The Effects of Website Quality on Adoption of E-Government Service: An Empirical Study Applying UTAUT Model Using SEM
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Drew, Steve
Alhussain, Thamer
Alghamdi, Rayed
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In today's global age, e government services have become the main channel for online communication between the government and its citizens. They aim to provide citizens with more accessible, accurate, real-time and high quality services. Therefore, the quality of government websites which provide e services is an essential factor in the successful adoption of e government services by the public. This paper reports on a an investigation of the effect of the Website Quality (WQ) factor on the acceptance of using e-government services (G2C) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) by adopting the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) Model. Survey Data collected from 400 respondents were examined using the structural equation modelling (SEM) technique and utilising AMOS tools. This study found that the factors that significantly influenced the Use Behavior of e-government services in KSA (USE) include Performance Expectancy (PE), Effort expectancy (EE), Facilitating Conditions (FC) and Website Quality (WQ), while the construct known Social Influence (SI) did not. Moreover, the results confirm the importance of quality government websites and support systems as one of the main significant influencing factors of e government services adoption. The results of this study can be helpful to Saudi's governmental sectors to adjust their corporate strategies and plans towards successful adoption and diffusion of e-government services (G2C) in KSA.
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Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference On Information Systems (ACIS 2012)
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© 2012 Australasian Association for Information Systems. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the conference's website for access to the definitive, published version.
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Information Systems Theory