A study of Mobile Instant Messaging adoption: Within-culture variation

International Journal of Mobile Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 280-297

  Liu, Zhenhua ^a   Min, Qingfei ^a   Ji, Shaobo ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Culture; Diffusion; Individual use; MIM; Mobile communication; Mobile Instant Messaging

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL DIMENSIONS; INDIVIDUAL USE; INNOVATIVENESS; INSTANT MESSAGING; MIM; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; NATIONAL CULTURES; PERCEIVED ENJOYMENT; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; SUBJECTIVE NORM; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; UNCERTAINTY AVOIDANCE;

DATA REDUCTION; MESSAGE PASSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 79958715268     PISSN: 1470949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2011.040607     Document Type: Article

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