Market reaction to e-commerce impairments evidenced by website outages

International Journal of Accounting Information Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 60-78

  Anthony, Joseph H ^a   Choi, Wooseok ^b   Grabski, Severin ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

AI0104; BA01; E commerce; Event study; Website outage

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745713930     PISSN: 14670895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accinf.2005.10.002     Document Type: Article

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