The relationship between website quality, trust and price premiums at online auctions

Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-25

  Gregg, Dawn G ^a   Walczak, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Online auctions; Price premiums; Reputation; Trust; Website quality

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

HIGH QUALITY; ONLINE AUCTIONS; PERCEIVED QUALITY; PRICE PREMIUMS; REPUTATION; REPUTATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRUST; WEBSITE QUALITY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 77449130896     PISSN: 13895753     EISSN: 15729362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10660-010-9044-2     Document Type: Article

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