Do as your parents say? - Analyzing it adoption influencing factors for full and under age applicants

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 169-183

  Laumer, Sven ^a   Eckhardt, Andreas ^b   Trunk, Natascha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

E recruiting; Household; Is adoption diffusion; Partial least squares; Subjective Norm

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION DECISION; E-RECRUITING; FACILITATING CONDITIONS; INFLUENCING FACTOR; IT ADOPTION; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES; PEER GROUPS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SUBJECTIVE NORM; SURVEY DATA;

DRIVER TRAINING; EDUCATION COMPUTING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77954762474     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-008-9136-x     Document Type: Article

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