Why do they resist? - An empirical analysis of an individual's personality trait resistance regarding the adoption of new information systems

18th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Laumer, Sven ^a   Maier, Christian ^a   Eckhardt, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

It adoption; Personality; Resistance; Resistance to change; Theory of reasoned action

Indexed keywords

EMOTIONAL REACTIONS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; IT ADOPTION; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TRAITS; RESISTANCE TO CHANGE; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SUBJECTIVE NORM; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE; THEORY OF REASONED ACTION; USAGE INTENTION;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; HARDWARE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870647366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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