The impact of multilevel computer self-efficacy on effectiveness of computer training

End User Computing Challenges and Technologies: Emerging Tools and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 33-47

  Hasan, Bassam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

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EID: 77953012235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-295-4.ch003     Document Type: Chapter

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