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The effects of individual, managerial, organizational, and environmental factors on the adoption of object orientation in United States organizations: An empirical test of the Technology Acceptance Model
Abstract
This dissertation presents an exploratory research study on the application of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to the domain of object orientation to investigate factors affecting technology adoption and validity of TAM. In the Management Information Systems (MIS) area, TAM has been applied to computer usage behavior as a specific technology adoption model. This dissertation suggests factors affecting the successful adoption of object orientation in U. S. organizations through TAM. Two major research questions are addressed: (1) What are the factors, including knowledge interference of structured methods with object orientation, that significantly influence the adoption of object orientation? and (2) Is TAM valid for the adoption study of object orientation in terms of a mediating function? This study especially explores the impact of the external variables on the level of actual usage of object orientation. The independent variables are classified into four categories as follows: (1) Individual factors: amount of experience in using the structured methods and level of openness toward new technologies; (2) Managerial factors: perceived management support and training; (3) Organizational factors: number of IS professionals in the working group and organization; and (4) Environmental factors: accessibility to technology champions and software/hardware environment supporting object orientation. A questionnaire measuring the above variables was utilized to investigate the effect of these variables on the dependent variable, the actual usage of object orientation. The structured questionnaire was administered to Data Processing Management Association (DPMA) professionals. The results of this study revealed several important findings with most results being consistent with expectations based on related theory. First, even though the experience in using structured methods interfered with the perception of using object orientation, that interference did not affect the actual usage of object orientation. Second, the personal openness toward new technologies, perceived management support, training, and hardware/software environment were highly related to the usage of object orientation. Third, TAM did not accommodate the adoption of object orientation perhaps because object orientation is a complex and organization-level adoptive technology or the measures for the mediating variables in TAM may not be appropriate in industry settings. This study also suggested a basis for understanding the early adoption of object orientation in organizations.
Subject Area
Management|Business community
Recommended Citation
Kim, Injai, "The effects of individual, managerial, organizational, and environmental factors on the adoption of object orientation in United States organizations: An empirical test of the Technology Acceptance Model" (1996). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI9703784.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9703784