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The Role of Digital Knowledge Richness in Green Technology Adoption: A Digital Option Theory Perspective

그린기술 채택에의 디지털 지식풍부성의 역할: 디지털 옵션 이론 관점에서

  • Yoo, Hosun (Medical Device R&D Center at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital) ;
  • Lee, Namyeon (Department of Management at Sungkyul University) ;
  • Kwon, Ohbyung (School of Management, Kyung Hee University)
  • Received : 2015.02.11
  • Accepted : 2015.04.29
  • Published : 2015.06.30
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Abstract

Purpose This study aims to understand the role of digital knowledge in accepting the green technology. This study combined digital option theory with the second version of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2). Contrary to other studies in which the UTAUT2 is used to explain IT adoption behavior, we look at the relationship between IT and the UTAUT2 from a new angle, incorporating an important aspect of IT, that is, digitized knowledge richness, as a determinant of the UTAUT2. Design/methodology/approach Grounded in the UTAUT2, a content analysis was conducted to investigate novel constructs dedicated to explaining green technology adoption. In this study, an amended version of the UTAUT2 specific to green technology is offered that better explains the green technology adoption behavior of consumers. Using the items identified by content analysis, we developed a questionnaire with 36 survey items. We measured all the items on a seven-point Likert-type scale. We randomly selected 402 survey respondents from a set of panel data. After a pilot study, we analyzed the main survey data by using PLS 2.0M3 and SPSS 20.0, and employed structural equation modeling to test the hypotheses. Findings The results suggest that the UTAUT2 was found to be extendable to technologies other than conventional IT. Social influence is more significant than conventional utilitarian and hedonic-based constructs such as those utilized in the UTAUT and UTAUT2 in explaining adoption behavior in the context of green technologies. The hypothesized connection between digitized knowledge richness and adoption intention was supported by the results of studies on the role of IT in formation of attitudes toward eco-friendly production. The results also indicate that digital knowledge can also encourage people to try green technology when they learn that their peers are already using the technology successfully.

연구 목적 본 연구의 목적은 그린 기술의 채택 현상을 디지털 지식의 제공 여부로 이해하는 것이다. UTAUT2를 이론적 기반으로 하되 디지털 옵션 이론과 결합하였다. 특히 일반적인 UTAUT2 관련 연구들이 IT자체에 대한 수용 현상을 설명하기 위해 사용된 것과는 달리 본 연구에서는 IT의 산물인 디지털지식이 그린 기술이라는 대상을 채택하는데 긍정적인 영향을 주는지에 대해서 초점을 두었다. 연구설계/방법론/접근법 UTAUT2를 근거로 하되 그린 기술의 채택 현상을 설명하는데 유용한 요인들을 파악하기 위하여 내용분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과로 본 연구에서는 그린기술을 위한 수정된 UTAUT2 모형을 개발하였으며 그에 맞는 36개의 설문 문항을 개발하였다. 각 문항의 측정은 리커트 7점 척도를 채택하였다. 한 기관의 패널 자료로부터 총402명의 유효한 설문을 획득하였다. 사전 검증을 마치고 획득한 설문결과를 PLS 2.0M3와 SPSS 20.0을 이용하여 분석하였으며 가설검증을 위해 구조방정식 분석을 수행하였다. 결과 통계분석 결과 개발된 UTAUT2 수정 모형은 수요자들의 그린기술 채택 현상을 적절히 설명하는 것으로 실증분석 결과 나타났다. 사회적 영향은 전통적인 UTAUT나 UTAUT2에서 사용하는 효용가치나 쾌락가치보다 그린기술의 채택하는 맥락 하에서의 수용 행위를 더 잘 설명하고 있었다. 또한 디지털 지식과 그린기술의 채택, 즉 환경 친화적 제품에 대한 태도에 영향을 주는 요인들 사이의 인과관계는 유의한 것으로 판정되었다. 아울러 디지털 지식은 어떤 잠재적 사용자들이 그린기술을 잘 활용하고 있는 그들의 동료들로부터 학습하기 위해서 유용한 매체인 것으로 밝혀졌다.

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