Third-party assurances: The road to trust in online retailing

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 10-

  Kimery, K M ^a   McCord, M ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer industry; Data analysis; Electronic commerce; Electronic equipment testing; Internet; Management information systems; Marketing and sales; Seals; Security; System testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER TESTING; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; INTERNET; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SALES; SEALS;

COMPUTER INDUSTRY; DISPOSITION TO TRUSTS; ONLINE PURCHASING; ONLINE RETAILING; SECURITY; SYSTEM TESTING; THIRD-PARTY ASSURANCE; TRUST BUILDING;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84948692254     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2002.994158     Document Type: Conference Paper

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