Electronic Communities in E-Business: Their Role and Issues

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 415-426

  Kannan, P K ^a   Chang, Ai Mei ^b   Whinston, Andrew B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer privacy; E communities; Information exchange; Intermediaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034380462     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010022226639     Document Type: Article

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