Building consumers' confidence in adopting e-commerce: A Malaysian case

International Journal of Business and Systems Research

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 236-255

  Ahmed, Mohiuddin ^a   Hussein, Ramlah ^a   Minakhatun, Rashidah ^a   Islam, Rafikul ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Consumer behaviour; E commerce; Malaysia; Online vendors; Security and privacy; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954509236     PISSN: 1751200X     EISSN: 17512018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2007.015378     Document Type: Article

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