Handbook of Management Scales/Faithfulness of appropriation

Faithfulness of appropriation (alpha = 0.91)

Items

• The developers of the EMS would disagree with how our group used the system.
• Our group probably used the EMS improperly.
• The original developers of the EMS would view our group's use of the system as inappropriate.
• Our group failed to use the EMS as it should have been used.
• We did not use the EMS in the most appropriate fashion.

The items were measured on seven-point Likert scales anchored by the following: extremely likely: quite likely; slightly likely; neither, slightly unlikely; quite unlikely; extremely unlikely.

Source

• Salisbury et al. (2002): Research Report: Better Theory Through Measurement - Developing a Scale to Capture Consensus on Appropriation. Information Systems Research, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 91-103. Previously used by Chin et al. (1997).

Related Scales

• Consensus on appropriation
• Ease of use
• Usefulness