Impact of antecedent factors on collaborative technologies usage among academic researchers in Malaysian research universities

Author(s):

Norzaidi Mohd Daud, (Community of Research (Management Science), Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia)

Halimi Zakaria, (Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia)

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Single Sentence Summary:

An investigation of the impact of antecedent factors on collaborative technologies usage among academic researchers in Malaysian research universities reveals that personal innovativeness, task-technology fit, and perceived peer usage are significant predictors of individual usage of collaborative technologies.

Abstract:

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of antecedent factors on collaborative technologies usage among academic researchers in Malaysian research universities.

Design/methodology/approach

Data analysis was conducted on data collected from 156 academic researchers from five Malaysian research universities. This study employed an extensive quantitative approach of a structural equation modeling method to evaluate the research model and to test the hypotheses.

Findings

The main findings of this study are that personal innovativeness, task-technology fit, and perceived peer usage are significant predictors of individual usage of collaborative technologies; perceived managerial support and subjective norm were found not to be significant predictors to perceived usefulness and individual usage; and perceived usefulness is a significant mediator to individual usage in that it had fully mediated personal innovativeness whereas partially mediated peer usage.

Practical implications

The results provide practical insights into how the Malaysian higher education sector and other research organizations of not-for-profit structure could enhance their collaborative technologies usage.

Originality/value

This research is perhaps the first that concentrates on collaborative technologies usage in Malaysian research universities.

Keywords:

Malaysia, Academic researchers, Collaborative technologies, Research universities

Type:

Research paper

Publisher:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Received:

15 September 2016

Revised:

15 September 2016

Accepted:

13 March 2017

Copyright:

© Emerald Publishing Limited 2017
Published by Emerald Publishing Limited
Licensed re-use rights only

Citation:

Norzaidi Mohd Daud, Halimi Zakaria, (2017) "Impact of antecedent factors on collaborative technologies usage among academic researchers in Malaysian research universities", The International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, Vol. 34 Issue: 3, pp.189-209, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJILT-09-2016-0046

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