How online social networks affect my job choice intention: An empirical approach

Proceedings - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Tan, Tianhui ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Kankanhalli, Atreyi ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Expectancy theory; Information seeking; Job choice intention; Online social networks; Peer influence

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION USE; STUDENTS; WEBSITES;

EXPECTANCY THEORY; INFORMATION SEEKING; JOB CHOICE; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PEER INFLUENCE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84928612885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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