The decision chain in a large organization involves multiple decision makers with dissimilar viewpoints and interests. Technology adoption decisions made within any large organization are complex and hard to predict (Aroskar 1998; Corley 1998; Sadler-Smith, E. and Sheffy, E. 2004). The decisional complexity is further exacerbated when the adoption process extends to involve extra-organizational...

Business is applying mobile technologies in the attempt to address its problems and to realize its opportunities at such a rate that researchers have difficulty maintaining their contact. Absent general models that can provide some assistance, business has few sources of impartial assistance. This paper aims to better assist organizations seeking to successfully adopt and to implement m-busines...

As 21st century has witnessed drastic changes in educational technology, the education of pre-service teachers gained more significance. Educators are then sought to be digitally literate who also accepting new technologies utilize web tools competently. That said, this current quantitative driven-mix method research scrutinizes role Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) enhancing English as a Fore...

22 n the right circumstances, new technologies adopted by members of a community will spread by diffusion. One of the most robust findings about innovation diffusion is that shifts from one technology or product to another follow a sigmoid, or cumulative normal, distribution.1–3 Thus, the rate of adoption usually starts low, accelerates until about 50 percent of the community has adopted the te...

This study compared farmers’ rating of extension effectiveness in technology dissemination to the level of adoption. In conducting the study, 180 farmers participating in extension programme in Cross-River State were randomly selected through multi-stage random sampling technique. The data collected through a structured questionnaire were analyzed using the t-test of significance of difference ...

This paper presents a new adoption framework i.e. Individual, Technology, Organization and Environment (I-TOE) to address the factors influencing computer-assisted auditing tools (CAATs) acceptance in public audit firms. CAATs are audit technology that helps in achieving effective and efficient audit work. While CAATs adoption varies among audit departments, prior studies focused narrowly on CA...

In this paper, we develop a theoretical model for the adoption process of Information System Security innovations in organisations. The model stemmed from the Diffusion of Innovation theory (DOI), the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and the TechnologyOrganisation-Environment (TOE) framework. The model portrays Information System Security adoption process...