Online privacy policies and diffusion theory perspectives security or chaos?

Services Marketing Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 53-75

  Smith, Alan D ^a   Rupp, William T ^b  

^a ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTEVALLO   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion theory; E privacy; E security; Information technology; Internet

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010559202     PISSN: 15332969     EISSN: 15332977     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J396v25n03_04     Document Type: Article

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