Multiple Conceptualizations of Small Business Web Use and Benefit

Decision Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 467-512

  Pflughoeft, Kurt A ^a   Ramamurthy, K ^b   Soofi, Ehsan S ^b   Yasai Ardekani, Masoud ^b   Zahedi, Fatemeh ^b  

^a Market Probe Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

E Commerce Infusion; Internet and Web; Multivariate Statistics; Parameter Estimation; Structural Equation Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642450786     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5414.2003.02539.x     Document Type: Article

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