The effects of privacy concern and social influence on user acceptance of online social networks

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 2291-2296

  Qin, Li ^a   Kim, Yongbeom ^a   Tan, Xin ^a   Hsu, Jeffrey ^a  

^a FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Online social networks; Perceived ease of use; Perceived usefulness; Privacy concern; Social influence; TAM; Technology acceptance

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; PRIVACY CONCERNS; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; TAM; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84870308988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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