Predicting the organisational adoption of B2C e-commerce: An empirical study

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1133-1147

  To, March L ^a   Ngai, E W T ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Innovation; Online operations; Retailing

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

INNOVATION; ONLINE OPERATIONS; RETAILING;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 33749403190     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635570610710791     Document Type: Article

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