Citizen's adoption of an e-government system: Validating extended social cognitive theory (SCT)

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 172-181

  Rana, Nripendra P ^a   Dwivedi, Yogesh K ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adoption; Citizens; E government; India; OPGRS; SCT; SEM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928771979     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2015.02.002     Document Type: Article

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