Implications of Researcher Assumptions about Perceived Relative Advantage and Compatibility

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 50-65

  Van Slyke, Craig ^a   Johnson, Richard D ^b   Hightower, Ross ^c   Elgarah, Wafa ^d  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d AL AKHAWAYN UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Adoption; Compatibility; Innovation Diffusion Theory; Relative Advantage; Scale Reuse

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016146904     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1364636.1364642     Document Type: Article

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