Information technology adoption is a critical continuing challenge in healthcare. This paper presents a Bayesian learning model to quantify social learning effects on information technology adoption by physicians from a community health system. The model estimates confirm that both self-learning and social learning effects reduce the uncertainty around the perceived value of a new information t...

Technology acceptance model, which is based on theory of planned behavior (TPB) and theory of reasoned action (TRA), posits beliefs as the underlying reason for the individual adoption decisions. While the model has been very successful in explaining the individual adoption of technology, various researchers have called for the need for alternate approaches to explain the adoption phenomenon. T...

What factors underlie the adoption dynamics of ecommerce technologies among users in developing countries? Even though the internet promised to be the great equalizer, the nuanced variety of conditions and contingencies that shape user adoption of ecommerce technologies has received little scrutiny. Building on previous research on technology adoption, the paper proposes a global information te...

the management of agricultural education faces on-going challenges to deliver current and effective materials in an approach that takes advantage of developments in education technology. in this article the use of blended learning was compared with the traditional approach for the instruction of theoretical materials in agricultural education. this study used a pre-test, post-test experimental ...

While technological change is a dominant social force, international political economists have not developed theories of the political foundations of technology adoption. We analyze a gametheoretic model of clean technology adoption and derive the following predictions. First, foreign countries should support clean technology adoption in countries with secure property rights and democratic poli...