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Learning evaluation in larger online university courses has become a challenge, especially in those cases when learning focuses on the development of professional skills. The objective of this article is to analyze how "authentic Assessment" applied by students correlate with the judgment of the teaching team, in the framework of a course for business and administration students. The results...
Reducing the energy consumption of cellular wireless access networks is not only beneficial for the global environment but also makes commercial sense for telecommunication operators, our research focus on how to put forward a constructive energy saving method in the precondition of guaranteed service quality for customer. In this paper, we based on the signaling data and location data coming from...
This paper, utilizing correlation analysis and path analysis methods, researches the impact path of negative Internet word related to the mouth on brand equity and quality through cognitive trust concept by regarding universal consumers as study principal body. This research aims to further promote the IWOM research system in China. The empirical conclusions unveil some relationship: (1) the cognitive...
The purpose of this study is to find the level of trust of Indonesian consumers to C2C E-Commerce system in Indonesia. There are four antecedents of consumer trust will be measured and analysed to search the Indonesian C2C E-Commerce trust of Indonesian consumers. This study used the previous study that has been conducted about B2C E-Commerce system in Indonesia and also the similar study that has...
Muslim consumers are believed to be more concerned whether the current e-commerce processes are mixed with un-Islamic elements such as, riba (interest), gharar (uncertainty), and Maisir (gambling). To clarify the misconception, it is suggested that an assurance be given by a reputable Islamic religious authority to the effect that Internet seller complies with an Islamic law (Shariah) - compliant...
The purpose of this study is to find the trust level of Indonesian internet users towards B2C e-commerce system in Indonesia. Five antecedents of consumer trust will be analyzed to find the implication of consumer trust to consumer's attitude and willingness to buy. This study uses research model used in similar study that have been conducted in U.S., Singapore, and China. Structural equation modeling...
There are various kinds of and huge amounts of hotel information both from providers and customers. Hotel information by hotels and travel agents are reliable. A much large number of reviews by general users are available, which might be less reliable compared to the official ones. However, those reviews are helpful, since we can hear their personal experience and opinion. This paper proposes a method...
Internet banking is the current trend in the electronic revolution in Malaysia. However, the growth rate in Internet banking has not kept pace with the general usage of Internet. One of the major determinants of the Internet banking adoption is trust. It is of paramount importance as the lack of trust is the primary reason for not engaging in Internet banking. The purpose of this paper is to determine...
This study aims to investigate the cultural differences between Arab and UK cultures in terms of the acceptance of e-business websites. In addition, a Culturally -- Sensitive Technology Acceptance Model (CTAM) was devised to include cultural variables which explain in more detail the influence of cultural factors on user's acceptance behaviour. Different methods of analysis were applied to analyse...
Firstly, the article defined the concept of internet mouth in different research fields; on the base of realistic condition of Chinese electron commerce, the influencing factor model of internet mouth of dissemination credibility was built. In the analysis validated, website credit, information frame, the character of information disseminator, the specialty of information embracer, the connection...
Abstract-Consumer trust has been more and more recognized as an important factor for a successful e-commerce vendor. Based on the previous research, this paper developed an extended model for analyzing the main attributes of trust of the users in China. A survey regarding the trust of e-commerce users is conducted to empirically test the model. The result shows the perceived reputation and size; the...
The objective of this study is web-sites, and the purpose of which is to revalidate End-User Computing Satisfaction (EUCS) instrument to measure user's satisfaction with web-sites. This study is especially important given that the increased significance of the web-sites and its uniqueness in computing application field. A total of 38 persons participated in the survey via e-mail. Fit indices analysis...
In network economy, it's very important for Chinese tourism web sites to raise their core competence. This paper adopts multiple correspondence to evaluate Chinese tourism websites by utilizing real-time detecting tool. In this research, tourism websites should improve their service levels through constructing their web sites and strengthening their service functions.
In the domain of enterprise interoperability many uncertain factors affect the performance of the whole cross-organizational business process, e.g. uncertain business process executing time, uncertain business logic in a process, et al. Uncertain factors couldn't be avoided but can be analyzed. In this paper a model about Enterprise Interoperability Domain (EID) is given and the main uncertain factors...
Identifying status of business cycles is critical to governments and enterprises when building business strategies. Traditionally, economic variables, such as industrial production, stock price index, manufacturing sales, are selected to compose business cycle indicators, which altogether evaluate business cycle status. In general, the release of economic variables involves long data processes that...
This study examines five ascendants (such as reputation, interaction, disposition to trust, uncertainty avoidance and subjective norm) of perceived risk and trust on initiator, explores the influence of perceived risk upon trust on initiator, and tests the impacts of trust on initiator and perceived risk upon intention of attending online group buying. The empirical result indicates that there are...
Mobile commerce is a new technology that offers significant adoption benefits, allowing consumers to make Internet transactions over wireless networks anytime anywhere. This paper presents some initial findings from a study into the uptake of mobile commerce services. Attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control were positively correlated with the intention to adopt mobile commerce...
Chatting online by instant messaging (IM) is a very popular way of internet interpersonal communication. QQ is the most popular instant messaging for online chatting in China. This research attempts to examine the main factors of emoticons usage and topics discussed in internet interpersonal communication first based on QQ. Then we attempt to examine the influence of internet interpersonal communication...
This study integrates Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and flow theory to explore the relationship among online consumers' internal and external perceptive factors, and intention to return. This study examines the online consumers from Taiwan's biggest B to C website, and questionnaire-based empirical study is used to collect data. There are 1254 valid surveys and structure equation model (SEM) is...
Recently, the decrease in child's interpersonal relationship ability becomes a problem. Various causes such as changes in the falling birthrate and the society are thought. The communications that especially use media such as blogs and SNS because of the development of various Electronic Medias by IT increase. Therefore, the state of the ideal communication between the children's has changed, and...
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