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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"relative advantage"”.
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An experiment to determine the relative advantage of improved spelling by typewriting as opposed to handwriting
The limited-instruction spelling course proved to be the best method of integrating spelling and typewriting instruction. The students achieved better results when they looked up the meanings of words and typed the words in sentences. Studying seven or eight words a day was more effective than …
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PREDICTORS OF THE SUSTAINED IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SCHOOL-WIDE POSITIVE BEHAVIOR INTERVENTION SUPPORT MODEL
… implementation of the SWPBIS. These factors are relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialibility, and observability. Results of this study indicated that the relative advantage and observability of SWPBIS may explain school personnel’s willingness to continue with its implementation. …
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Going where students are: comparing faculty and student uses and perceptions of social networking in higher education
… of using SNSs and their perceptions of the advantages and disadvantages of using them as tools to enhance teaching and learning. The population consisted of School of Education faculty and students at a small, southern university. Quantitative data (from a Likert-scale survey) and …
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Leadership Products As Innovations In The Context Of Rogers' Diffusion Theory
… framed five generic attributes--compatibility, relative advantage, complexity, trialability, and observability. Both products conformed to the attributes as conceptualized by Rogers. The main difference that influenced the disparate sales was the greater complexity of the Simulation than of the …
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Technological, organizational, and environmental factors affecting the adoption of cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
… technological factors were identified as relative advantage of Cloud ERP systems, compatibility of Cloud ERP systems, and security concern of Cloud ERP system environment. Organizational factors included top management support, organizational readiness, size of the organization, …
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Technology Adoption and Integration: A Multiple Case Study of Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation Theory in Kuwait
… towards the attributes of technology (relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability and observability) reflect the extent by which technology is used. Furthermore, teachers' characteristics and the support environment provided can potentially encourage or inhibit the …
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WILLINGNESS TO USE IT INNOVATIONS: A HYBRID APPROACH EMPLOYING DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODELS
… are adopted can significantly affect competitive advantage. This was a theory building and explanatory study with the expressed intent to better understand the individual determinants of the success or failure of an IT innovation at the individual level. I studied PWS systems by employing …
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Solar energy as an alternative energy source for lighting: the case of George, Lusaka.
… energy that promote adoption include: having relative advantage (98 percent) over candles and electricity, being; environmentally friendly (94 percent), compatible (92 percent), easy to use (90 percent), pre-testing (88 percent) and observable (72 percent). The major barriers to adoption of …
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Solar energy as an alternative energy source for lighting: the case of George, Lusaka.
… energy that promote adoption include: having relative advantage (98 percent) over candles and electricity, being; environmentally friendly (94 percent), compatible (92 percent), easy to use (90 percent), pre-testing (88 percent) and observable (72 percent). The major barriers to adoption of …
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Measuring the perceived attributes of innovation: A study of capacitive switch technology in industrially designed user interface controls
… perceived attributes of innovation including relative advantage, compatibility, trialability, demonstrability, visibility, ease of use, image, voluntariness, perceived risk, and perceived resources as outlined by Rogers (1995), Moore and Benbasat (1991), and Dupagne and Driscoll (2005). …
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Developing a fourth industrial revolution adoption framework for South African rural small-scaled maize-producing farms
… farmers’ knowledge and perception of the relative advantage of the technology, compatibility, complexity, trialability, observability, and perceived usefulness of 4IR tools. The study employed a quantitative approach using multistage sampling through stratified sampling, random sampling …
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Exploring determinants of community led total sanitation (clts) on latrine adoption among rural cambodians utilizing the diffusion of innovation theory: a pragmatic approach
… following facilitators of latrine construction: relative advantage (overall health and well-being, convenience, and environmental awareness); complexity (perceived level of simplicity); compatibility (obligation to others); and observability (demonstrations, observable improved health of others). …
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Internet of Things in organisations: artefactual characteristics that influence adoption
… closely aligned with business needs, such as relative advantage (profitability), Compatibility (alignment with values), seamless integration, and self-adaptation (intelligent, efficient operation and future growth), significantly influence IoT adoption as reflected by the continuance intention …
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A framework of individual consumer's acceptance of online shopping
… from survey. The results indicate that the relative advantage of online shopping, the compatibility of online shopping, the voluntariness of individual consumer's doing online shopping, customers' prior experience, and consumer innovativeness are positively correlated with individual …
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Discontinuance of Innovations: Social Network Characteristics, Product Attributes, and Adopter Traits Related to Post -Adoption Behavior
… attitudes of alters in the social network, relative advantage, observability, number of elementary age children, and tenure with the innovation.
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An exploratory study of the diffusion of instructional computing innovation among social work faculty
… pertained to computer anxiety and perceptions of relative advantage (r =.361, $p<.001$) were also moderately correlated with innovational adoption levels. Vital to social workers, perceptions of compatibility with values also moderately predicted adoption levels (r =.342, $p<.001$). Past …
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Understanding merchant adoption of m-payments in South Africa
… results found the main adoption drivers to be relative advantage, ease of use, results demonstrability, convenience, speed of transaction, and service provider brand value. The key barriers to adoption include cost as well as trust and security. Based on our findings, implications for practice …
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Comparative analysis of automotive powertrain choices for the near to mid-term future
… More specifically, it seems that the current relative advantage of diesel over gasoline engines in terms of fuel consumption is reduced. Future turbocharged gasoline engines especially, seem to become almost equivalent with diesel engines.
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Factors Influencing Customer Adoption of Mobile Banking Services in Tanzania
… The results suggested that perceived risk, relative advantage and convenience are the determinant factors in influencing consumers’ adoption decisions. It’s been recommended that banks in Tanzania invest massively in mobile banking and other information technology innovations in order to …
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Understanding perceptions and adoption of green stormwater infrastructure
… that municipal officials' perceptions of relative advantage, compatibility, trialability, and perceived resources are significant predictor of favorable disposition toward adoption, while perceived risk has a negative influence on attitudes. In addition, the level of environmental …
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