Reputation, framing strategies and user's choice of content on the Web: An empirical study

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 872-889

  Constantiou, Ioanna ^a   Hoebel, Natascha ^b   Zicari, Roberto V ^b  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Framing strategy; Interaction effects; Local context; Recommendations; Reputation; User behavior; Web design

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; INFORMATION SERVICES; WEB DESIGN; WEBSITES;

FRAMING STRATEGIES; INTERACTION EFFECT; LOCAL CONTEXTS; RECOMMENDATIONS; REPUTATION; USER BEHAVIORS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 77952027919     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1536     Document Type: Article

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