Towards an understanding of assimilation in virtual worlds: The 3C approach

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 303-320

  Schwarz, Andrew ^a   Schwarz, Colleen ^a   Jung, Yoonhyuk ^b   Pérez, Begoña ^a   Wiley Patton, Sonja ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

IT adoption; IT assimilation; Second Life; structural equation modeling; virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

IT ADOPTION; IT ASSIMILATION; SECOND LIFE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 84860696811     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2011.49     Document Type: Article

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