Effects of switching cost, trust, and information sharing on supply chain performance for B2B e-commerce: A multi-agent simulation study

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lin, Fu Ren ^a   Lo, Yi Pong ^b   Sung, Yu Wei ^c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SHARING; INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES; SUPPLY CHAINS;

COST ACCOUNTING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; LIFE CYCLE; MANAGERS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS;

EID: 33749593498     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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