Legal and privacy issues surrounding customer databases and e-merchant bankruptcies: Reflections on toysmart.com

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 209-217

  Kelly, Eileen P ^a   Erickson, G Scott ^a  

^a ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy; Customer information; Information management; Online operation; Privacy

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PUBLIC POLICY; SALES;

BUSINESS BANKRUPTCIES; CUSTOMER PROFILES; E-MERCHANTS; TRANSACTIONAL INFORMATION;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 2942604620     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635570410525762     Document Type: Review

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