Drawing upon symbolic self-completion theory and immigrant entrepreneurship theories, we develop a four factor scale to measure the motivational factors of Chinese immigrants in conducting network marketing business. An exploratory factor analysis was conducted to determine the underlying factorial structure of the multidimensional scale. Data were collected from 227 Chinese immigrant network m...

Previous researchers who have studied children’s spirituality have often used narrow measures that do not account for the rich spiritual experiences of children within a multi-faith context. In the current study, we describe the initial stages of development of a children’s spirituality measure, in which items were derived from children’s spiritual narratives. An exploratory factor analysis of ...

There is no unified view about how teachers’ integration of information and communication technology (ICT) should be measured. While many instruments have focused on the technological aspects, recent studies have suggested teachers’ pedagogical considerations, professional development, and emerging ethical and safety issues should be included when assessing teachers’ ICT literacy. Using the per...

Several citation-based indicators, including patent h-index, have been introduced to evaluate the patenting activities of research organizations. However, variants developed to complement h-index have not been utilized yet in the domain of intellectual property management. The main purpose of this study is to propose new indices that can be used to evaluate the patenting activities of research ...

In the literature on achievement goals, performance-approach goals (striving to do better than others) and performance-avoidance goals (striving to avoid doing worse than others) tend to exhibit a moderate to high correlation, raising questions about whether the 2 goals represent distinct constructs. In the current article, we sought to examine the separability of these 2 goals using a broad fa...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of business intelligence consumer needs, internal intelligence sources and external intelligence sources on the value of the business intelligence product as measured by the quality of decisions made by business intelligence consumers, the willingness of these consumers to confirm decisions already made and their ability to scan the external e...

We describe a pilot on evaluating exploratory search inWikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. The pilot will be held at CLEF 2006, and brings together both search and navigation, and reading and authoring.

To date, little research has been done on the role of emotions with respect to computer related behaviours. The purpose of this study was to develop a reliable, valid scale to assess emotions while learning with computers. Four emotions (anger, anxiety, happiness, and sadness), selected after a detailed review of the research, were evaluated. Internally reliability estimates were acceptable. Co...

Exploratory factor analysis is commonly used in IS research to detect multivariate data structures. Frequently, the method is blindly applied without checking if the data at hand fulfill the requirements of the method. In this paper, we investigate the influence of sample size, data transformation, factor extraction method, rotation and number of factors on the outcome. We compare classical exp...