Aversion to loss and information overload:Anexperimental investigation

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Davis, Joseph G ^a   Ganeshan, Shayan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aversion to loss; Decision confidence; Decision satisfaction; Information overload; Prospect theory

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; DECISION CONFIDENCE; DECISION SATISFACTION; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; PROSPECT THEORY;

DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 84870959382     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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