Determinants of information technology adoption in Portugal

ICE-B 2009 - International Conference on e-Business, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 264-270

  Oliveira, Tiago ^a   Martins, Maria F O ^a  

^a NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Binary decision; e Commerce adoption; Technology organization environment; Web site adoption

Indexed keywords

BINARY DECISION; E-COMMERCE; E-COMMERCE ADOPTION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; IT ADOPTION; PORTUGAL; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; TECHNOLOGY-ORGANIZATION-ENVIRONMENT FRAMEWORKS;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 74549132862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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