Exploring key factors in online shopping with a hybrid model

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Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Chen, Hsiao Ming ^b   Wu, Chia Huei ^c   Tsai, Sang Bing ^a,d,e,f   Yu, Jian ^e   Wang, Jiangtao ^d   Zheng, Yuxiang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MINGHSIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^e NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Analytic network process (ANP); DEMATEL based ANP (DANP); E business; Management; Online shopping; Service quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85000352363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-3746-4     Document Type: Article

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