Technostress: Negative effect on performance and possible mitigations

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 103-132

  Tarafdar, Monideepa ^a   Pullins, Ellen Bolman ^b   Ragu Nathan, T S ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Sales force automation; Sales force performance; Technology self efficacy; Technology enabled innovation; Technology enabled performance; Technostress

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; SALES;

CONTEXT; SALES FORCE; SALES FORCE AUTOMATION; SELF EFFICACY; TECHNOSTRESS;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

EID: 84923043530     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/isj.12042     Document Type: Article

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