| Summary: | This paper aims to investigate the basis of the influence of Internet of Things (IoT) usage on the grassroots innovators' sustainability in Malaysia. The study provides the basis for a framework for futher study on the issue. The result provides that the determinants of IoT usage is important to ensure the sustainability of grassroots innovators. The IoT usage can be used elsewhere in many organisations in improving skills and services. The study is an attempt to construct a new framework using The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)-perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of us (PEOU), Unified Theory of Acceptance (UTAUT)-performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions) and Use of Technology and Diffusion Innovation Theory (DOI)-relative advantages, complexity, observability, compatibility. Efficacy expectation is used to measure the usage behaviour. The novelty of this study results from an operational experiment converted into academic research and it is the first study in Malaysia of this kind. © 2019 Primrose Hall Publishing Group.
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