Much of the prior research on IS adoption recognizes that cultural characteristics of the nations influence their adoption behaviors significantly. In the context of e-government, more empirical research is necessary to understand the adoption behaviors of different nations. Our research focuses on understanding the antecedents of e-government adoption in the German household, which has not bee...

User generated content is being recognized as part of the value proposition of e-commerce organizations. To make available fresh content on topics with existing contributions and first-time content on topics with little or no existing content, one needs to understand why individuals contribute early or late. Drawing upon the cognitive model of helping, this study develops and tests three hypoth...

The main purpose of this research is to study the impact of the human resources measures on organization performance through the mediating role of organizational learning capability. The study population consisted of 220 employees of the financial branches of the Social Security Organization of KHUZESTAN province. Census method was used for data collection, a total of 220 questionnaires were di...

Considering the important role that personality traits and brand identity is playing in gaining advantage for companies against the competitors, these seem to be more important when customers be loyal to the brand. The purpose of this paper is to determine the relationship between personality traits of customers and personality and brand loyalty. The model of this research is presented based on...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate organizational factors and human motivations affecting IS/IT usage and user's satisfaction in an Arabic country Design/methodology/approa ch The study develops a research model that links three organizational factors (top management support, availability of training, and user's involvement) to IS/IT usage and end-user's satisfaction via the me...

This study examines the effect of tertius iungens orientation on knowledge sharing activity within a social media environment. In addition, the study also introduces, based on the social cognitive theory and social capital theory, individual and social factors which influence tertius iungens orientation and knowledge sharing activity in social media. The research model was assessed using data c...

This study investigates whether a consumer’s need for social affiliation and a consumer’s relationship proneness impact behavioural intentions (word-of-mouth communication, price sensitivity, repeat purchasing) towards a hairdresser’s. Data were collected from a systematic sample of a hairdresser’s consumers in Belgium. LISREL results revealed that need for social affiliation is a strong determ...

This investigation examines the relations between transforma-tional/transactional leadership and performance indicators of 20 diierent banks, using a sample of some 1500 observations. Leadership behavior is measured by the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), which i s used for the rst time in the German-speaking area. The psychometric quality of the German MLQ is analyzed and found to b...

The concomitant proliferation of causal modeling and hypotheses of multiplicative effects has brought about a tremendous need for procedures that allow the testing of moderated structural equation models (MSEMs). The seminal work of Kenny and Judd and Hayduk has been drawn on by several authors in the past 10 years, thus producing procedures that allow for such tests. Yet, utilization of MSEMs ...

This research aims to determine noise exposure effect on work fatigue and stress operators in the oil gas processing plant of PT. X. The method used this is descriptive quantitative approach causality research. population study were all workers From sample taken based number indicators 40 so that minimum samples 5 times estimated or as much x = 200. Study analysis was carried out using (SEM: St...