The importance of rhetoric in conceptualising IS adoption

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 219-223

  Huang, Jimmy ^a   Galliers, Robert D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information systems; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954456294     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410391111122826     Document Type: Article

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