This article explores how perceived disempowerment impacts the intention to adopt smart autonomous products. Empirically, the paper builds on three studies to show this impact. Study 1 explores the relevance of the perceived disempowerment in respect of smart autonomous products. Study 2 manipulates autonomy of smart products and finds that perceived disempowerment mediates the link between sma...

Although user experience and personal innovativeness are two important factors in new technology adoption, there has been no prior study to test these factors with the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) adoption. This paper investigates moderating roles of user experience on the relationship between the personal innovativeness and the ERP adoption motivations. This issue is important because if...

This study provides an empirical test of the relationship between Temporal Orientation (including Past-, Present-, and Future-Orientation) and the personal hedonist dimension of Consumer Innovativeness in the case of the purchase of a durable good. The review of the literature on the concepts of Temporal Orientation and purchase Innovativeness leads to the three following hypotheses: purchase I...

This article examines within-culture variance in the influence of values on perceptions and use of information technology (IT). Based on cross-cultural research, we suggest that cultural values influence technology acceptance and use. Specifically, we argue that masculinity/femininity and individualism/collectivism directly influence personal innovativeness with IT, computer anxiety, and comput...

electronic banking has many benefits for government, banks’ stakeholders and customers. many banks in many countries such as iran increasingly develop their infrastructures to provide e-banking services. also, there are many researches that have been conducted to explain how we can encourage people to use e-banking services. in this paper, we explore the effects of various factors on both custo...

Behavioural flexibility is considered a key factor in the ability to adapt to changing environments. A traditional way of characterizing behavioural flexibility is to determine whether individuals invent solutions to novel problems, termed innovativeness. Great-tailed grackles are behaviourally flexible in that they can change their preferences when a task changes using existing behaviours; how...

The sustained upgrade of information systems provides most users with more comprehensive functions that make an individual’s everyday tasks simpler and easier. This study investigated the moderating effect of an individual’s personal innovativeness (PI) on the relationship within a core attitudinal model to Windows 7 and Office 2010. A total of 812 usable subjects, coming from two phases of fie...