Although research shows that acceptance, trust, and risk perception are often related, little is known about the underlying patterns of causality among the three constructs. In the context of a water-borne disease outbreak, we explored via zero-order/partial correlation analysis whether acceptance predicts both trust and risk perception (associationist model), or whether trust influences risk p...

An integrative review was conducted in order to evaluate available evidence in the literature on the acceptance of Family Health Teams (FHT). The bibliography covered national and international publications available on the Virtual Health Library, from which 42 references were identified. The results revealed differences between the concepts of acceptance and healthcare practices in family heal...

Current models of technology acceptance assume that there is a productivity gain that accompanies technology use. But hedonic information systems that are designed for entertainment or social networking purposes do not produce these same gains. This study proposes a new research model for the acceptance of hedonic information systems in order to explain user intentions. A preliminary qualitativ...

The Internet has been increasingly used to facilitate online business transactions between business entities and consumers for various products and services. One of the applications that has received much attention in the last few years is Online Grocery Shopping (OGS). There is, however, no concrete evidence that OGS has been widely adopted as initially predicted. To enrich the existing studie...

Within the last decade, many Chinese provinces have transitioned from a ‘sequential’ to a ‘parallel’ college admissions mechanisms. Inspired by this natural experiment, we evaluate the sequential (immediate acceptance), parallel, and deferred acceptance mechanisms in the laboratory, treating each mechanism as a special case in a nested parametric family of mechanisms. We find that participants ...

Researchers are confronted with a choice among models to explain Web acceptance and usage. Therefore, as Venkatesh et al. (2003) suggest, there is a need for a review and synthesis in order to progress toward a unified view of Web acceptance and usage. In this situation of development, a theoretical model based on technology acceptance (TAM) and flow, is proposed to describe the extrinsic and i...

Nowadays, we live in a society focused on mobile devices. The development of mobile technologies is opening important perspectives in the field of marketing. In order to make marketers adopt the best strategies, it is very important to analyse and understand the different factors that influence consumers’ acceptance of mobile technologies for online shopping. The aim of this paper is to underst...

In this paper, we present the results of an online study with the aim to shed light on the impact that semantic context cues have on the user acceptance of tag recommendations. Therefore, we conducted a work-integrated social bookmarking scenario with 17 university employees in order to compare the user acceptance of a context-aware tag recommendation algorithm called 3Layers with the user acce...

Recent tourism research increasingly explored the opportunities of using Augmented Reality (AR) in order to boost tourism and increase the value for tourists while travelling within a destination. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has been applied to a number of research disciplines, lately also AR however, studies focusing on the tourism context are still scarce. As this field is expected ...

We study the dynamic order acceptance and resource assignment problem of a service system which provides heterogeneous services using heterogeneous servers. Unlike traditional acceptance and/or assignment problems, decision makers in our settings can strategically postpone acceptance decisions anticipating more profitable orders to arrive, with the risk of lost orders and low resource utilizati...