Fraud detection in online consumer reviews

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 614-626

  Hu, Nan ^a,b   Liu, Ling ^a   Sambamurthy, Vallabh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Manipulation; Online word of mouth; Price; Self selection; Time series

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; SALES; TIME SERIES;

DECREASING FUNCTIONS; MANIPULATION; MANIPULATION STRATEGY; ONLINE CONSUMER REVIEWS; ONLINE WORD OF MOUTHS; PRICE; QUALITY INDICATORS; SELF-SELECTION;

COSTS;

EID: 78651095494     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2010.08.012     Document Type: Article

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