Consumers’ motivations and barriers concerning various sharing services

Motivations and Barriers to Sharing Biological Samples: A Case Study

One of the most significant impediments to the current goals of genomic research is the limited availability of high quality biological samples. Despite efforts to increase both the quality and quantity of samples collected, access to such samples remains limited. This may be due, at least in part, to a general reluctance of biobanking professionals, clinicians, and researchers to share biologi...

Experience and Knowledge Sharing Barriers

Globally distributed software development adds a new dimension to experience management [1]. Systematic learning during the project becomes even more important, because different organizational and demographic cultures come together. The distributed organization of the project needs to learn how to use these characteristics to the advantage of the project. At the same time, new challenges arise...

Digital services for consumers

Extrinsic versus intrinsic motivations for consumers to shop on-line

Previous research has usually assumed that shopping on-line is a goal-oriented activity and is motivated by extrinsic factors of the customers. On the other hand, intrinsic factors, such as entertainment, have been found to be a major reason for peoples to use the Internet. This study examined whether such intrinsic motivations can be used to explain consumers’ acceptance of on-line shopping. A...

Motivations and barriers in using distributed supply chain simulation

Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is a technique that is used by analysts to take informed decisions regarding existing or a proposed systems of interest. DES models typically represent the processes associated with various business units. However, in the case of supply chains more than one business unit may need to be modelled as different organisations may be responsible for various supply chai...