A Measurement Model for Investigating Digital Natives and their organisational Behaviour

The notion of digital natives has generated much debate, mostly outside the IS discipline, on the new habits and capabilities these individuals might have developed towards the ICT use and interaction with respect to the previous generations. Literature calls for a deeper investigation of these individuals, and for a stronger understanding of the change in progress. Within the boundaries of a larger project, the purpose of this research-in-progress paper is to contribute to the debate on digital natives within the IS field by providing a measurement model for assessing the behavioural traits of digital natives with regard to technology use. The paper reports on the definition and validation of a measurement model through a card-sorting process. Six latent variables (multitasking, ICT-mediated social relationships, speed in information processing, critical thinking, peer-to-peer collaboration, and learning in action) were identified in literature and the related indicators were created and validated.

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