Purpose

This study aims to examine the research pattern and growth trends of published research on a unified theory of acceptance and use of technology 2 (UTAUT2) from 2012 to 2019. The study also examines the research scope of UTAUT2 for future researchers.

Design/methodology/approach

This study has adopted a bibliometric approach followed by a structured literature review analysis to synthesize the research on UTAUT2 since 2012. In total, 163 documents were analyzed for type of studies, theories and frameworks, methodologies, author wise collaboration, organizations that contributed to the body of knowledge in the UTAUT2 research and journals that published studies in this domain. VOSviewer and Tableau were used for the data visualization, whereas TCCM, which means theory (T), context (C), characteristics (C) and methodology (M) framework is used to propose the future research directions.

Findings

The findings reveal research on UTAUT2 is growing. The structured literature analysis of the top 15 cited articles further analyzed the parsimony of new models in detail. In addition, the study highlights the inception by and promoters of UTAUT2 in a separate section. The data for this study was collected by searching the title, abstract and keywords of documents in the Scopus database.

Research limitations/implications

This study is based on research papers, published in the UTAUT2 research area, that have been extracted from the Scopus database by keywords only. Future studies can also perform a meta-analysis of various clusters generated by bibliometric analysis.

Practical implications

This study is useful for practitioners to devise strategies for increasing technology acceptance, adoption and utilization in the times to come.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is one of the very few and early studies, which examined patterns and growth trends of the UTAUT2 studies with the TCCM framework, to suggest scope for future research studies.

中文翻译：

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绘制技术接受和使用统一理论 (UTAUT) 2：使用文献计量可视化的分类研究

目的

本研究旨在考察 2012 年至 2019 年关于技术接受和使用统一理论 2 (UTAUT2) 的已发表研究的研究模式和增长趋势。该研究还为未来的研究人员考察了 UTAUT2 的研究范围。

设计/方法/方法

本研究采用文献计量方法，然后进行结构化文献回顾分析，以综合自 2012 年以来对 UTAUT2 的研究。总共分析了 163 份文件的研究类型、理论和框架、方法、作者明智的合作、对 UTAUT2 做出贡献的组织UTAUT2 研究和发表该领域研究的期刊中的知识体系。VOSviewer和Tableau用于数据可视化，而TCCM，即理论（T），上下文（C），特征（C）和方法（M）框架用于提出未来的研究方向。

发现

研究结果表明，对 UTAUT2 的研究正在增长。前 15 篇被引文章的结构化文献分析进一步详细分析了新模型的简约性。此外，该研究在单独的部分中强调了 UTAUT2 的发起和推动者。本研究的数据是通过在 Scopus 数据库中搜索文档的标题、摘要和关键词来收集的。

研究限制/影响

本研究基于在 UTAUT2 研究领域发表的研究论文，这些论文仅按关键字从 Scopus 数据库中提取。未来的研究还可以对文献计量分析产生的各种集群进行荟萃分析。

实际影响

这项研究有助于从业者制定战略，在未来提高技术接受度、采用率和利用率。

原创性/价值

据作者所知，这项研究是为数不多的早期研究之一，它使用 TCCM 框架检查了 UTAUT2 研究的模式和增长趋势，以提出未来研究的范围。