MIS literature has not adequately addressed the measurement of electronic commerce dimensions and activities. Measures are yet to be proposed to assess the effect of trusted electronic interorganizational relationships on customer loyalty. In this paper, we present the results of a study that was a first effort toward this end. The focus of this study is to develop an instrument for measuring f...

During recent years, IT alignment research has gained considerable attention in both academia and practice. However, so far most studies focus on the strategic-to-strategic IT alignment dimension, thus omitting an integration of the strategic-to-tactical IT alignment dimension. By drawing upon assimilation and institutional theory, our research model depicts a perspective on IT project alignmen...

Use of the partial least squares (PLS) method has been on the rise among e-collaboration researchers. It has also seen increasing use in a wide variety of fields of research. This includes most business-related disciplines, as well as the social and health sciences. The use of the PLS method has been primarily in the context of PLS-based structural equation modeling (SEM). This article discusse...

Soil samples were collected from five provinces over China, including Beijing, Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, Yunnan, and Jiangsu. Heavy metal Cr, Zn, Pb and As in soils were analyzed by a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF). For predicating metal concentration in soils, a partial least square regression model (PLSR) was established. After cross-calibration, the correlation coefficients for...

Drawing upon the social capital theory (SCT), this study integrates social capital factors with the perspectives of consumer hedonic participation and platform capability of online group buying sites to explore how they affect consumer value creation toward online group buying (OGB). Data from 663 valid responses were obtained using an online large-scale survey. The conceptual framework was val...

Consumer trust is one of the key obstacles to online vendors seeking to extend their consumers across cultures. This research identifies culture at the individual consumer level. Based on the Stimulus– Organism–Response (S–O–R) model, this study focuses on the moderating role of uncertainty avoidance culture value on privacy and security as cognition influences, joy and fear as emotional influe...

For the purpose of exploring and modelling the relationships between a dataset and several datasets, multiblock Partial Least Squares is a widely-used regression technique. It is designed as an extension of PLS which aims at linking two datasets. In the same vein, we propose an extension of Redundancy Analysis to the multiblock setting. We show that PLS and multiblock Redundancy Analysis aim at...

This research develops a causal-predictive model for predicting the supplier performance due to buyer-initiated supplier process improvement (SPI). SPI is one type of supply chain collaboration that focuses on process improvement. It is a common practice in supply chains that are driven by a powerful buyer firm. Drawing upon the supply chain management and process improvement literature, we rel...

E-prescribing systems hold promise for improving the quality and efficiency of the scripting process. Yet, the use of the technology has been associated with a number of challenges. The diffusion of e-prescribing into physician practices and the consequent realisation of its potential benefits will depend on whether physicians are willing to accept and engage with the technology. This study dra...