Information technology acceptance by individual professionals: A model comparison approach

Decision Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 699-719

  Chau, Patrick Y K ^a   Hu, Paul Jen Hwa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Information technology acceptance; LISREL; Professional users; Structural equation models; Technology adoption and management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035564917     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2001.tb00978.x     Document Type: Article

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