Benevolence trust: A key determinant of user continuance use of online social networks

Information Systems and e-Business Management

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 189-211

  Wu, Cou Chen ^a   Huang, Yves ^a   Hsu, Chia Lin ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Benevolence trust; Continuance use; Credibility trust; Online social networking (OSN); Satisfaction; Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920939726     PISSN: 16179846     EISSN: 16179854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10257-013-0216-1     Document Type: Article

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