The Perceptions of Prospective Digital
Transformation Adopters: An Extended
Diffusion of Innovations Theory
Authors: Pham Thi Huong , Nguyen Lam Duc
TEM Journal
: Volume 12, Issue 1 : 459‐469
Publishing year: 2/2023
This study investigated the effects of
factors that influence users' perceptions to adopt
digital transformation. Eight hypotheses were
proposed and tested employing the Structural
Equation Modeling. 248 government personnel,
instructors, and students were recruited to answer the
questionnaires through Google Form. The
experimental results indicated that facilitating
conditions, policy, social influence, and knowledge all
had a positive and significant impact on digital
transformation adoption. Meanwhile, policy was found to have a positive effect on social influence. In turn, social influence positively affected knowledge. In addition, awareness was verified to be a reliable predictor of knowledge. The notable exception was that the awareness factor was shown to have no effect on digital transformation adoption. Thus, traditional reaching to citizens via television, news, broadcast
needed to re-examined. Overall, the model accounts for
52.5 percentage of the variation in the data. Four
recommendations were proposed for practitioners, and
limitations were roughly discussed. Future study is
needed to re-examine the unexpected effect of
awareness on digital transformation adoption.
digital transformation, awareness, technology, research-based, factor analysis