Examining the "levels of analysis" issue in understanding technology adoption by groups

ICIS 2006 Proceedings - Twenty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1275-1286

  Sarker, Saonee ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Global constructs; Levels of analysis; Technology adoption by groups

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC MEAN; CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GLOBAL CONSTRUCTS; GROUP BEHAVIOR; LEVELS OF ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

AGGLOMERATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 52949141695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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