Performance measures of net-enabled hypercompetitive industries: The case of tourism

International Journal of Information Management

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 168-180

  Michopoulou, Eleni ^a   Buhalis, Dimitrios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

e Metrics; Performance measurement; ROI; Tourism; Web analytics

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INVESTMENTS; MARKETING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

E-METRICS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT; RETURN ON INVESTMENT (ROI); WEB ANALYTICS;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 44549085661     PISSN: 02684012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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