AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE APPLICABILITY OF THE TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL TO APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT OUTSOURCING DECISIONS

9th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1594-1606

  Benamati, John Skip ^a   Rajkumar, T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

application development outsourcing; IT management; Outsourcing; technology acceptance model

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE TESTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT OUTSOURCING; DECISION MAKERS; DECISIONS MAKINGS; EASE-OF-USE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; IT MANAGEMENT; OUTSOURCING DECISIONS; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84869481980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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