Voluntary adopters versus forced adopters: Integrating the diffusion of innovation theory and the technology acceptance model to study intra-organizational adoption

New Media and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 475-496

  Zhou, Yuqiong ^a  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Diffusion of innovation; Internet; Intra organizational; Journalists; Technology acceptance model

Indexed keywords

EID: 43449100387     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444807085382     Document Type: Article

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