Pioneering the development of a scale to measure e-tailer image

Journal of Internet Commerce

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 77-99

  Hopkins, Christopher D ^a   Alford, Bruce L ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective dimensions; Browsing; Convergent validity; Discriminant validity; E tailer image; Functional dimensions; Nomological validity; Purchase intentions; Reliability; Revisiting; Unidimentionality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746836115     PISSN: 15332861     EISSN: 1533287X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J179v04n04_06     Document Type: Conference Paper

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