Conceptualizing means-end chains of user goals as networks

Information and Management

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 24-32

  Matook, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Degree centrality; Flow betweenness centrality; Goal directed behavior; Means end chains; Social network analysis; UCINET; User goals

Indexed keywords

BETWEENNESS CENTRALITY; DEGREE CENTRALITY; GOAL-DIRECTED BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; UCINET; USER GOALS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84873387759     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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