This paper examines the relationships between supplier development efforts and buyer competitive advantage from the buyer’s perspective, and seeks to understand how specific supplier development efforts may impact on a buyer’s operational performance. We conducted a survey of 142 electronics manufacturing companies in Hong Kong, and applied structural equation modeling (SEM) to test a structura...

In understanding how active and blended learning approaches with learning technologies engagement in undergraduate education, current research models tend to undermine the effect of learners’ variations, particularly regarding their styles and approaches to learning, on intention and use of learning technologies. This study contributes to further examine a working model for learning outcomes in...

A central objective in health and epidemiological research is to examine the processes by which explanatory variables yield certain outcomes. For example, two overarching, policy-relevant issues are (1) the pathways through which various socio-demographic, attitudinal, and behavioural risk factors lead to particular health outcomes (e.g., death, disease), and (2) the mechanisms through which in...

Total quality management (TQM) has been widely and successfully implemented and is considered as a strategic and operational tool to gain competitive edge through increased performance and customer satisfaction. However, developing countries, especially Pakistan is still lagging behind to adopt TQM as a strategic tool to optimize its performance. Public health care in Pakistan is one of the mos...

This study examined maladaptive perfectionism (concern over mistakes, doubts about one’s ability to accomplish tasks, and failure to meet high standards) as both a mediator and a moderator between adult attachment (anxiety and avoidance) and depressive mood (depression and hopelessness). Survey data were collected from 310 undergraduates and analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) met...

User’s continuance intention is vital to the future of mobile social apps (i.e. applications) with rapid development and intensive competitions among their providers. We draw on the theory of flow experience and switching cost to build an integrated model to explain factors influencing users’ continuance using intention. Our model is tested by survey and Structural Equation Model (SEM) in the m...

This paper investigates the factors determining the Malaysian banking consumers’ perception on ebanking transactions. A research framework was developed to testify the statistical relationships among consumer perceptions on e-banking transaction. Factor analysis was performed to extract and decide on the number of factors underlying asset of measured variables of interest. Structural equation m...

This study investigated the function of social supports and computer self-efficacy in predicting high school students’ perceived effect of computer use. The study was survey method to collect data. The questionnaires were distributed to the high school students in Taiwan. 620 questionnaires were distributed and 525 questionnaires were gathered back with 84.67% return rate. The results of struct...

This research has proposed a conceptual framework to investigate the effects of customers’ perceived service quality, trust, and customer satisfaction on customer loyalty. To test the conceptual framework, structural equation modeling (SEM) has been used to analyze the data collected from 304 customers of a major private telecommunication company operating in Bangladesh. The results of the stud...

The present paper analyses the influence of entrepreneurial orientation (integrated approach) and its dimensions (individual approach) on hotel performance. We pose a structural equation model (SEM) Partial Least Square (PLS) through Smart PLS 3.1.9 on a dataset obtained by means of a questionnaire emailed to 102 hotel directors between January and June 2014. The most relevant contribution of t...