Understanding the acceptance of mobile health services: A comparison and integration of alternative models

Journal of Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 183-200

  Sun, Yongqiang ^a   Wang, Nan ^b   Guo, Xitong ^c   Peng, Zeyu ^d  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Mobile health; Protection motivation theory (PMT); Technology acceptance model (TAM); The unified theory of use and acceptance of technology (UTAUT); Theory of planned behavior (TPB)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884295146     PISSN: 19389027     EISSN: 15266133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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