Attribute perceptions as factors explaining Mobile internet acceptance of cellular customers in Germany-An empirical study comparing actual and potential adopters with distinct categories of access appliances

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2148-2162

  Gerpott, Torsten J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advanced mobile data services; Attribute perceptions; Diffusion of innovation concepts; Germany; Information economic concepts; IT innovation; IT user survey; Mobile appliance categories; Mobile Internet; Post adoption; Pre adoption; Technology acceptance

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE PERCEPTIONS; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION CONCEPTS; GERMANY; INFORMATION ECONOMICS; IT INNOVATION; MOBILE APPLIANCES; MOBILE DATA SERVICE; MOBILE INTERNET; POST-ADOPTION; PRE-ADOPTION; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE; USER SURVEYS;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DIFFUSION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION; INTERNET; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MOBILE DEVICES; SALES; SURVEYS; TELEPHONE SETS;

CONTRACTS;

EID: 78049526961     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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