scholarly journals AgriTech Innovators: A Study of Initial Adoption and Continued Use of a Mobile Digital Platform by Family-Operated Farming Enterprises

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1283
Author(s):  
Grace Fox ◽  
John Mooney ◽  
Pierangelo Rosati ◽  
Theo Lynn
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Farm Management ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Sequential Mixed Methods ◽  
Effort Expectancy ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
The Impact

While information technology is playing a significant transformative role in virtually every industry, within the agriculture sector, family-operated farming enterprises have been slow to adopt IT solutions to manage their operations. This study adopts a sequential mixed-methods research design to examine the pre- and post-adoption phases of farmers’ use of a mobile digital platform for farm management. Our findings show that farmers’ initial acceptance of a mobile digital platform for farm management is shaped by social influence, which mediates the impact of performance and effort expectancy. Post-adoption continued use of the digital platform is influenced directly by performance and effort expectancy and indirectly by trust beliefs and social influence. Perceived work impediment indirectly influences post-adoption acceptance via effort expectancy. Our study untangles the direct and indirect influences of positive and negative perceptions on farmers’ acceptance of a new innovative AgriTech digital platform in these different phases.

scholarly journals Modeling Factors Affecting Student’s Usage Behaviour of E-Learning Systems in Lebanon

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ra'ed (Moh'd Taisir) Masa'deh ◽  
Ali Tarhini ◽  
Ashraf Bany Mohammed ◽  
Mahmoud Maqableh
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Behavioural Intention ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Performance Expectancy ◽  
Effort Expectancy ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Facilitating Conditions ◽  
The Impact

<p>This study seeks to explore the factors that influence students’ usage behaviour of e-learning systems. Based on the strong theoretical foundation of the TAM, UTAM and using structural equation modeling (SEM) via AMOS 20.0, this research paper examines the impact of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, hedonic motivation, habit, social influence, and trust on student’s behavioural intention, which is later examined along with facilitating conditions on student’s usage behaviour of e-learning systems. Data was collected from students at two universities in Beirut (capital of Lebanon) using a cross-sectional questionnaire survey between January and March 2015. The results revealed direct positive effect of performance expectancy, hedonic motivation, habit, and trust on student’s behavioural intention to use e-learning explaining around 71% of overall behavioural intention. Meanwhile, behavioural intention and facilitating conditions accounted for 40% with strong positive effects on student’s usage behviour of e-learning systems. However, both effort expectancy and social influence did not impact student’s behavioural intention.</p>

scholarly journals Analisis User Acceptance dan Usage Atas Implementasi SPAN pada Kementerian Keuangan

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 330-346
Author(s):  
Dwi Ari Wibawa ◽  
Sutiono .
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
User Acceptance ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Regional Office ◽  
Performance Expectancy ◽  
Effort Expectancy ◽  
System Use ◽  
Directorate General ◽  
The Impact

The objective of this research is to analyze factors that influence user acceptance and usage of sistem perbendaharaan dan anggaran negara (SPAN) implementation at Finance Ministry of Indonesia. This research examined the impact of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating condition and managerial interventions to the attitude toward system use and symbolic adoption. This research is also examined the impact of attitude toward system use to symbolic adoption with technology trust as moderating variable. This study collected the perceptions of 259 SPAN users/operators of 8 regional office of Directorate General of Treasury and State Treasury  Offices of Finance Ministry and analysed using structural equation model approach. The finding suggest that the performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating condition and managerial interventions have positive and significance impact to the attitude toward system use. The finding also suggest that only social influence and facilitating condition have positive and significance impact to the symbolic adoption. Finally, the finding suggest that technology trust moderates positive and significance impact of attitude toward system use to symbolic adoption..                    Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi penerimaan dan penggunaan Sistem Perbendaharaan Dan Anggaran Negara (SPAN) di Kementerian Keuangan. Penelitian ini menganalisa dampak dari harapan kinerja SPAN (performance expectancy), kemudahan penggunaan SPAN (Effort Expectancy), pengaruh sosial terhadap penggunaan SPAN (Social Influence), adanya fasilitas organisasi terhadap user SPAN (facilitating Condition) dan intervensi pimpinan terhadap penggunaan SPAN (Managerial Intervention) terhadap sikap untuk menyukai SPAN (Attitude Toward System Use) dan menggunakan SPAN secara simbolik (Simbolic Adoption). Penelitian ini juga meneliti dampak dari sikap untuk menyukai SPAN (Attitude Toward System Use) terhadap penggunaan SPAN secara simbolik dengan kepercayaan teknologi (technology Trust)  sebagai variabel moderasi. Penelitian ini mengumpulkan pendapat dari 259 pengguna SPAN / operator dari 10 kantor wilayah dari Direktorat Jenderal Perbendaharaan dan Kantor Pelayanan Perbendaharaan Negara Kemneterian Keuangan dan dianalisis menggunakan pendekatan SEM. Temuan ini menunjukkan bahwa harapan kinerja SPAN (performance expectancy), kemudahan penggunaan SPAN (Effort Expectancy), pengaruh sosial terhadap penggunaan SPAN (Social Influence), adanya fasilitas organisasi terhadap user SPAN (facilitating Condition) dan intervensi pimpinan terhadap penggunaan SPAN (Managerial Intervention) berdampak positif dan signifikan berpengaruh positif terhadap sikap untuk menyukai SPAN (Attitude Toward System Use). Temuan ini juga menunjukkan bahwa hanya pengaruh sosial terhadap penggunaan SPAN (Social Influence), adanya fasilitas organisasi terhadap user SPAN (facilitating Condition) berdampak positif dan signifikan terhadap penggunaan SPAN secara simbolik (Symbolic Adoption). Akhirnya, temuan menunjukkan bahwa kepercayaan terhadap SPAN (Technology Trust) mampu memoderasi hubungan sikap untuk menyukai SPAN (Attitude Toward System Use) dan menggunakan SPAN secara simbolik (Simbolic Adoption).

Engaging m-commerce adopters in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shweta Pandey ◽  
Deepak Chawla
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Content Delivery ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Performance Expectancy ◽  
Effort Expectancy ◽  
Perceived Enjoyment ◽  
Facilitating Conditions ◽  
Adoption Level ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of factors derived from the unified theory of user acceptance of technology (performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, age, gender) and of those drawn from literature (perceived risk, perceived enjoyment and innovativeness) on the adoption of m-commerce in India. It also suggests implications of these for the consumer behavior theory practitioners and marketers.Design/methodology/approachData were collected using an online survey from 321 respondents, split into two groups (high and low adoption level users) based on the usage scores of the four categories of m-commerce- location-based, transaction-based, entertainment and content delivery. Logistic regression technique was used to identify the prominent factors among the nine identified influencers to understand the differences between the two groups.FindingsThe findings of this paper are sample biasness, self-reported m-commerce adoption level, limited m-commerce categories and specific context.Research limitations/implicationsExcept the two factors of performance expectancy and facilitating conditions, all other variables discriminate between low and high adoption levels of m-commerce services in India. Social influence, perceived enjoyment and innovativeness were the three main factors that were found to have the most significant impact on the discrimination levels of m-commerce service users in India. Further, it was found that women and the younger generation users of m-commerce showed a greater propensity for adopting m-commerce practices.Practical implicationsMarketers need to focus on key factors like social influence, perceived enjoyment, perceived risk and effort expectancy to persuade the young and innovative consumer target groups increase their adoption of m-commerce services.Originality/valueThis is the first study of its kind to explore factors that distinguish users with low and high levels of m-commerce adoption, by taking into consideration all four categories of m-commerce (transaction-based, content delivery, location-based and entertainment). In doing so, it highlights the need for marketers to focus on factors beyond facilitating conditions and performance expectancy, to enhance the adoption of m-commerce practices.

scholarly journals The Impact of Ambassador Animal Facilitated Programs on Visitor Curiosity and Connections: A Mixed-Methods Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 558-575
Author(s):  
Shelley J. Rank ◽  
Su-Jen Roberts ◽  
Katherine Manion
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Affective Outcomes ◽  
Close Encounters ◽  
Sequential Mixed Methods ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Broad Interest

Many zoos and aquariums offer opportunities for visitors to have up-close encounters with ambassador animals; however, the impacts of these experiences on visitors’ connections to animals are not well documented. We used observations and family interviews in a sequential mixed-methods research study to explore how animal ambassador programs impact participants. We found that the type of ambassador animal did not affect the number of questions or comments made by participants during programs, suggesting broad interest in animals. Programs in which facilitators prompted participants with questions were especially successful at eliciting questions and guiding the topics of those questions, fueling deeper curiosity. Interviewees described themselves as “animal people” and self-reported practicing conservation behaviors, suggesting that their animal affiliative and pro-environmental identities could be leveraged to discuss conservation issues and encourage solutions-based behaviors. Lastly, opportunities to meet ambassador animals increased participants’ feelings of connecting to animals, building on previous research and corroborating findings. Programs should consider how to further build on these positive learning and affective outcomes by capitalizing on opportunities to provide deep insights into conservation issues and actions related to the ambassador animals.

scholarly journals Investigating the Determinants of Students’ Intention to Use Business Simulation Games

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 433-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Yin Wang ◽  
Yi-Shun Wang ◽  
Shi-En Jian
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Intention To Use ◽  
Business Simulation ◽  
Simulation Games ◽  
Performance Expectancy ◽  
Effort Expectancy ◽  
Facilitating Conditions ◽  
Behavioral Intention To Use

Business simulation games (BSGs) are educational tools that help students develop business management knowledge and skills. However, to date, relatively little research has investigated the factors that influence students’ BSG usage intention. Grounded on the extended unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, this study helped to fill this gap by exploring intention to use BSGs. Specifically, this study investigated the influence of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, and price value on behavioral intention to use BSGs. Data collected from 141 useful respondents were tested against the research model using partial least square approach. The results of this study indicated that behavioral intention to use BSGs was influenced by facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, and price value. Unexpectedly, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, and social influence were not predictive of students’ behavioral intention to use BSGs. These findings enhanced our understanding of students’ BSG usage behavior and provided several important theoretical and practical implications for the application of BSG in the context of business and management education.

scholarly journals “Running myself ragged”: stressors faced by peer workers in overdose response settings

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Mamdani ◽  
Sophie McKenzie ◽  
Bernadette Pauly ◽  
Fred Cameron ◽  
Jennifer Conway-Brown ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
People Who Use Drugs ◽  
Frequency Distributions ◽  
Sequential Mixed Methods ◽  
Health Quality ◽  
Mental Health Effects ◽  
Perception Of Health

Abstract Background Peer workers or “peers” (workers with past or present drug use experience) are at the forefront of overdose response initiatives, and their role is essential in creating safe spaces for people who use drugs (PWUD). Working in overdose response settings has benefits for peer workers but is also stressful, with lasting emotional and mental health effects. Yet, little is known about the stressors peer workers face and what interventions can be implemented to support them in their roles. Methods This project used a community-based sequential mixed-methods research design. Eight peer researcher-led focus groups (n = 31) were conducted between November 2018 and March 2019 to assess needs of peer workers. The transcripts were thematically coded and analysed using interpretative description. These results informed a survey, which was conducted (n = 50) in September 2019 to acquire quantitative data on peer workers’ perception of health, quality of life, working conditions and stressors. Frequency distributions were used to describe characteristics of participants. X2 distribution values with Yates correction were conducted to check for association between variables. Results Five themes emerged from the focus groups that point to stressors felt by peer workers: (1) financial insecurity; (2) lack of respect and recognition at work; (3) housing challenges; (4) inability to access and/or refer individuals to resources; and (5) constant exposure to death and trauma. Consistent with this, the factors that survey participants picked as one of their “top three stressors” included financial situation, work situation, and housing challenges. Conclusion Peer workers are faced with a diversity of stressors in their lives which often reflect societal stigmatization of drug use. Recognition of these systemic stressors is critical in designing interventions to ease the emotional, physical and financial burden faced by peer workers.

Comparison of a preferred versus non-preferred waterpipe tobacco flavour: subjective experience, smoking behaviour and toxicant exposure

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor L Leavens ◽  
Leslie M Driskill ◽  
Neil Molina ◽  
Thomas Eissenberg ◽  
Alan Shihadeh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Monoxide ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Smoking Behaviour ◽  
Toxicant Exposure ◽  
P Values ◽  
Smoking Topography ◽  
Exhaled Carbon Monoxide ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Survey Questionnaires

IntroductionOne possible reason for the rapid proliferation of waterpipe (WP) smoking is the pervasive use of flavoured WP tobacco. To begin to understand the impact of WP tobacco flavours, the current study examined the impact of a preferred WP tobacco flavour compared with a non-preferred tobacco flavoured control on user’s smoking behaviour, toxicant exposure and subjective smoking experience.MethodThirty-six current WP smokers completed two, 45-minute ad libitum smoking sessions (preferred flavour vs non-preferred tobacco flavour control) in a randomised cross-over design. Participants completed survey questionnaires assessing subjective smoking experience, exhaled carbon monoxide (eCO) testing, and provided blood samples for monitoring plasma nicotine. WP smoking topography was measured continuously throughout the smoking session.ResultsWhile participants reported an enhanced subjective smoking experience including greater interest in continued use, greater pleasure derived from smoking, increased liking and enjoyment, and willingness to continue use after smoking their preferred WP tobacco flavour (p values <0.05), no significant differences were observed in nicotine and carbon monoxide boost between flavour preparations. Greater average puff volume (p=0.018) was observed during the non-preferred flavour session. While not significant, measures of flow rate, interpuff interval (IPI), and total number of puffs were trending towards significance (p values <0.10), with decreased IPI and greater total number of puffs during the preferred flavour session.DiscussionThe current study is the first to examine flavours in WP smoking by measuring preferred versus control preparations to understand the impact on subjective experience, smoking behaviour and toxicant exposure. The pattern of results suggests that even this relatively minor manipulation resulted in significant changes in subjective experience. These results indicate a possible need for regulations restricting flavours in WP tobacco as with combustible cigarettes.

Technological Innovation and the Agricultural Sustainability

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Rachida Khaled ◽  
Lamine Hammas
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Agricultural Sustainability ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
The Impact

The diffusion of the technological innovation can affect the agricultural sector in the three-sided (social, economic and environmental), a hand, it can contribute to solve problems of the agricultural sector: the effects of the climatic changes, the farming exodus and the migration and the problems of poverty and it can improve the agricultural productivity. But on the other hand, he can lead to new problems, such as depletion of energy resources caused by excessive use of energizing technologies, pollution of air and water and the destruction of soil by industrial waste. This paper aims to theoretically and empirically analyze the role of technological innovation in improving agricultural sustainability through the impact of mechanization on agricultural productivity, energy production and net income per capita for a panel of three Maghreb countries (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) during the period 1997-2012. By using simultaneous equations, the authors' finding that technological innovation cannot achieve the purpose of sustainable development in the agriculture sector in the Maghreb countries through the negative impact of mechanization and research and development on agricultural productivity.

A Generative Sequential Mixed Methods Approach Using Quantitative Measures to Enhance Social Constructionist Inquiry

2021 ◽  
pp. 155868982098627
Author(s):  
Diego Romaioli
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Sequential Mixed Methods

In order to enhance core mixed methods research designs, social scientists need an approach that incorporates developments in the social constructionist perspective. This work describes a study that aimed to promote occupational well-being in hospital departments where employees are at risk of burnout, based on a constructionist inquiry developed starting from the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Taking this study as an example, we define a “generative sequential mixed methods approach” as a process that involves consulting quantitative studies to identify criticalities on which to conduct focused, transformative investigations. The article contributes by envisaging ways to mix qualitative and quantitative methods that consider a “generative” and “future-forming” orientation to research, in line with recent shifts in social psychology.

scholarly journals Understanding consumer loyalty to technology-based self-services with credence qualities

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (6/7) ◽  
pp. 522-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Schuster ◽  
Judy Proudfoot ◽  
Judy Drennan
Keyword(s):  
Professional Services ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Consumer Responses ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Behavioral Loyalty ◽  
Behavioral Domain ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
Self Service ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Goal Directed Behavior

Purpose – This paper aims to use the Model of Goal-Directed Behavior (MGB) to examine the factors affecting consumers’ continued use of emerging technology-based self-services (TBSSs) with credence qualities. Professional services, which traditionally require specialized knowledge and high levels of interpersonal interaction to produce owing to their credence qualities, are increasingly delivered via self-service technologies. Health services delivered via mobile devices, for example, facilitate self-care without direct involvement from health professionals. Design/methodology/approach – A mental health service delivered via the Internet and mobile phone, myCompass, was selected as the research context. Twenty interviews were conducted with users of myCompass and the data were thematically analyzed. Findings – The findings of the study showcase the unique determinants of consumers’ continued use of TBSSs with credence qualities relative to the more routine services which have been the focus of extant research. The findings further provide support for the utility of the MGB in explaining service continuance, although the importance of distinguishing between extrinsic and intrinsic motivational components of behavioral desire and capturing the impact of social influence beyond subjective norms is also highlighted. Originality/value – This study contributes to recent research examining differences in consumer responses across TBSSs and behavioral loyalty to these services. It also provides empirical evidence for broadening and deepening the MGB within this behavioral domain.

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