The effect of price dispersion in an e-market on consumers' intentions to join group buying

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lai, Hsiangchu ^a   Doong, Her Sen ^b   Yang, Chen Yuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS THEORY; PRICE DISPERSION; TRANSACTION UTILITY THEORY;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DATA ACQUISITION; MARKETING; PURCHASING; SALES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 33749640646     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.462     Document Type: Conference Paper

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