The impact of technostress on role stress and productivity

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 301-328

  Tarafdar, Monideepa ^a   Tu, Qiang ^b   Ragu Nathan, Bhanu S ^a   Ragu Nathan, T S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Role conflict; Role overload; Role stress; Role theory; Structural equation modeling; Survey methods; Technostress

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; STRESSES; SURVEYS;

SOCIOTECHNICAL THEORY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TECHNOSTRESS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 38349109607     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222240109     Document Type: Article

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