The influence of attitudes on personal computer utilization among knowledge workers: The case of Saudi Arabia

Muhammad A. Al-Khaldi; R. S. Olusegun Wallace

doi:10.1016/S0378-7206(99)00017-8

The influence of attitudes on personal computer utilization among knowledge workers: The case of Saudi Arabia

Muhammad A. Al-Khaldi^*
, R. S. Olusegun Wallace

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Information Systems and Operations Management

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Abstract

Since the introduction of personal computers (PCs) in the early 1980s, Saudi Arabia has made major investments in PCs to match its rapidly growing economy. As a result, the PC business has become one of the fastest growing sectors in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Our paper reports on the results of a study which investigates the relationships between end-users' attitudes and PC utilization among knowledge workers in the context of Saudi Arabia. To gain a better understanding of the factors that influence the use of PCs, we adopted Triandis' theory which suggests that behavior is determined by attitudes, social norms, habits and expected consequences of behavior. Our study is based on previous efforts to test the theory's validity in Saudi Arabia. Our results suggest that PC utilization is determined by individual attitudes, personal characteristics, such as PC experience, facilitating conditions, such as PC access and social factors. We also observed that respondents to our questionnaire differ in the level of importance they attribute to the factors hypothesized as influencing PC utilization compared to Canadian respondents in a previous study.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	185-204
Number of pages	20
Journal	Information and Management
Volume	36
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-7206(99)00017-8
State	Published - Oct 1999

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Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the financial support of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in the conduct of this research. The helpful comments and suggestions of Dr. Eid Sendi Shammari, Dr. Stephen Owusu-Ansah, Rosemary Wallace, the Editor (Dr. Edgar H. Sibley) and two anonymous reviewers are appreciated. The authors also thank the respondents for their willingness to participate in the study. Any remaining errors are the authors' responsibility.

Keywords

Knowledge workers
PC utilization
Saudi Arabia
Social factors
User attitudes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Management Information Systems
Information Systems
Information Systems and Management

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