Exploring e-business implications of the mobile internet: A cross-national survey in Hong Kong, Japan and Korea

International Journal of Mobile Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-21

  Kim, Jinwoo ^d   Lee, Inseong ^d   Lee, Yeonsoo ^d   Choi, Boreum ^d   Hong, Se Joon ^a   Tam, Kar Yan ^a   Naruse, Kazuaki ^b   Maeda, Yumi ^c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c MITSUBISHI RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Cross national survey; Cultural factor; E business; Economic factor; Mobile internet

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERNET; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PLANNING; SURVEYS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

CROSS-NATIONAL SURVEY; CULTURAL FACTOR; E-BUSINESS; ECONOMIC FACTOR; HONG KONG; JAPAN; KOREA; MOBILE INTERNET;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 2942532247     PISSN: 1470949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2004.004484     Document Type: Review

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