An examination of media richness theory in product Web site design: An empirical study

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Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 270-281

  Simon, Steven John ^a   Peppas, Spero C ^a  

^a MERCER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Customer satisfaction; Design; Information media; Internet; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

INTERNET;

EID: 23444431591     PISSN: 14636697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636690410555672     Document Type: Article

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