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Research Essay

Online product review as an indicator of users’ degree of innovativeness and product adoption time: a longitudinal analysis of text reviews

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Pages 414-431 | Received 27 Jul 2015, Accepted 22 Feb 2017, Published online: 19 Dec 2017

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