INTEGRATING THREE THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES TO EXPLAIN INTERNET-BASED TECHNOLOGY USAGE BY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 473-478

  Hirt, Sabine G ^a   Limayem, Moez ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; TEACHING;

COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY; CRITICAL MASS; INTERNET BASED TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET-BASED COMMUNICATION; QUALITATIVE DATA; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SOCIAL INFORMATION PROCESSING; STRUCTURATION THEORY; TECHNOLOGY USAGES; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85102733387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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