How website socialness leads to website use

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 118-132

  Wakefield, Robin L ^a   Wakefield, Kirk L ^a   Baker, Julie ^b   Wang, Liz C ^c  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

ease of use; enjoyment; social response theory; socialness; TAM; usefulness

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EASE-OF-USE; ENJOYMENT; RESPONSE THEORY; SOCIALNESS; USEFULNESS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 78651328165     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2010.47     Document Type: Article

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