CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION USAGE: A THEORY-BASED EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 630-641

  Lee, Zoonky ^a   Lee, Younghwa ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

computer mediated communication; cross cultural IT acceptance; E mail usage; rational model of media choice; social influence theory

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CROSS-CULTURAL IT ACCEPTANCE; CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS; E-MAIL USAGE; ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS; MEDIA CHOICE; RATIONAL MODEL OF MEDIUM CHOICE; RATIONAL MODELS; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL INFLUENCE THEORY;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 85075418901     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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