What habbo goers do in practice? Decomposing attitudinal beliefs

17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Merikivi, Jani ^a  

^a TURKU CENTRE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Attitude; Continuous use; Decomposed theory of planned behaviour; Social virtual world

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; CONTINUOUS USE; INTERACTIVITY; MULTIPLE FUNCTION; RESEARCH MODELS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SUCCESS FACTORS; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOUR; USE CONTEXT; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84870705685     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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