Advances in EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) demand appropriate controls in order to realize the potential benefits from it. Formal, informal, and automated controls are basic parts of EDI controls. The state of one of three controls is suggested to affect performance indirectly through their effect on another controls in the research model. The causal relationships are tested using structural...

OBJECTIVE To address a theoretical debate regarding contributions of self-efficacy and the theory of planned behavior (TPB) in explaining the amount of variance in stage of readiness to exercise among blue-collar workers. METHOD A validated questionnaire was used for assessment. RESULTS LISREL indicated that self-efficacy had the most influence on stage and TPB constructs were subjugated to...

Confirmatory factor analysis of data (from 5 samples, n = 484 full-time employed management students; n = 550 public administrators; n = 214 university administrators; n = 250 bank managers and employees in Bangladesh; and n = 578 managers and employees) on the 28 items of the Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory-II were performed with LISREL 7. The results provided support for the convergen...

We describe a multivariate, multilevel, pseudo maximum likelihood estimation method for multistage stratified cluster sampling designs, including finite population and unequal probability sampling. Multilevel models can be estimated with this method while incorporating the sampling design in the standard error computation. Design based adjustment of the likelihood ratio test (LRT) statistic is ...

The Web is increasingly being viewed as a tool and place to enhance customer relationship. In this paper we define a model to analyze the Web characteristics that aid in building customer relationships and then used this model to examine consumer relationship building mechanisms in online retailing (e-tailing). Through a survey of 177 shoppers who had bought books, CDs, or DVDs online, the caus...

intergenerational gap refers to the disturbance and crisis in the cultural sequence of generations, which leads to conflict in terms of values and norms between parents and children. until recently, this phenomenon has not been considered a serious issue in iranian society and the continuation of similar thought patterns through the generations has prevented the emergence of distance and variou...

Due to the increased global reliance on information technology, and the prominence of information resources value, identity theft is a problem domain effecting millions of computer users annually. The realities of identity theft are highly visible in the global media, although empirical investigations on the topic are limited. The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze perceptions of ...

Many universities implement e-learning for various reasons. It is obvious that the number of e-learning opportunities provided by higher educational institutes continues to grow in Korea. Yet little research has been done to verify the process of how university students adopt and use e-learning. A sample of 628 university students took part in the research. The structural equation modeling (SEM...

Most knowledge management (KM) literature investigates diversified issues from the perspectives of an organizational and national level. While observing KM practices, especially in Asian nations, many KM occurs in industrial level and lead the knowledge activities in the whole industry. Hence, the primary purpose of this study is to explore the content of industry-level knowledge management (i....

In the Foreword to an MIS Quarterly Special Issue on PLS, the senior editors for the special issue noted that they rejected a number of papers because the authors attempted comparisons between results from PLS, multiple regression, and structural equation modeling (Marcoulides et al. 2009). They raised several issues they argued had to be taken into account to have legitimate comparison studies...