A conceptual model for blockchain adoption intentions: A T-O-E framework perspective

Mustafa Ahmed hadi Almaher, Sivadass A.L. Thiruchelvam, Abdul Aziz Bin Mat Isa

Article ID: 4685
Vol 8, Issue 6, 2024

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Blockchain technology has increasingly attracted the attention of the financial service sector, customers, and investors because of its distinctive characteristics, such as transparency, security, reliability, and traceability. The paper is based on a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). The study comprehended the literature and the theories. It deployed the technology-organization-environment (TOE) model to consider technological, organizational, and environmental factors as antecedents of blockchain adoption intention. The paper contributes to blockchain literature by providing new insights into the factors that affect the intention to adopt blockchain technology. A theoretical model incorporates antecedents of blockchain adoption intention to direct an agenda for further investigations. Researchers can use the model proposed in this study to test the antecedents of blockchain adoption intention empirically.


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blockchain; adoption intention; technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework; attitude toward blockchain

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