FactorsAffecting The Staff In HigherEducation Institutions At The Level Of The Electronic Environment In Developing Countries: A Case Study Of Iraq

AbstractThe objective of the E-Environment is to help countries, jurisdictions, communities andorganizations, particularly those in the developing world. Nowadays, there are manyapplications usage in every day’s life such as electronic banking, electronic learning andelectronic government, etc. Electronic government is the application of computers,or/and electronic appliances in the governing activities and operations of a government;whereby both the government and the public interact transact electronically. Variableslike social factors, Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy and Users Behaviour bedetermined majorly before the adoption of EG as a technological package. With thetheoretical perspectives of the Unified Theory of Use of Technology (UTAUT) thisstudy is aimed at investigating the related variables that could mitigate the adoption ofEG in Iraq. Scores of studies have employed UTAUT to achieve similar objective, butnone has implemented UTAUT to the adoption of EG among electronic environment inhigher education institutes in Iraq. This study tests the usage behaviour of EG in Iraq,with that, data gathered from higher education institutes in Iraq.