The relative importance of intermediaries in eGovernment adoption: A study of Saudi Arabia

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6846 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 62-74

  Al Sobhi, Faris ^a   Weerakkody, Vishanth ^a   El Haddadeh, Ramzi ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adoption; E government; Intermediaries; UTAUT

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; DIGITAL DIVIDE; E-GOVERNMENT; E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES; FACILITATING CONDITIONS; GULF COUNTRIES; INTERMEDIARIES; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SAUDI ARABIA; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; UNIFIED THEORY OF ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF TECHNOLOGY; UTAUT; E-GOVERNMENT ADOPTIONS; E-GOVERNMENTS; THE UNIFIED THEORY OF ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF TECHNOLOGY(UTAUT);

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 80052766041     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22878-0_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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