Let's shop online together: An empirical investigation of collaborative online shopping support

Information Systems Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 872-891

  Zhu, Lei ^a   Benbasat, Izak ^a   Jiang, Zhenhui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Collaborative online shopping; Common ground; Electronic commerce; Media richness; Shared navigation; Social presence; Uncoupling

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650643700     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1080.0218     Document Type: Article

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