Motives for reading and articulating user-generated restaurant reviews on Yelp.com

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 160-176

  Parikh, Anish ^a   Behnke, Carl ^a   Vorvoreanu, Mihaela ^b   Almanza, Barbara ^a,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

e WOM; Motivation; Restaurant reviews; User generated reviews; Virtual communities; Yelp

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927561007     PISSN: 17579880     EISSN: 17579899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JHTT-04-2013-0011     Document Type: Article

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