What influences employees to use enterprise social networks? A socio-technical perspective

Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2015 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Chin, Christie Pei Yee ^a   Evans, Nina ^a   Choo, Kim Kwang Raymond ^a   Tan, Felix B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Enterprise Social Networks; Socio Technical Factors; Usage; Use Behaviour

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

FACILITATING CONDITIONS; KEY SUCCESS FACTORS; SOCIO-TECHNICAL PERSPECTIVE; SOCIOTECHNICAL; TASK CHARACTERISTICS; TOP MANAGEMENT SUPPORT; USAGE; USE BEHAVIOUR;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85011061643     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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