Perceived quality of online shopping: Does gender make a difference?

Journal of Internet Commerce

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 445-469

  Sebastianelli, Rose ^a   Tamimi, Nabil ^a   Rajan, Murli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

Author keywords

B2C; E tailing; Gender; Online shopping; Quality; Survey data

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149164280     PISSN: 15332861     EISSN: 1533287X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15332860802507164     Document Type: Article

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