Cultural Factors Affecting ICT Acceptance Case Study: Industries Located in Science and Technology Park, Tehran

Abstract Application of new technologies is considered as a key factor for the development of companies in recent years. This puts emphasis on the importance of reviewing factors influencing the acceptance of information technology culture. This study has been done aiming to identify factors influencing the information technology acceptance in companies located in the Tehran science and technology park. 80 companies from industries based in science and technology parks in Tehran were selected of these, 72 questionnaires have been evaluated and Cronbach's alpha was used to measure the reliability and validity of measurement tools. The reliability coefficient of the questionnaire is 0.86, which indicates high reliability of the applied questionnaire and content validity was confirmed by instructors. The research data is analyzed by SPSS which uses the correlation analysis along with significance levels and in the following, t and f tests have been used to study the research additional hypotheses. The results of this study showed that the usefulness and ease of use and subjective norms affect the

cultural factors, Information Technology, technology acceptance, TAM , UTA International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security