EXPLORING WEB CUSTOMERS’ TRUST FORMATION IN INFOMEDIARIES

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 549-562

  Song, Jaeki ^a   Zahedi, Fatemeh Mariam ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Infomediary; initial trust; trust; trust related beliefs

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; SALES;

ACTION NETWORK; ACTOR-NETWORK; CUSTOMER TRUST; INFOMEDIARY; INITIAL TRUSTS; ONLINE CUSTOMERS; SEARCH COSTS; TRUST; TRUST BUILDING; TRUST-RELATED BELIEF;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870018923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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