The Role of System Trust in Business-to-Consumer Transactions

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 197-226

  Pennington, Robin ^a   Dixon Wilcox, H ^b   Grover, Varun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AIKEN   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

e commerce; Intention to purchase; Reputation in e commerce; System trust; Trust in vendor

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PURCHASING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

PRECURSORS; VENDORS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 1242310117     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2003.11045777     Document Type: Article

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