Self-efficacy and its impact on academic researchers? Absorptive capacity in smart phone acceptance: conceptual paper

Information and Communications technologies (ICT) play a critical role in expanding the boundaries of the academic research activities. Where the academic researchers utilize the ICT mostly to enhance their research. Due to the increasingly powerful capabilities of smart phones technology, smart pho...

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Main Authors: Bamasoud, Doaa M., A. Iahad, Noorminshah, Abdul Rahman, Azizah
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/38613/
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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Summary:Information and Communications technologies (ICT) play a critical role in expanding the boundaries of the academic research activities. Where the academic researchers utilize the ICT mostly to enhance their research. Due to the increasingly powerful capabilities of smart phones technology, smart phones become one of the wide spread technologies worldwide. Thus, many studies focused on studying the acceptance of smart phones. However a lack exists in studying the acceptance of smart phones for academic researchers, although of the importance and capabilities of such technologies for the researchers. On account of the role of individual’s IT knowledge plays in the technology acceptance and the impacts of willingness to learn on it, the paper integrates the knowledge with the capability of using that knowledge and the learning willingness constructs to the proposed model. Hence, this conceptual paper investigates the acceptance of smart phones by the academic researchers using technology acceptance model. And integrates the absorptive capacity construct (represent IT knowledge with the capability of using that knowledge) with self-?efficacy construct (represent willingness to learn) to the model.