How well do shopbots represent online markets? A study of shopbots vendor coverage strategy

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 257-272

  Allen, Gove ^a   Wu, Jianan ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic markets; Market representativeness; Shopbots; Vendor coverage strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953240901     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2010.6     Document Type: Article

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