A model for examining the factors impacting the near field communication technology adoption in the organizations

Abstract

Purpose

Organizations are social entities comprising multiple people that are goal-directed and have coordinated activities that are also linked to the external environment. As information technology improves, the organizational performance is also improved and it results in positive changes and development in the organizations. Near field communication (NFC) is one of such technologies that can be implemented and utilized in an organization. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the important variables impacting the adoption of NFC in organizations and propose an applicable model for it.

Design/methodology/approach

In this paper, to have a successful NFC implementation in organizations and analyze main factors impacting the NFC technology adoption in organizations, a technology acceptance model-based approach is used.

Findings

The findings show that the main variables impacting NFC adoption are ease of use, potential risk, usefulness and cost. The obtained results indicate that the model has adequate and sufficient reliability, convergent validity and discriminant validity.

Originality/value

In this paper, the factors impacting the NFC adoption in organizations are pointed out, and the proposed model is tested on samples gathered from Azerbaijan railway employees and for statistical analysis of questionnaires, the SMART-PLS 2.0 software package is used.

Citation

Museli, A. and Jafari Navimipour, N. (2018), "A model for examining the factors impacting the near field communication technology adoption in the organizations", Kybernetes, Vol. 47 No. 7, pp. 1378-1400. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-07-2017-0246