Comparison-Shopping Channel Selection by Small Online Vendors: An Exploratory Study

Electronic markets are expected to facilitate consumer information search and product comparison to the extent that consumers are able to accumulate nearly perfect information. The authors present an analysis of search patterns based on a laboratory experiment on product search processes. They ident...

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Main Authors: HU, Nan, Yun, Wan
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sis_research-12382010-09-24T05:42:03Z Comparison-Shopping Channel Selection by Small Online Vendors: An Exploratory Study HU, Nan Yun, Wan Electronic markets are expected to facilitate consumer information search and product comparison to the extent that consumers are able to accumulate nearly perfect information. The authors present an analysis of search patterns based on a laboratory experiment on product search processes. They identified three types of search patterns in our experiment: sequential, agent search, and iterative search. 2009-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/239 Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Computer Sciences E-Commerce
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
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topic Computer Sciences
E-Commerce
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E-Commerce
HU, Nan
Yun, Wan
Comparison-Shopping Channel Selection by Small Online Vendors: An Exploratory Study
description Electronic markets are expected to facilitate consumer information search and product comparison to the extent that consumers are able to accumulate nearly perfect information. The authors present an analysis of search patterns based on a laboratory experiment on product search processes. They identified three types of search patterns in our experiment: sequential, agent search, and iterative search.
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author HU, Nan
Yun, Wan
author_facet HU, Nan
Yun, Wan
author_sort HU, Nan
title Comparison-Shopping Channel Selection by Small Online Vendors: An Exploratory Study
title_short Comparison-Shopping Channel Selection by Small Online Vendors: An Exploratory Study
title_full Comparison-Shopping Channel Selection by Small Online Vendors: An Exploratory Study
title_fullStr Comparison-Shopping Channel Selection by Small Online Vendors: An Exploratory Study
title_full_unstemmed Comparison-Shopping Channel Selection by Small Online Vendors: An Exploratory Study
title_sort comparison-shopping channel selection by small online vendors: an exploratory study
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2009
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/239
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