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The degree to which an individual believes that organizational and technical resources exist to support use of a system. Venkatesh and Bala's 2008 Technology Acceptance Model 3 carried this construct forward from Venkatesh's 2000 determinants study, where it sits as one of the anchors of perceived ease of use, the general beliefs a user holds before gaining hands-on experience with a specific system. External control is the resource facet of that anchor set, paired with computer self-efficacy as the internal facet: the two together decompose the older idea of perceived behavioural control into a belief about oneself and a belief about the environment. In this position external control predicts ease of use rather than use, and its effect is expected to weaken as direct experience with the system accumulates.[1][2]
Ajzen's perceived behavioural control was defined as the perceived ease or difficulty of performing a behaviour, and Ajzen's 2002 Perceived Behavioral Control, Self-Efficacy, Locus of Control, and the Theory of Planned Behavior clarified that it comprises two separable components: an internal one, close to Bandura's self-efficacy, about whether the person can carry out the behaviour, and an external one about resources, opportunities, and the cooperation of others. Perceptions of external control descend from that external component. Applied to technology, the external half asks whether the tools, help, and infrastructure are in place, which is the same question the acceptance literature would later ask under other names. The site treats the whole construct at perceived behavioral control; here only its external facet is in view.[3]
Venkatesh, Morris, Davis, and Davis's 2003 facilitating conditions is defined as the degree to which an individual believes that an organizational and technical infrastructure exists to support use of the system, wording that differs from perceptions of external control by barely a phrase. The two share their items, their referent, and their author: the scale that anchored ease of use in 2000 was given a direct path to use in 2003 under the facilitating-conditions label. What UTAUT added was the pooling, folding perceived behavioural control, the PC-utilization model's facilitating conditions, and compatibility into one measure. The site treats that pooled construct in full at facilitating conditions; here it stands as the near-twin of external control, the same resource perception under the name the unified model made standard.[4]
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