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Adoption of Mobile Communication Technologies in the Municipal Open Care Services Sector

Anna Sell, Erkki Patokorpi, Pirkko Walden, Bill Anckar, Adoption of Mobile Communication Technologies in the Municipal Open Care Services Sector. In: Ibrahim Kushchu (Ed.), Mobile Government: An Emerging Direction in E-Government, 171-187, IGI Publishing, 2007.

Abstract:

In this chapter, the writers present and discuss the findings from an empirical study conducted in Turku, Finland, to explore the social workers’ willingness to adopt mobile communication technologies in the workplace, and more specifically in the context of domiciliary care. As the respondents have many distinguishing features (the population consisted solely of females with a relatively high median age), the results contradict some assumptions generally made in literature about the impact of age and experience on technology adoption. Considering the rate at which information and communication technology is developing and its use spreading in all walks of life, one hardly needs to stress the need for studying the technology acceptance and adoption of special, more marginal, user groups.

BibTeX entry:

@INBOOK{cSePaWaAn07a,
  title = {Adoption of Mobile Communication Technologies in the Municipal Open Care Services Sector},
  booktitle = {Mobile Government: An Emerging Direction in E-Government},
  author = {Sell, Anna and Patokorpi, Erkki and Walden, Pirkko and Anckar, Bill},
  editor = {Kushchu, Ibrahim},
  publisher = {IGI Publishing},
  pages = {171-187},
  year = {2007},
}

Belongs to TUCS Research Unit(s): Mobile Commerce, Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research (IAMSR)

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