Promoting trust in B2B virtual organisations through business and technological infrastructures

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 395-411

  Ignatiadis, Ioannis ^a   Svirskas, Adomas ^b   Roberts, Bob ^b   Tarabanis, Konstantinos ^a  

^a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business to Business (B2B); E commerce; Peer to peer architecture; Service level agreement; Support center; Trust; Virtual organisation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; ONLINE CONFERENCING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

PEER-TO-PEER ARCHITECTURE; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT; SUPPORT CENTER; TRUST; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION;

INTERNET;

EID: 33847120205     PISSN: 14709503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2006.011868     Document Type: Article

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