Factors affecting attitudes towards smart phones: User's profile and proposed research model

International Journal of Technology Marketing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 238-253

  Assimakopoulos, Costas ^a   Papaioannou, Eugenia ^b   Sarmaniotis, Christos ^a   Fidanyan, Marianna ^c   Georgiadis, Christos K ^b  

^a ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^c YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

Attitudes towards smart phones; Disconfirmation; Enhanced technology acceptance model; Intentions; TAM; Technology acceptance model

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018342837     PISSN: 1741878X     EISSN: 17418798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJTMKT.2013.055344     Document Type: Article

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