A Comprehensive Review of Research in IT Adoption

Author

Liu, Zhenhua ; Min, Qingfei ; Ji, Shaobo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Dalian Univ. of Technol., Dalian

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Technology adoption has been an important research topic in information systems (IS) field. Many theories were developed and tested since 1980s. Tremendous efforts have been made to modify, integrate, and extend these theories to explore IT adoption issues in various contexts. The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the current state of IT adoption research. The paper presents results of analysis based on review of 211 IT adoption research papers published in leading IS journals and conference proceedings between 2000 and 2006 from five perspectives, namely, theoretical foundation, research level, research method, IT/IS type and dependent variable. The characteristics and emerging trends of IT adoption research were identified.

Keywords

information systems; operations research; technology management; IT adoption research; information systems; Conference proceedings; Decision support systems; Engineering management; Information management; Information systems; Information technology; Management information systems; Technological innovation; Technology management; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.2808

Filename

4680997