Trust fraud: A crucial challenge for China's e-commerce market

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 299-308

  Zhang, Yu ^a   Bian, Jing ^a   Zhu, Weixiang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; e commerce market; Fraud; Taobao; Time decay; Trust fraud; Trust model

Indexed keywords

CHINA; FRAUD; TAOBAO; TIME DECAY; TRUST FRAUDS; TRUST MODELING;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; SECURITY OF DATA;

CRIME;

EID: 84887401158     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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