| This study examined the relationship between an individual's cognitive style and his or her propensity to accept a new information technology. Innovativeness was used as the metric for measuring propensity to accept a new information technology.; The setting for this study was The MITRE Corporation, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia. The sample population consisted of 138 users of Plan Workbook, an emerging technology designed by MITRE to aid in staffing actions and decisions. Data were collected using a set of surveys that included the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to determine cognitive style and the Moore-Benbasat instrument to assess individual innovativeness.; The data were examined to determine whether the relationship between individual cognitive style and innovativeness was consistent with indicators suggested by the literature. No relationship was found between cognitive style and innovativeness scores, or between the empirical data and the indicators suggested in the literature. Having eliminated cognitive style as a factor that determines innovativeness, this study provided new direction for future studies to examine other user characteristics that may influence user acceptance. |
