in this research we seek to recognize the status of marketing information systems and its weaknesses in medium and large size food industries. we abandoned all organization diagnosis models and conducted mcleod and rogers model as one of the most popular models in similar researches. since marketing affairs is more important and sensible in food industry than others, the research was done in th...

While most prior studies on Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Web Services adoption have focused on large counterparts, this research recognizes the importance of these technologies, and realizes the difficulties involved in their effective adoption by Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs). The aim of this paper is to study as to whether the resources constraints (time, finance, a...

Security and computer expertise of end users can be significant predictors of user behaviour and interactions in the security and privacy context. Standardized, externally valid instruments for measuring end-user security expertise are non-existent. To address this need, we developed a questionnaire to identify critical factors that constitute expertise in end-users. It combines skills and know...

Building on Kozlwoski and Klein’s emergence framework, this research developed and tested a set of multilevel hypotheses regarding individual and team transactive memory processes in work teams. Literature from social psychology suggested hypotheses on how shared task interdependence influences individual expertise exchange. Social network theory suggested hypotheses that individual expertise e...

Dual-process models of persuasion contrast the expertise heuristic "experts' statements can be trusted" with systematic processing of message content. Studies in which source expertise and argument quality were simultaneously manipulated revealed that the expertise manipulation affects attitudes when receivers are not highly motivated to scrutinize the provided message. In contrast, when receiv...

The study of team performance and the variables affecting team work success has been well documented in the information systems literature. Previous research indicates that expertise, extraversion, and group interaction styles influence successful outcomes in tasks involving work teams. However, there is very little published research on the effects of these variables on team performance in dat...