The study focused on constraints affecting the adoption of innovative agricultural technologies disseminated by the Women-in-Agriculture (WIA) unit of the Akwa Ibom Agricultural Development Programme (AKADEP) to its women clientele. The study also ascertained the awareness and adoption levels of such introduced technologies. Findings revealed that respondents were aware of 61.9% of introduced t...

Current technology adoption research focuses on relationships between attitudes, intentions, behavior, and their various antecedents, but little is known about how these relationships develop and the processes by which adoption actually takes place. Karl Weick’s model of sensemaking in organizations is presented as a basic model for understanding adoption attitudes and behavior from an adopter-...

The choice of technology adoption plays a critical role in attracting and maintaining customers. The TAM or TPB related model has dominated in the IS context for explaining an individual user’s adoption. However, consumers demand different perspectives in the EC environment to elucidate adoption of EC technologies. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for demonstrating adoption of E...

This paper theoretically investigates whether improved access to the domestic market speeds up new technology adoption by a foreign firm adopts new technology. In our model, foreign firms choose between exporting and foreign direct investment (FDI) to serve the domestic market. In the absence of other foreign firms, a reduction in the fixed cost of FDI promotes and accelerates technology adopti...

in this paper, first, a conceptual framework has been developed and while truly recognizing different aspects of the technology transfer process, it is trying to introduce a decision-making methodology in the choice of projects. then by choosing effective variables in technology transfer process, a multiple criteria decision-making (mcdm) model has been designed, so that the choice of appropria...

Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is capable of explaining user behavior across a broad range of end-user computing technologies and user populations. In its original form TAM has been extensively incorporated as a methodology to measure attitude towards technology adoption from users in multiple domains, as well as within financial domain. TAM variations have also been proposed and applied for...

We study the impact of the technological change on asset prices in a dynamic model economy that features a stochastic technology frontier and costly technology adoption. Firms adopt the latest technology embodied in new capital to reach the stochastic technology frontier, but this decision entails an adoption cost. The model predicts that firms operating with old capital are more risky and henc...

Smart card technology has resulted in vast developments in many aspects of modern human life. User acceptance of fuel rationing smart cards based on adoption model involves many factors such as: satisfaction, security, external variables, attitude toward using, etc. In this study, user acceptance and security factors for fuel rationing smart cards in Iran have been evaluated based on an adoptio...

This research examines the factors affecting the consumer adoption of broadband in the United Kingdom. A conceptual model of broadband adoption was developed by selecting and justifying a number of relevant constructs from the technology adoption literature. The model was then empirically tested by employing survey data that was randomly collected from 358 UK broadband consumers. The findings s...