E-commerce usage and business performance in the Malaysian tourism sector: Empirical analysis

Information Management and Computer Security

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 166-185

  Salwani, Mohamed Intan ^a   Marthandan, Govindan ^b   Norzaidi, Mohd Daud ^a   Chong, Siong Choy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^c Putra International College   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Business performance; Electronic commerce; Malaysia; Tourism

Indexed keywords

BACK-END INTEGRATION; BUSINESS PERFORMANCE; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; E-COMMERCE; E-COMMERCE ADOPTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FIRM SIZE; MALAYSIA; MALAYSIANS; PRESSURE INTENSITY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TECHNOLOGY COMPETENCY; TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS; THEORETICAL MODELS; TOURISM; VALUE MODEL;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 67651009214     PISSN: 09685227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09685220910964027     Document Type: Article

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