AbstractThe challenges of agroforestry systems’ adoption by farmers in the North central zone of Nigeria, was carried out to address the following objectives; find out the perception of farmers on agroforestry technologies, identify the adoption level and ascertain why farmers discontinue agroforestry adoption.. Data were collected from 722 agroforestry farmers out of 782 sets of questionnaire ...

An increasing number of studies into the adoption behaviour of Information systems (IS) have focused on smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). These past studies provide an understanding of the contextual factors offering a simple dichotomous measure such as adopters and non-adopters rather than the manner of usage (from adoption to utilisation). This study introduces the construct of enacte...

The impact of social and cultural factors on the adoption of technology still requires much research. To investigate it more fully, we examine the reasons for the adoption and non-adoption of mobile banking in Ghana. Through a survey of 271 people in Ghana, it has been found that social and cultural factors in the form of perceived credibility, facilitating conditions, perceived elitisation and...

Copyright 2006 by Ram Ranjan. All Rights Reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this paper for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Abstract This paper explores the issue of technology adoption in agriculture that is specifically targeted against invasive species. The analysis involves predicting the long term distribution ...

Research on the adoption of information systems (IS) has been dominated by mechanistic motivational theories (extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation). In contrast, the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) goes beyond the traditional dichotomy of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation by distinguishing between different types of motivation based on one’s perceived self-determination when performing a behavio...

today's world has been built on the basis of competition and uncertainty, thus the role of facilitators, such as technology and information technology is undeniable. in this research developed technology acceptance model to identify and prioritizing the factors affecting was used on formation of decision and behavior of customers in adoption of internet banking of post bank. the statistica...

the poor performance of fishery subsector is most clearly evidenced by low adoption of fishery production technologies by farmers. the purpose of this research was analyzing influence of socio-economic factors on the adoption of fish production technologies by community-based farmers in cross river state, nigeria. a multistage random sampling technique was used in selecting 60 community-based f...