Application discoverability and user satisfaction in mobile application stores: An environmental psychology perspective

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 37-51

  Song, Jaeki ^a   Kim, Junghwan ^a   Jones, Donald R ^a   Baker, Jeff ^b   Chin, Wynne W ^c  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Application discoverability; E commerce; Environmental psychology; M commerce; Mobile application store; Partial Least Squares (PLS); Perceived quantity of applications

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MOBILE COMPUTING;

APPLICATION STORES; ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; M-COMMERCE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); USER SATISFACTION; USER-GENERATED;

MOBILE COMMERCE;

EID: 84897638572     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2013.10.004     Document Type: Article

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