Understanding the beliefs and intentions in search and purchase functions in an e-commerce web site

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 106-114

  Lin, Julian ^a   Chan, Hock Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

E commerce; Ease of use; Function based analysis; Goal oriented and experiential; Purchase; Search; Task dependency process; Usefulness

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; EXPOSURE CONTROLS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SALES; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

E-COMMERCE; EASE OF USE; FUNCTION-BASED ANALYSIS; GOAL-ORIENTED AND EXPERIENTIAL; PURCHASE; SEARCH; TASK DEPENDENCY PROCESS; USEFULNESS;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 59649088786     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2008.922641     Document Type: Article

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