Gender differs: Assessing a model of online purchase intentions in e-tail service

International Journal of Service Industry Management

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 416-435

  Chiu, Yu Bin ^a   Lin, Chieh Peng ^b   Tang, Ling Lang ^a  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b VANUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Internet; Purchasing

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844505100     PISSN: 09564233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09564230510625741     Document Type: Article

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