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Fourth, not all factors that make individuals satisfied were separated from the factors that cause dissatisfaction. Fifth, the employees' perceptions of whether they have choice to use or not to use the system affect the ways they use the system. The major contribution of our study is for better assisting IT implementation management with an overall aim of increasing Information Systems continuous use to support the individuals' job in an organisation.","abstract_html":"The discontinued use of an Information System is shown by previous research to be a major aspect of the failure of Information Systems projects. Major reasons for the discontinued use of an Information System include inabilities to meet user expectations, to satisfy users and to avoid user dissatisfaction. One limitation of previous studies was that they assumed satisfaction and dissatisfaction were bipolar opposites. 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