Charismatic leadership and user acceptance of information technology

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 494-510

  Neufeld, Derrick J ^a   Dong, Linying ^b   Higgins, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Charismatic leadership theory; Enterprise systems; Field survey; Implementation success; Partial least squares; Project champions; Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548971954     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000682     Document Type: Article

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