Website practices: A comparison between the top 1000 companies in the US and Taiwan

International Journal of Information Management

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 196-211

  Liao, Chechen ^a   To, Pui Lai ^b   Shih, Meng Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Cross country comparison; E business; E commerce; Web site design; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

CONTENT ANALYSIS; CROSS COUNTRY COMPARISON; E-BUSINESS; WEB SITE DESIGN;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33744524326     PISSN: 02684012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2006.02.007     Document Type: Article

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