Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Faculty
Faculty of Business and Law
School
School of Management
RAS ID
4542
Abstract
The use of mobile services has increased rapidly in recent. Although research has been conducted on which services people use and the benefits they attach to those services, the values associated with the adoption and use of m-services at the individual level is still unclear. This formation systems field various technology adoption models have been proposed and validated in relation to technology adoption within an organisational setting but personal adoption and use of technology is less researched. To help uncover the values behind adoption of m-services we use means-end chains and laddering techniques. The analysis of the interviews shows that mobile services often fulfil such basic needs as self-esteem, achievement, individuality, belonging and well-being. Exploring the realization of values as a theoretical framework offers researchers a way forward in environments characterised by individual technology decisions.
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Comments
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of: Standing, C., McManus, P., Standing, S., & Karjaluioto, H. (2006). Values and M-Services Adoption. Proceedings of the 17th Australiasian Conference on Information Systems. Adelaide: Australasian Association for Information Systems. Available here