Website loyalty: an empirical investigation of its antecedents

International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 321-345

  Kabadayi, Sertan ^a   Gupta, Reetika ^b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

flow; internet; satisfaction; trust; website; website loyalty

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952088412     PISSN: 14775212     EISSN: 17418100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJIMA.2005.008105     Document Type: Article

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