Understanding the blog service switching in Hong Kong: An empirical investigation

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Zhang, Kem Z K ^a   Cheung, Christy M K ^b   Lee, Matthew K O ^a   Chen, Huaping ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Attractive alternative; Blog; Push pull mooring framework; Satisfaction; Switching cost

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTIVE ALTERNATIVE; BLOG; PUSH-PULL-MOORING FRAMEWORK; SATISFACTION; SWITCHING COST;

INTERNET;

EID: 51449101079     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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