Mobile application quality and platform stickiness under formal vs. self-control-Evidence from an experimental study

35th International Conference on Information Systems "Building a Better World Through Information Systems", ICIS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Goldbach, Tobias ^a   Kemper, Viktoria ^a   Benlian, Alexander ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Control mechanisms; Formal and self control; Mobile application quality; Perceived autonomy; Platform stickiness; Software based platforms

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CONTROL THEORY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MOBILE COMPUTING;

CONTROL MECHANISM; DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM; HIERARCHICAL CONTROL; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PERCEIVED AUTONOMY; PLATFORM STICKINESS; SELF-DETERMINATION THEORIES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 85107714198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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