The tremendous development of technologies over recent decades has offered many e-learning systems to faculty educators to support teaching. The advantage of using such systems in connection with onsite courses is that it increases flexibility in teaching/learning by making resources available online. However, there is little empirical evidence to suggest which factors shape educators’ continua...

The expectation–confirmation model (ECM) of continued information systems (IS) use has proven to be successful across online service contexts. Previous studies based on ECM have focused on a referent (i.e., comparison standard) that is centered on the target IS (i.e., target online service). The effect of this referent, captured through confirmation, has been strongly demonstrated. Yet, few stu...

The growth of social networking sites (SNSs) introduces a variety of interesting behaviors by users of these online informing environments. SNSs have become important informing channels for both personal and commercial interests, but paradoxically some experience enormous growth even when unfavorable consequences are continually reported, while others decline. This research investigates new fac...

The emergence of mobile application software (App) has explosively grown in conjunction with the worldwide use of smartphones in recent years. Among numerous categories of mobile Apps, social Apps were one of those with the greatest growth in 2013. Despite abundant research on users’ behavior intention of mobile App usage, few studies have focused on investigating key determinants of users’ con...

The tremendous development of technologies over recent decades has offered many e-learning systems to faculty educators to support teaching. The advantage of using such systems in connection with onsite courses is that it increases flexibility in teaching/learning by making resources available online. However, there is little empirical evidence to suggest which factors shape educators’ continua...

The advent of social networking sites presents further opportunities for criminals to obtain information for use in identity theft, cyber-stalking, and worse activities. Moreover, people lose their jobs or cannot get hired because of the information they share on social networking sites, particularly on Facebook. This paper presents research investigating what kind of information Facebook users...

Every year, individuals and organizations end up adopting (licensing) many competing software products. Yet, over time, much of the adopted software remains unused because users forgo the use of one software product for another adopted alternative. Although much research in the IS field has examined initial IS adoption, less is known about such post-adoption behavior. This article argues that a...

For over a decade, researchers have devoted much effort to construct theoretical models, such as the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Expectation Confirmation Model (ECM) for explaining and predicting user behavior in IS acceptance and continuance. Another model, the Cognitive Model (COG), was proposed for continuance behavior; it combines some of the variables used in both TAM and ECM...

Continued use of strategic information systems is not always a given. This study proposes that users’ trust in the system may influence their satisfaction and continuance intention. While trust has been found to have strategic implications for understanding consumers’ technology usage, relatively little research has examined how trust’s influence operates over time. To gain insight into trust’s...

The tremendous development of technologies over recent decades has offered many e-learning systems to faculty educators to support teaching. The advantage of using such systems in connection with onsite courses is that it increases flexibility in teaching/learning by making resources available online. However, there is little empirical evidence to suggest which factors shape educators’ continua...