Determinants of self-report and system-captured measures of mobile Internet use intensity : An empirical investigation of common method bias among German mobile communications customers

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 561-578

  Gerpott, Torsten J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceptance; Adoption; Advanced mobile data services; Common method bias; Factual use case features; IS user survey; Mobile communications; Mobile Internet; Perceptual constructs; Use intensity measurement

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE; ADOPTION; ADVANCED MOBILE DATA SERVICES; COMMON METHOD BIAS; FACTUAL USE CASE FEATURES; INTENSITY MEASUREMENTS; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE INTERNET; PERCEPTUAL CONSTRUCTS; USER SURVEYS;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MOBILE DEVICES; RATING; SALES; SURVEYS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 80054042214     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-010-9231-7     Document Type: Article

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