The IoT Technologies Acceptance in Education by the Students From the Economic Studies in Romania

Ionescu-Feleaga Liliana,Mariana Bunea,Ionescu Bogdan-Stefan

doi:10.24818/ea/2021/57/342

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to test the IoT model of acceptance technologies (the Internet of Things) among the economics students from Romania. The Internet of Things refers to the interconnection between different devices via the Internet. Through this interconnection, the communication is no longer limited to the usual “human to human” form but is complemented by a new “object-to-object” form, which has a direct impact on the company’s functions. In this context, the IoT technologies acceptance by the future economists and managers is extremely important. The study included 1,179 students from four university centers from Romania and the included factors from the acceptance of IoT technologies model (Internet of Things) were analyzed using the quantitative statistical methods in SPSS, applying a series of tests processed to highlight the research results, respectively the reliability test, the validity test, the chi-square test and the Person's correlation coefficient. The results of the study show the existence of a positive correlation between the research variables and indicate that the students from the economic studies, are ready to accept the new technological advances in IoT and to implement them in their future jobs.

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In the recent years, the information and the communication technology (TIC) have become a omnipresent tool in the entities lives from different economy sectors, by stimulating the innovation in the services, by increasing the efficiency of production and by reducing the costs
Once we have defined the factors / domains and their associated elements, it is important to investigate how these factors relate to our research model on testing the acceptance model of IoT (Internet of Things) technologies among economics students in Romania
The main purpose of this research is to test the model of acceptance of IoT (Internet of Things) technologies among students from the economic studies in Romania

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The information and the communication technology (TIC) have become a omnipresent tool in the entities lives from different economy sectors, by stimulating the innovation in the services, by increasing the efficiency of production and by reducing the costs. The technology has influenced the organization and the business management (Attuquayefio and Addo, 2014). Such benefits have long-term effects and will continue to grow, despite the difficulties and challenges of the companies nowadays. The IoT is described as a network of objects that can be connected to the Internet without human interaction (Park et al, 2017) and “has the potential to change the world, just as the Internet has done, perhaps even more” (Ashton, 2009), because it mediates the communication within an organization as well as between the organization and outside it, contributing to the improvement and the efficiency of the services provided at the economy level. The IoT allows the transition to the level of the wireless world and offers significant improvements in critical areas such as connectivity, speed and accessibility (Uckelmann et al, 2011)

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