Consumer adoption of PDA phones in Taiwan

International Journal of Mobile Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-20

  Teng, Weichen ^a   Lu, Hsi Peng ^b  

^a CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

consumer behaviour; ICTs; information and communication technology; mobile communication; purchase intention; technology acceptance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958759741     PISSN: 1470949X     EISSN: 17415217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2010.030517     Document Type: Article

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