This pilot study aimed to explore technical and social antecedents and benefits of KMS use in a petroleum company in Oman. Data was collected through questionnaire given to KMS users. From the technical perspective, results uncovered that both knowledge utilizers and contributors were concerned about the system ease of use, speed and integration. Knowledge utilizers also valued knowledge richne...

This pilot study aimed to explore technical and social antecedents and benefits of KMS use in a petroleum company in Oman. Data was collected through questionnaire given to KMS users. From the technical perspective, results uncovered that both knowledge utilizers and contributors were concerned about the system ease of use, speed and integration. Knowledge utilizers also valued knowledge richne...

This article analyzed decision-making in terms of the adoption of public cloud computing and its determinants in the context of e-government. The authors proposed a theoretical model and related hypotheses after reviewing the literature and combining technology adoption theory with IT decisionmaking authority theory. Then, they collected samples from 227 public sectors and tested hypotheses usi...

the aim of the present research was to compare the performance evaluation indicators of club coaches from experts, athletes and coaches' viewpoints. the statistical population included all physical education experts of guilan province, heads, deputy heads and secretaries of physical education boards, athletes and coaches from rasht city (n=470) and 345 subjects (73.4%) participated in the ...

conclusions the potential risk and prevalence of ulmsds among computer users of medical sciences university were less than those of technical-engineering university due to following ergonomic principles. rula found to be a proper method for the assessment of the ergonomic risk factors of the ulmsds in order to prevent such disorders. background along with widespread use of computers, work-relat...

This paper contributes to the literatures about Chinese commercial banks technical efficiency. In order to eliminate the deviation of efficiency scores caused by an undesirable output that is represented by banks’ non-performing loans, the estimation is based on an enhanced parametric hyperbolic distance function which considers not only desirable outputs but also undesirable outputs. Furthermo...

this research was conducted to investigate the factors contributing to thefailure in the forestry and rangeland by-product cooperative companies in lorestanprovince, iran. a descriptive-correlative research design was used. the statisticalpopulations were 1100 people divided into two groups of experts from natural resourceagency in lorestan province and members of cooperative companies. the sam...