A Conceptual Model for Examining E-Government Adoption in Jordan

Theories/Models Used To Examine E-Government Research In Developing Countries

Table 1 sets out the list of theories and models that have been utilised either in their partial or complete form to represent e-government research models along with methodologies in context for developing and under-developed countries. In the course of examining the relevant studies that have used existing theories and theoretical constructs, it was found that 46 studies have used 23 existing theories and models upon which to base their e-government research. It was further seen that the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was the most frequently utilised (used in 22 studies), followed by the Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) (in 9 studies), the Unified Theory of Acceptance and the Use of Technology (UTAUT) (in 5 studies), the Extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM2) (in 4 studies), the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) (in 4 studies), the Decomposed Theory of Planned Behaviour (DTPB) (in 3 studies), the DeLone and McLean IS success model (in 3 studies), and the Trust Model (in 2 studies).