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The increasing use of internet and mobile devices has also facilitated tourists to select various tourism destinations. This study analyzes the factors that influence consumer purchase intention toward online travel packages available on e-marketplace websites. Data collection was conducted via a survey with 441 respondents who were members of online travel communities/forums; the results were processed...
The Internet is simply a series of worldwide computer networks linked together, communicating almost instantly by using various access technologies. It is playing a major role in many areas of our lives, such as communication, entertainment and information which is supported by newer innovations and technology evolvement. While the broadband Internet penetration rate is encouraging in many countries,...
Nowadays, more and more people are using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in order to accommodate their daily needs. E-Government (e-Gov) adopts these technologies in an effort to provide prompt and secure services to citizens. However, the intention to use e-Government services has not yet been fully examined by the international literature. The present research attempts to bridge...
Base on innovation resistance theory, this research builds the model of factors affecting consumers' resistance in using online travel in Thailand. Through the questionnaires and the SEM methods, empirical analysis results show that functional barriers are even greater sources of resistance to online travel website than psychological barriers. Online experience and independent travel experience have...
This paper investigates the use of various user-driven methods in the development of public services. As an example, the paper presents a case where citizens and employees were brought together to identify development needs for remote-enabled public services. User-driven methods provided by a local Living Lab were used to solve the encountered challenges. The outcome of this study indicates that use...
Studies have shown that many Muslim users question religious websites. This is due to unrestricted cyberspace where anybody can publish any sort of information. This paper investigates the text-based dimensions that may improve reliability of Islamic websites. It is found that reliability of Islamic websites involves the same principles of reliability established in other types of website. However,...
Studies have consistently found information technology (IT) enhances the business operation and performance, but the adoption of IT among micro-enterprises for business growth is still considerably poor. The factors that influence the micro-enterprises to actively embrace IT that include social networking sites and whether the adoption has led to stronger business performance have become the major...
This paper discusses opportunities for learning about biographies through Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopaedia. We examine argumentation and interpretation practices in Steve Jobs's entry and its associated Talk pages, focusing on editors' debates on whether Jobs was an "inventor". We highlight argumentation from delegated voice as a core element of Wikipedian knowledge building; contributors'...
Virtual Communities for Innovations (VCI) are becoming increasingly popular as platforms for firms to engage customers in generating new ideas. While several studies have explored the various motivations of user participation in VCI, the relationship between the motivations and the outcome of interest - the quality of the ideas - has not been explored. Scholars and practitioners have a strong interest...
Abstract-With the global ebanking flourish, many ebanks areworrying about the status quo because of the high risk. Some ofthem are closed, or sold, or losses. Faced with this situation, national network of ebanks and financial supervision departments have to strengthen researches and supervision ofebanking. The main purpose of this study is to discuss how risk influence the Chinese customers make...
The consumers were divided into 5 types, i.e., the fashioners, the potentials, the bardians, the followers and the conservatives, based on the scores of the factors that affect consumers' adoption of the charged online movies (COM) by cluster analysis using the questionnaire data, and in which the largest part was the potentials where the least the followers. And, on the other hand, three types of...
This research coalesces three different approaches to consumer''s adoption of new technology-based service into an integrative model. We use the basic framework of TAM and supplement technology readiness and perceived risk to the model to better address the consumer adoption context. The model is tested with data from 343 web surveys regarding RFID credit card adoption. Results show that technology...
Mobile instant messaging (MIM) has become one of the most popular communication applications for many users in China. Previous studies mainly focus on instant messaging (IM) usage for the Internet users, and do not investigate MIM usage for the mobile phone users. This study proposes a model to analyze the attitudinal, social and perceived behavior control factors that are associated with the adoption...
The purpose of this study is to understand how willing consumers are in terms of using the FON platform to share their bandwidth. Based on the recommendations by Homans (1958), Blau (1964), and Emersons (1972),"social exchange theory" and Blau (1964), "economic exchange theory" and "innovation diffusion theory" were adopted as the basis for the discussion on the willingness...
As digital resources increasingly growing and the economic benefit of digital intellectual property rights being increasingly important, people has been increasingly emphasis on information security issues brought by the data remnants in storage devices. They try their best to prevent the potential risks. In this paper, we survey comprehensively related technologies, standards and trends of erasure,...
A virtual world is an Internet-based simulated environment which users inhabit and where they interact via avatars. As a new information technology innovation, it has developed very fast and has brought about economic success for organizations and individuals. Very limited research has been done to date to investigate virtual worlds. This paper presents a research framework to investigate the acceptance...
With the development of high rate data transmission technology via distribution line communication, the electric power, data, voice and video can be transferred in the same electric power distribution network, and the technology will be put in operation widely in the future. However the traditional technology of power line communication is not adaptable to the complex and harsh environment of distribution...
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