Web portals: Evidence and analysis of media concentration

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 181-199

  Dewan, Rajiv M ^a   Freimer, Marshall L ^a   Seidmann, Abraham ^a   Zhang, Jie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertisement policy; Electronic commerce; Media concentration; Page views; Portals; Value index; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ADVERTISEMENT POLICY; MEDIA CONCENTRATION; PAGE VIEWS; VALUE INDEX; WEB TRAFFIC;

PORTALS;

EID: 7444263589     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2004.11045800     Document Type: Article

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