Modeling users' acceptance of mobile services

Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 225-248

  Zarmpou, Theodora ^a   Saprikis, Vaggelis ^a   Markos, Angelos ^b   Vlachopoulou, Maro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Functionality; Innovativeness; Mobile services acceptance; Relationship drivers; SEM; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859893940     PISSN: 13895753     EISSN: 15729362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10660-012-9092-x     Document Type: Article

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