Reducing buyer search costs: implications for electronic marketplaces
Management Science - Special issue: Frontier research on information systems and economics
Common structure and properties of filtering systems
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Search Strategies in Shopping Engines: An Experimental Investigation
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Similarity Measure and Instance Selection for Collaborative Filtering
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
An Integrated Environment for the Development of Knowledge-Based Recommender Applications
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Journal of Management Information Systems
A helpfulness modeling framework for electronic word-of-mouth on consumer opinion platforms
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
Intelligent product search with soft-boundary preference relaxation
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Tabulated decision aids and airfare pricing
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
How to improve consumer attitudes toward using credit cards online: An experimental study
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
The importance of individual characteristics on consideration sets for online auction buyers
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
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This study examines the effects of two main characteristics of online shopping environments - search tool and information load - on the descriptive characteristics of consideration sets: size, dynamism, variety and preference dispersion. A controlled experiment using a simulated online store was conducted to test the hypotheses, manipulating the two factors, search tool (yes, no) and information load (high, low). The main task consisted of shopping for and purchasing a product in an online store. Results show that both information load and search tools transform the way in which consumers form their consideration sets, resulting in smaller, more stable, and more homogenous sets, integrated by more equally preferred alternatives. Interaction effects show that search tools enhance their effectiveness in high information load settings.