Analysing the Role of Culture in IS Studies

Abstract

The purpose of the present paper is to theoretically review the role of culture on using Information Systems. This study revises, criticises, and extends cultural dimensions developed by main scholars such as Hofstede and Hall. Furthermore, it discusses the two levels of national and organisational culture and their role in shaping the use of Information Systems and its development. It significantly explains various levels of use of IS among different nations and industries located in different cultures. The results demonstrate the important role of national and derived organizational culture as immediate antecedents to and key success factor of using Information Systems. Because this revision outlines major lines of research in the field, it can be useful for both academics and practitioners. Further, it discusses limitations of existing research and suggests a new dimension of culture (Traditionalism-Modernity) which stimulates further research to investigate its validity in characterising diverse nations in terms of their national culture.

Incorporating Self Efficacy and Subjective Norms into the Integrated TAM/TTF to Evaluate Drivers of Corporate Career Portals and Users' Performance

“…Electronic job marketplaces have been extensively used by recruiters due to their ability to offer a perfect environment for companies searching for inaccessible candidates by advertising available positions, accepting resumés and taking applications over the Internet (Ababneh & Shrafat, 2014;Dafoulas et al, 2003). Some companies rely on specialized websites to fill job vacancies, while larger companies build their own CCPs on their websites as a way of trimming recruiting costs and reducing the time needed to fill vacancies.…”

“…TAM is integrated with TTF as a response to many studies calling for the incorporation of the strengths of diverse technology adoption models (Dishaw & Strong, 1999;Shih & Chen 2013). Although TAM and TTF are useful models in explaining why people use IT, other human and social variables should be included (Legris et al, 2003;Ababneh & Shrafat, 2014). Thus, subjective norms is added to the existing model, because users may encourage others to use computing technologies (Davis et al, 1989) and more particularly to achieve better results in attracting people to fill vacancies.…”

Extending the Technology Acceptance Model and Critical Success Factors Model to Predict the Use of Cloud Computing

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