What does your online pharmacy signal? A comparative analysis of website trust features

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mavlanova, Tamilla ^a   Benbunan Fich, Raquel ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ONLINE VENDORS; PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS; SIGNALING THEORY;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

MEDICINE;

EID: 77951761106     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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