Software Agents for Environmental Scanning in Electronic Commerce

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 85-98

  Liu, Shuhua ^a   Turban, Efraim ^a   Lee, Matthew K O ^b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Environmental scanning; Information overload; Intelligent agents; Software agents; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034367741     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010002205248     Document Type: Article

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