A critical assessment of information technology adoption: Technical, organisational and personal perspectives

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 315-335

  Daim, Tugrul ^a   Basoglu, Nuri ^b   Tanoglu, Ilda ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

IT adoption; Multiple perspectives; Technology assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956360963     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2010.035048     Document Type: Article

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