Cognitive stopping rules for terminating information search in online tasks

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-104

  Browne, Glenn J ^a   Pitts, Mitzi G ^b   Wetherbe, James C ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive stopping rules; Decision making; Information search; Online search behavior; Task types and dimensions

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; WEBSITES;

COGNITIVE STOPPING RULES; INFORMATION SEARCHES; ONLINE SEARCH BEHAVIORS;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 33847760264     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25148782     Document Type: Article

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