Understanding online purchase decision making: The effects of unconscious thought, information quality, and information quantity

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 772-781

  Gao, Jie ^a   Zhang, Cheng ^b   Wang, Ke ^b   Ba, Sulin ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Information processing; Information quality; Information quantity; Unconscious thought

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; HUMAN BEING; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; INFORMATION QUALITY; INFORMATION QUANTITY; INTEGRATING INFORMATION; INTERACTION EFFECT; ONLINE SHOPPERS; ONLINE SHOPPING; PROCESSING CAPACITIES; PURCHASE DECISION; PURCHASING DECISIONS; QUALITY OF INFORMATION; UNCONSCIOUS THOUGHT;

DATA PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PRODUCT DESIGN; USER INTERFACES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 84865488430     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2012.05.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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