Trust in inter-organizational exchanges: A case study in business to business electronic commerce

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 525-544

  Ratnasingam, Pauline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Business to business e commerce; Institutional structures; Inter organizational trust; Technology trust

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; RISKS; SECURITY OF DATA;

BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS E-COMMERCE; INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL TRUST; TECHNOLOGY TRUST;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 10644272511     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2003.12.005     Document Type: Article

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