Citizens' use and acceptance of e-government applications of Turkish social security institutions

Electronic Government

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 403-419

  Akpinar, Yavuz ^a   Ondin, Zerrin ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acceptance; E government; Social security institutions; Usability; User problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 48049089788     PISSN: 17407494     EISSN: 17407508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EG.2008.019525     Document Type: Article

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