the aim of this study is assessing the effectiveness of customer relationship management factors in isfahan tourism and travel agencies by structural equation modeling (sem). it is practical according to the goal and it’s a kind of descriptive survey in terms of methodology. research population included all of staffs and managers at tourism and travel agencies in isfahan in 2012 that 274 of the...

Components estimated by independent component analysis and related methods are typically not independent in real data. A very common form of nonlinear dependency between the components is correlations in their variances or energies. Here, we propose a principled probabilistic model to model the energycorrelations between the latent variables. Our two-stage model includes a linear mixing of late...

The study explores consumers’ adoption of Internet shopping in the context of tourism products in Britain. The key objective is to propose a model for the prediction of Internet shopping adoption integrating individual and technology characteristics. Drawing upon Davis’ (1989) Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the proposed model identifies the structural relationships among eight constructs wh...

To synthesize studies that use structural equation modeling (SEM), researchers usually use Pearson correlations (univariate r), Fisher z scores (univariate z), or generalized least squares (GLS) to combine the correlation matrices. The pooled correlation matrix is then analyzed by the use of SEM. Questionable inferences may occur for these ad hoc procedures. A 2-stage structural equation modeli...

This master thesis study explores technical students’ relation to perceived usefulness and ease of use of different functionality on a digital software platform for organising and structuring knowledge. The study investigates the relationship between perceived usefulness, ease of use and intention to continuously use the application while adding specific functionality and control aspects as mot...

With the advent of the Internet, more and more public universities in Malaysia are putting in effort to introduce e-learning in their respective universities. Using a structured questionnaire derived from the literature, data was collected from 250 undergraduate students from a public university in Penang, Malaysia. Data was analyzed using AMOS version 16. The results of the structural equation...

Recent methodological developments building on partial least squares (PLS) techniques and related ideas have significantly contributed to bridging the gap between factor-based and composite-based structural equation modeling (SEM) methods. PLS-SEM is extensively used in the field of e-collaboration, as well as in many other fields where multivariate statistical analyses are employed. We compare...