DEMATEL method of analysing the factors influencing the decision to adopt virtual reality technology by real estate firms in Lagos property market
Smart and Sustainable Built Environment
ISSN: 2046-6099
Article publication date: 28 May 2021
Issue publication date: 1 December 2022
Abstract
Purpose
The study analysed the factors influencing real estate firms' (REFs) decision to adopt virtual reality (VR) technology using the Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method. This was done to enhance the practice of real estate agency in Nigeria.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were elicited from eight real estate experts. These experts were heads of the agency department of firms that had been in existence for a minimum of five years in the Lagos property market. The data analysed in this study were collected with the aid of a questionnaire.
Findings
The result revealed that use intention was influenced by performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, price value and UB. Also, facilitating conditions, habit and use intention did not influence use behaviour. Overall, six constructs, which include price value (Ri − Cj value = 0.1284), use behaviour (Ri − Cj value = 0.0666), social influence (Ri − Cj value = 0.0583), facilitating conditions (Ri − Cj value = 0.0323), performance expectancy (Ri − Cj value = 0.0196) and effort expectancy (Ri − Cj value = 0.0116), were significant predictors of the factors influencing the decision of REFs to adopt VR. Of these constructs, the Ri − Cj values indicated that price value had the highest causative influence.
Practical implications
The result of this study will bring REFs to the consciousness of the factors that could affect their adoption of VR technology. This study will also assist the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers in appropriately enlightening REFs on the integration of VR technology into the agency practice especially at this time when all health protocols and guidelines need to be observed to help flatten the curve of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Originality/value
This study is the first to have an insight into the analysis of the factors influencing REFs' decision to adopt VR technology using the DEMATEL method.
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Citation
Adegoke, A.S., Oladokun, T.T., Ayodele, T.O., Agbato, S.E. and Jinadu, A.A. (2022), "DEMATEL method of analysing the factors influencing the decision to adopt virtual reality technology by real estate firms in Lagos property market", Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 891-917. https://doi.org/10.1108/SASBE-09-2020-0135
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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