Effect of innovativeness on different levels of technology adoption

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 984-996

  Van Rijnsoever, Frank J ^a   Donders, A Rogier T ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACHELOR STUDENTS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; INNOVATIVENESS; LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION; PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTIC; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 65649133040     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21029     Document Type: Article

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