Social influence in technology adoption research - A scientometric study over two decades

Eckhardt A, Laumer S, Nguyen NT (2010)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2010

Series: Proceedings of the 2010 Special Interest Group on Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (DIGIT) (Pre-ICIS Workshop)

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 2010 Special Interest Group on Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (DIGIT) (Pre-ICIS Workshop)

Event location: St. Louis, MO US

Abstract

Research on the impact of social influence on the individual Information Systems (IS) user represents one of the major challenges of technology adoption research since the introduction of Technology Acceptance Model in 1989. As several IS researchers still struggle from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective to determine how social influence can be explained and measured, this approach contributes to existing adoption research by providing the findings of a literature analysis of all journal and conference articles of the JAIS journal ranking and the AIS proceedings since 1989. The results based on 149 relevant papers reveal that social influence is more significant using a individualized measurement and more important for the usage of utilitarian IS. Additionally it is shown that the point of adoption (pre-adoption vs. post adoption) and the degree of free decision-making (mandatory vs. voluntary) do not affect the impact of social influence.

Authors with CRIS profile

Sven Laumer Schöller Endowed Chair for Information Systems (Digitalization in Business and Society)

Involved external institutions

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Eckhardt, A., Laumer, S., & Nguyen, N.-T. (2010). Social influence in technology adoption research - A scientometric study over two decades. In International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Special Interest Group on Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (DIGIT) (Pre-ICIS Workshop). St. Louis, MO, US.

MLA:

Eckhardt, Andreas, Sven Laumer, and Nha-Tien Nguyen. "Social influence in technology adoption research - A scientometric study over two decades." Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2010 Special Interest Group on Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (DIGIT) (Pre-ICIS Workshop), St. Louis, MO Ed. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2010.

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