Why do people reject technologies? - towards an understanding of resistance to it-induced organizational change

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Laumer, Sven ^a   Eckhardt, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Change management; Human resources IS; IS implementation; Personality; Resistance to change

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS CHANGE; CHANGE MANAGEMENT; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; IS IMPLEMENTATION; ON-RESISTANCE; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TRAITS; RESISTANCE TO CHANGE; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84870966442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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