Post-adoption switching between technology substitutes: The case of web browsers

ICIS 2006 Proceedings - Twenty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1941-1958

  Ye, Chen ^a   Seo, DongBack ^a   Desouza, Kevin C ^b   Papagari Sangareddy, Sridhar R ^a   Jha, Sanjeev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Post adoption behavior; Technology substitution; User switching; Web browsers

Indexed keywords

FIELD DATA; FIREFOX; FIREFOX WEB BROWSER; INTERNET EXPLORERS; MICROSOFT; MOZILLA; ONLINE CONSUMERS; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; POST-ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; RESEARCH MODELS; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS; TECHNOLOGY SUBSTITUTION; USER BEHAVIORS; USER SATISFACTION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SWITCHING; TECHNOLOGY; WEB BROWSERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84870174852     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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