Socio-economic factors and their influence on the adoption of e-commerce by comsumers in singapore

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 317-329

  Siyal, M Y ^a   Chowdhry, B S ^a   Rajput, A Q ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adoption of technology; E commerce; E commercesecurity; Socio economic factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746227338     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021962200600199X     Document Type: Article

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