The adoption and use of IT artifacts: A new interaction-centric model for the study of user-artifact relationships

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 661-685

  Al Natour, Sameh ^a   Benbasat, Izak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; IT adoption models; IT artifacts; Online relationships

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

IT ADOPTION; IT ARTIFACTS; MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS; ONLINE RELATIONSHIPS; RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; THEORETICAL MODELING; TRADITIONAL MODELS;

EID: 70749083208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00208     Document Type: Article

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