This study investigates technology adoption behavior of Saudi Arabian knowledge workers using desktop computers within the context of TAM2, and the unique effects of Saudi culture on IT adoption within the developing, non-Western, country. Following the guidelines of the etic-emic research tradition, which encourages cross-cultural theory and framework testing, the study findings reveal that th...

Understanding the factors that contribute to the success of systems implementation efforts is a central concern in the ®eld of information systems (IS). One key factor to which many implementation problems have been attributed is user resistance to change. Different types of systems tend to be associated with different organizational functions and classes of users, and thus may be resisted for ...

In this paper, we present a variant of Datalog language (we call it Datalog ) able to deal with weights on ground facts and to consequently compute a feedback result for the goal satisfaction. The weights are chosen from a proper c-semiring. In our context, our goal is to use this language as a semantic foundation for languages for expressing trust relationships. As a matter of fact, many of th...

Sharing sensitive information across security domains is an important requirement for knowledge intensive collaborative work, but such sharing may impose risks on security and privacy integrity. Research has increasingly recognized the role of trust in minimizing the risk of information sharing across untrusted or unknown entities. To this extent, trust negotiations[1][3][15][20] have emerged a...

Grounded Theory provides a useful approach for eliciting and justifying subjective characteristics of individuals. A Grounded Theory analysis is carried on individuals who share pictures, with a view to developing a trust management policy model of indiscretion regarding the sharing of photographs.

Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a pervasive organizational phenomenon, it is still unclear if and when people are willing to cooperate with machines. We conducted five empirical studies (total N = 1025 managers). The results show that human managers do not want exclude machines entirely from managerial decisions, but instead prefer partnership in which humans have majority vote...

Purpose – To explore the factors that affect the implementation of Internet technologies and to what extent the size of the company, as an organizational factor, influences that process. Design/methodology/approach – According to the innovation adoption theory, it was found that Internet adoption in firms is a process with different stages where a company is in one of a number of development st...

This study assesses the influence of managerial responses to online customer reviews on product sales. We leverage a natural experiment provided by two online travel agencies. Both agents allow customers to post reviews on hotels, but only one of the travel agents allows hotel management to post managerial responses. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we find that managerial responses h...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, online appointment-scheduling systems have become standard procedure in blood donation practice. This study develops and empirically tests a comprehensive conceptual model of donors' usage intentions system during pandemic. Online survey data are collected from donors (n = 3269) analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) approach. T...