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Adapting the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) as a Tool for Validating User Needs on the Implementation of e-Trial Software Systems
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This paper presents an adapted version of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology Model to be utilised as a validation tool of captured user needs and requirements of particular interactive software technologies, within the framework of Clinical Trial Management Systems (CTMS). In particular, this model is used to assess the users' acceptance and technology adoption of specific CTMS modules of the electronic Primary Care Research Network (ePCRN) Clinical Trial Management Framework System. We present modifications on the variable of the key constructs of UTAUT, while we introduce our own moderating factors for the model in the context of validating an eligibility criteria tool for primary care and community-based clinical research.
... In this study, the researcher adapted Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) as the primary framework of choice in order to investigate the key success factors and the utilization and acceptance of E-government systems toward Government Operation Excellence by Syrian users. Developed primarily by Venkatesh [35] UTAUT is made up of core constructs from 8 models of technology acceptance. Venkatesh found the model to be particularly effective given that it was able to successfully explain up to 70% of cases as far as intentions and use of information systems were concerned. ...
... Additionally, the model's design is based on the data collected from organizations' environment. Due to the above reasons, the researcher believes that UTAUT is more suitable to large institutions such as government organizations compared to other models of technology acceptance [35,21,36,37]. ...
... A number of authors including [40,35] outline Performance Expectancy (PE) as an individual's expectations of improvement, when using a specific system which could enhance their work performance. A host of literature suggests that performance expectancy is a key variable in predicting user intention in information and communication technology contexts [41,42,43,35]. ...
The main purpose of the research is to verify the successful factors to reach excellence in the daily operations to provide better services to citizens. In this respect it is important to embrace the e-governance system to decide how effective it can be. There is also query if the previously established IS recognition frameworks can be used to determine the acceptance by citizens of the e-governance system. The survey issued a total of 600 questionnaires to the citizens of Syria. The research obtained approximately 385 responses, indicating a return rate of 62.83%. In the analysis of the results, Structural equation model (SEM) was used with AMOS version 21.0 to analyse the data. The findings indicate that five core determinants, namely, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, system flexibility, Citizens-Centricity, and facilitating conditions significantly influenced user intention to use E-governance system.
... In this study, the researcher adapted Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) as the primary framework of choice in order to investigate the key success factors and the utilization and acceptance of E-government systems toward Government Operation Excellence by Syrian users. Developed primarily by Venkatesh [35] UTAUT is made up of core constructs from 8 models of technology acceptance. Venkatesh found the model to be particularly effective given that it was able to successfully explain up to 70% of cases as far as intentions and use of information systems were concerned. ...
... Additionally, the model's design is based on the data collected from organizations' environment. Due to the above reasons, the researcher believes that UTAUT is more suitable to large institutions such as government organizations compared to other models of technology acceptance [35,21,36,37]. ...
... A number of authors including [40,35] outline Performance Expectancy (PE) as an individual's expectations of improvement, when using a specific system which could enhance their work performance. A host of literature suggests that performance expectancy is a key variable in predicting user intention in information and communication technology contexts [41,42,43,35]. ...
The aim of this research is to investigation and explore the factors that drive the e-governance implementation and affect the government performance further because the government-citizen relationship in Syria. In this respect it is important to embrace the e-governance system to decide how effective it can be. There is also query if the previously established IS recognition frameworks can be used to determine the acceptance by Syrian citizens of the e-governance system. The survey issued a total of 600 questionnaires to the citizens of Syria. The research obtained approximately 385 responses, indicating a return rate of 62.83%. In the analysis of the results, Structural equation model (SEM) was used with AMOS version 21.0 to analyse the data. The findings indicate that five core determinants, namely, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, system flexibility, Citizens-Centricity, and facilitating conditions significantly influenced user intention to use E-governance system.
... H5: Behavioral Intention has a significant effect on Use Behavior of auditor in adopting CAATs Previous research conducted by [8], [10], [11] suggest that higher the behavioral intention will increase the frequency of use of information technology IV. ...
... The indirect influence of performance expectancy to use behavior is 0.09. This result is support [7]; [18]; [14]; but do not support [10]. Hypothesis 2 is rejected; Effort Expectancy has no significant influence on Behavioral Intention adoption of CAATs. ...
... Based onTable 5, the significance value of 0.000 and t count value of 4.575 greater than t table value of 1.90. The magnitude of direct influence of Behavioral Intention to Use Behavior is 0.533.This result is in accordance with[7],[9] and[10]. ...
The purpose of this study is to determine the perception of financial auditor about the use of computer assisted audit techniques (CAATs) in their daily process of work. This research is a quantitative research uses, which use primary data by distributing questionnaires to the respondent. The respondents are financial auditor who worked in public accounting firm in Jakarta Special Region of Indonesia. This study tested the hypotheses between variables by using path analysis, while the independent variables in this study are Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy, Social Influence and Facilitating Condition. Intervening variable is Behavioral Intention and dependent variable is Use Behavior. The results of this research indicate that Performance Expectancy has significant impact on Behavioral Intention. Both Effort Expectancy and Social Influence do not have significant impact on Behavioral Intention. Facilitating Condition and Behavioral Intention have significant impact on Use Behavior.
... Perceived Usefulness is defined as the degree to which a person believes that using an application would enhance his/her job performance. Perceived usefulness (PU) or Performance expectancy is defined as the degree to which an individual believes that using a system will help him or her attain gains in job performance (Davis, 1989;Venkatesh et al, 2003;Jahangir and Begum, 2008;Algharibi and Arvanitis, 2011;Dwivedi et al., 2017). As such, based on the context, this construct can also be defined as the degree to which an individual believes that using e-Government services will be beneficial to him or her and better than the traditional public services delivery system. ...
... As such, based on the context, this construct can also be defined as the degree to which an individual believes that using e-Government services will be beneficial to him or her and better than the traditional public services delivery system. In the UTAUT model, perceived usefulness has been adapted as Performance expectancy defined as the degree to which an individual believes that using the system will help him or her to attain gains in job performance (Venkatesh et al., 2003;Algharibi and Arvanitis, 2011;Jackson et al., 2013;Dwivedi et al., 2017). Jahangir and Begum (2008) attest that perceived usefulness has a significant effect on adoption and Davis (1989) adds that it plays a fundamental role in the decision to use an information technology. ...
... Its importance in ICT adoption has been noted in several research (Gefen and Straub, 2000;Agufana et al., 2018). Perceived ease of use has been adapted in the UTAUT model as Effort expectancy, defined as the degree of ease associated with the use of the system (Venkatesh et al, 2003;Algharibi and Arvanitis, 2011;Jackson et al., 2013;Dwivedi et al., 2017). And it is found to have a significant effect on perceived usefulness (Zafiropoulos et al., 2012;Susanto and Aljoza, 2015;Abdullah and Ward, 2016). ...
... (1) Perceived Usefulness, the degree to which a person believes that using an application would enhance his/her job performance. Perceived usefulness (PU) or Performance expectancy is defined as the degree to which an individual believes that using a system will help him or her attain gains in job performance (Davis, 1989;Venkatesh et al, 2003;Jahangir and Begum, 2008;Algharibi and Arvanitis, 2011;Dwivedi et al., 2017). As such, based on the context, this construct can also be defined as the degree to which an individual believes that using e-Government services will be beneficial to him or her and better than the traditional public services delivery system. ...
... (1) Performance expectancy, the degree to which an individual believes that using the system will help him or her to attain gains in job performance ( Venkatesh et al., 2003;Algharibi and Arvanitis, 2011;Dwivedi et al., 2017). It is an adaptation of the Perceived Usefulness construct of TAM. ...
... (2) Effort expectancy, the degree of ease associated with the use of the system (Venkatesh et al, 2003;Algharibi and Arvanitis, 2011;Dwivedi et al., 2017 provided to support use of the system (Venkatesh et al, 2003; Jahangir and Begum, ...
This research proposal includes the Research background, questions and objectives and the Research methodology, model and hypothesis.
... According to past studies [34,46,60], SI refers to the level to which an individual is convinced that important others in their life believe that they should make use of the new technology/system. Along the same line of study, Lutfi [34] contended that people important to the individual may influence their final decision, and Arain et al. [22] found students to be influenced by other people on social networks when it comes to m-learningservice use. ...
... This variable is described as the required organizational and infrastructural conditions provided to support system usage [34,46,60]. In the m-learning case, FC is described as the current sufficient resources facilitating the student's access to m-learning services [22]. ...
The most current highly infectious disease, which has become a global health challenge permeating entire sectors of society, is COVID-19. In the education sector, the transmission of COVID-19 has been curbed through the closure of institutions and the facilitation of online learning. The main objective of this study was to propose an integrated model of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology combined with the DeLone and McLean model, to examine the influence of quality features, namely, performance expectancy (PE), effort expectancy (EE), facilitating conditions (FC), and social influence (SI), on the intentions and satisfaction of users toward mobile learning (m�learning) use in the context of Saudi learning institutions. The study obtained m-learning user data using an online questionnaire, after which the data were exposed to partial least squares structural equation modeling to test the proposed research model. The findings supported the influence of PE, EE, and FC on intention toward m-learning use but did not support the significant influence of SI. Moreover, system, intention, and user satisfaction were found to positively and significantly influence m-learning-system usage, with system, information, and service quality being top drivers of such user intention and satisfaction.
... Various studies have utilized both TAM and UTAUT models together (Al-Qeisis, 2009;Algharibi and Arvanitis, 2011;Anderson and Schwager, 2004;Alwahaishi and Snášel, 2013). Using TAM alone, it is not possible to predict the influence of volitional, situational and social conditions. ...
... Various studies have utilized both TAM and UTAUT models together (Al-Qeisis, 2009;Algharibi and Arvanitis, 2011;Anderson and Schwager, 2004;Alwahaishi and Snášel, 2013). Using TAM alone, it is not possible to predict the influence of volitional, situational and social conditions. ...
More-than-voice (MTV) services are becoming widespread in the developing countries among individuals who represent the bottom-of-pyramid (BoP). The BoP comprises individuals whose income is less than $2 per day. Despite the widespread use of MTV services among the consumers at the BoP, there is no study on what affects their adoption of these services. Therefore, this study investigates the factors that influence consumer acceptance of MTV services at the BoP. The research model proposes that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived social influence, perceived acumen to use, perceived value and perceived facilitating conditions are the principal factors influencing the consumer acceptance of MTV services at the BoP. Secondary data collected by Teleuse@BOP4 from Bangladesh were used to validate the proposed model. Multiple regression analysis was conducted to test the hypotheses. The results indicate that the acceptance of MTV services at the BoP is positively influenced by perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived acumen to use, perceived facilitating conditions and perceived value. The results also indicate that perceived social influence has no significant influence on the acceptance of MTV services by consumers in the BoP.
... Introducing IT is a two-way process: IT changes the way firms operate and end-users influence the future progress of technology. Consequently, this process could only succeed if end-users adequately support it [30]. In the healthcare research domain, many previous studies confirm that the healthcare professionals' acceptance of new technologies is the precondition for successful adoption. ...
In hospitals and healthcare facilities, the conventional healthcare setting is highly monotonous and inefficient, and it does not scale up to meet the present demand for healthcare services. Driven by the increased world population aging and the spread of pandemics, it has become essential to build cohesive and organized healthcare systems that seek to reduce clinical costs and the burden placed on healthcare institutions. The fast development of new technologies has recently sparked a worldwide revolution dubbed the 4th Industrial Revolution that used to improve healthcare services and introduce the concept of Healthcare 4. An example is CloudIoT-based healthcare which contributes to the development of effective healthcare systems that manage and monitor hospitals and patients and improve the quality of healthcare services. Although there are many benefits to using this technology, there is a disparity between its advanced development and its actual usage among healthcare professionals. This research study determines a gap in the current research on investigating the factors influencing healthcare professionals' adoption of this technology since prior studies focused primarily on the functionality and design of its systems, while adoption of such systems is lacking in these studies. The most common models for predicting and evaluating technology acceptance and use are the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2). The aim of this study is to review the relevant literature for these three models and provide a conceptual model for healthcare professionals' adoption of CloudIoT-based healthcare.
... In contrast to knowing fear, which decreases the comfort of usage, a higher level of morality may be advantageous (Gelbrich and Sattler, 2014). As a mediator, nearby ability anxiousness is defined as the extent to which an individual's emotional and distinguishing willingness to control to alteration properties his aim to receive a formation (Algharibi and Arvanitis, 2011). The effect of honesty as a constituent of the five-factor model (FFM) of conduct on information utilisation was investigated (Barnett et al., 2015;Dabholkar and Date, 2021). ...
The purpose of this study is to examine citizen’s behaviour towardadoption and usage of e-government services in Pakistan. This studyunderpinned factors such as compatibility, innovativeness, computerself-efficacy, trust on government and trust on the internet to investigatecitizen’s intention to adopt e-govt. services. The research model is furtherextended with actual usage of electronic-government services and degree ofopenness. The degree of openness has conceptualised as moderating variablebetween citizen intention to adopt e-government services and actual usage ofelectronic-government services. Sample size of this study was 368 andresponses were collected from Pakistani citizens. Findings suggest that alloutlined factors have significant impact on intention to adopt of e-governmentservice. In addition to that the mediating effect of citizen’s intention to adopte-government services was also confirmed among compatibility, innovation,computer self-efficacy, trust on the government, trust on the internet and actualusage of e-government services.
... Degree of openness DOP may be clear as a person's emotion and readiness to employ electronic government in the framework of electric governance. Terror, which effects the degree of openness and comfort of use, could be helpful in difference to technology (Gelbrich & Sattler, 2014) The level to which a person's mystical and personal readiness to regulate and alteration influences their desire to accept an innovation was presented as a moderator (Algharibi & Arvanitis, 2011). ...
The takaful industry in Pakistan has been prevailed for several years but there is huge market not yet exploited. This is the reason to conduct the research on factors useful for adopting Takaful. The aim of this study is to investigate the role of decomposed theory of planned behaviour for the adoption of family Takaful (Islamic life insurance) in Pakistan. This study uses three independent attributes of DTPB model named as subjective norm, attitude and perceived behavioural control; and one dependent variable i.e. adoption of family Takaful. Furthermore, two components of each independent variables have been included. Relative advantage and Usefulness positively influence attitude to adopt family Takaful. Word of mouth and Media influence also have significant impact on subjective norm. Self-efficacy and Resource facilitating condition has direct relation with perceived behavioural control for the adoption of family Takaful. A total of 250 survey questionnaires will be distributed among participants of this study. The study was conducted in Lahore city where the respondents were working individuals belongs to Education, Insurance and Banking sector, who have not yet purchased either life insurance or family Takaful with the age limit of 21 to 60 years. The reason to choose such respondents to identify the intention of the potential customers. The results will increase the knowledge of the Takaful operators and their marketing managers to develop the policies accordingly to target the untapped/target market (the potential customers). Numerous studies have been conducted in Pakistan regarding family Takaful but none of the studies applied the decomposed theory of planned behaviour to know the intention of the customers. All the analyses would be done through SPSS and Smart PLS software. Future researchers can conduct their research using DTPB in General Takaful rather than family Takaful.
... Therefore, such a process can only be successful if it is adequately supported by future end users. 9 In the healthcare industry the introduction of IT has a reputation for being very difficult. Huge investments have been made to computerize hospital information systems around the world. ...
Recent developments in information technology (IT) in health are extended to highly specialized services, an example is telemedicine technology, understood as the use of IT to enable the transfer of medical information for diagnostic purposes, therapeutic and educational. Despite the benefits of implementing such technology, healthcare professionals, as end users, do not fully utilize it. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), are among the models applied to assess and predict the acceptance and use of telemedicine. This article aims to identify the relevant literature related to these two models, to review and summarize the methodologies and results, and propose a conceptual model for the acceptance and use of telemedicine technology by healthcare professionals.
... For this study we adapted the Extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2; Venkatesh, Thong, & Xu, 2012) to test the effect of constructs and moderators on the behavioural intention of geospatial practitioners in South Africa to use QGIS. The UTAUT2 model is widely used in technology acceptance studies (Henrico et al., 2021), specifically for desktop software (Algharibi & Arvanitis, 2011;Marchewka & Kostiwa, 2007;Sharma & Kumar, 2012). Tamilmani, Rana, Wamba, and Dwivedi (2021) conducted a review of all papers up to March 2017 that referenced Venkatesh et al. (2012), the paper that introduced UTAUT2. ...
The benefits of free and open-source software for geographical information systems, such as QGIS, are appreciated by many all over the world. However, QGIS adoption in South Africa is not primarily influenced by the benefits attributed to open-source software, such as cost benefits, customizability, improved reliability, quality and security. In the first paper from this study, it was found that habit, followed by facilitating conditions, price value and social influence, had the greatest influence on the behavioural intention of members from South Africa's geospatial community to use QGIS. In this article, several hypotheses were developed and tested to investigate the role that moderators (age, gender, GIS experience, educational level and registration with the South African Geomatics Council) had on the behavioural intention of geospatial practitioners in South Africa to use QGIS. Results show that GIS experience, educational level and registration with the South African professional body for geomatics practitioners had a moderation effect on some of the hypothesized relationships, while age and gender did not have any significant effect. Results also show that as one gains experience, social influence and facilitating conditions are less important when deciding to use QGIS; a postgraduate education and professional registration increase appreciation for getting value for money; and registered professionals are not significantly influenced by the perceptions of others when deciding to use QGIS. Habit is not influenced by any of the moderators, suggesting that breaking the habit of using a particular product is a challenge regardless of age, gender, experience, education level or registration status. These results are useful for developers of any GIS product and for choosing a GIS product for an organization, because they explain which user characteristics influence behavioural intention to use a specific GIS product.
... The concrete outcome of productivity improvement was achieved by ICT to enable resource optimization [65]. ICT's has an effect on firm productivity [66], business performance and innovation processes [67]. ICT provides a strong innovation drive even in such innovation averse national contexts, in which the traditional innovation determinants do not drive innovation of processes, products or services [68]. ...
The company's future performance cannot be reflected only in the current financial performance in the financial statements. Long-term company performance can be reflected by the technology being developed. The role of information and communication technology (ICT) is very important for a company to survive and be able to compete in modern business competition in the era of industry 4.0. Meanwhile, learning organization is fostering communication, knowledge exchange in order to promote the innovation. Ambidexterity capability of organization develops structures to manage innovation and achieve sustained success over time. The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of ICT and organizational learning on firm’s innovative performance which mediated by ambidexterity based on millennial workforce perception. The result of this research found that ICT has significantly positive influence on ambidexterity, but not significantly positive influence on innovative performance. Learning organization has significantly positive influence both on ambidexterity and innovative performance. Ambidexterity has significantly influence on innovative performance. The mediating role of ambidexterity had significantly positive enhanced the influence ICT on innovative performance. Meanwhile, ambidexterity had not significantly positive enhance the influence learning organization on innovative performance.
... UTAUT shows that four core constructs are direct determinants of technology acceptance (intentional behavior) and use (behavior): Performance Expectations, Business Expectations, Social Influence, and Facilitation of Conditions. According to research (Kim, Kotb, & Eldaly, 2016;Algharibi & Arvanitis, 2011) the impact of GAS features on actual use of GAS is similar in the Egyptian external audit profession. When they use the basic features of GAS which have low conceptual complexity, they use them more often and spend more time on them. ...
The financial world has grown significantly in the last five years, where insurance companies, finance companies, lending and borrowing between page users will increasingly grow along with technological developments. This should be an important concern for auditors because of the increasing number of transactions in digital and cyberspace, the audit methods or procedures must keep abreast of the times. This study hypothesizes the function of technology can help the performance of the auditor. Data collection is done by distributing questionnaires to auditors who work at the Public Accounting Firm (KAP). The analysis technique used is multiple linear regression. The results of the study will be presented after the data collection process is complete.
... Additionally, the model's design is based on the data collected from organizations' environment. Due to the above reasons, the researcher believes that UTAUT is more suitable to large institutions such as government organizations compared to other models of technology acceptance [45,31,46,47]. ...
Each government is looking to provide the best services to establish efficiency and quality of performance. This goal could be accomplished by improving the service performance of entire sectors in society. The government of Syria has realized the importance of moving in the direction of information technology. Therefore, E-government initiatives were launched in Syria as part of the country's overall information technology in the 20 th century. Each government sector has since upgraded service performance by having its own websites and E-services application. However, there exist gaps and loose connections among the sectors, which has accordingly tarnished the image of Syrian E-government. This has led to significant questions about the requirement of modification and enhancement of such service. Hence, the purpose of this research is to investiga te and explore the factors that drive the E-government implementation and affect the government performance as well as the government-citizen relationship in Syria.
... Additionally, the model's design is based on the data collected from organizations' environment. Due to the above reasons, the researcher believes that UTAUT is more suitable to large institutions such as government organizations compared to other models of technology acceptance [45,31,46,47]. ...
In recent years we have seen tremendous growth in two key technologies like Cloud and IoT h. Be that as it may, a few common points of interest getting from their integration have been recognized in the literature and are anticipated later on. From one perspective, IoT can profit by the boundless abilities and assets of the Cloud to repay its mechanical requirements (e.g., capacity, handling, vitality). In particular, the Cloud can offer a powerful answer for actualizing IoT service management and structure and additional applications that endeavor the things or the data created by them. Then again, the Cloud can profit by IoT by stretching out its extension to manage genuine things in a more disseminated and dynamic way, and for conveying new services in an expansive number of genuine situations. The integral attributes of Cloud and IoT emerging from the distinctive recommendations in literature and moving the Cloud IoT worldview are accounted for in this paper. The Cloud goes about as a middle layer between the things and the applications, where it conceals all the multifaceted nature and the functionalities important to actualize the last mentioned. This framework will affect future application advancement, where data social occasion, preparing, and transmission will create new difficulties to be tended to, likewise in a multi-cloud condition. In the accompanying, we condense the issues settled and the points of interest acquired while embracing the Cloud IoT worldview. Cutting edge technologies like Cloud & IoT has gained popularity in various businesses and there is great importance for organizations to understand the possible benefits which an organization can benefit by the adoption & implementation of new technologies like Cloud & IoT. This study focuses on a survey-based investigation of various businesses & IT leaders to identify the organizational performance post after the implementation of cloud & IoT. This study focuses on measuring key organizational performance metrics like profit, revenue, customer satisfaction, product delivery, product quality etc.
... In the basic concept user acceptance models that have been developed, behavioral intention become intermediate construct of perceptions of the use of information technology and actual use (use behavior). Behavior intention can be measured on scale measures the likelihood that userwill act in certain ways in the future, such as buying more products or recommend to friends [9]. ...
This research is quantitative research that aims to determine the factors that influence the acceptance of information technology among micro-entrepreneurs. This research is based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). The object of this research is micro business people in Grogol Petamburan district. The results of the study state that performance expectancy and effort expectancy influence behavioral intention, while social influence does not have a significant effect on behavioral intention and facilitating conditions that have no significant effect on use behavior. Behavioral intention affects use behavior. In addition, gender differences reinforce the influence of performance expectancy and effort expectancy on behavioral intention, but do not strengthen the influence of social influence to behavioral intention
... Performance expectancy can be defined as the degree to which an individual believes that using a system will help him/her to attain gains in job performance (Algharibi and Arvanitis, 2011). Here, it refers to whether employees of banks perceive that adopting green banking practices will assist them in achieving effectiveness and efficiency in their tasks. ...
Competition in the business of banking is continuously increasing, as a result of which many banks are attempting to retain their customers using different strategies. In this regard, green banking has become an important strategy today for banks, following the influential role of environmental concerns, social responsibility and sustainable ecological balance. However, green banking initiates major changes in the working environment and alters the provision of banking services for the bankers. As such, the objective of this study is to examine the bankers' attitude towards the adoption of green banking initiatives in Bangladesh by using the unified theory of acceptance and the use of a technology (UTAUT) model in commercial banks. This research confirms the significant relationships of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social competition, environmental concerns and central bank regulations with the behavioural intention and usage behaviour of bankers' perceptions for green banking in Bangladesh. The results overall indicate that bankers are fairly positive in developing general attitudes towards the use of green banking as part of their work activities.
... Performance expectancy can be defined as the degree to which an individual believes that using a system will help him/her to attain gains in job performance (Algharibi and Arvanitis, 2011). Here, it refers to whether employees of banks perceive that adopting green banking practices will assist them in achieving effectiveness and efficiency in their tasks. ...
Competition in the business of banking is continuously increasing, as a result of which many banks are attempting to retain their customers using different strategies. In this regard, green banking has become an important strategy today for banks, following the influential role of environmental concerns, social responsibility and sustainable ecological balance. However, green banking initiates major changes in the working environment and alters the provision of banking services for the bankers. As such, the objective of this study is to examine the bankers’ attitude towards the adoption of green banking initiatives in Bangladesh by using the unified theory of acceptance and the use of a technology (UTAUT) model in commercial banks. This research confirms the significant relationships of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social competition, environmental concerns and central bank regulations with the behavioural intention and usage behaviour of bankers’ perceptions for green banking in Bangladesh. The results overall indicate that bankers are fairly positive in developing general attitudes towards the use of green banking as part of their work activities.
The hotel industry is one of the sectors that is heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Compensating for this lost revenue requires understanding which aspects of guests’ priorities have changed, including their feelings about sustainable practices. Drawing from an online survey with 250 adults who were at least 18 years of age, described themselves as familiar with sustainable practices, and stated they had stayed in a hotel both before and during the pandemic, this study finds that the pandemic had a significant impact on their attitudes towards sustainable practices. Although they believe that hotels’ adopted protocols are adequate to protect them from COVID-19, they do not intend to adopt sustainable practices in the pandemic era.
The global temperature has reached its highest level since the start of the industrial revolution, which is the major cause of global warming. Global warming has become one of the gravest problem now a days as it has considerable influences over markets, societies and economies. For sustainable environment management, remarkable efforts are carried out across the world and every institution is playing its role towards minimizing its impact on the environment. From financial institutions, banking sector is playing an important role in this regard. Banking sector has introduced a concept of Green Banking (GB). State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has recently issued guidelines regarding the adoption of green banking. This study attempts to identify the factors which affect bankers’ intension to adopt green banking. This study would prove to be helpful in identifying the most influencing factors towards adoption of green banking practices and in developing policies towards its adoption in Pakistan. Structured questionnaire based on a 7 point Likert scale as used for data collection from a sample of 300 respondents. Regression analysis was used to check the association among the variables. The result of study shows that all independent variables of study have shown significant association with dependent variable. Which means to some extent every independent factor is playing role in affecting bankers’ behavioral intension to adopt green banking. Result shows that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use contribute more in predicting the Attitude toward use, which along with effort expectancy and performance expectancy are major contributing factors towards behavioral intention to adopt green banking practices.
Today, commercial banks of the most environmentally affected countries invest voluntarily in social and environmental activities that targets socially-responsive business in the form of green banking. However, state-owned banks often encounter challenges in doing so since they operate in centralized manner and often lack in resources, government support and client base compared to commercial banks. Moreover, green banking initiates major changes in working environment and alters the provision of
banking services for bankers in developing countries like Bangladesh. Given such challenges, it is important to examine the attitude of bankers working in state-owned banks towards the adoption of green banking. Findings claim that central bank regulations, followed by facilitating conditions and environmental concerns, are some of the factors that influence bankers’ overall perceptions. Results indicate that bankers are fairly pragmatic in developing general attitudes towards the use of green banking as part of their work activities in all state-owned banks.
This study proposes an e-government adoption model to determine the factors which lead to citizens’ adoption of e-government services in the Togolese context while investigating the mediating roles of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. The proposed model was tested using valid and reliable data gathered from a sample of 482 respondents. Findings indicate that behavioral intention to use e-government services is significantly influenced by perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. More importantly, the analysis revealed that, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use play a mediating role, either full or partial between the antecedent variables, social influence, trustworthiness and facilitating conditions and the outcome variable, behavioral intention to use. The implementation of e-government services with a focus on these fundamental factors will eventually increase the acceptance and adoption of such services by citizens.
Social network sites (SNSs) has a big potential to improve teaching and learning experience. It has become a necessity for teachers to transfer this technologies to learning environments has become a requirement. For this reason, the use of SNSs in the education process of preservice teachers who are the teachers of the future and examination of variables that have an impact on the acceptance of these technologies are found important. The use of SNSs in teacher education will enable preservice teachers to be more willing to use information technologies and will improve their skills in using these technologies. For the reasons given, in this study, it is aimed to examine the acceptance and use of SNSs by preservice teachers for educational purposes on the basis of unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model. The study was designed according to relational screening model. Study group of the study consists of 274 preservice teachers at a university in 2017. Data were collected via various scales and personal information form at the end of an application process of 14 weeks + 14 weeks. Descriptive statistics, linear multiple hierarchical regression analysis and structural equation model were used in analysing the data. As a result of the study, it was determined that the acceptance of SNSs for educational purposes was affected respectively by social effect, performance expectation and effort expectation, and behavioral intention of using these technologies affected the actual use. Besides, variables of moderators that were effective on acceptance and use were also determined.
We live in a world where we are exposed to everyday changes that information and communication
technologies (ICT) give us impose. These changes are largely related to education, and so the introduction of
ICT in universities as institutions of higher education, clearly changing the way it is implemented. The policy of
“Goce Delcev” University (UGD) is to fully implement ICT in all segments of management, administration and
teaching. For this purpose, several projects for e-learning implementation at UGD have been conducted. But, as much as important introduction is, the more important is the acceptance of new technologies in education.
Therefore, we shall use a modified Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) as the
research methodology. The purpose of this paper is understanding teaching staff acceptance and use eLearning system (ELC) and investigating the influence of seven determinants (four UTAUT determinants, 2
additional determinants and one personal "selfconfidence" determinant). A survey was administered to
92 respondents (teaching staff) to capture their perceptions of e-learning. The findings of this research
show that among the seven UTAUT factors, the effort expectancy and facilitating conditions have the strongest
effect of intention to use new technology. Also according to the survey, social influence and facilitating conditions are in strongest correlation with the behavioral intention and thereby the most influence on the behavior of participants for acceptance and use of the e – learning system.
Живееме во свет во кој секојдневно сме изложени на промените кои информатичките и комуникациските технологии (ИКТ) ни ги наметнуваат и овие ИКТ имаат потенцијал да ги подобрат сите аспекти на нашиот општествен, економски и културен живот. Овие промени, во голема мера, се однесуваат и на образованието, па така со воведувањето на ИКТ во универзитетите како високообразовни установи, јасно се менува начинот на кој истото се спроведува. Но, колку што е важно воведувањето, толку е важно и прифаќањето на новите ИКТ во образованието. За таа цел ќе ја употребиме унифицираната теорија за прифаќање и употреба на технологијата (УТАУТ) со која ќе се објасни намерата на корисникот да користи информациони системи и последователно да го следи однесувањето од нивното користење. Политиката на Универзитетот „Гоце Делчев“ - Штип е да има највисок степен на користење на ИКТ во сите сегменти на своето управување, администрирање и настава. За таа цел се спроведени повеќе проекти за имплементација на системите за електронското учење и за УГД универзитетскиот репозиториум во рамките на самиот универзитет. Во магистерскиов труд прво ќе ги разгледаме и ќе направиме споредба на осумте теории кои и претходат на УТАУТ и од кои таа е добиена. Потоа ќе дадеме опис на самиот модел УТАУТ и факторите кои влијаат на него, како и неговата модификација со текот на времето. Понатаму ќе биде опишана анкетата и ќе се даде детален приказ на резултатите од анкетата спроведена за употребата и прифатеноста на системите за е - учење и на УГД репозиториумот, од стана на наставниот кадар на универзитетот со примена на УТАУТ теоријата. И за крај, во заклучокот, се гледа дека користењето на системот за е-учење, како и на репозиториумот е задолжително, но сепак нивото на усвојувањето меѓу универзитетскиот академски кадар е на некое средно ниво, и дека системот за е -учење се употребува еднаш или повеќепати на ден, додека репозиториумот се користи еднаш месечно.
While the technology acceptance model (TAM), introduced in 1986, continues to be the most widely applied theoretical model in the IS field, few previous efforts examined its accomplishments and limitations. This study traces TAM's history, investigates its findings, and cautiously predicts its future trajectory. One hundred and one articles published by leading IS journals and conferences in the past eighteen years are examined and summarized. An open- ended survey of thirty-two leading IS researchers assisted in critically examining TAM and specifying future directions.
The present research develops and tests a theoretical extension of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) that explains perceived usefulness and usage intentions in terms of social influence and cognitive instrumental processes. The extended model, referred to as TAM2, was tested using longitudinal data collected regarding four different systems at four organizations (N = 156), two involving voluntary usage and two involving mandatory usage. Model constructs were measured at three points in time at each organization: preimplementation, one month postimplementation, and three months postimplementation. The extended model was strongly supported for all four organizations at all three points of measurement, accounting for 40%--60% of the variance in usefulness perceptions and 34%--52% of the variance in usage intentions. Both social influence processes (subjective norm, voluntariness, and image) and cognitive instrumental processes (job relevance, output quality, result demonstrability, and perceived ease of use) significantly influenced user acceptance. These findings advance theory and contribute to the foundation for future research aimed at improving our understanding of user adoption behavior.
Information technology (IT) acceptance research has yielded many competing models, each with different sets of acceptance determinants. In this paper, we (1) review user acceptance literature and discuss eight prominent models, (2) empiri- cally compare the eight models and their exten- sions, (3) formulate a unified model that integrates elements across the eight models, and (4) empiri- cally validate the unified model. The eight models reviewed are the theory of reasoned action, the technology acceptance model, the motivational model, the theory of planned behavior, a model combining the technology acceptance model and the theory of planned behavior, the model of PC utilization, the innovation diffusion theory, and the social cognitive theory. Using data from four organizations over a six-month period with three points of measurement, the eight models ex- plained between 17 percent and 53 percent of the variance in user intentions to use information technology. Next, a unified model, called the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Tech- nology (UTAUT), was formulated, with four core determinants of intention and usage, and up to four moderators of key relationships. UTAUT was then tested using the original data and found to outperform the eight individual models (adjusted
The following is a preview of Don Norman's forthcoming book, which has a working title of Emotion and Design.
Valid measurement scales for predicting user acceptance of computers are in short supply. Most subjective measures used in practice are unvalidated, and their relationship to system usage is unknown. The present research develops and validates new scales for two specific variables, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, which are hypothesized to be fundamental determinants of user acceptance. Definitions for these two variables were used to develop scale items that were pretested for content validity and then tested for reliability and construct validity in two studies involving a total of 152 users and four application programs. The measures were refined and streamlined, resulting in two six-item scales with reliabilities of .98 for usefulness and .94 for ease of use. The scales exhibited high convergent, discriminant, and factorial validity. Perceived usefulness was significantly correlated with both self-reported current usage (r=.63, Study 1) and self-predicted future usage (r =.85, Study 2). Perceived ease of use was also significantly correlated with current usage (r=.45, Study 1) and future usage (r=.59, Study 2). In both studies, usefulness had a significantly greater correlation with usage behavior than did ease of use. Regression analyses suggest that perceived ease of use may actually be a causal antecedent to perceived usefulness, as opposed to a parallel, direct determinant of system usage. Implications are drawn for future research on user acceptance.
The electronic Primary Care Research Network (ePCRN) is an electronic infrastructure that facilitates the conduct of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in primary care and promotes the translation of research findings into practice. It provides a highly secure, Internet-based electronic infrastructure that will enable primary care practices anywhere in the United States to link with researchers in academic centers or the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to facilitate recruitment, entry, and follow-up of participants in multidisciplinary RCTs. The ePCRN also establishes a standardized clinic-based registry using distributed database technology to promote the translation of research findings into practice and to facilitate the process of clinical trials recruitment. The overall goals of the ePCRN are to provide the ability to perform large national collaborative studies throughout the United States, improve efficiency and reduce costs for individual trials, provide easier access for data retrieval and analysis, and involve primary care practices in the discovery and the translation of research findings into practice.
Increasing interest in end users' reactions to health information technology (IT) has elevated the importance of theories that predict and explain health IT acceptance and use. This paper reviews the application of one such theory, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), to health care. We reviewed 16 data sets analyzed in over 20 studies of clinicians using health IT for patient care. Studies differed greatly in samples and settings, health ITs studied, research models, relationships tested, and construct operationalization. Certain TAM relationships were consistently found to be significant, whereas others were inconsistent. Several key relationships were infrequently assessed. Findings show that TAM predicts a substantial portion of the use or acceptance of health IT, but that the theory may benefit from several additions and modifications. Aside from improved study quality, standardization, and theoretically motivated additions to the model, an important future direction for TAM is to adapt the model specifically to the health care context, using beliefs elicitation methods.
electronic Primary Care Research Network
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Emotion & design: Attractive things work better. interactions
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Norman, D. (2002). Emotion & design: Attractive
things work better. interactions, 9(4), 36-42. doi:
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