Assessing and managing employees for embracing change: A multiple-item scale to measure employee readiness for e-business

Technovation

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-85

  Lai, Jung Yu ^a   Ong, Chorng Shyong ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

e Business; Readiness; Scale

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION; EBUSINESS; ELECTRONIC BUSINESS (E-BUSINESS); ITERATIVE PROCESS; MEASUREMENT SCALE; PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES; SCHOLARLY RESEARCH;

PERSONNEL; RESEARCH;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 71849089416     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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