Reputation Cues as Signals in the Sharing Economy

Reputation cues, like star ratings, signal qualities of service providers in the sharing economy and may affect user behavior. Guided by concepts from signaling theory and using a repeated measures experiment (N = 221), this study manipulated the level of star ratings of ride sharing drivers. Intuit...

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Main Authors: Sonny Rosenthal, Jean Yi Colette Tan, Ting Fang Poh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Series:Social Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/9/4/49