EFFECTS OF ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY ON ORGANIZATIONAL PREDISPOSITION TOWARD INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 121-133

  Teo, Hock Hai ^a   Wan, Wen ^a   Wang, Xinwei ^a   Wei, Kwok Kee ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; attitudes; EDI; financial electronic data interchange; innovation adoption

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY; ADOPTION INTENTION; ATTITUDE; FINANCIAL ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; INNOVATION ADOPTION; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL; ORGANISATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL ADOPTIONS; RELATED WORKS; STRUCTURAL MODELING;

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE;

EID: 33847700752     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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