No free lunch: Price premium for privacy seal-bearing vendors

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 189-212

  Mai, Bin ^a   Menon, Nirup ^b   Sarkar, Sumit ^c  

^a BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

partial least squares; price dispersion; privacy assurance; risk premium; trust

Indexed keywords

PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES; PRICE DISPERSION; PRIVACY ASSURANCE; RISK PREMIUM; TRUST;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

COSTS;

EID: 78649369600     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222270206     Document Type: Article

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