The adoption of online shopping assistants: Perceived similarity as an antecedent to evaluative beliefs

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 347-374

  Al Natour, Sameh ^a   Benbasat, Izak ^b   Cenfetelli, Ron ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Electronic commerce; IT diffusion and adoption; User acceptance of IT

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DECISION PROCESS; HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION RESEARCHES; IT DIFFUSION; ONLINE SHOPPING; SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; USER ACCEPTANCE OF IT; USERS' PERCEPTION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 79957817764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00267     Document Type: Article

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