Factors and effects of information credibility

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 258, Issue , 2007, Pages 423-432

  McKnight, D Harrison ^a   Kacmar, Charles J ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Credibility; Loyalty; Perceived risk; Reputation; Site quality; Usefulness; Willingness to follow advice

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION CREDIBILITY; LOYALTY; REPUTATION; USEFULNESS; WEBSITE QUALITY; WILLINGNESS TO FOLLOW ADVICE;

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; WEBSITES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 36948999818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1282100.1282180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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