An exploratory analysis of factors affecting users' adoption of corporate intranet: A Tunisian study

Management Research News

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 375-385

  Mosbeh, Rim ^a   Soliman, Khalid S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^b HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intranet communication technologies; Outsourcing; Tunisia; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149134323     PISSN: 01409174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01409170810865172     Document Type: Article

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