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Cloud computing is paradigm that has emerged to deliver IT services to consumers as a utility service over the Internet. In developing countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, cloud computing is still not widely adopted. As a result, this study seeks to investigate the most influential factors that can encourage an organisation to use the cloud or which might impede them from moving to it. This research...
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,...
The DeLone and McLean information systems success model [1, 2] has been investigated in many past researches [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. However, its use in human resource (HR) field of study is not quite apparent. Based on literature, and recognising that trust is a significant component in managing human resources and in successful implementation of information systems, this research posits the integration...
In this project, we examine the effects of three individual-level factors — consumption values, privacy concerns, and subjective norms — on consumers' intention to adopt location-based services (LBS) on their mobile phones. A research model was created based on the Theory of Consumption Values, and tested by survey data from potential adopters. Structural equation modeling was conducted using SmartPLS...
This study takes firms' absorptive capacity as a multi-dimensional construct consisting two capability subsetspotential and realized absorptive capacities. Instead of studying their individual impact on organizational performance as most previous studies do, we study how their relative magnitude (trade-offs) and combined magnitude (interaction) affect innovation and financial performance, and their...
Innovation culture is relatively at a slow pace in South Africa compared to other countries. Leadership plays a critical role in creating an innovation culture within orgainsations. Due to globalization, uncertainties, technology, lack of skills and innovative leadership style, many orgainsations are struggling to survive firmly. This study was aimed to develop an innovative model by applying the...
This study incorporates proactive flexibility and reactive flexibility into the framework of strategic flexibility, and subdivides environmental uncertainty into environmental change rate and environmental change unpredictability. Based on the incorporation and subdivision, it explores the effect of proactive and reactive strategic flexibility on the performance of enterprises and the moderating effect...
While studies investigating emotional intelligence have been extensively reported in the literature, very few have focused on librarians. Hence, a study was carried out using qualitative approach to identify the dimension of emotional intelligence of Malaysian Public Librarians. Based on the findings of the qualitative study, an instrument measuring librarian emotional intelligence was developed and...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between quality of work life with organizational commitment amongst academic staff in one of the leading public institutions of higher learning in Malaysia. Data were gathered from a survey instrument used to measure the perception of academic staff on their quality of work life and its relationship to organizational commitment. A total of 300...
This paper examined and testing the competency levels of events tourist leaders in dealing with skills and knowledge for strategic leadership and management issues. In order to make it more meaningful and valuable, although there is abundance of tourism industry practices and activities, there appears to be unclear definition of what actually is the task for leadership professional among tour event...
service innovation, product innovation, high-tech manufacturing firms from China, we demonstrate that service innovation is positively related to firm performance.
Research papers from all over the world are published in thousands of science journals every year. The quality of these papers clearly has to be evaluated, not only to determine their accuracy and contribution to fields of research, but also to help make informed decisions about rewarding scientists with funding and appointments to research positions. The citation-based metric or impact analysis is...
This study aims to understand guests' perception of spa hotels relationships of brand cognition, service quality, leisure experience and repurchase intension. Survey system targeted on Miaoli County Tai District's most advanced spas, Tyan Hot Spring Resort, for the study area, and to the field to the Taian hot spring area hotel accommodations were targeted in the spring during peak season (December...
This study aimed at exploring the factors that affected diving participants to engage in sport tourism. The structure of this research and the survey instrument were developed based upon theories and empirical analysis research that were concerning serious leisure, recreation specialization, and sport tourism. The research subjects were the diving participants in Taiwan who were investigated by adopting...
This paper argues that organizational innovativeness may have some influence on university performance. The sampling frame used is extracted from the directory of academic and management staffs of selected private universities in Malaysia. The primary motivations of this paper is to focus on the impact of creativity, openness to new ideas, intention to innovate, willingness for risk taking, and capacity...
This study aims to identify, describe and analyze underlying factors that are perceived to be important to the adoption and implementation of Green IT. The research is based on open and exploratory method. Case study is the main approach in this study and a combination of quantitative and qualitative research method has been implemented for data collection and analysis of the research study. One online...
Over the past two decades, various research studies across education and business fields have attempted to measure individuals' creativity and innovative behavior. The research on creativity has most often been accomplished in K-12 education while research in innovation has focused on workplace measurement. Business research has attempted to link metrics of innovation to entrepreneurship. Educational...
U-I collaborative Innovation has become an imperative for both universities and companies to strengthen their values and to remain competitiveness gained. This paper, Firstly based on U-A model and dominant design perspective, identifies three key controllable factors which affecting U-I innovation performance as research hypothesis; Secondly, based on the acquisition of 551 questionnaires and the...
Based on the study sample of 108 resource-based enterprises and the integration of internal growth mechanism and external growth mechanism of enterprises, this paper explores mutual relationship among technological innovation, external social capital and growth of firm. The results show that technological innovation and external social capital have significant affect on growth of firm. It also concludes...
This paper makes use of literature research method, interviews, and empirical analysis of the questionnaire to explore the factors influencing the private entrepreneurs' trust in professional managers. Aiming at improving the relationship between the private entrepreneurs and professional managers, this paper puts forward some feasible recommendations. Its conclusions are of great significance and...
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