background: using thinking-based scientific methods such as paper-based and electronic nursing processes in nursing education can lead to education of skilled and efficient experts that can affect students’ satisfaction in addition to their quality of care. the present study aimed to compare the effects of recording and implementing the nursing process based on two methods (paper-based and elec...

The usage of recommendation agents (RAs) in the online marketplace can help consumers to locate their desired products. RAs can help consumers effectively obtain comprehensive product information and compare their candidate target products. As a result, RAs have affected consumers’ shopping behaviour. In this study, we investigate the usage and the influence of RAs in the online marketplace. Ba...

Although the study of flow has recently received a lot attention, little is published about what factors controllable by firms influence its formation. Furthermore, there is a lack of knowledge between the relationship of website atmospheric cues and flow experience. Using a stimulus–organism–response framework (S–O–R framework) as the theoretical basis, this study examines the impact of consum...

The consumption capability of people in China has been a big issue to tourism business. Due to the increasing of China tourists, Taiwan’s government rescinded the category of people in China and opened up the non-stopped airline from China to Taiwan. The “one-day traveling style between China and Taiwan” has formed, hoping to bring business to Taiwan. Night market, which shows foreigners the ve...

This study aims to determine the services provided by TSPs for motivating the consumers to purchase new e-era mobile phones and find their corresponding functions of products, and to plan new e-era mobile phones based on customers’ attributes for satisfying the customer needs. This study uses four aspects (image of product, price of product, function of product and derived function of product) ...

Electronic trade introduces agents|sellers and buyers|with multiple challenges. In this paper we address one of these challenges. We provide new understandings regarding strategies that agents, each representing a buyer or a seller, can use in dynamic electronic markets. In particular, we examine strategies for sellers to decide which purchase-orders to satisfy in the face of stock shortages. W...

Despite the relevance of generating trust in electronic marketplace settings, research addressing the impact of electronic marketplace characteristics on trust is still limited. The few works focusing on the relationships between the electronic marketplace and trust only pay attention to a limited subset of institution-based functions and services. In this paper we extend these works by focusin...

1567-4223/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.elerap.2009.05.004 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +34 954 557542; fax: E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M.J. Sanc (F.J. Rondan-Cataluña). 1 Tel.: +34 954 554427; fax: +34 954 556989. 2 Virtual communities have acted as a virtual meet interests, build relationships, create fantasies or con Armstrong 1997). Our research examines the i...

In this work, we examined the surprising value consumers attach to getting a bargain. Past research has largely understood this phenomenon in terms of the impact discounts have on perceptions of fairness. However, the evidence for this explanation is inconclusive due to a number of viable alternatives as well as issues relating to construct and external validity. The experiments we report here ...