Two tales of one service: user acceptance of short message service (SMS) in Hong Kong and China
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Two Tales of One Service: User Acceptance of Short Message Service (SMS) in Hong Kong and China
The Short Message Service (SMS) has been available in Hong Kong and China since the late 1990s. However, the user acceptance patterns for this service have been evidently different in these two regions. Based on fieldwork in Hong Kong and China, this study attempts to explain these differences through the information technology acceptance framework, which posits that various external factors im...
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عنوان ژورنال: info
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1463-6697
DOI: 10.1108/14636690610643258