Why are some e-mails forwarded and others not?

Internet Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-93

  Lin, Tom M Y ^a   Wu, Heng Hui ^a   Liao, Chun Wei ^a   Liu, Tzu Hsin ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b DA YEH UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Customer relations; Electronic commerce; Electronic mail; Social networks; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644502942     PISSN: 10662243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10662240610642550     Document Type: Article

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