Information technology (IT) adoption research recognizes theoretical limitations in discerning if and when user behavior results from perceived external infl uences or from personal volition. A clear understanding of this issue requires a precise distinction between mandatory and volitional behaviors. Consistent with organismic integration theory (OIT), this study situates the locus of user mot...

Abstract Building on prior work examining discrete emotions and consumer behavior, the present research proposes that consumers are more likely to engage in target sustainable behavior when marketers use an emotional appeal matches brand’s expressed values or one is congruent with consumers’ value priority. In particular, we focus two contrasting positive emotions—pride awe. We show effectivene...

BACKGROUND Although the Netherlands currently has its own procedure for evaluating chemical compounds and setting occupational exposure limits (OELs), most of these limits were originally adopted in the 1970s from threshold limit values (TLVs) set by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH). However, beginning in the late 1980s, criticism about non-scientific consid...

The explosion of Internet usage has drawn the attention of researchers towards online Social Networks Marketing (SNM). Research has shown that a number of the Internet users are distrustful and indecisive, when it comes to the use of social networks marketing system. Therefore, there is a need for researchers to identify some of the factors that determine users’ acceptance of social networks ma...

The Geographical Information System (GIS) design process usually involves experts in specific application domains (e.g. geology and forestry). These experts are responsible for capturing user needs, and communicating them to GIS developers. However, as the community of users is not directly involved in the design process, these experts may miss some user intentions. This may lead to ill-defined...

abstract: given the increasing importance of entrepreneurship and its important role in students’ employment, this study was conducted to examine the effect of emotional intelligence on students' entrepreneurial intentions. a model was developed and was tested among undergraduate students of physical education faculty of tehran university. the model was tested by using the structural equat...