Social pressures on organizational website adoption

Human Communication Research

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 618-646

  Flanagin, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0034287096     PISSN: 03603989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2958.2000.tb00771.x     Document Type: Article

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