The role of habit in post-adoption switching of personal information technologies: An empirical investigation

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 585-610

  Ye, Chen ^a   Potter, Richard ^b  

^a VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Habit; Online survey; Post adoption; Push pull mooring; Use; User switching

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MOORING; WEB BROWSERS;

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; HABIT; ONLINE SURVEYS; POST ADOPTIONS; POST-ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; PUSH PULL; SWITCHING INTENTIONS;

SWITCHING;

EID: 81055132863     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.02835     Document Type: Article

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