Regret avoidance as a measure of DSS success: An exploratory study

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2093-2106

  Hung, Shin Yuan ^a   Ku, Yi Cheng ^b   Liang, Ting Peng ^c   Lee, Chang Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b PROVIDENCE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Information systems evaluation; Information systems success; Regret theory

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION THEORY; PERFORMANCE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS EVALUATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS SUCCESS; REGRET AVOIDANCE; REGRET THEORY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845693830     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2006.05.006     Document Type: Article

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