The role of trust in successful ecommerce websites in China: Field observations and experimental studies

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 4002-4011

  Clemons, Eric K ^a   Jin, Fujie ^a   Wilson, Josh ^a   Ren, Fei ^b   Matt, Christian ^c   Hess, Thomas ^c   Koh, Noisian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNTERFEIT PRODUCTS; E-COMMERCE WEBSITES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; LOW QUALITIES; ONLINE MARKETS; RISK MITIGATION; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 84875483198     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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