E-business implementation and performance: Analysis of mediating factors

Internet Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 223-245

  Lucia Palacios, Laura ^a   Bordonaba Juste, Victoria ^a   Polo Redondo, Yolanda ^a   Grünhagen, Marko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

E business implementation; Measurement invariance; Mediating effect; Multi country analysis; Partial least squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896257543     PISSN: 10662243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IntR-09-2012-0195     Document Type: Article

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