Investigating the adoption of e-government services in Qatar using the UTAUT model

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 1915-1924

  Al Shafi, Shafi ^a   Weerakkody, Vishanth ^a   Janssen, Marijn ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adoption; Diffusion; E government; Qatar; UTAUT

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ADOPTION AND DIFFUSION; E-GOVERNMENT; E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES; ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT; EMPIRICAL DATA; FACILITATING CONDITIONS; QATAR; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; UNIFIED THEORY OF ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF TECHNOLOGY; UTAUT;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIFFUSION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84870851469     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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