Explaining software developer acceptance of methodologies: A comparison of five theoretical models

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1135-1145

  Riemenschneider, Cynthia K ^a   Hardgrave, Bill C ^a   Davis, Fred D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion of innovations; Intention models; Methodologies; Software development; Technology acceptance model; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

INTENTION MODELS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036964199     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2002.1158287     Document Type: Article

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