Irrespective of increased implementation of OSS in organizations, its impact on productivity remains a strategic challenge. Influenced by the “creative elements” of OSS, individuals in organizations often forget that the end result of software implementation is to improve productivity, thereby creating a negative impression on OSS implementation strategy as a whole. In this study, we argue that...

This editorial is the product of a recent communication with Journal Editor Stammers. Moss and Thompson, Editors of the journal Quality in Health Care adopted a new outline for quality improvement reports (1). They made the point that clinical quality reports (like case reports) do not fit the traditional scientific publication outline of introduction, method, results, and discussion. Just as M...

Although the “Big Five” model has been discussed a lot in behavioral fields, there has been little research on the impact of personality traits with regards to technology on web-based DSS decision. In this paper, we apply task technology fit theory to explore how Individual characteristics affect task technology fit and how task technology mediate between personal characteristics and decision-m...

Mobile banking (mBanking) enables customers to carry out their banking tasks via mobile devices. We advance the extant body of knowledge about mBanking adoption by proposing a model for understanding the importance and relationship between the user perception of mBanking, initial trust in mBanking services, and the fit between the technology and mBanking task characteristics. We synergistically...

Continuing advances in the capabilities of communication and information technologies provide a wide array of interesting ways for people to collaborate across space, time, cultures, and organizational boundaries. While the use of collaboration technologies spreads, researchers seek answers to understanding how best to match different technology capabilities with the tasks that teams need to ac...

Due to the increasing proliferation of courses and “courseware,” it is clear that there is a need for assessment of the effectiveness of online learning processes in order to provide “best practice” benchmarks. Similar to the focus on task-technology fit in design of human-computer systems, attention must be paid to “course-technology” fit and the goals of the stakeholders for each course that ...

This study investigates the factors that influence accounting information systems (AIS) adoption among accountants. Drawing on the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT), the task–technology fit (TTF) model and the institutional theory, we developed a research model for AIS adoption by accountants. Data was collected from 216 accountants and multiple linear regression was em...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been playing a pivotal role among the latest e-learning initiative and obtain widespread popularity in many universities. But the low course completion rate and the high midway dropout rate of students have puzzled some researchers and designers of MOOCs. Therefore, it is important to explore the factors affecting students’ continuance intention to use M...

Admir BAROLLI, Shinji SAKAMOTO, Tetsuya ODA, Evjola SPAHO, Makoto IKEDA, Leonard BAROLLI Logos University, Rr. Dritan Hoxha, Tirana, Albania Graduate School of Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT) 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan Department of Electronics and Telecommunication, Polytechnic University of Tirana Mother Tereza Square, Nr. 4, Tirana, Albania ...