The presumed dominant role of usability attributes (ie usefulness and ease of use) in predicting consumer adoption of a technologically based innovation (eg internet banking — IB) is reexamined, by using an extended framework, which, apart from usability, incorporates the social and...

The purpose of this research is to examine the possibility of distinguishing between adopters and nonadopters when conceptualizing the drivers of the decision to adopt technologically based innovations. A second research objective is to examine factorial validity through the assessment of the...

The article deals with the perspectives of Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies adoption and development in Russia, which gain much importance during the digital transformation of economic relations and Industry 4.0 shift, due to their optimization potential. Using IoT technologies leads to...

Efficient diffusion of economic information plays a critical role in the functioning of society, and, more specifically, households. We study information diffusion between spouses in a representative sample of the German population. We focus on an important economic belief: the household’s...

Social interactions are at the core of research and development, yet our understanding of how they shape innovation is lacking. A novel dataset on more than 19,000 economists linked to more than one million unique research projects and fifty million tweets (#EconTwitter) is used as laboratory to...

There is a large body of research investigating the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth; however, the empirical evidence on growth and its volatility simultaneously driven by ICT diffusion has still remained scarce so far. To fill this void, system...

Due to the impact of Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR4.0), the accounting professionals are expected to undergo a big challenge. Currently, the development and integration of new technologies in society and industry have an unprecedented impact on the working environment. Therefore, there is a...