Whose recommendations do you follow? An investigation of tie strength, shopping stage, and deal scarcity

Information and Management

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1072-1083

  Song, Tingting ^a   Yi, Cheng ^a   Huang, Jinghua ^a  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

Construal level theory; Deal scarcity; Shopping stage; Social recommendations; Strong (Weak) ties

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CONSTRUAL LEVELS; DEAL SCARCITY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; ONLINE CONSUMERS; PURCHASE INTENTION; SOCIAL RECOMMENDATIONS; STRONG (WEAK) TIES; TIE STRENGTHS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 85015762004     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2017.03.003     Document Type: Article

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