Online or offline group buying? From the perspective of social capital, technology readiness and rough sets theory

Proceedings - 2010 7th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, FSKD 2010

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 2853-2857

  Tan, Wee Kheng ^a   Tan, Yu Jie ^a  

^a KAINAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Group buying; Rough sets theory; Social capital; Technology readiness

Indexed keywords

GROUP BUYING; OFF-LINE METHODS; OFFLINE; PRODUCT INFORMATION; ROUGH SETS THEORY; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TECHNOLOGY READINESS;

FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; ROUGH SET THEORY; TECHNOLOGY;

GROUP TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 78649251038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FSKD.2010.5569261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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