Temporal features and consumer evaluations of group-buying: The effects of product image zooming

Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2015 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ho, Candy K Y ^a   Kuan, Kevin ^b   Chau, Patrick Y K ^c  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Construal level; Consumer evaluations; Deal time; Group buying; Lead time; Product image zooming; Psychological distance

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CONSTRUAL LEVELS; CONSUMER EVALUATION; DEAL TIME; GROUP BUYING; LEADTIME; PRODUCT IMAGES; PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTANCE;

GROUP THEORY;

EID: 85011020086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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