Nowadays, organizations are experiencing revolutionary change due to the advent of Enterprise 2.0 or enterprise usage of social networking tools. Practitioners and researchers are in their early stages experimenting with social media in organizational contexts. The central concern is how the enterprise usage of social media could be converted into the improved organizational performance. Organi...

Despite the fast growing economy, the rapid increasing internet usage and the strong purchasing power in Saudi Arabia, the evolution of E-Commerce remains slow in the country. The growth rate of ECommerce in Saudi Arabia is inconsistent with the growth rate of its economy, mobile usage, social media activity and internet penetration. Previous studies have shown what factors motivate or inhabit ...

Web 2.0 technologies are finding their way into academics: specialized social bookmarking services allow researchers to store and share scientific literature online. By bookmarking and tagging articles, academic prosumers generate new information about resources, i.e. usage statistics and content description of scientific journals. Given the lack of global download statistics, the authors propo...

having a positive approach toward the affairs also involves a comprehensive and systematic one in order to represent suitable solutions coincided with social realities. under the current situations, one of them is called social capital which is refered as missing link . although this term doesn’t have any background in social literature, but its importance and usage in almost any field of socia...

This study proposes and tests a research model which was developed based on the uses-and-gratifications theory. The aim of this study was to investigate if selected factors have differential predicting power on the use of Facebook and Google service in Taiwan. This study employed seven constructs: purposive value, hedonic value, social identity, social support, interpersonal relationship, perso...

Over the past decade, mobile devices such as cellular phones and tablet computers have become an essential part of our lives. Mobile devices outsold personal computers for the first time in 2011 and users spend more time with mobile apps than the Internet. Although mobile apps are growing popularity, a number of questions remain to be addressed concerning the usage of mobile apps: What factors ...

The social group of which an individual is a part will affect how that individual uses information systems (IS). The social group will affect how an information system is interpreted and used. The social group will also place pressures and demands on IS usage. A field study of this idea was conducted. The concept of structural equivalence, operationalized by blockmodeling, was used to measure t...

Social networking sites are used for both personal and professional interactions. Social apps thrive in the environment provided by social networking sites. Companies are focussing on this market space to promote their products and to identify new sources of revenue generation. The objective of our paper is to identify the factors for purchase decision and word of mouth of virtual and digital g...