Comparison shopping on the internet

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 564-580

  Klassen, Michael ^a   Gupta, Pola ^b   Bunker, Matthew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude; Comparison shopping; E commerce; E tailers; Electronic commerce; Electronic tailers; Factors; Internet

Indexed keywords

EID: 66149171614     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2009.025207     Document Type: Article

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