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The emancipatory potential of a new information system and its effect on technology acceptance
Dissertation (Magister Commercii (Informatics))--University of Pretoria, 2007.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/28477 The emancipatory potential of a new information system and its effect on technology acceptance Lotriet, H.H. (Hugo H.) igor.riveragreen@bmw.co.za Rivera Green, Igor Felipe Critical social theory; technology acceptance; tec UCTD Dissertation (Magister Commercii (Informatics))--University of Pretoria, 2007. Abstract The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) currently enjoys the status of being the leading predictive tool for testing user acceptance of new technologies. Despite IS researchers and practitioners holding the model in high esteem, this study exposes some of its limitations when applied to a study of shop-floor users in South Africa. In search of an alternative theory explaining why these users so openly embraced the new information system, it emerges that the Critical Social Theory (CST) of Jürgen Habermas provides the most relevant insight. The use of the CST perspective reveals how these users view the new system as a potential means with which to achieve emancipation from their otherwise dreary existence as product inspectors. This thesis argues that this emancipatory potential offered by the new system played a major role in its successful acceptance. Informatics unrestricted 2013-09-07T13:36:15Z 2007-02-13 2013-09-07T13:36:15Z 2006-05-05 2007-02-13 2007-02-13 Dissertation Rivera Green, I 2006, The emancipatory potential of a new information system and its effect on technology acceptance, Magister dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28477 > http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28477 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02132007-140247/ © 2006, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Critical social theory; technology acceptance; tec UCTD The emancipatory potential of a new information system and its effect on technology acceptance |
| title | The emancipatory potential of a new information system and its effect on technology acceptance |
| title_full | The emancipatory potential of a new information system and its effect on technology acceptance |
| title_fullStr | The emancipatory potential of a new information system and its effect on technology acceptance |
| title_full_unstemmed | The emancipatory potential of a new information system and its effect on technology acceptance |
| title_short | The emancipatory potential of a new information system and its effect on technology acceptance |
| title_sort | emancipatory potential of a new information system and its effect on technology acceptance |
| topic | Critical social theory; technology acceptance; tec UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28477 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02132007-140247/ |