Does Culture Affect the Adoption of Advanced Mobile Services? A Comparative Study of Young Adults’ Perceptions in Denmark and the UK

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 132-147

  Constantiou, Ioanna D ^a   Papazafeiropoulou, Anastasia ^b   Vendelo, Morten Thanning ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adoption decision; Culture; Mobile communications market; Mobile TV; Reason based choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009835143     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1644953.1644962     Document Type: Article

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