Characteristics of consumer search on-line: How much do we search?

International Journal of Electronic Commerce

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 109-129

  Su, Bo Chiuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Experimental design; In store search; Information search; Search cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949094021     PISSN: 10864415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/JEC1086-4415130104     Document Type: Article

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