The importance of product representation online: Empirical results and implications for electronic markets

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 161-169

  Koppius, Otto R ^a   Van Heck, Eric ^a   Wolters, Matthijs J J ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auctions; Electronic commerce; Electronic markets; Flower auction; Product representation

Indexed keywords

AUCTIONS; ELECTRONIC MARKETS; FLOWER AUCTION; PRODUCT REPRESENTATION;

COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PRODUCT DESIGN; QUALITY CONTROL;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 4344693271     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(03)00097-6     Document Type: Article

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