The driving factors of continuance online shopping: Gender differences in behaviour among students - The case of Saudi Arabia

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 360-384

  Al Maghrabi, Talal ^a   Dennis, Charles ^b  

^a International Training and Development Academy (ITDA)   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuance online shopping; E shopping; Internet shopping; Male and female examination; Saudi Arabia; Technology acceptance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859400939     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2012.046290     Document Type: Article

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