Issues and Opportunities in E-Business Research: A Simonian Perspective

International Journal of E-Business Research (IJEBR)

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-53

  Chen, Ye Sho ^a   Chen, Guoqing ^b,d   Wu, Soushan ^c,e  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

attention management; causal reasoning; e business; effectual reasoning; nearly decomposable systems; netchising; skew distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001638654     PISSN: 15481131     EISSN: 1548114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jebr.2005010103     Document Type: Article

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