Assessing screening and evaluation decision support systems: A resource-matching approach

Information Systems Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 305-326

  Tan, Chuan Hoo ^a   Teo, Hock Hai ^b   Benbasat, Izak ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consumer behavior; Decision support systems; Electronic commerce; Resource matching

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATION THEORY; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

COGNITIVE RESOURCES; DECISION PERFORMANCE; FACTORIAL EXPERIMENT; HEURISTIC DECISIONS; ON-LINE DECISION AIDSS; PRODUCT ATTRIBUTES; RESOURCE MATCHING; WEIGHT ASSIGNMENT;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77957331040     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1080.0232     Document Type: Article

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