The appropriateness of Gutman's means-end chain model in software evaluation

ISESE 2002 - Proceedings, 2002 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 56-65

  Wong, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

characteristics; consequences; evaluation; means end chain; quality; Software; value

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

CHARACTERISTICS; CONSEQUENCES; EVALUATION; MEANS-END CHAINS; VALUE;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84964621582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2002.1166926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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