Parametric search engines: What makes them effective when shopping online for differentiated products?

Information and Management

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 904-918

  Kamis, Arnold A ^a   Stohr, Edward A ^b  

^a BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision confidence; Decision quality; Domain knowledge; Online shopping; Parametric search engine; Partial least squares; Perceived ease of use; Perceived usefulness; Search effort

Indexed keywords

DECISION CONFIDENCE; DECISION QUALITY; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; ONLINE SHOPPING; PARAMETRIC SEARCH ENGINE; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; SEARCH EFFORT;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33750078129     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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