Blogs are a new type of media for social interaction; they have become very popular, and have shown their influence throughout our society. However, little is known about what motivates an individual to participate in blogging activities. This study aims to explore how an individual's intention is influenced by social, motivational and individual factors. A survey, involving 283 subjects, was c...

IT (Information Technology) entrepreneurs have been contributing greatly to economic growth and job creation. Despite this, IT entrepreneurship remains understudied in business research. In particular, studying IT entrepreneurial behavior has been ignored in both Information Systems (IS) and entrepreneurship disciplines. This study for the first time empirically examines IT entrepreneurial beha...

The focus of this study is on lecturer’s use of online technology in the higher education context. Precisely, this study aims to understand the effect of personal innovativeness in IT (PI) in determining technology adoption behavior of lecturers in the higher education institutes in Sri Lanka. In this study, the variable of personal innovativeness in IT is integrated with the UTAUT framework an...

As mobile technologies continued to advance, a new platform of advertising known as mobile advertising (m-advertising) has emerged. This study explores factors that influence consumers’ behavioral intention (BI) to use m-advertising by proposing an extension of Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model with personal innovativeness in information technology (PIIT), perceiv...

This research proposes a model to predict unanticipated use of software by high school students after mandatory adoption. We define unanticipated use as voluntarily extending the use of a software product to new tasks and new settings after mandatory adoption for a specific task in a specific setting. We are basing our model on TAM2 (Venkatesh and Davis 2000), which is an extension of the origi...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Mobile healthcare Personal service availability Personal innovativeness in IT TAM TPB The adoption rate of mobile healthcare is relatively low in the hospital. In practice, a study of how healthcare professionals adopt mobile services to support their work is imperative. An integration of TAM and TPB, concerning both technological and organizational aspects, is i...

PIIT is defined as the willingness of an individual to try out any new information technology. Surprisingly, this stable-trait has not been used in many studies of technology acceptance. In this study, PIIT will be used as a main-effect variable to help explain behavioral intentions. The effect of PIIT on technology acceptance and use will be tested using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Us...

This study presents and empirically validates a model that describes user adoption behavior towards email notification interface agents from the end-user perspective. In addition to the original Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) constructs, the model included perceived enjoyment, computer playfulness, and personal innovativeness in the domain of IT. Data were collected from 75 actual email inte...