IT adoption in small and medium-sized enterprises: The role of knowledge acquisition

16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 507-517

  Bharati, Pratyush ^a   Chaudhury, Abhijit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b BRYANT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Assimilation; Innovation; Intermediaries; Social exchange theory

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ASSIMILATION; INTERMEDIARIES; IT ADOPTION; KNOWLEDGE-BASED VIEWS; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; SOCIAL EXCHANGE THEORY; SOCIAL FACTOR; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS; TWO-STREAM;

INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84870327335     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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