Understanding user acceptance of multimedia messaging services: An empirical study

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2066-2077

  Lee, Matthew K O ^a   Cheung, Christy M K ^b   Chen, Zhaohui ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c SAP China ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING SERVICES (MMS); PERSONAL COMMUNICATION; SHORT MESSAGE SERVICES (SMS);

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MESSAGE PASSING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MULTIMEDIA SERVICES;

EID: 36849062680     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20670     Document Type: Article

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