The effects of technostress and switching stress on discontinued use of social networking services: A study of Facebook use

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 275-308

  Maier, Christian ^a   Laumer, Sven ^a   Weinert, Christoph ^a   Weitzel, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discontinuance usage; Hedonic and voluntary technology usage; Post adoption research; Social networking sites; Switching behavior; Technostress

Indexed keywords

LIFE CYCLE; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; SWITCHING;

DISCONTINUANCE USAGE; POST ADOPTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS; TECHNOLOGY USAGES; TECHNOSTRESS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84926305440     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: 13652575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/isj.12068     Document Type: Article

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