Store survival in online marketplace: An empirical investigation

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 482-493

  Wang, Youwei ^a   Wang, Shan ^b   Fang, Yulin ^c   Chau, Patrick Y K ^d  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Renmin Business School   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Empirical study; Online sellers, social network; Online stores; Social commerce; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ONLINE SELLERS; ONLINE STORE; SOCIAL COMMERCES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84889099672     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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