommendation agents think like people?

Journal of Service Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 297-315

  Aksoy, Lerzan ^a   Bloom, Paul N ^b,e   Lurie, Nicholas H ^c   Cooil, Bruce ^d,f  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Electronic commerce; Information search; Personalization; Recommendation agents

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646181967     PISSN: 10946705     EISSN: 15527379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094670506286326     Document Type: Article

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