The role of SMS in mobiled data service diffusion in China: A longitudinal case study based on actor-network theory

ICIS 2006 Proceedings - Twenty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1737-1756

  Wang, Youwei ^a   Yuan, Yufei ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Data service; Mobile commerce; SMS; Text messaging

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; ADOPTION PROCESS; DATA SERVICES; DRIVING FORCES; GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS; LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY; MOBILE COMMERCE; MOBILE DATA SERVICE; NETWORK STRUCTURES; SIMPLE TECHNOLOGY; SMS; SOCIAL FACTOR; TECHNICAL ARTIFACTS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; TEXT MESSAGING;

MICROCELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 52949087384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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