Acceptance of enterprise blog for service industry

Internet Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 260-297

  Hsing wu, Chien ^a   Kao, Shu Chen ^b   Lin, Hsin Hui ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

^b KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adoption intention; Blogs; Enterprise blog; Innovation; Innovation diffusion; Organization dynamics; Organizations; Social exchange

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878219545     PISSN: 10662243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10662241311331736     Document Type: Article

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