Information strategies to support full information product pricing: The role of trust

Information Polity

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-91

  Luna Reyes, Luis F ^a   Zhang, Jing ^b   Roy, Réjean ^c   Andersen, David F ^d   Whitmore, Andy ^e   Andersen, Deborah Lines ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Centre Francophone D'Informatisation des Organisations (CEFRIO)   (Canada)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital government; inter organizational; multi jurisdictional; transnational collaboration; trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876227946     PISSN: 15701255     EISSN: 18758754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IP-130295     Document Type: Article

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