Explaining factors influencing the consumer adoption of broadband

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 393-417

  Dwivedi, Yogesh K ^a   Alsudairi, Mohammed A ^b   Irani, Zahir ^c  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Broadband adoption; Household consumer; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952087166     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2010.032939     Document Type: Article

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