An empirical study on determinants of web based question-answer services adoption

Online Information Review

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 789-798

  Deng, Shengli ^a   Liu, Yong ^b   Qi, Yuanyuan ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Communication systems; Information systems; Internet; Knowledge management; Technology acceptance; Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION MODEL; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DRIVING FACTORS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE; UNIFIED THEORY OF ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF TECHNOLOGY; WEB BASED;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SURVEYS; USER INTERFACES;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 80053489774     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684521111176507     Document Type: Article

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