E-business adoption by travel agencies: Prime candidates for mobile e-business

International Journal of Electronic Commerce

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 43-63

  Wang, Sophia ^a   Cheung, Waiman ^b  

^a NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

E business; Innovation adoption; Mobile commerce; Travel business

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442417984     PISSN: 10864415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10864415.2004.11044298     Document Type: Article

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