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At present, the rapid development of rural e-commerce in China, many e-commerce enterprises began to open up the rural market, but because of the special rural environment, so that most businesses ignore the real needs of rural consumers. Based on the traditional TAM model, this paper studies the adoption behavior of rural consumers by means of qualitative analysis and empirical research. The results...
Mobile payment is a kind of means of payment as the carrier of mobile terminal. In the user's intention to use mobile payment, there exist many obstacles. Based on the research of technology acceptance model, this paper studies on the key factors which influences mobile payment user behavior to provide the development of China mobile payment industries with certain reference.
In 2009, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued 3G (3rd generation mobile network service) licenses in China, which marked China's telecom industry enter into 3G era. Motivating the diffuse of 3G network services has became an important issue for the telecom operators and China's telecom industry. However, very little is actually known about critical factors for consumers' acceptance...
Moving into 21st century brings us fundamental transformations thanks to the rapid change of Information Technology (IT). Nowadays IT plays an important role in all fields. Especially, the application of IT has become pervasive in the health sector. Many consider clinical IT as a strategic healthcare tool to improve health care delivery, efficiency of medical care and clinical decision-making in medical...
Based on the technology acceptance model, the paper developed a conceptual model for mobile game adoption. A questionnaire was developed built upon previous studies. A survey was then conducted, which received 267 useful responses. The results suggested that users perceive mobile game differently with regard to experience and gender difference. It is suggested that the users who have more computer...
This study explores the composed elements of a sense of belonging and the consequences of this sense when using technology in the setting of a community-based organization. Previous research on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has indicated that a user's actual behavior in technology use is determined by perceived constructs of technology features, such as usefulness and ease of use. However,...
Although compared to other industries the utilization of information technology (IT) has slowly increased in many healthcare organizations, a variety of IT systems in the forms of clinical information systems, personal digital assistants, electronic patient records and other applications have gradually become established in the healthcare industry. IT has been enhanced as a means to advance healthcare...
Over the past few years, various new service development tools and techniques have been developed. However, little is known regarding the factors influencing their adoption. The objective of this paper is to build a theoretical framework to explain the determinants of adopting NSD tools in service firms. We do so by using the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to explain the adoption behavior. TPB has...
The social networking website has been one of the most popular Internet websites in recent years. Lately social games such as "happy farm" drew a lot of attentions and accumulated millions of players in short period of time. The popularity of social games is changing the ecosystem of online games. Companies in this industry have to be concerned about the impact of it to keep their competitiveness...
Mobile commerce systems create a new mobile business model and change e-commerce paradigms, having an especially significant effect on the medical and insurance industries. Furthermore, the real estate industry is increasing in the booming market, but tends to become overheated. Thus, some innovative techniques (such as mobile commerce) were adopted by estate agent to enhance their competitive advantage...
In some new industries, firms not only must introduce the new types of products or services but also enhance the customer loyalty so that customers purchase more products or service provided by focal firm. The customer relationship management with the double targets has vital theory and application means. This research built a new future use intention model of the college student credit card customers...
Information visualization research typically focuses on the formal aspects of specific graphic solutions in terms of their thinking and/or communication support. This type of analysis often focuses on quantitative diagrams and emphasizes their attributes for specific tasks. Our contribution, by contrast, focuses on qualitative visual solutions and the factors that contribute to their wider diffusion...
Applications and technology have matured in the marketplace. Most organizations have a line-of-business application that manages the business area. The issue then becomes how to move from the current technology to the next technology. A number of Information System theories deal with the intentions of users or, in this context, purchasing decision makers. Generally, the goal is to optimize the selection...
As the number of mobile phone users is growing, purchasing products and services using mobile phones and other mobile devices are also increasing. The purpose of this study was to provide the status of mobile-commerce in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in term of consumerspsila attitudes towards mobile commerce and mobile services provided by mobile operators. Oman, one of the GCC countries...
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