Developing an instrument for e-public services' acceptance using confirmatory factor analysis: Middle east context

Journal of Organizational and End User Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 18-44

  Alzahrani, Ahmed ^a   Stahl, Bernd ^b   Prior, Mary ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA); E Public Services; Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT); Technology Acceptance Model (TAM); Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB)

Indexed keywords

CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; E-PUBLIC SERVICES; INNOVATION DIFFUSION THEORY; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS; INVESTMENTS;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84870259462     PISSN: 15462234     EISSN: 15465012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/joeuc.2012070102     Document Type: Article

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