Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology: A synthesis and the road ahead

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 328-376

  Venkatesh, Viswanath ^a   Thong, James Y L ^b   Xu, Xin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Literature review; Multi level framework; Research context; Technology acceptance and use; Theory evaluation; Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT)

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

LITERATURE REVIEWS; MULTILEVELS; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE; THE UNIFIED THEORY OF ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF TECHNOLOGY(UTAUT); THEORY EVALUATION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84971012300     PISSN: 15369323     EISSN: 15583457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00428     Document Type: Article

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