An empirical study of user acceptance of fee-based online content

Journal of Computer Information Systems

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 60-70

  Choi, Jeongil ^a   Lee, Sang M ^b   Soriano, Domingo Ribeiro ^c  

^a Soongsil University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Customer acceptance; E business; Fee based services; Online content

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELING; CUSTOMER ACCEPTANCE; EBUSINESS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FEE-BASED SERVICES; MARKET STRATEGIES; ON-LINE CONTENTS; PENETRATION RATES;

GROUP THEORY; INTERNET;

SALES;

EID: 67649087914     PISSN: 08874417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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