E-government Adoption Model Based on Theory of Planned Behavior: Empirical Validation

Sevgi Ozkan, Irfan Emrah Kanat

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Abstract

The e-Government phenomenon has become more important with the ever increasing number of implementations worldwide. A model explaining the e-Government adoption and the related measurement instrument – a survey – had been developed and validated in this study. In a post Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) approach, theory of planned behavior (TPB) was extended to fit the requirements of e-Government context. The adoption of student loans service of the higher education student loans and accommodation association of Turkey (KYK) was investigated to obtain data for empirical validation. The instrument was administered to over four-hundred students and partial least squares path modeling was employed to analyze the data. The results indicate that the model was an improvement over TAM in terms of predictive power. The constructs trust, perceived behavioral control and attitudes successfully explained the intention to use an e-Government service. The findings presented in this study provide useful insights for researchers and policy makers when dealing with e-Government services.
Original languageEnglish
JournalGovernment Information Quarterly
Volume28
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)503–513
Number of pages11
ISSN0740-624X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • E-government
  • Citizen adoption
  • Adoption models
  • Structural equation modeling
  • Partial least squares path modeling

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