Purpose Social media are increasingly being used in teaching and learning higher education. This paper aims to explore multiple case studies better understand how instructors decide incorporate social into learning. Design/methodology/approach qualitative study the technology acceptance model (TAM) five instructors' use of for learning, particularly pedagogical reasons goals driving their media...

Individual behavior in technology adoption can be predicted by perception and belief. Implementing TAM, this study aims to analyze the behavioral teaching staff using Google Apps for online learning. This examined effect of perceived usefulness, ease use, user training support on intention use technology. We analyzed 108 samples SPSS Process Model 4 15 examine mediation moderated effect. Our re...

The traditional operational optimization models of systematic technology adoption commonly assume the existence of a global social planner and ignore the existence of heterogeneous decision makers who interact with each other. This paper develops a stylized (or conceptual) optimization model of systematic technology adoption with heterogeneous agents (i.e., decision makers) and uncertain techno...

This paper provides background, positioning, and related insights around a recent technological development in B2B e-commerce known as XML-based Interorganizational Systems (IOS). Specifically, the University of Illinois has developed a Co-Adoption Model of XML-based IOS. The theoretical model is developed to empirically evaluate the influential factors leading to adoption and internal diffusio...

This paper represents research work in progress. The factors that influence an individual’s decision to begin using a certain type of technology have come under much study. Several theoretical models, commonly referred to as technology adoption models, have been developed to understand these factors in hopes of successfully predicting the use of an information system prior to launching the cost...

People often discount their own information and imitate others though a process known as herd behavior. This paper investigates herd behaviors in technology adoption and continued use. Specifically, this paper concerns how people may follow others when choosing to adopt information systems and how they may revise this initial decision at the post-adoption stage. Herd literature suggests that pe...

Trust is important consideration prior to adoption of outsourcing options and subsequently during the management of the outsourcing relationship. Understanding the antecedents to the adoption of information technology is important to both technology firms that provide services and the policy analysts that study the effects of technology adoption and IT success. The first portion of this essay l...

The Technology Acceptance Model, popularly known as the TAM, has been widely used in the information systems literature to explain individual adoption of information technology. In the 1990’s a number of studies either extended the model by identifying antecedents to technology acceptance or have replicated and validated the model. But few studies have examined the role of organization culture ...