Making sense of e-commerce as social action

Information Technology & People

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 311-342

  Janson, Marius ^a   Cecez Kecmanovic, Dubravka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Empowerment; Social action; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844444674     PISSN: 09593845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09593840510633301     Document Type: Article

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