Thanks to Web 2.0, retail websites and online communities provide user reviews to help consumers make purchase decisions. Current IS and marketing literature reveal that user reviews can form strong social influence on consumers’ purchase decisions. However, few studies systematically examined how social influence is developed from user reviews. To bridge the gap, our research explores what fac...

Advancement of technology and the Internet proliferation have visible effects in the world. One of the most important effects is the increased social media usage among the Internet users. For this purpose, factors having impacts on users’ behavior intention to social media usage are investigated within the scope of the study. A research model based on technology acceptance model 2 is proposed a...

Responding to the call for critical examinations of the inadvertent effects of marketing (Dholakia 2012), this article offers an examination of the underexplored impacts of social marketing campaigns that derive from government-defined agendas of ‘‘healthism.’’ Specifically, we examine how efforts aimed at the management of women’s bodies can inadvertently render them sites of control. Drawing ...

Agent-based approaches to simulating long-term location and mobility decisions and short-term activity and travel decisions of households and individuals are receiving increasing attention in land-use and transportation interaction (LUTI) models to predict land-use changes and travel behaviour in mutual interaction. Social interactions between households and between individuals potentially have...

Two concepts are essential to a definition of a healthy community: social justice and ecological sustainability. These principles must be at the heart of creating healthy communities, cities, and regions. Children and young people are an integral part of socially just and ecologically sustainable communities. Transportation and land-use policies are critical tools for shaping healthy communitie...

This paper presents the initial findings of OAPEN-UK, a UK research project gathering evidence on the social and technological impacts of an open access business model for scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences.

This paper presents the initial findings of OAPEN-UK, a UK research project gathering evidence on the social and technological impacts of an open access business model for scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences.

the major purpose of this study was conducted to identify the challenges in application of icts inrural areas of iran. a questionnaire was developed and data collected from 187 extensionspecialists. the challenges was categorized by using factor analysis and results show challengeswere classified into organizational, technical, social, financial, regulatory and human factors byorder of their im...

The aim of this study is to explore the attitude of local residents towards the socio, economic and environmental impact of tourism development in Madhupur and Sirajgonj upozilla of Bangladesh. The number of respondents was 384 and data were collected through a self-centered survey method. A convenience sampling technique was taken to select the sample. Data were collected using both primary an...