The magnitude of switching costs for corporate antivirus software switching decision

PACIS 2007 - 11th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Managing Diversity in Digital Enterprises

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hou, Cheng Yu ^a   Chern, Ching Chin ^a   Lin, Yu Tzu ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Corporate antivirus software (CAV); Information security; Service switching; Switching costs

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARES; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; INTERNET TECHNOLOGY; LEARNING COSTS; PERCEIVED RISK; SECURITY THREATS; SELECTION PROBLEMS; SERVICE SWITCHING; SWITCHING COSTS; TRANSACTION COST;

COMPUTER VIRUSES; COSTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPS; NETWORK SECURITY; SEARCH ENGINES;

SWITCHING;

EID: 80053535538     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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