The role of social support on relationship quality and social commerce

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 87, Issue , 2014, Pages 17-27

  Hajli, M Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Online communities; PLS SEM; Relationship quality; Social commerce; Social media; Social networking sites; Social support

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; RESEARCH; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TECHNOLOGY;

ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; PLS-SEM; RELATIONSHIP QUALITIES; SOCIAL COMMERCES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MASS MEDIA; NETWORKING; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84902991080     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.05.012     Document Type: Article

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