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International Journal of Managing Information Technology (IJMIT) Vol.3, No.
3, August 2011
THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL

IN EXPLAINING EFFECT ON E-COMMERCE
APPLICATION SYSTEM
Md Gapar Md Johar1 and Janatul Akmar Ahmad Awalluddin2
1
Information Technology and Innovation Center, Management and Science University,
Selangor, Malaysia
[email protected]
2
Graduate School of Management, Management and Science University, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
[email protected]
ABSTRACT
Today e-commerce has become crucial element to transform some of the world countries into an
information society. Business to consumer (B2C) in the developing countries is not yet a normalcy as
compared to the developed countries. Consumer behaviour research has shown disappointing results
regarding the overall use of the Web for online shopping, despite its considerable promise as a channel for
commerce. As the use of the Internet continues to grow in all aspects of daily life, there is an increasing
need to better understand what trends of internet usage and to study the barriers and problem of e-
commerce adoption. Hence, the purpose of this research is to define how far Technology Acceptance Model
(TAM) contributed in e-commerce adoption. Data for this study was collected by the means of a survey
conducted in Malaysia in 2010. A total of 611 questionnaire forms were delivered to respondents. The
location of respondents was within Penang state. By studying this sample, conclusions would be drawn to
generalize the interests of the population.
KEYWORDS
E-commerce, Technology Acceptances Model (TAM), e-commerce application, online shopping, online
banking, online payment & buying online.
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background
Electronic Commerce or e-commerce has received much attention from governments, businesses
and regional organizations or institutions. This importance has been attributed to a few
converging factors. These factors include: first, the development of the use of the Internet as a
means by which information is disseminated and through which communication and connectivity
is enabled. Second, the affordability of personal computers had increased their computing
capability, and the wide use of open standards in the computer software applications [6]. Third, is
supportive legal policy where government and regulatory bodies are collaborating on a wider
platform to ensure e-commerce law, policy and regulations are enforced for consumers’
protection [12]. Lastly, broadband promoting where this year, government had announced
‘Malaysia Broadband Initiative’ to promote high speed broadband service and Malaysians will
enjoy Internet surfing speeds from 5 megabits per second (Mbps) to 20Mbps [4].
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1.2. E-Commerce in Malaysia

Malaysia started accepting E-commerce facilities quite early along with other developed nations.
The country adopted measures to develop computer-mediated environment for its retail business
smoothly. As a result a parallel economy slowly developed side-by-side the standard or
conventional retail. Retailers adopted E-commerce to strengthen their marketing strategies.
The government played an important role in ensuring the sustainability of E-commerce. They
implemented infrastructure support by introducing broadband throughout the country. This year,
the government had announced ‘Malaysia Broadband Initiative’ to promote high speed broadband
service and Malaysians will enjoy Internet surfing speeds from 5 megabits per second (Mbps) to
20Mbps [4]. Besides, the government has allocated RM 1 billion to provide school children from
poor households with Internet-enabled netbook computers, as part of the National Broadband
Initiative. Under the programme, a student would only have to pay RM 38 a month for the
netbook and Internet access. Needy students in rural areas will pay even less RM 20 a month.
High speed broadband services are vital for the nation’s economic growth, competitiveness,
increasing investor confidence, and promoting innovative thinking. Furthermore, the Prime
Minister also stated that RM 60 million would be invested to set up community broadband centres
that would benefit 615,000 households in 246 locations in the country [4]. The second measure
that was adopted was to ensure safe payment modalities.
A survey conducted by Zerogrey Ltd showed the acceptance of E-commerce is quite high in the
country currently. Almost 38% of the respondents indicated their willingness to shop online in the
near future. 20% of them already purchased online at least twice a month. But almost 42%
indicated either their apprehension or lack of interest in using online payment methods. The
responsibility of the government and the retailers now will be to turn this segment of potential
users into online customers. Setting up safer payment methods can be the best approach. It is also
the time to encourage M-commerce in the country [9].Standard A4 (210mm x 297mm) portrait
page set-up should be used. The left, right, top and bottom margins should be 30mm. Do not use
any headers, footers or footnotes. No page numbers. Single column. All main text paragraphs,
including the abstract, must be fully (left and right) justified. All text, including title, authors,
headings, captions and body, will be Times New Roman font.
1.3. E-Commerce in ASEAN

In addition, the ASEAN Telecommunications Ministers (TELMIN) met on 27-28 August 2002
and signed the Manila Declaration resolving to exploit ASEAN’s competitive edge in the
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. Terms of references and work
programmes have been developed for the five Telecommunications Senior Officials Meeting
(TELSOM) working groups on information infrastructure, undertaking capacity building,
universal access and digital divide in ASEAN, intra-ASEAN trade and investment in the
telecommunications and IT sectors, and positive use of the Internet. The e-ASEAN Initiative has
been transferred from the purview of the ASEAN Economic Ministers to the ASEAN
Telecommunications and IT Ministers (TELMIN), except for elements relating to trade and
investment liberalization and e-commerce promotion.
There is an e-ASEAN Working Group (EAWG), which continues to contribute to the
implementation of the e-ASEAN Framework Agreement, covering the intra-ASEAN activities,
cooperation with Dialogue Partners, and streamlining the current and future direction of EAWG
functions. The EAWG has developed a funding mechanism to build sufficient financial resource
with fast track approval process. The e-ASEAN operational mechanism has been restructured to
reposition and enable the EAWG to respond to the need for convergence of information
infrastructure and IT applications.
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In addition, a Common Reference Framework for e-Commerce Legal Infrastructure has been
published to assist the countries without, or with inadequate, e-commerce legislations. An e-
commerce white paper to share available information on each country’s initiatives and
development is under preparation. A Cyber laws seminar was held in order to share best practices
and learn from the experiences of the more developed countries in ASEAN. The e-ASEAN Public
Key Infrastructure Forum has also been established. The studies on cross-border harmonization of
e-transactions and signatures legal frameworks are underway [17].
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1. Perceived Characteristics of the Web
Perceived characteristics of technology have been identified as a key variable to explain potential
users’ adoption intention and usage behaviour. Because different adopters might perceive
attributes of a technology in different ways, their consequent behaviour related to the use of the
technology might be different. Web site layout design and information content also are important
in order to arouse initial consumers’ interest to further explore a site [16]. Research in the e-
commerce domain has shown that website features positively influence consumers’ intention to
engage in online activities [2]. The two major underlying models in the research context of the
adoption of innovation and technology are the diffusion of innovations model and the technology
acceptance model. A major focus in these studies has been how potential users’ perceptions of the
technology influence its adoption.
Using the diffusion of innovations model of Rogers, the work of Tornatzky and Klein, and other
existing instruments based on Rogers’ taxonomy, proposed an instrument to measure various
perceptions of information technology adoption [14]. Another widely tested model in the context
of information technology adoption is the technology acceptance model (TAM), which is based
on the theory of reasoned action [13]. Significant empirical research has used TAM to predict
user acceptance of information technology and to examine consumers’ behaviour on the Web. It
involves two constructs that model the adoption of IT. First, perceived usefulness is the degree to
which an individual believes that using a particular system would enhance one’s job performance.
Second, perceived ease of use is the degree to which an individual believes that using a particular
system would be free of physical and mental effort. A major focus in these studies has been on
how potential users’ perceptions of the technology influence its adoption.
2.2. Problem and barrier of e-commerce in Malaysia

Malaysian consumers are increasingly venturing online. Increasing urbanization and changing
lifestyles of the urban Malaysians have contributed to this phenomenon. Malaysia is expected to
lead growth in Internet in Asia [10].
Internet has created enormous change in the business environment. Systems are devised to
facilitate Business-to-Business (B2B), Business-to-Customer (B2C), Business-to-Government
(B2G), and Government-to-Citizen (G2C) and so on. Private communication networks and the
internet are being increasingly used by organisations to establish corporate alliances with
suppliers, business partners and customers.
Even though e-commerce is spreading worldwide, many customers are still reluctant to deal with
it because of the security and privacy concerns [1]. While the internet helps make our lives richer
and more convenient, it also provides a gateway to access our personal information. Many
consumers feel that their personal information may be disclosed to others without their
knowledge. Furthermore, viruses, hackers, crackers and worms have become the stuff of
headlines with results that range from mere headache to a complete disaster. It is generally
recognised that security measures are extremely important for e-commerce and all e businesses
running on the internet.
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As mentioned earlier, consumers’ adoption of e-commerce is growing at a lower pace than
expected. For example, the Small- and Medium-Sized Industries Association of Malaysia
reported that in late 2005 less than 5% of its members were involved in B2C business.
Furthermore, according to mid-2005 survey conducted by the Malaysian Communications
Multimedia Commission (MCMC), only 9.3% of internet users had purchased products or
services through the internet during the preceding three months [1].
The primary reasons cited for this are: lack of security and privacy of consumers’ personal data
including credit card number, identity theft, virus, break-in attacks, denial-of-service, etc. An
identity thief steals key pieces of personal information and uses it to impersonate someone and
commits crimes in his/her name and it is regarded as the fastest growing internet crime today. The
ability to know the identity of the person or the business enterprise with whom doing business is
important. Thus, authentication services are fundamental to achieving secured e-commerce. There
are 17 currently available authentication mechanisms in e-commerce using six criteria, namely,
robustness, acceptance, and cost, ease of use, portability, security and there are needs for user-
centric global identity management in e- commerce.
In the earlier days of the internet, people were obsessed with the notion that hackers could capture
credit card numbers while these are transmitted through the internet. As a result, merchants paid
more attention on protecting credit card data by ensuring that it was not transmitted in its original
form, by encrypting it so that it could travel securely over the internet. However, in reality, most
security breaches occur after the transaction is completed. It means when a customer’s credit card
number is kept unprotected in merchant’s computer, the possibility of misuse is more. In this
way, a hacker can net a file of several thousand credit card numbers. Therefore, protecting
merchant’s website is more important than securing the transactions through website at the time
of the transaction.
3. METHODOLOGY
3.1. Variables
The two types of variables available in this research were dependent variables and independent
variables. It was crucial to identify these two types of variables in order to develop a solid
conceptual framework. The dependent variables were the variables of primary interest for the
research. The goal of this research was to understand and describe the dependant variables, or to
explain its variability, or predict it. In the case of this research, the primary dependant variable
would be consumers’ intention to use the e-commerce system.
Independent variables significantly influenced the dependant variables in either positive or
negative ways. The variances in the dependent variables were accounted for by the independent
variables. The independent variables involved in this research were perceived usefulness,
perceived ease of use and perceived enjoyment and consumer trait. These four independent
variables would be tested to identify whether or not these variables possess influence on the
dependent variable.
3.2. Conceptual Framework

The conceptual framework was the foundation on which the entire research project was based. It
was logically developed, described and elaborated network of associations among the variables
deemed relevant to the research [15].
The objectives of this study are to find the factors that influencing and contributing to the
customers’ intention to use e-commerce system. For developing an in-depth understanding of
consumers’ attitudes toward online shopping and their intentions to shop on the Internet, the
researcher built up a framework, based on previous research on consumer adoption of new
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technologies and services. As noted earlier, in this framework e-commerce is defined as the use of
online stores by consumers up until the transactional stage of purchasing and logistics.
The core constructs of this framework are adapted from the Technology Acceptance Model
(TAM), an influential research model in the information systems field. Although this model is
specifically tailored to understand the adoption of computer-based technologies on the job or in
the workplace, it has proven to be suitable as a theoretical foundation for the adoption of e-
commerce as well. Therefore, the TAM constructs are used as a basis for this research
framework.
The schematic diagram in figure 1 clearly explained the relationships among the variables. Once
these relationships were identified the hypotheses can be postulated easily and the dynamics of
the situation was clearly comprehensible. The model consists of four factors that were positioned
to have an effect adoption of e-commerce.
Consumer Trait
Perceived
Usefulness
Attitudes
towards Intention to
Perceived Use
e-commerce
Ease of Use e-
commerce
Perceived
Enjoyment
Figure 1. The research model
3.3 Research hypotheses
3.3.1 Perceived usefulness

Perceived usefulness is defined here as the degree to which a person believes that using a
particular system would enhance his or her job performance. On the basis of these findings, the
following hypothesis is proposed:
H1 There was a positive relationship between perceived usefulness and consumer intention in
using e-commerce.
3.3.2 Perceived ease of use

Ease of use is defined as the individual’s perception that using the new technology will be free of
hardship and hard effort. Applying this to the research context, ease of use is the consumer’s
perception that shopping on the Internet will involve only minimum effort. By applying these into
e-commerce context we hypothesize:
H2 There was a positive relationship between perceived ease of use and consumer intention
in using e-commerce.
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3.3.3 Perceived enjoyment
Perceived enjoyment refers to the extent to which the activity of using a computer is perceived
enjoyable in its own right. Perceived enjoyment significantly affects intentions to use electronic
system [3].
H3 There was a positive relationship between perceived enjoyment and consumer intention
in using e-commerce.
3.3.4 Consumer trait

Consumer traits that are of interest in understanding why consumers shop on the Internet include
demographic factors and personality characteristics [12].
H4 There was a positive relationship between the age group and consumer intention in using
e-commerce
H5 There was a positive relationship between level of education and consumer intention in
using e-commerce
H6 There was a positive relationship between level of income and consumer intention in
using e-commerce
4. DATA ANALYSIS
4.1. Hypotheses Testing
4.1.1 E-commerce Adoption and Age Group Analysis

The alternative hypothesis H4 is that there was a positive relationship between the age group and
the adoption of e-commerce or the null hypothesis is that there was no association between the
factor of e-commerce adoption and age group.
Table 1 shows, the null hypothesis were rejected establishing the fact that there was an inter-
relationship between the age group and e-commerce adoption. It was shown that the age group
between 51 - 60 (90.0 %) had higher tendency to adopt e-commerce.
Table 1. E-commerce adoption and Age Group Crosstabulation

Age * EC_adoption Crosstabulation
EC_adoption
yes no Total
Age 20-30 Count 272 115 387
Expected Count 296.4 90.6 387.0
% within Age 70.3% 29.7% 100.0%
31-40 Count 115 17 132
% within Age 87.1% 12.9% 100.0%
41-50 Count 27 5 32
% within Age 84.4% 15.6% 100.0%
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51-60 Count 54 6 60
% within Age 90.0% 10.0% 100.0%
Total Count 468 143 611
% within Age 76.6% 23.4% 100.0%
Table 2 shows, the chi-square value is 23.851 and the degree of freedom is 3. The p-value of the
test is less than 0.001. The minimum expected count is 7.49, which is more than 1. Thus, it can be
concluded that e-commerce adoption depends on age.
Table 2. E-commerce adoption and Age Group Chi-Square Tests

Chi-Square Tests
Asymp. Sig. (2-
Value df sided)
Pearson Chi-Square 23.851a 3 .000
Likelihood Ratio 25.835 3 .000
Linear-by-Linear 18.110 1 .000
Association
N of Valid Cases 611
a. 0 cells (.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum
expected count is 7.49.
4.1.2. E-commerce Adoption and Education Level Analysis

The alternative hypothesis H5 is that there was a positive relationship between the education level
and the adoption of e-commerce or the null hypothesis is that there was no association between
the factor of e-commerce adoption and education level.
A table 3 show, the null hypothesis was rejected establishing the fact that there was an inter-
relationship between the education level and e-commerce adoption. Even though the numbers of
PHD’s respondents were very low compared to others, but in this case, it is acceptable since the
amount of expected count is more than 1. Therefore, in this case, it is unnecessary to merge PHD
holders with master holders because it has already fulfilled the expected count requirement.
Lastly, this analysis showed that those who adopted e-commerce are those with higher education
level.
Table 3. E-commerce Adoption and Education Level Crosstabulation

Education * EC_adoption Crosstabulation
EC_adoption
yes no Total
Education phd Count 7 0 7
% within Education 100.0% .0% 100.0%
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master Count 187 8 195

% within Education 95.9% 4.1% 100.0%
bachelor Count 184 22 206
diploma Count 90 113 203
concluded that e-commerce adoption depends on education.
Table 4. E-commerce adoption and Education Level Chi-Square Tests
Chi-Square Tests
Asymp. Sig. (2-
Value df sided)
Association
a. 1 cells (12.5%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum
4.1.3 E-commerce Adoption and Annual Income Level Analysis

The alternative hypothesis H6 is that there was a positive relationship between the annual income
level and the adoption of e-commerce or the null hypothesis is that there was no association
between the factor of e-commerce adoption and annual income level.
Table 5 shows, the null hypothesis were rejected establishing the fact that there was an inter-
relationship between the annual income level and e-commerce adoption. It was shown that those
earning higher wages had higher tendency to adopt e-commerce.
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Table 5. E-commerce Adoption and Annual Income Level Crosstabulation
Income * EC_adoption Crosstabulation
EC_adoption
yes no Total
Income below RM 20,000 Count 84 108 192
% within Income 43.8% 56.3% 100.0%
RM 20,001 - RM 30,000 Count 102 17 119
% within Income 85.7% 14.3% 100.0%
RM 30,001 - RM 40,000 Count 102 11 113
% within Income 90.3% 9.7% 100.0%
RM 40,001 - RM 50,000 Count 44 3 47
% within Income 93.6% 6.4% 100.0%
RM 50,001 - RM 60,000 Count 27 2 29
% within Income 93.1% 6.9% 100.0%
above RM 60,000 Count 109 2 111
% within Income 98.2% 1.8% 100.0%
% within Income 76.6% 23.4% 100.0%
concluded that e-commerce adoption depends on income.
Table 6. E-commerce adoption and Annual Income Level Chi-Square Tests
Chi-Square Tests
Asymp. Sig. (2-
Value df sided)
Association
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Chi-Square Tests
Asymp. Sig. (2-
Value df sided)
Association
a. 0 cells (.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum
4.2. Multiple Regressions
4.2.1. Factor Analysis

Table 7 shows the factors analysis for variables perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and
perceived enjoyment.
Table 7: The Factor Analysis

Factors
Variables Perceived Perceived Perceived
Usefulness Ease of Use Enjoyment
E-commerce enables me to save more 0.862
time
E-commerce is convenient 0.862
E-commerce enables me to purchase 0.862
any item more quickly
E-commerce would improved my 0.862

performance in making online shopping
Learning to use e-commerce is easy 0.899

E-commerce is easy to use 0.899
E-commerce provides understandable 0.891
interface
It is easy to become skilful at using the 0.891
e-commerce system
E-commerce is flexible 0.849
Fun 0.874
Pleasant 0.867
Positive 0.865
Exciting 0.874
Wise 0.87
ENTER method regression analyses were conducted to ascertain the best set of consumer
acceptance on e-commerce. To identify the predictors of consumer acceptance, 3- predictors
multiple linear regression models was proposed. The 3-predictors variables were perceived
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usefulness (X1), perceived ease of use (X2) and perceived enjoyment (X3). The equation of the
proposed multiple linear regression models was as follows (Equation 1):
Y1 = bo + b1X1 + b2X2 + b3X3 + e (Equation 1)
Where:
Y1 : Consumer acceptance on e-commerce
bo : Intercept
b1-3 : Slopes (estimates of coefficients)
X1 : Perceived usefulness
X2 : Perceived ease of use
X3 : Perceived enjoyment
e : Random error
As depicted in table 8, the estimate of the augmented model (Equation 2) coefficients for bo was
0.755, b1 was 0.309, b2 was 0.272 and b3 was 0.257. Therefore, the final estimated model was
shown in Equation 2.
Table 8. Estimates of Coefficients for Consumer Acceptance (Y1) Model
Coefficientsa
Unstandardized Standardized
Coefficients Coefficients
Std.
Model B Error Beta t Sig.
1 (Constant) .755 .135 5.596 .000
Perceived_Usefulness .309 .047 .275 6.609 .000
Perceived_Ease_of_Use .272 .053 .274 5.117 .000
Perceived_Enjoyment .257 .040 .287 6.470 .000
a. Dependent Variable: Intention_to_Use
Y1 = 0.755 + 0.309X1 + 0.272X2 + 0.257X3 + e (Equation 2)

Where:
Y1 : Consumer acceptance on e-commerce
X1 : Perceived Usefulness
X2 : Perceived Ease of Use
X3 : Perceived Enjoyment
e : Random error
Based on explanatory variables and their coefficients all variables which perceived usefulness (t =
6.609, p < 0.01), perceived ease of use (t = 5.117, p < 0.01) and perceived enjoyment (t = 6.470, p
< 0.01) are statistically significant. The overall model was statistically significant (R2 = 0.577, p
< 0.01). The results of the regression analysis were presented in table 9. The R-squared value of
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0.577 implied that the 3-predictor variables explained about 57.7 % of the variance in consumer
acceptance.
Table 9. Model Summary for Consumer Acceptance (Y1) Model
Model Summaryb
Change Statistics
Std. Error R
R Adjusted of the Square F Sig. F Durbin-
Model R Square R Square Estimate Change Change df1 df2 Change Watson
1 .760a .577 .575 .41360 .577 276.023 3 607 .000 .832
a. Predictors: (Constant), Perceived_Enjoyment, Perceived_Usefulness, Perceived_Ease_of_Use
b. Dependent Variable: Intention_to_Use
5. CONCLUSION
5.1. Introduction
The primary objective of this study was to find the factors that influencing and contributing to the
customers’ intention to use e-commerce. TAM has proven to be a useful theoretical model in
helping to understand and explain use behaviour in IS implementation. It has been tested in many
empirical researches and the tools used with the model have proven to be of quality and to yield
statistically reliable results [8].
The present study was the first attempt to examine TAM in relation to virtual model technology
offered by an online apparel retailer [7]. The findings of the present study indicate that TAM
offers valuable constructs (perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and perceived enjoyment)
to explain the effect of e-commerce adoption.
The framework that was proposed in this article offers a potentially useful starting point for the
development of improved insight into this aspect of e-commerce adoption issues. In this research,
emphasize factors that contributed to the e-commerce acceptances and demographics segments
that will contributed to the e-commerce acceptances as well.
5.2. Recommendation
Strategic efforts of retaining online customers were determined by the user’s level of
sophistication. These efforts were undermined by the competitive forces within the e-commerce
environment where there was a reduction in consumers’ search cost, lower barriers to entry, and
reduced distinctiveness of firms. Effective retention of online users let the web site grow leading
to monetary benefits for businesses due to loyal customers would likely to do further purchases
and have positive words of mouth and were also willing to pay more for the same services.
E-commerce body, agencies and web providers should advertise and publicize their security
innovations, as this would play a role in improving consumer confidence in their service. The
three golden rules for e-commerce body and web providers were communication, campaign and
reliability. If customers were aware of what was on offer, they would soon want to try it.
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5.3. Future Research

The discussed findings and their implications were obtained from one single study that examined
a particular technology and targeted a specific user in Malaysia. Thus, this study needs to exercise
caution when generalizing the findings and discussion to other technologies or groups.
These limitations pave the way to future studies. First, future research can use different
methodologies, such as longitudinal studies, focus groups and interviews to examine the
relationship between trends, barriers and customer purchase behaviour in online application
contexts.
Second, the growth of the internet and online application system will continue, and future
research can replicate similar studies solely involving e-commerce, measuring actual purchase
behaviours instead of intentions.
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Authors
Prof. Dr. Md Gapar Md Johar, PhD, MSc, BSc

(Hons) is a certified e-commerce consultant; he
has over 30 years working experience in
software and application development and has
developed many applications such as Housing
Loan Accounting System, Commercial Vehicle
Licensing System, Human Resource
Management System, Learning Content
Management System, Campus Management
System, Student Relationship Management
System and Hospital Information System. His
research interests include object-oriented
analysis and design, software engineering, Java
programming, digital image analysis, Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) and knowledge
management. Currently he is involved in
research and development of Jawi Word
Processor and Converter in open system
environment, RFID application, image
processing and character recognition, computer
forensic and security, e-learning and digital
content design.
Janatul Akmar Ahmad Awalluddin is a post-

graduate student at Management & Science
University and currently she is a part-time
lecturer for UITM, Penang, Malaysia.
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International Journal of Managing Information Technology (IJMIT) Vol.3, No.

THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL

1.2. E-Commerce in Malaysia

1.3. E-Commerce in ASEAN

2.2. Problem and barrier of e-commerce in Malaysia

3.2. Conceptual Framework

Figure 1. The research model

3.3 Research hypotheses

3.3.1 Perceived usefulness

3.3.2 Perceived ease of use

3.3.4 Consumer trait

4.1.1 E-commerce Adoption and Age Group Analysis

Table 1. E-commerce adoption and Age Group Crosstabulation

Table 2. E-commerce adoption and Age Group Chi-Square Tests

4.1.2. E-commerce Adoption and Education Level Analysis

Table 3. E-commerce Adoption and Education Level Crosstabulation

master Count 187 8 195

4.1.3 E-commerce Adoption and Annual Income Level Analysis

4.2. Multiple Regressions

4.2.1. Factor Analysis

Table 7: The Factor Analysis

E-commerce would improved my 0.862

Learning to use e-commerce is easy 0.899

Table 8. Estimates of Coefficients for Consumer Acceptance (Y1) Model

Y1 = 0.755 + 0.309X1 + 0.272X2 + 0.257X3 + e (Equation 2)

5.3. Future Research

Prof. Dr. Md Gapar Md Johar, PhD, MSc, BSc

Janatul Akmar Ahmad Awalluddin is a post-

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