Moderating effect of personal characteristics on telecentre adoption for value creation in Malaysia

This paper examines the influence of personal characteristics of community within the vicinity of rural telecentres on the relationship between adoption of ICT and value creation. The aim was to identify characteristics of members of the community that have positive or negative influence on the ado...

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Main Authors: Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi, Yusop, Nor Iadah, Mat Aji, Zahurin
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20120/1/KMICe2016%20345%20350.pdf
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author Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi
Yusop, Nor Iadah
Mat Aji, Zahurin
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description This paper examines the influence of personal characteristics of community within the vicinity of rural telecentres on the relationship between adoption of ICT and value creation. The aim was to identify characteristics of members of the community that have positive or negative influence on the adoption of the telecentre in order to gain socio-economic impact.A survey was conducted among the community within the vicinity of the telecentres where data was gathered on respondents’ demography, their perceptions on availability of ICT facilities at the telecentre, and the benefits gained from using the ICT facilities.The Diffusion of Innovation theory was used to guide the research and moderating analysis was used as data analysis. Results show that age, gender, marital status and PC ownership as significant moderators that affect the relationship between telecentre adoption and value creation.
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spelling uum-201202016-11-30T00:50:08Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20120/ Moderating effect of personal characteristics on telecentre adoption for value creation in Malaysia Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi Yusop, Nor Iadah Mat Aji, Zahurin HM Sociology T Technology (General) This paper examines the influence of personal characteristics of community within the vicinity of rural telecentres on the relationship between adoption of ICT and value creation. The aim was to identify characteristics of members of the community that have positive or negative influence on the adoption of the telecentre in order to gain socio-economic impact.A survey was conducted among the community within the vicinity of the telecentres where data was gathered on respondents’ demography, their perceptions on availability of ICT facilities at the telecentre, and the benefits gained from using the ICT facilities.The Diffusion of Innovation theory was used to guide the research and moderating analysis was used as data analysis. Results show that age, gender, marital status and PC ownership as significant moderators that affect the relationship between telecentre adoption and value creation. 2016-08-29 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20120/1/KMICe2016%20345%20350.pdf Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi and Yusop, Nor Iadah and Mat Aji, Zahurin (2016) Moderating effect of personal characteristics on telecentre adoption for value creation in Malaysia. In: Knowledge Management International Conference (KMICe) 2016, 29 – 30 August 2016, Chiang Mai, Thailand. http://www.kmice.cms.net.my/kmice2016/files/KMICe2016_eproceeding.pdf
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Moderating effect of personal characteristics on telecentre adoption for value creation in Malaysia
title Moderating effect of personal characteristics on telecentre adoption for value creation in Malaysia
title_full Moderating effect of personal characteristics on telecentre adoption for value creation in Malaysia
title_fullStr Moderating effect of personal characteristics on telecentre adoption for value creation in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Moderating effect of personal characteristics on telecentre adoption for value creation in Malaysia
title_short Moderating effect of personal characteristics on telecentre adoption for value creation in Malaysia
title_sort moderating effect of personal characteristics on telecentre adoption for value creation in malaysia
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