Consideration sets in online shopping environments: the effects of search tool and information load

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 252-262

  Parra, José F ^a   Ruiz, Salvador ^b  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Consideration set; Consumer behavior; Information load; Search tool; Shopping engines

Indexed keywords

CONSIDERATION SET; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION LOAD; SEARCH TOOL; SHOPPING ENGINES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 70349776277     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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