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Extending TAM to Understand E-Governance Adoption by Teachers in Greece

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Organizational, Business, and Technological Aspects of the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2010)

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Abstract

The study uses the Technology Acceptance Model, the Diffusion of innovation model and constructs of trust, risk and personal innovativeness in order to build a model for teachers’ adoption of e-governance in Greece. Primary and secondary education teachers responded to an online survey resulting to 230 questionnaires. A SEM validation of the proposed model reveals that Personal Innovativeness, Compatibility and Relative advantage are stronger predictors of intention to use, compared to trust, and perceived risk. Even though the study offers the first piece of evidence on e-governance website adoption by teachers, the recommendations would be helpful in developing and implementing new e-governance plans.

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  1. Department of International and European Studies, University of Macedonia, Egnatia 156, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Ioannis Karavasilis & Kostas Zafiropoulos

  2. Department of Business Administration, Technological Education Institute of Serres, Terma Magnisias, 62124, Serres, Greece

    Vasiliki Vrana

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. The American College of Greece, Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. University of Oviedo, Spain

    Patricia Ordonez de Pablos

  3. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Adrian Ziderman

  4. De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

    Alan Roulstone

  5. Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media, Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Hermann Maurer

  6. Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA

    Jonathan B. Imber

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Karavasilis, I., Zafiropoulos, K., Vrana, V. (2010). Extending TAM to Understand E-Governance Adoption by Teachers in Greece. In: Lytras, M.D., Ordonez de Pablos, P., Ziderman, A., Roulstone, A., Maurer, H., Imber, J.B. (eds) Organizational, Business, and Technological Aspects of the Knowledge Society. WSKS 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16324-1_7

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