The intangibility of e-services: Effects on artificiality, perceived risk, and adoption

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2004, Pages 2739-2750

  Featherman, Mauricio S ^a   Wells, John D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E-SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS (IS); PERCEIVED RISKS (PR); SYSTEM EVALUATION;

CRYPTOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MARKETING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 12344321433     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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