Exploring the continuance intention of social networking websites: An empirical research

Information Systems and e-Business Management

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 139-163

  Hsu, Chia Lin ^a   Yu, Chih Ching ^b   Wu, Cou Chen ^c  

^a CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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

Author keywords

Expectation disconfirmation model; Facebook; Flow theory; Social networking; Technology acceptance model; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924408952     PISSN: 16179846     EISSN: 16179854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10257-013-0214-3     Document Type: Article

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