Understanding the factors behind employee’s e-learning continuance intention is becoming imperative as more and more organizations rely on technology to deliver training. While e-learning has the potential to offer cost effective and flexible training methods, practitioners are concerned with low completion rates. Although several reasons have been put forward to explain e-learning attrition, n...

The increasing importance of service systems in the global economy prompts researchers to focus on quality to measure the critical interaction between human behavior, IT and society. Building on service-dominant logic and sociomaterialism, this study develops and validates a quality model and measures its overall impact on individual (value, satisfaction), organizational (i.e., continuance inte...

continuance is one of the most important reasons for the permissibility of primary emulation of a deceased mujtahid regarding those issues for which he has a fatwa. it has been reported in four different formulations. and in its critique, various notions have been suggested: the abrogation of the matter or subject, its being suspended, the continued matter or ruling (the mustashab) being neithe...

Knowledge management (KM) research has yielded extensive theoretical explanations on the motivations of an individual to share knowledge using various types of face-to-face or virtual communication, each with different sets of influential factors. We propose that by decomposing individual belief into multidimensional belief constructs specific to knowledge contribution and knowledge-seeking con...

The most popular microblogging service, Twitter, has established a large user base, in spite of numerous criticisms. This study aims to examine why this is the case. In particular, the study develops a model of microblogging use continuance based on theories of continuance, habit and critical mass. The model is then tested via a Web survey of Twitter users and PLS path modeling. The results sug...

We decided to examine why people continue to use virtual worlds by studying a real example: the popular virtual world of Second Life. This involved building and testing a model of virtual worlds based on habit from both the habit/automaticity and instant automaticity perspectives, the latter based on utilitarian and hedonic goals. The results (for a sample of 339 users) suggested that continuan...

For d ≥ 2, let X = (X1, . . . , Xd)be a vector of exchangeable continuous lifetimes with joint survival function F. For such models, we study some properties of multivariate aging of F that are described by means of the multivariate aging function BF , which is a useful tool for describing the level curves of F. Specifically, the attention is devoted to notions that generalize the univariate co...

This study develops a research model that explains the continuance of corporate social network service (SNS) pages. In order to find antecedents that influence end users’ continuance intention, this study adopts communicative ecology theory frommedia and communication studies. Results indicate that the quality of social interaction is the most salient feature, as indicated by the fact that it h...

In this study, we proposed a research model to investigate the factors influencing users’ continuance intention to use Twitter. Building on the uses and gratification framework, we have proposed four types of gratifications for Twitter usage, including content gratification, technology gratification, process gratification, and social gratification. We conducted an online survey and collected 12...