Dressing your online auction business for success: An experiment comparing two ebay businesses

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 653-670

  Gregg, Dawn G ^a   Walczak, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

e image; Empirical research; Online auctions; Price premiums; Reputation; Signaling theory; Website quality

Indexed keywords

ABILITY TESTING; COSTS; SALES;

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ONLINE AUCTIONS; PRICE PREMIUMS; REPUTATION; SIGNALING THEORY; WEBSITE QUALITY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 50249129368     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25148860     Document Type: Article

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