| Constructs | Definition | Example |
| Intention to Use IT (IU) | A user’s intention to continue use of a particular IT (Bhattacherjee, 2001) | A user continuing to use an application in familiar ways to support day to day work such as entering data on a spreadsheet or using a word procession application. |
| Intention to Explore IT (IE) | Reflects a user’s willingness and purpose to explore an accepted technology and find potential new use (adapted from Nambisan, Agarwal, & Tanniru, 2000) | A user planning to explore new features of an existing application in order to identify new ways to manipulate data such as learning new formulas in a spreadsheet application or using the mailmerge function in a word processing application. |
| Trying to Innovate with IT (TRY) | An individual’s behavioral attempts to find new or novel uses of information technologies (Ahuja & Thatcher, 2005) | A user having attempted to use the new formula or mailmerge function in an innovative way that supports completing necessary work. |
| Perceived Usefulness of IT (PU) | The degree to which a person believes that using a particular system would enhance his or her job performance (Davis et al., 1989) | A user finding an spreadsheet application helps them complete a task requiring manipulating numbers or figures. |
| Perceived Ease of Use of IT (PEOU) | Perceived ease of use refers to the belief that using a technology will be relatively free of cognitive effort (Davis, 1989) | A user finding it relatively simple to use a spreadsheet. |
| Subjective Norms towards IT (SN) | Individuals’ perceptions that important referent others think that they should or should not perform an IT behavior and their motivation to comply with these referents (adapted from Fishbein & Azjen, 1975) | A user believes that important peers strongly believe that they should use a spreadsheet. |
| Autonomy | The degree to which the job provides substantial freedom, independence and discretion in scheduling the work and in determining the procedures to be used in carrying it out (Hackman & Oldham, 1975) | A user having freedom to decide when and how they use a spreadsheet to support work. |
| Personal Innovativeness with IT (PIIT) | The willingness of an individual to try out any new information technology (Agarwal & Prasad, 1998) | A user wanting to try out the latest version of a spreadsheet application. |