The Handbook of Research on Global Diffusion of Broadband Data Transmission explores broadband adoption and the digital divide through a global perspective, providing up-to-date research on constructs such as relative advantage, utilitarian outcomes, hedonic outcomes, and service quality. Compiling cutting-edge research from over 100 noted experts in 29 countries, this invaluable reference source allows policy makers, internet service providers, and others to gain multicultural insight into what factors actively influence consumers' decisions to adopt broadband.
Natasha Papazafeiropoulou is a lecturer in the Information Systems and Computing department at Brunel University, UK. Her PhD is titled: ?A stakeholder approach to electronic commerce diffusion?, from Brunel University and she holds a first degree in Informatics and a M.Sc. in Information Systems both from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. She teaches information systems management at the postgraduate level. She also supervises researchers in the field of technology adoption by organisations. She has 10 years of research experience on electronic commerce, broadband Internet, Enterprise Recourse Planning Systems (ERPs) and Customer Relationship Management systems (CRMs).
Jyoti Choudrie is a Reader of Information Systems in the Business School, University of Hertfordshire. She also held the position of Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Economics, Swansea University. Prior to that she was a lecturer in the School of Information Systems, Computing and Maths, Brunel University. She obtained her PhD on ?Investigating Reengineering Teams in the Context of Business Process Change? from Brunel University. Her current research encompasses the social aspects of e-government and e-governance, diffusion and adoption of broadband technology, the usability of e-government web sites, the impacts of the diffusion of broadband technology on electronic government, the social aspects of information systems and information and communications technologies, and electronic commerce. She has written for peer reviewed journals such as the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Journal of Information Technology (JIT), and Journal of Computing and Information Systems (JCIS). [Editor]