Perceived Innovativeness, Perceived Convenience and TAM: Effects on Mobile Knowledge Management

Abstract

Wireless technology is seen as a gradually popular information technology with such potency that it has changed the way we view IT. Through wireless network, many knowledge management activities occur in working places and in our daily activities. In the mobile environments, the important knowledge management is quickly acquired the right knowledge using mobile devices through wireless network. The recent years study show that perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness constructs of technology acceptance model have been considered important in determining the individuals' acceptance and use of IT. In this study, we will introduce the innovativeness and the convenience as new factors that reflect the characteristic of the mobile knowledge management. This paper addresses why users can be used mobile knowledge management and how user's adoption is affected by the innovativeness and the convenience. The results showed that the extended technology acceptance model fully mediated the usage behavior intentions even in the mobile knowledge management through the wireless network environment.