Businesses as buildings: Metrics for the architectural quality of Internet businesses

Information Systems Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 239-254

  Kim, Jinwoo ^a   Lee, Jungwon ^a   Han, Kwanghee ^a   Lee, Moonkyu ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Architectural Quality; Functional Convenience; Internet Business; Objective Feature Lists; Representational Delight; Structural Firmness; Subjective Questions

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATRIX ALGEBRA;

COMMUNICATION INTERFACES; SYSTEM INTERFACES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0036737203     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.13.3.239.79     Document Type: Article

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