The increased popularity in mobile devices and technology has motivated business to adopt the technology for increased productivity. However, not much research has investigated the adoption of mobile technology. The purpose of this thesis is to study the factors that influence the adoption of mobile technology and to develop a model of mobile technology adoption. The model can serve as a foundation for future research and provide useful guidelines for organizations that plan to adopting mobile technology.
The model suggests two categories of factors that determine the decision of adopting mobile technology: fit and viability. Fit measures whether the functional capabilities of mobile technology match the need of a task, whereas viability measures whether an organization is ready for the technology. This research develops instruments for measuring fit and viability. A survey was conducted to collect data for model evaluation.
Major findings from the study include: (1) the fitness between task and technology had a direct positive impact on the success of mobile system adoption. (2) Personal characteristic and organizational viability had indirect positive impacts on the success of mobile system adoption via the mediation of system quality. (3) Personal characteristic and organizational viability had positive impacts on the information quality and system quality but had no impact to the service quality. (4) Only the system quality had a positive impact on the success of mobile system adoption.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0121107-232254 |
| Date | 21 January 2007 |
| Creators | Huang, Hsiao-chun |
| Contributors | Deng-neng Chen, Chin-fu Ho, Ting-peng Liang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0121107-232254 |
| Rights | restricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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