This study set out to investigate to what extent childhood cognitive ability, along with personality traits, education and occupational status, as well as marital status influence adult financial success. Data were drawn from a large, prospective birth cohort in the UK, the National Child Development Study (NCDS). The analytic sample was comprised of 4537 cohort members with data on parental so...

Can specific policies support the economic integration of immigrants? Despite crucial importance this question, existing evidence is inconclusive. Using data from European Social Survey, we estimate effects and anti-discrimination policies, alongside social expenditure labor market regulation, on performance 6,176 non-European immigrants across 23 countries. We make three contributions: 1) inve...

Purpose: E-Government, as a new bond linking the government and the public, has gradually become the focus of innovation in government services. The paper focuses on the e-Government service quality issues from the perspective of users. Design/methodology/approach: From the aspects of online service quality perception and offline service quality perception, based on IS Success model and SERQUAL...

With the advancement of mobile technologies, numerous web service providers have begun to extend their web services to the mobile context. To understand users’ mobile service adoption behaviour in the context of the web–mobile service transition, this study investigates the role of consistency between web and mobile services by proposing a typology of consistency and examining the extent to whi...

eGovernment promises more efficient services and a more responsive government. Despite substantial investment, increasing failure rates have prompted critics to argue that policy makers are not achieving this vision. Surprisingly, there is very little research on what citizens define as important in eGovernment services and how aspects of government web sites affect that perception. The inclusi...

Knowledge Management System (KMS) is information and communication tool that increases the consumption of Knowledge Management (KM). There are different approaches to KMS: Social approach, technological approach, and socio-technical approach. In this paper we develop a theoretical framework by linking the main components of KM System (KMS) from soico-techno perspectives to DeLone and McLean suc...

Employee portals are utilized by many companies to improve companies’ information exchange, communication, and employee collaboration, as well as to better support their business processes. Owing to limited IT budgets and the need to justify investments in employee portals, assessing the benefits of these is an important field in research and practice. Thus, the purpose of this study is to gain...

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide better understanding of the factors affecting active participation in Business-to-Business Online Business Communities (B2B OBCs). Toward this goal, this study proposed a conceptual framework based on the Social Exchange Theory (SET), Uses and Gratification theory (U&G), and the Information Systems Success Model (ISSM). The framework was further e...

Smartphones have become an important part of organizational IT infrastructures including benefits such as increased productivity as well as IT security risks. These risks are mainly related to unauthorized access to corporate data. Integrating smartphones in organizations regarding security involves a sequence of decisions, ranging from the integration approach (smartphones owned by employees o...

Project management information systems (PMIS) are an important building block of efficient and effective project management. They have changed considerably in the last decades, starting as mere scheduling applications and now serving as complex systems covering a wide range of project processes and addressing a multitude of stakeholders. Vendors of PMIS frequently claim that these systems yield...