A contingency model of citizens' attitudes toward e-government use

Electronic Government

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 68-85

  Aladwani, Adel M ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Acceptance; Age; Attitudes; E government; Education; Gender; Satisfaction; Trust; Use; Value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872102705     PISSN: 17407494     EISSN: 17407508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EG.2013.051276     Document Type: Article

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