While many businesses seek to seize the momentum of social networking sites, the combination of technology-enabled social networks and e-commerce may offer significant opportunities for retailers. Social shopping sites emerged as the latest developments to leverage the power of social networking with online shopping. Despite enormous business interests and potentials, little is known about whet...

Advances in electronic banking technology have created novel ways of handling daily banking affairs, especially via the online banking channel. The acceptance of online banking services has been rapid in many parts of the world, and in the leading ebanking countries the number of e-banking contracts has exceeded 50 percent. Investigates online banking acceptance in the light of the traditional ...

Information technology can substantially enhance a wide variety of work performances, but such gains are lost if people cannot use the applications. Hence the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) model successfully made usability a key application quality requirement, alongside functionality. However the field of quality systems requirements includes factors distinct from usability. The Web of Sys...

Many tertiary institutions tout their implementation of e-learning technology as a way to lure prospective students, and promised implementation of e-learning strategies in college programs is crucial for securing valuable federal government grants. At the core of most e-learning strategies is the institution’s course management system (CMS). A CMS facilitates efficient course management, incre...

Computers are increasingly widespread, influencing many aspects of our social and work lives, As we move into a technology-based society, it is important that classroom experiences with computers are made available for all students. The purpose of this study is to examine preservice teachers’ attitudes towards computers. This study extends the technology acceptance model (TAM) framework, with s...

200 The development of multiple applications with features of digital games brings about a new trend called Gamification. Besides, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) also represents an important theoretical tool toward understanding the usage of a specific technology, system or service. Since no clear practical explanation that allows the connection of gamification with non-game context, esp...

(i) Information systems/technology adoption: Technology adoption is arguably the most extensively explored area of research within the IS discipline, and it has resulted in the development of rich theories that explain individual technology adoption and use (e.g., [1-7]). Specifically, the technology acceptance model (TAM) [3] has been most widely employed as the basis to investigate individual...

This paper presents initial findings regarding the acceptance of location-aware mobile applications through the theoretical lenses of protection motivation theory (PMT) and the technology acceptance model (TAM). The adoption of smart-phone technology and the prevalence of location-based services have provided organizations with unique channels to reach customers. However, few studies have speci...

Protection of physical assets and digital information is of growing importance to society. As with any new technology, user acceptance of new software and hardware devices is often hard to gauge, and policies to introduce and ensure adequate and correct usage of such technologies are often lacking. Security technologies have widespread applicability to different organizational contexts that may...

The technology acceptance model (TAM) stipulates that both perceived ease of use (PEOU) and perceived usefulness (PU) directly influence the end user’s behavioral intention (BI) to accept a technology. Studies have found that self-efficacy is an important determinant of PEOU. However, there has been no research examining the relationship between selfefficacy and BI. The studies on the effect of...