Word-of-mouth versus experts and reputation in the individual dynamics of wine purchasing

Advances in Complex Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 871-885

  Bouzdine Chameeva, Tatiana ^a   Galam, Serge ^b  

^a KEDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee Ecole Polytechnique   (France)

Author keywords

experts' impact; modeling; opinion dynamics; threshold dynamics; Wine purchasing

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955169572     PISSN: 02195259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219525911003475     Document Type: Article

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