A STUDY ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF THE ACADEMICIANS IN TURKEY

Makale İçerik Bilgileri
Makale Dili: 
İngilizce
Key Words: 
SEM
Academicians
Educational technology acceptance
Subjective norm
Facilitating conditions
TAM
IT
İngilizce Özet: 

Educational institutions have been increasingly started to use information
technologies (ITs) for improving the service quality and achieving the effective
organizational outputs in a competitive global environment. An individual’s
intention to use ITs is a crucial factor in determining the success or failure of an
information technology (IT) system implementation. This study attempts to
investigate the factors affecting the intention to use ITs from the academicians’
perspectives in Turkey. This research extends the technology acceptance
model (TAM) framework with subjective norm (SN) and facilitating conditions
(FC) acting as external variables. The model has been tested using web-based
data collected from 510 academicians. The findings demonstrate that this
extended TAM can explain 80% of the variance of intention to use ITs. And also,
SN and FC are potential variables that may be used to extend the TAM for the
research on the academicians’ intention to use towards ITs. This study reveals
that educational managers can use this research model as a helpful tool in
better understanding stakeholders’ behaviors related to the technology
acceptance, and also in the process of IT investment, implementation and
renovation.

Yazar Bilgileri
1. Yazar
Yazar Adı: 
Ertugrul TARCAN
Yazar Ünvanı: 
Doçent
Yazar Üniversitesi: 
Akdeniz Üniversitesi
Yazar Fakültesi: 
İşletme Fakültesi
Yazar E-posta: 
2. Yazar
Yazar Adı: 
Ergin Sait VAROL
Yazar Ünvanı: 
Doçent
Yazar Üniversitesi: 
İstanbul Üniversitesi
Yazar Fakültesi: 
İletişim Fakültesi
Yazar E-posta: 
3. Yazar
Yazar Adı: 
Boran TOKER
Yazar Ünvanı: 
Yardımcı Doçent
Yazar Üniversitesi: 
Akdeniz Üniversitesi
Yazar Fakültesi: 
İşletme Fakültesi
Yazar E-posta: 
Makale Künye Bilgisi
Makalenin Yayımlandığı Dergi: 
Ege Akademik Bakış Dergisi
Makale Yayın Yılı: 
2010
Cilt/Sayı: 
10
Sayı: 
3
Sayfa Aralığı: 
791-812
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