A reassessment of the efficacy of self-booking in travel

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Walden, Pirkko ^a   Anckar, Bill ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET-BASED PURCHASE; SALES MODELS; TRAVEL INDUSTRY;

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION SERVICES; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PURCHASING; SALES;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 33749625601     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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