Adoption of information technology by micro-enterprises: Insights from a rural community

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages 3203-3213

  Qureshi, Sajda ^a   Kamal, Mehruz ^a   Good, Travis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Information technology; Micro enterprise; Micro entrepreneurs; Perceptions

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION DECISION; ATTITUDES; CURRENT THEORETICAL MODELS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FOCUS GROUPS; IT ADOPTION; LARGE ORGANIZATIONS; MICRO-ENTERPRISE; MICRO-ENTERPRISES; MICRO-ENTREPRENEURS; NEBRASKA; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL COMMUNITY; SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR;

ECONOMICS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84870261184     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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