'Mind the gap': An empirical study of the gap between intention and actual usage of corporate e-learning programmes in the financial industry

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 713-732

  Luor, Tainyi ^a,b   Hu, Changya ^b   Lu, His Peng ^b  

^a Technology Graduate School of Management ^*  (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL FACTORS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FINANCIAL COMPANIES; FINANCIAL INDUSTRY; LEARNING OUTCOME; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL PROBLEM; TIME MANAGEMENT; USERS' PERCEPTION;

E-LEARNING; INTERNET; MANAGEMENT; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 67249136552     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2008.00853.x     Document Type: Article

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