Health gap measures, such as the DALY, are a quantification of the gap between the current health status in a population and a stated goal for population health. This goal can be understood as an ideal situation in which everyone in a population lives into old age free of disease. Health gaps are the addition of time lost due to premature mortality, as measured against the normative survivorshi...

This paper empirically investigates the impact of normative social influence on group homogeneity in media preferences and group meeting outcomes in a setting where 58 student groups voluntarily used various communication media over a three-month software development project period. Group homogeneity in media preferences was argued to mediate the impact of normative social influence on group me...

The main aim of this paper is to develop an amalgamated conceptual model of technology acceptance that explains how individual, social, cultural and organizational factors affect the students’ acceptance and usage behaviour of the Web-based learning systems. More specifically, the proposed model extends the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to include four constructs namely, Quality of work lif...

Internet abuse in the workplace refers to employee’s use of Internet provided by the organization for non-workrelated purpose. It has not only resulted in productivity loss, bandwidth waste and legal liability, it also exposed organizations’ information systems to a host of new security threats. To gain a better understanding of the factors influencing Internet abuse behavior in the workplace, ...

Javascript Framework has been used by a lot of developer in Batam. There are many with similar functionality. this research aims to find out the influence between performance expectancy, effort social influence, and facilitating conditions on decision using Framework. Our qualitative have 30 respondent our quantitative 359 respondent. This disproportionate random sampling method we is multiple ...

This study examines the impact of legitimacy on the dynamics of interorganizational networks within the nongovernmental organizations’ children’s rights community. The 27-year period of analysis included a critical community event: the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Building on theories of organizational evolution, hypotheses proposed that (1) ...

Normative dimensions constitute one of the important elements in the Theory of Reasoned Action (TORA) model. However, the changes of lifestyle over period and different societies have spurred the TORA model constitution and also to vary interpretation of the model itself towards intention to purchase the green food product.Therefore, this paper aims to explorethe underlying dimensionsof normati...

In the realm of philosophy and other theoretical discourses, there are many different paths to the turn from the modern to the postmodern, representing a complex genealogy of diverse and often divergent trails through different disciplines and cultural terrains. One pathway moves through an irrationalist tradition from romanticism to existentialism to French postmodernism via the figures of Nie...

This study explores continual usage of the knowledge management systems (KMS) by employees in organizations. Based on IS continuance research that emphasizes usefulness and satisfaction, we propose that to understand KMS usage, scholars need to examine not only technical but also social and organizational aspects of KMS in determining the user’s attitude. Through an intensive case study in an i...

We extend models of technology acceptance to understand the acceptance of enterprise systems by knowledge workers involved in strategic business processes by explicitly considering the IT innovation context in three ways: by incorporating work process interdependence, identity, and standards; by examining the interactive effects of these characteristics with implementation characteristics, soci...