Through a questionnaire survey, this study identifies and investigates seven antecedents of consumer acceptance of mobile TV advertising. Negative factors include intrusiveness, lack of trust in the advertiser, and excessive frequency; positive influences include enjoyment, originality, value, and relevance. The study proposes and validates two measurement models of these antecedents and provid...

Academic biomedical informatics cores are beholden to funding agencies, institutional administration, collaborating researchers, and external agencies for ongoing funding and support. Services provided and translational research outcomes are increasingly important to monitor, report and analyze, to demonstrate value provided to the organization and the greater scientific community. Thus, inform...

Julien François University of Bordeaux, IMS, UMR 5218, Talence, France. [email protected] In today's highly competitive world, firms try to maximize value for their customers and other stakeholders through the effective management of their supply chains. Given that performance measurement considerably affects the actions of firms' decision makers, it is increasingly important to u...

It is often claimed that knowledge management (KM) initiatives are important, even essential, to advance organizational performance. The main goal of such improvement is to make an organization more competitive in delivering values to its stakeholders. However, KM initiatives are of little value without a concrete plan that link KM activities to organizational performance. The Knowledge Chain m...

Science policy framed by audit culture relies heavily on performance measurement. This changing research environment affects higher education institutions and their scientific libraries. As service providers for research and teaching libraries need to demonstrate their added-value in front of various stakeholders. Some Library and Information Science (LIS) scholars and practitioners thus promot...

Given the rapid development of the banking sector, it is reasonable to expect that the performance of banks has become the centre of attention among bank managers, stakeholders, policy makers, and regulators. In order to maximizing the share-holders’ satisfactory level, two bank efficiency measurement approaches, i.e. the production approach and the user cost approach, which are financial evalu...

Although Vietnam is one of the biggest rice exporters today, there is an urgent need to restructure the sector. To guide the transition from being a quantity-focused producer to a credible supplier of quality rice, this study explores the sector’s opportunities for sustainable value chain upgrading. Data was collected through focus group discussions with farmers, stacked surveys with rice value...

Rosenberger, Randall S.; Smith, Eric L. 1997. Nonmarket economic impacts of forest insect pests: a literature review. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-164-www. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 38 p. This report summarizes the results of research on the nonmarket economic impacts of forest insect pests. The majority of the research reports ar...

Decision-making problems in water resources are often associated with multiple objectives and multiple stakeholders. To enable more effective and acceptable decision outcome, it is required that more participation is ensured in the decision making process. This is particularly relevant for flood management problems where the number of stakeholders could be very large. Although application of mu...

Expectancy value models of attitude have become increasingly popular in recent years and have inspired a large and growing body of research. The models to date are largely based on interpretations of Rosenberg's [13] or Fishbein's [6] model of attitudes. Although the literature has discussed different scaling procedures, most researchers employ fiveto sevenpoint Likert or bipolar type scales fo...