Culture and web communications

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 181-188

  Baack, Daniel W ^a   Singh, Nitish ^b  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Culture; E commerce; Hofstede; Schwartz

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846687652     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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