Looking forward: Toward an understanding of the nature and definition of IT acceptance

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 230-243

  Schwarz, Andrew ^a   Chin, Wynn ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Etymology; IT Acceptance; IT Usage

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COGNITION; EASE-OF-USE; ETYMOLOGY; FREQUENCY OF USE; IT ACCEPTANCE; IT USAGE; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; PERFORMANCE OUTCOME; ROUTINISATION; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 48249141415     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00123     Document Type: Article

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