The impact of e-lnformation on residential real estate services: transaction costs, social embeddedness, and market conditions

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-67

  Saber, Jane Lee ^a   Messinger, Paul R ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disintermediation; Market conditions; Re intermediation; Residential real estate; Social embeddedness; Transaction costs; Web experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952964933     PISSN: 08250383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjas.136     Document Type: Article

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