Do I switch? Understanding users' intention to switch between social network sites

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 551-560

  Fei, Liu ^a   Bo, Xiao ^b  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SWITCHING; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

I SWITCHES; ON CURRENTS; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS; SWITCHING COSTS; SWITCHING INTENTIONS; USES AND GRATIFICATION THEORIES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84902263515     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2014.76     Document Type: Conference Paper

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