The impact of empowering leadership for KMS adoption

Purpose – While the prior research suggests that leadership has important influences on IT acceptance and use, there has been little empirical investigation that identifies the specific managerial behaviors associated with adoption success. This study attempts to address this issue by exploring the influence of empowering leadership on knowledge management system (KMS) adoption through its effects on task‐technology fit and compatibility.Design/methodology/approach – To test the proposed research model, data were collected through a questionnaire survey sent to IT managers of 500 large companies in Taiwan.Findings – The results show that empowering leadership has an indirect effect on KMS usage. Empowering leadership was positively related to both task‐technology fit and compatibility, which in turn were both positively related to usage of KMS.Research limitations/implications – There are two limitations to this study, requiring further examination and additional research. First, the sample was drawn from...

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