Legal and policy environments: An institutional perspective of global e-commerce adoption

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zhu, Ling ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS; E COMMERCES; E READINESS; E-COMMERCE ADOPTIONS; E-COMMERCE DEVELOPMENT; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES; INSTITUTIONAL THEORIES; POLICY IMPLICATIONS;

PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 78650760277     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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