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Shackled to the Status Quo: The Inhibiting Effects of Incumbent System Habit, Switching Costs, and Inertia on New System Acceptance
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Given that adoption of a new system often implies fully or partly replacing an incumbent system, resistance is often manifested as failure of a user to switch from an incumbent technology to a newly introduced one. Thus, a potential source of resistance to adopting a new system lies in the use of an incumbent system. Using the status quo bias and habit literatures as theoretical lenses, the study explains how use of an incumbent system negatively impacts new system perceptions and usage intentions. We argue that habitual use of an incumbent system, rationalization due to perceived transition costs, and psychological commitment due to perceived sunk costs all encourage development of inertia. Inertia in turn fully mediates the impact of these incumbent system constructs on constructs related to acceptance of the new system via psychological commitment based on cognitive consistency and by increasing the importance of normative pressures. Specifically, we hypothesize that inertia leads to decreased perceptions of the ease of use and relative advantage of a newly introduced system and has a negative impact on intentions to use the new system, above and beyond its impact through perceptions. Finally, we hypothesize that inertia moderates the relationship between subjective norm and intention, such that normative pressures to use a new system become more important in the presence of inertia. Empirical results largely support the hypothesized relationships showing the inhibiting effect of incumbent-system habit, transition and sunk costs, and inertia on acceptance of a new system. Our study thus extends theoretical understanding of the role of incumbent system constructs such as habit and inertia in technology acceptance, and lays the foundations for further study of the interplay between perceptions and cognition with respect to the incumbent system and those with respect to a new system.
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“Compared with the decision to retain a premium subscription, the decision to upgrade represents a departure from the users' status quo”
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“While the intention to retain the premium subscription essentially means continuance of an existing behavior, the intention to upgrade from free to the premium subscription means a departure from the user's status quo (Kim & Kankanhalli, 2009;Polites & Karahanna, 2012).”
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“Moreover, inertia can be divided into two distinct measures: first, cognitive inertia and second, affective inertia (Greenfield 2005; Polites and Karahanna 2012).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Polites, G. L., & Karahanna, E.
- Affiliations
- Bucknell University (US)
- University of Georgia (US)
- Venue
- MIS Quarterly
- Publisher
- MIS Quarterly
- Published
- 2012-03-01
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 21-42
- ISSN
- 0276-7783 (ISSN-L)
- 2162-9730
- OpenAlex
- W4401611614
- Cited by
- 215
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- MIS Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Journal of the Association for Information Systems (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › ERP Systems Implementation and Impact
- Keywords
- technology adoption, status quo bias, habit, inertia, switching costs, sunk costs, resistance to change, technology acceptance, perceived ease of use, relative advantage, intention to use, subjective norms, normative pressure, cognitive consistency, psychological commitment
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