Research Report: Empirical Test of an EDI Adoption Model

Information Systems Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 304-321

  Chwelos, Paul ^a   Benbasat, Izak ^a   Dexter, Albert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adoption of IT; Electronic Commerce; Electronic Data Interchange; Empirical Research; Interorganizational Systems; Partial Least Squares

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

ADOPTION OF IT; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE (EDI); EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS; PARSIMONIOUS MODELING; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE;

EID: 0035637810     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.12.3.304.9708     Document Type: Article

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