The institute’s prime objective and mission is to contribute actively to a working life that offers good conditions and development opportunities for women and men. We work to promote a healthy working environment that is adapted to people’s different physical and mental needs and capacity. This we do in collaboration with the social partners and professionals who are actively involved in issue...

Generalized structured component analysis (GSCA) is a component-based approach to structural equation modeling (SEM), where latent variables are approximated by weighted composites of indicators. It has no formal mechanism to incorporate errors in indicators, which in turn renders components prone to the errors as well. We propose to extend GSCA to account for errors in indicators explicitly. T...

Even though practitioners and researchers generally agree that project management methodologies are very useful in managing IT-related projects, organizations are rarely able to motivate their staff to use them. Even when employees use these methodologies, the question of how they are being used still remains. To better understand the way in which employees use project management methodologies,...

In recent years new research studies have appeared that tackle the issue of smartphone adoption and acceptance, little is known about the consumer coproduction behaviour of smart phones. Many consumers dedicate to provide feedback to companies, help other consumers in solving problems, advocate and recommend of the product to other consumers; consequently, they are regarded as value co-producer...

We propose and test a conceptual model allowing for investigating the microeco nomic impact of investments in telecoms. While the impact of investments in telecoms on the macroeconomic outcomes has been previously investigated, there seems to be no published research that looked at the microeconomic impact of telecom investments. The proposed conceptual model links investments in telecoms with ...

Virtual teams are groups of members collaborating in the execution of a specific task from disperse locations. Increasing use of virtual teams has highlighted the need for organizations to focus on ways to improve their performance. The key issues of concern include both technical and social dimensions, and this research study addresses the latter. Hence, this study derives a social relationshi...

Rapport plays an important role during communication because it can help people understand each other’s feelings or ideas and leads to a smooth communication. Computational rapport model has been proposed based on theory in [36]. But there lacks solid verification. In this paper, we apply structural equation model (SEM) to the theoretical model on both dyads of friend and stranger. The results ...

Measuring Technology Mediated Learning (TML) success has been and is of great interest to both researchers and practitioners. This article examines multidimensional approaches to measuring learning success, considering ITand non-ITsupported learning scenarios, examined by researchers from various research disciplines. We explore the current state of research on TML success through a literature ...

This study uses a dualistic model of passion to examine the relationships between Internet passion and perceptions of competence and general self-worth among high school students in the United States and Russia. Indirect relationships between harmonious and obsessive Internet passion and general selfworth, and the mediating roles of cognitive and social competence were analyzed using structural...