Examining the merits of usefulness versus use in an information service quality and information system success web-based model

Information Resources Management Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1-17

  Landrum, Hollis T ^a   Prybutok, Victor R ^a   Strutton, David ^a   Zhang, Xiaoni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information quality; Is use; Quality of service; System quality; System use; User satisfaction

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION SERVICES; WEB CRAWLER; WEBSITES;

ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS; INFORMATION QUALITY; INFORMATION SERVICE QUALITIES; INFORMATION SYSTEM SUCCESS; QUALITY OF INFORMATION; SYSTEM QUALITY; SYSTEM USE; USER SATISFACTION;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 67649267174     PISSN: 10401628     EISSN: 15337979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/irmj.2008040101     Document Type: Article

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