Online education has many advantages, but many college students have never used the online education.Therefore, it is necessary to study the impacting factors of willingness to use the online education. In this paper, samples are collected in full-time college students of Jiujiang University.The theory of planned behavior is expanded by introducing perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use...

With the growth in social networking and the highly competitive nature of the social networking market, it is important to understand the factors that influence social network site (SNS) member retention. In order to better understand continuation intention among SNS members, the authors propose and empirically test a model built upon the IS continuance model, motivation theory, and two belongi...

To this date, research on crisis informatics has focused on the detection of trust in Twitter data through the use of message structure, sentiment, propagation and author. Little research has examined the effects of perceived emotion of these messages in the crisis response domain. Toward detecting useful messages in case of crisis, we examine perceived emotions of these messages and how the di...

 Abstract—Social networking services (SNS) have become a hot topic both in Information Systems area and research community for its powerful influence among a large number of users. People are curious about the reasons why SNS users are so passionate with SNS sites. In this study, the decision to continually use SNS is examined under an extended Technology Acceptance Model. Renren (renren.com) ...

The five-factor model (FFM) of personality has been widely used to predict cognitions, attitudes and behaviors in management and psychological research. However, FFM personality seldom appeared in the information system (IS) research field. This study incorporated FFM into the IS continuance model to explain how the personality traits influence individuals’ IS continuance intention. The data we...

263 Implementing the ERP system is one method of minimizing cost and maximizing profit to increase competitive advantage. However, numerous factors influence ERP implementation success, including user resistance. This study thus attempts to explain behavioural intention and actual usage of ERP implementation based on the technology acceptance model (TAM). The model also incorporates additional ...

Many companies now actively use the Web as a key marketing and sales vehicle for their goods or services. To be successful, e-commerce Web sites must be useful, easy to use, easy to navigate, and easy to understand – measures of the Technology Acceptance Model’s (TAM) variables Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use. Although many studies have used the model to better understand e-comme...

An e-vendor’s website inseparably embodies an interaction with the vendor and an interaction with the IT website interface. Accordingly, research has shown two sets of unrelated usage antecedents by customers: 1) customer trust in the e-vendor and 2) customer assessments of the IT itself, specifically the perceived usefulness and perceived ease-of-use of the website as depicted in the technolog...

This paper proposes to study IT acceptance in the social sector with Decomposed Theory of Planned Behavior. To address our unique research context, we expand the construct of perceived usefulness, arguing that not only personal usefulness but also organizational and customer usefulness can affect IT acceptance.

in this paper, factors that effect on ict adoption by smes in tehran (iran) are investigated. to do so, after reviewing the literature, we identified the factors affecting ict adoption by smes in tehran and, based on this review, we proposed our hypotheses. factors include internal factors, external factors and ict specifications that influence on it adoption by smes. all hypotheses are confi...