User personality and resistance to mandatory information systems in organizations: A theoretical model and empirical test of dispositional resistance to change

Journal of Information Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 67-82

  Laumer, Sven ^a   Maier, Christian ^a   Eckhardt, Andreas ^b   Weitzel, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b German Graduate School of Management and Law (GGS)   (Germany)

Author keywords

dispositional resistance to change; IS implementation; mandatory IS usage; technology acceptance; user personality; user resistance

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

IS IMPLEMENTATION; MANDATORY IS USAGE; RESISTANCE TO CHANGE; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE; USER PERSONALITIES; USER RESISTANCES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84955513743     PISSN: 02683962     EISSN: 14664437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jit.2015.17     Document Type: Article

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