Information foraging on the web: The effects of "acceptable" Internet delays on multi-page information search behavior

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 810-824

  Dennis, Alan R ^a   Taylor, Nolan J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Information foraging; Information search; Internet; Laboratory experiment; Service delays; Time

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FORAGING; INFORMATION SEARCH; LABORATORY EXPERIMENT; SERVICE DELAYS;

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33749594754     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2005.05.032     Document Type: Article

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