Informational cascades and software adoption on the Internet: An empirical investigation

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-48

  Duan, Wenjing ^a   Gu, Bin ^b   Whinston, Andrew B ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; E commerce; Herding; Informational cascades; Network effects; Online communities; Online user review; Software download; Word of mouth

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

HERDING; NETWORK EFFECTS; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE USERS; SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS; WORD OF MOUTH;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 60649098552     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/20650277     Document Type: Article

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