Consumer acceptance of personal information and communication technology services

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 613-625

  Thong, James Y L ^a   Venkatesh, Viswanath ^b   Xu, Xin ^c   Hong, Se Joon ^d   Tam, Kar Yan ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Consumer acceptance; digital service management; mobile data services (MDS); personal information and communication technology (ICT) services; technology adoption; unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING;

CONSUMER ACCEPTANCE; DIGITAL SERVICES; MOBILE DATA SERVICE; PERSONAL INFORMATION; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; THE UNIFIED THEORY OF ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF TECHNOLOGY(UTAUT);

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 80054850925     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2010.2058851     Document Type: Article

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