Modeling IT relationship quality and its determinants: A potential perspective of network externalities in e-service

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 171-184

  Lin, Chieh Peng ^a   Tsai, Yuan Hui ^b   Wang, Yi Ju ^b,c   Chiu, Chou Kang ^d  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHIHLEE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Autarky value; Complementary goods; Network externalities; Synchronization value

Indexed keywords

AUTARKY VALUE; COMPLEMENTARY GOODS; CRITICAL MASS; E-SERVICES; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; IF THERE ARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES (IT); NETWORK EXTERNALITY; PERCEIVED VALUE;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 78649745832     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2010.04.015     Document Type: Article

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