Much of the promise implicit in virtual worlds depends on a critical mass of virtual world users, making it important to understand how to encourage individuals to participate in virtual worlds. Therefore, the objective of this study is to propose an integrative and parsimonious theoretical framework that is specific to virtual world acceptance. As many existing technology acceptance models hav...

In the 20th century, the information technology explosion that occurred globally has managed to influence and change the lifestyle of the world. In many developing countries, E-government initiatives are in their infancy stage. In Malaysia, e-services application is among five pilot projects under these initiatives that have been selected by the government to be implemented at the first phase. ...

Knowledge sharing has been considered a significant component of success in Knowledge Management (KM). However, in most organizations KM is often inadequate when it comes to knowledge sharing. In order to encourage knowledge sharing using Web technology, it is important to know why staff do or do not use web based knowledge sharing systems (WKSS), when communicating internally and sharing knowl...

E-learning has continued to gain the interest of enterprises and universities. As an organization’s deployed e-learning systems grow, it is important for researchers to evaluate the performance of those systems. With the growing trend toward web-based learning systems, behavioral intention models (such as TAM, TPB, TAM2 and UTAUT) seem particularly helpful to examine whether and why people use ...

The Unified Theory of Technology and Use (UTAUT) has been widely used in information system studies since its introduction 2003. current study synthesizes 40 empirical based on UTAUT educational contexts using the one-stage meta-analytic structural equation modelling method. While confirmed initial findings by Ventakesh et al. (2003), model this underperformed explained variance behavioral inte...

0747-5632/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.chb.2011.12.015 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Human Resource Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership, Uni Champaign, 351 Education Building, 1310 S. 6th Stree Tel.: +1 217 333 0807; fax: +1 217 244 5631. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (S.J. Yoo), ha [email protected] (W. Huang). Acceptance of e-learning by employ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to: empirically validate a modified unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model by adding an “e-learning motivation” construct in the South American context; try to determine the role of e-learning motivation in the use and adoption of e-learning systems and conversely the effect of technology on students’ e-learning motivation; and to...

The technology adoption and use question has been extensively researched; however, gaining synthesis in the literature has been challenging owing to the myriad of theoretical frameworks and study contexts. A consolidation was surmised by the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), although recent studies have yielded new questions as technologies and societies change. We sou...

Background: Electronic Learning (E-learning), is the use of electronic technology in education via computer and the internet. Despite its slow adoption by faculty members, e-learning provides several benefits to individuals and organizations. This study was conducted to determine the factors influencing the adoption of e-learning by faculty members in Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Meth...

The modern world is populated with a great many physical and virtual IAMS (Identity Access Management Systems), where people need to maintain various login credentials. There is a key issue associated with this approach, which is the ability to remember this information; however, this can be circumvented to some degree through utilising an innovative approach of a single sign-in mechanism. Thro...