Staff Profile

Davit Marikyan holds a Ph.D. in Management from Newcastle University Business School (UK). He attained a Master's degree in Marketing and Strategy from the University of Warwick, Warwick Business School (UK), and a Bachelor's degree in Business Management and Marketing from Westminster University (UK). Research interests embrace the impact of e-business technologies on organisations and individuals. More specifically, his research revolves around user behaviour in the context of innovative technology utilisation. In his research, Davit explores the psychological and cognitive underpinnings of technology acceptance and adoption in public and private settings. Currently, Davit is working on projects that aim to investigate individuals’ consumption through the lenses of nostalgic experiences. The research works that Davit has undertaken have appeared in several academic journals and have been presented at international conferences.

Research Interests

• User behaviour / Computer-human interaction / Consumer behaviour
• Information Systems Management
• Adoption, Acceptance and Diffusion of Technologies
• E-Marketing / E-retailing
• Marketing innovation
• Artificial Intelligence / IoT & Smart Technologies / Metaverse

• Articles

  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Rana OF, Ranjan R. Working in a smart home environment: examining the impact on productivity, well-being and future use intention. Internet Research 2023, 34(2), 447-473.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Stewart G. Technology acceptance research: Meta-analysis. Journal of Information Science 2023, Epub ahead of print.
  • Papagiannidis S, Marikyan D. Environmental Sustainability: A technology acceptance perspective. International Journal of Information Management 2022, 63, 102445.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Rana O, Ranjan R. Blockchain: A Business Model Innovation Analysis. Digital Business 2022, 2(2), 100033.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Rana O, Ranjan R. Blockchain Adoption: A Study of Cognitive Factors Underpinning Decision Making. Computers in Human Behavior 2022, 131, 107207.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Rana O, Ranjan R, Morgan G. "Alexa, Let’s Talk About my Productivity": The Impact of Digital Assistants on Work Productivity. Journal of Business Research 2022, 142, 572-584.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Alamanos E. "Smart Home Sweet Smart Home" - An Examination of Smart Home Acceptance. International Journal of E-Business Research 2021, 17(2), 1-23.
  • Papagiannidis S, Marikyan D. Smart Offices: A productivity and well-being perspective. International Journal of Information Management 2020, 51, 102027.
  • Aujla GS, Barati M, Rana O, Dustdar S, Noor A, Llanos JT, Carr M, Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Ranjan R. COM-PACE: Compliance-Aware Cloud Application Engineering Using Blockchain. IEEE Internet Computing 2020, 24(5), 45-53.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Alamanos E. Cognitive Dissonance in Technology Adoption: A Study of Smart Home Users. Information Systems Frontiers 2020, epub ahead of print.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Alamanos E. A Systematic Review of the Smart Home Literature: A user perspective. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2018, 138, 139-154.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Chari S, Papagiannidis S, Marikyan D, Davlembayeva D. Exploring the antecedents of game-evoked nostalgia. In: 38th British Academy of Management Conference (BAM2024). 2024, Nottingham, UK: British Academy of Management.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Rana O, Ranjan R. Blockchain adoption: Exploring innovation factors. In: UK Academy of Information Systems Conference (UKAIS). 2022, Virtual.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Ranjan R, Rana O. Working in a Smart Home-office: Exploring the Impacts on Productivity and Wellbeing. In: 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST). 2021, Valletta, Malta.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Alamanos E. The Use of Smart Home Technologies: Cognitive Dissonance Perspective. In: British Academy of Management Conference. 2021, Lancaster, UK: British Academy of Management.
  • Marikyan D, Llanos J, Barati M, Aujla G, Li Y, Adu-Duodu K, Tahir S, Rana O, Papagiannidis S, Ranjan R, Carr M. Privacy & Cloud Services: Are We There Yet?. In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE). 2021, Oxford, UK: IEEE.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Ranjan R, Rana O. General Data Protection Regulation: An Individual’s Perspective. In: 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, 1st Blockchain for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems. 2021, Leicester, UK: ACM.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Rana OF, Ranjan R. Blockchain in a Business Model: Exploring Benefits and Risks. In: 20th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society I3E2021. 2021, Galway, Ireland: Springer.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Ranjan R, Rana O. An Application of Voice-based Digital Assistants in the Work Context. In: 5th International Conference of Marketing, Strategy & Policy 2021. 2021, Newcastle upon Tyne: MSP Research Center.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Alamanos E. When Technology Does Not Meet Expectations: A Cognitive Dissonance Perspective. In: 25th UK Academy for Information Systems International Conference (UKAIA 2020). 2020, Oxford, UK.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S. Systematic Literature Review on Technology Adoption: Meta-Analysis Approach. 2020.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Alamanos E. The Effect of Behavioural Beliefs on Smart Home Technology Adoption. In: 24th UK Academy for Information Systems International Conference. 2019, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford: UKAIS.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Alamanos E. Smart Home Sweet Smart Home: An Examination of Smart Home Acceptance. In: 18th IFIP Conference on on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society (I3E 2019). 2019, Trondheim, Norway.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Alamanos E. Do Smart Homes Deliver The Promised Benefits?. In: British Academy of Management Conference (BAM2019). 2019, Birmingham, UK: British Academy of Management.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Alamanos E. Dissatisfaction with Smart Home Technologies. In: 19th International Conference on Electronic Business (ICEB 2019). 2019, Newcastle upon Tyne: Association of Information Systems.
  • Marikyan D, Papagiannidis S, Alamanos E. Smart Homes Acceptance: An empirical study. In: British Academy of Management 2018 Conference. 2018, Bristol, UK: British Academy of Management.