An assessment of EDI use and other channel communications on trading behavior and trading partner knowledge

Information and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 563-580

  Nakayama, Makoto ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel communication media; Electronic Data Interchange (EDI); Interorganizational relationship (IOR) bond; Partial least square (PLS); Path analysis

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION;

CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS;

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE;

EID: 0037411125     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-7206(02)00081-2     Document Type: Article

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