The personality of e-commerce investors

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 529-537

  Hunter, Katrina ^a   Kemp, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Attitudes to e commerce; Investment decisions; Personality; Risk taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942644329     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4870(03)00050-3     Document Type: Article

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