How socially derived characteristics of technology shape the adoption of corporate Web 2.0 tools for collaboration

Santiago Iglesias-Pradas (), Ángel Hernández-García () and Pedro Fernández-Cardador ()

Service Business, 2014, vol. 8, issue 3, 465-478

Abstract: Socially derived characteristics (perceptions of individuals about technology-related characteristics) of Web 2.0 tools are not generally taken into account when decisions are made about which systems to use for collaboration in corporate settings. This exploratory research studies the influence of these characteristics—perceived compatibility, social presence, and group supportability—in the adoption of corporate blogs and validates a theory-grounded model with data from 73 employees. The results show that social presence and users’ values influence perceived usefulness of corporate blogs and play an important role in their adoption, while existing work practices, prior experience and group supportability do not. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

Keywords: Corporate blogs; Technology acceptance; Knowledge management; Web 2.0; Socially derived characteristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s11628-014-0250-1

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