Are individual differences germane to the acceptance of new information technologies?

Decision Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 361-391

  Agarwal, Ritu ^a   Prasad, Jayesh ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

And technology implementation; Beliefs about new technologies; Individual differences; Information technology innovation; Structural equation modeling; Technology adoption models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033459893     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1999.tb01614.x     Document Type: Article

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