ACCEPTANCE AND FAILURE OF E-LEARNING IN ORGANIZATIONS: A MAP
Lorenzo Cantoni and Chiara Succi

This article presents the e-learning acceptance and rejection theme placing it in the wider context of theories of innovation diffusion and technologies acceptance. In the light of these theoretical contributions, as well as those newly dedicated expressively to e-learning and its failures (dropouts), an E-learning Acceptance interpretative model is proposed (MELA: Model of E-learning Acceptance) which distinguishes different factors, steps and variables. Key words: e-learning, training, innovation acceptance and theories of diffusion.