A model of organizational employees' e-learning systems acceptance

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 355-366

  Lee, Yi Hsuan ^a   Hsieh, Yi Chuan ^b   Ma, Chun Yuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computer self efficacy; Organizational support; Subjective norm; Task equivocality; Technology acceptance model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SELF-EFFICACY; ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT; SUBJECTIVE NORM; TASK EQUIVOCALITY; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL;

LEARNING SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 79551689547     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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