Title :
Integrating national culture into information and communication technology adoption model
Author :
Thowfeek, Mohamed Hussain ; Jaafar, Azizah
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Univ. Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
Abstract :
This paper focuses on the importance of positioning `culture´ as one of the vital factors that influences the adoption of information and communication technology (ICT). The analysis of various models has made it to believe that cultural factors were not given importance to the development of adoption models. But it is understood that the national culture influences the actual behavior and it can provide additional explanatory power in explaining the variation of the behavior towards adopting a technology.
Keywords :
information technology; organisational aspects; technology management; communication technology adoption model; information technology adoption model; national culture; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Cultural differences; Information systems; Information technology; Organizations; Predictive models; Culture; adoption model; information & communiction technology (ICT); information system;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology (ITSim), 2010 International Symposium in
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6715-0
DOI :
10.1109/ITSIM.2010.5561462