Moving beyond Intentions and toward the Theory of Trying: Effects of Work Environment and Gender on Post-Adoption Information Technology Use

Older Adults Use of Online Health Information - Do They Even Try?

“…By drawing on recent advancements in IS research, we employed a post-adoptive perspective focusing on the notion of enhanced IT use [26,28,29]. This allowed us to place exploratory IT behavior as the mediating link of health need and health literacy towards online health information usage and -as our data reflect-found solid empirical support this approach.…”

“…Understanding post-adoptive behavior is gaining attraction in information systems (IS) research [e.g., 27,28]. Post-adoptive behavior can, for instance, denote the decisions to adopt new features, as well as actual feature use and extension behaviors of an individual after an IT application has been installed and applied by the user in accomplishing her/his activities [24].…”

“…Towards this end, especially users' exploratory behavior has been advocated to promote enhanced system use [24,26]. Exploratory user behavior denotes the extent to which a user actively seeks new purposes of a given technology [26,28,31,32,33]. Hereto, Ahuja and Thatcher [28, p. 431] proposed 'Trying to Innovate with IT', defined as a "user's goal of finding new uses of existing workplace information technologies".…”

“…Hereto, Ahuja and Thatcher [28, p. 431] proposed 'Trying to Innovate with IT', defined as a "user's goal of finding new uses of existing workplace information technologies". Trying to Innovate with IT denotes an actual behavior with goal-direction [28]. Innovative and enhanced use, as well as exploratory behavior are considered essentially as a self-driven behavior [34].…”

“…Whereas much of the research on post-adoptive behavior currently takes place in organizational settings examining the influence of the organizational environment in supporting employees innovative and exploratory IT behavior [e.g., 26,28,35], the roles of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations accounting for such variations have been examined in greater detail more recently. In this regard, it has been shown that perceived usefulness, a factor accounting for extrinsic motivation associated with favorable jobrelated outcomes, influences exploratory behavior [32,33].…”