Impact of technostress on end-user satisfaction and performance

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 303-334

  Tarafdar, Monideepa ^a   Tu, Qiang ^b   Ragu Nathan, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

end user performance; end user satisfaction; ICT use; information overload; survey research; technostress; user involvement

Indexed keywords

END USERS; END-USER SATISFACTION; ICT USE; INFORMATION OVERLOAD; SURVEY RESEARCH; TECHNOSTRESS; USER INVOLVEMENT;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA PROCESSING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION USE; PRODUCTIVITY; SURVEYS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79951919849     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222270311     Document Type: Article

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