Accurate and timely information is a key motivator in the widespread adoption of CBSE technology in Europe. Although there are overlaps and informal communications between researchers and adopters of CBSE technology in Europe, there is no systematic mechanism for information interchange between the two. CBSEnet is a European Union initiative to create an Internet-based forum for the exchange of...

This paper empirically examines the impact of socioeconomic determinants upon the adoption of a recent UK e-Government initiative, the „Government Gateway‟. Five socio-economic characteristics that provide insights to Government Gateway adopters and non-adopters, as they were identified from the literature review used in this study. These included age, gender, education, income and occupation. ...

This study examines smartphone adoption behavior among American college students by combining all components of innovation diffusion theory (IDT), the technology acceptance model (TAM), the value-based adoption model (VAM), and the social influence (SI) model. Data indicate that the smartphone adoption rates are beyond the early majority and are now approaching the late majority. The findings o...

Th is study focused on the implementation of environmental management (EM) in the Caribbean accommodations sector based on diff usion of innovations theory. More specifi cally, it examined the status of EM and the diff erences between adopters and non-adopters in terms of hotel characteristics, attitudes to the natural environment, familiarity, and the constraints to implementation. Th is study...

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...