Customer needs of geographical accessibility still plays an important role in electronic commerce, though the extent to which it does so varies according to the characteristics of products, services and the market strategies of firms. In this study, factors affecting customer needs of geographical accessibility and their structural relationships were investigated through a customer survey and s...

There has been a growing interest in examining the factors that support or hinder one’s knowledge sharing behavior in the virtual communities. However, still very few studies examined them from both personal and environmental perspectives. In order to explore the knowledge sharing behaviors within the virtual communities of professional societies, this study proposed a social cognitive theory (...

It is widely recognized that the relationships between organizations and their IS departments are changing. This trend threatens to undermine the retention of IS workers and the productivity of IS operations. In the study reported here, we examine IS employees' motivation and intent to remain using structural equation modeling. A survey was conducted among existing IS employees and analyzed wit...

Article history: Received 12 July 2016 Received in revised form 5 September 2016 Accepted 30 September 2016 Available online xxxx This study investigated factor structure, reliability, and criterion validity of the original 12-item version aswell as an abbreviated 10-item version of Mroczek and Kolarz' Negative and Positive Affect Scale (NAPAS). The sample (N=2718)was drawn from the thirdwave o...

Enterprise systems entail complex organizational interventions. Accurately gauging the impact of any complex information system requires understanding its multidimensionality, and the development of a correspondent, standardized, validated, and robust measurement instrument. Despite the popularity and potential of enterprise systems in modern organizations, no acceptably valid and reliable ente...

This study based on the technology acceptance model(TAM) and theory of planned behaviour (TPB) presents an extended TAM that integrates trust related construct (‘perceived credibility’) and resource-related constructs (‘perceived cost’) into the TAM to analyzing adoption behavior of mobile service. The proposed model was empirically tested using data collected from a survey of mobile service co...

Purpose – Integrating several streams of theoretical reasoning such as social identity theory, congruity theory and the customer gratitude approach, the purpose of this paper is to develop a model of the antecedents and consequences of sponsor-stadium fit and examine the hypothesised relationships. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from professional football spectators in a non-...

School burnout is a common problem in students. Therefore, it situation that negatively affects This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of psychological resilience (PR) relationship between quality school life (QSL) and (SB). The data were collected by using “QSL Scale”, “SB Scale” “PR Scale”. group current comprised total 325 middle students aged 10 15. Of these students, 163 (50.2%...

Knowledge management and knowledge creation is recognized to be of supreme importance to the competitive advantage of organisations as well as a major agent of change in the new era of the knowledge economy. This study empirically examines knowledge creation activities in the context of the banking industry. It extends the work of Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) and others on the theory of organisat...

over the last decade, coinciding with the growth of information and communication technologies, globalization expansion and consequently increased awareness of citizens, communities’ dissatisfactions over the lack of accountability, lack of transparency and centralized government structure is leading to the emergence of the new approach called e-governance. e-governance, against e-government by...