Predicting Big Data Adoption in Companies With an Explanatory and Predictive Model Villarejo Ramos, Ángel F. Cabrera Sánchez, Juan Pedro Lara Rubio, Juan Liébana Cabanillas, Francisco José Big Data Adoption Intention to use Neural networks Predictive model The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that affect the intention to use Big Data Applications in companies. Research into Big Data usage intention and adoption is scarce and much less from the perspective of the use of these techniques in companies. That is why this research focuses on analyzing the adoption of Big Data Applications by companies. Further to a review of the literature, it is proposed to use a UTAUT model as a starting model with the update and incorporation of other variables such as resistance to use and perceived risk, and then to perform a neural network to predict this adoption. With respect to this non-parametric technique, we found that the multilayer perceptron model (MLP) for the use of Big Data Applications in companies obtains higher AUC values, and a better confusion matrix. This paper is a pioneering study using this hybrid methodology on the intention to use Big Data Applications. The result of this research has important implications for the theory and practice of adopting Big Data Applications. 2021-05-26T10:18:18Z 2021-05-26T10:18:18Z 2021-04-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Villarejo-Ramos ÁF, Cabrera-Sánchez J-P, Lara-Rubio J and Liébana-Cabanillas F (2021) Predicting Big Data Adoption in Companies With an Explanatory and Predictive Model. Front. Psychol. 12:651398. doi: [10.3389/fpsyg.2021.651398] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/68745 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.651398 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España Frontiers Research Foundation