Manipulation in digital word-of-mouth: A reality check for book reviews

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 627-635

  Hu, Nan ^a,b   Bose, Indranil ^c   Gao, Yunjun ^d   Liu, Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Book reviews; Empirical study; Fraudulent manipulation; Online word of mouth; Regression analysis; Review management; Review manipulation

Indexed keywords

BOOK REVIEWS; EARNINGS MANAGEMENT; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FRAUDULENT MANIPULATION; ONLINE WORD-OF-MOUTH;

MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

REVIEWS;

EID: 78651091530     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2010.08.013     Document Type: Article

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