Participation on Electronic Bulletin Board Systems: An Empirical Analysis of Work Value Congruency

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 107-126

  Tillquist, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption of technology; Information technology use; Technology assimilation; Work values; Workplace vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030307376     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.1996.11518114     Document Type: Article

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