Providing information and enabling transactions: Which website function is more important for success?

Journal of Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 81-94

  Hoekstra, Janny C ^a   Huizingh, Eelko K R E ^a   Bijmolt, Tammo H A ^a   Krawczyk, Adriana C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Company performance; Informational and transaction related website functions; Website success

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933533883     PISSN: 19389027     EISSN: 15266133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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