The rhetorics of system adoption and diffusion in the Taiwan mutual fund industry

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Huang, Jimmy ^a   Hsu, Carol ^b   Galliers, Robert D ^c   Lin, Yu Tzu ^b   Newell, Sue ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information system adoption and diffusion; Interpretive, longitudinal research; Rhetorical affordance; Rhetorics; Technological innovation

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; INTERPRETIVE, LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH; RHETORICS; SYSTEM ADOPTION; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION;

DIFFUSION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; RESEARCH; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

INNOVATION;

EID: 79952929473     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.427     Document Type: Conference Paper

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