User-generated ratings and the evaluation of credibility and product quality in ecommerce transactions

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Flanagin, Andrew J ^a   Metzger, Miriam J ^a   Pure, Rebekah ^a   Markov, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE PRODUCTS; COMMERCIAL INFORMATION; DIGITAL MEDIA; E-COMMERCE; E-COMMERCE TRANSACTIONS; INFORMATION QUALITY; PRODUCT QUALITY; QUALITY OF PRODUCT; SYSTEM DESIGNERS;

DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; SURVEYS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 79952936957     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.474     Document Type: Conference Paper

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