Determinants of escrow service adoption in consumer-to-consumer online auction market: An experimental study

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1889-1900

  Antony, Solomon ^a   Lin, Zhangxi ^b   Xu, Bo ^b  

^a MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Escrow; Expected utility; Experiment; Online auction; Perceived risk; Reputation

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MARKETING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RISK PERCEPTION;

EXPECTED UTILITY; ONLINE AUCTION MARKET; REPUTATION; RISK RELIEF SERVICES (RRS);

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 33750430855     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2006.04.012     Document Type: Article

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