The Role of Favoring and Inhibiting Factors in Developing Attitude towards Mobile Application based Agricultural Extension Services: A Structural Relationship

Background

This study proposes to use adoption literature to study the adoption of new information communication technologies. According to Fichman (1992) innovation adoption focuses on two aspects: (1) the characteristics of a specific innovation and the outcomes of its adoption and diffusion process; and (2) the locus of adoption—i.e., whether adoption is on an individual or organizational level. The present study focuses on the individual level of adoption. In this study, we investigate factors that impact antecedents of attitude towards adoption of mobile based agricultural extension services. While there are many studies that define adoption in terms of implementation, usage, utilization, or satisfaction; this study uses attitude as the single measure of adoption.

Innovation attributes face several critiques by researchers such as (Down & Mohr, 1976) and (Tornatzky & Klein, 1982) regarding the inconsistency of attributes in influencing the diffusion and adoption of an innovation. It is for the reason that Rogers focused on the primary attributes of innovation rather than perception of using an innovation by potential adopters.