This study reports on an empirical investigation of consumer perceptions on the adoption of electronic Personal Health Record (PHR) systems. Encouraging people to monitor their own health and to record data in online PHRs is one approach which can help to improve the provision of care, while saving costs. A cross-sectional survey conducted among Canadian consumers revealed that perceptions of u...

Prior research on information technology (IT) adoption has examined adoption of individual technologies with little attention to the adoption of IT platforms. IT platforms are general purpose technologies that are used by application developers to build specific applications for individual or organizational needs. IT platform adoption is different from the adoption of independent IT, in that (1...

Several research efforts over the last decade have attempted to augment the basic technology acceptance model (TAM) by identifying and testing determinants of the two key predictor beliefs of the model—perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use—and by identifying other extraneous variables that moderate various model relationships. This research is an attempt in the same direction. It addre...

This study responds to the Technological Acceptance Model (TAM) critics regarding model's missing self-regulatory and motivational variables. The research integrates personal innovativeness perceived risk in TAM model explores interrelationships among those constructs. A self-administered questionnaire was used collect data for this study, 293 consumers of Indonesia Online Travel Agent (OTA) in...

Purpose Facial recognition payment (FRP) has been attracting attention as an alternative mode. This research aims to investigate the future use of FRP for both mobile and point sale payment. Design/methodology/approach The body information on this topic is promoted by proposing valence framework, where authors used relative advantage, initial trust, perceived playfulness need uniqueness positiv...

Purpose – This study argues that individuals’ use of personal knowledge management systems (PKMS) significantly differs as a result of their underlying innovativeness and involvement traits. Based on the literature, this study proposes that whilst more-involved users utilize PKMS more frequently, more-innovative users utilize more functions of PKMS. Accordingly, this study informs scholars and ...

What determines an American state’s propensity for innovativeness, or their willingness to adopt new policies sooner or later relative to other states? Most studies focus almost exclusively on one policy area at a time at the expense of a broader understanding of innovativeness as a characteristic of states. Our study therefore departs from this tradition by simultaneously studying policy innov...

The purpose of this study is to understand the effect of self efficacy on the innovativeness of professionals within a cultural context. Innovativeness of employees is one of the coveted characteristics as previous research has shown that innovativeness contributes beneficially towards an organization’s competiveness and growth. On the other hand, self-efficacy is a construct which has been stu...

The current literature suggests that the concept of consumer innovativeness is considered to be universally applicable. Innovators are believed to be novelty seekers and risk takers independently of their national identity, and therefore would be attracted to similar characteristics of an innovation across most countries. Though, research in intercultural marketing has long shown that cultural ...