A study of mobile internet user's service quality perceptions from a user's utilitarian and hedonic value tendency perspectives

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 409-421

  Kim, Dan J ^a   Hwang, Yujong ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE   (United States)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Hedonic tendency; Mobile internet; Mobile internet service quality dimensions; Mobile values; Utilitarian tendency

Indexed keywords

HEDONIC TENDENCY; MOBILE INTERNET; MOBILE INTERNET SERVICES; MOBILE VALUES; UTILITARIAN TENDENCY;

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERNET; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

MOBILE DEVICES;

EID: 84861459833     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-010-9267-8     Document Type: Review

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