This paper draws on the theory of absorptive capacity and related work to identify its dimensions and examine its impact on organizational propensity to adopt novel, complex interorganizational technologies. Specifically, it seeks to examine the causal pathway through which absorptive capacity affects organizational adoption intention. Survey-based research was carried out to test this theory. ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the gap between the planning response goal and the execution outcome in supply chain management. Gaps occur due to the incompetence of supply chain partners in successively responding toward the ever-changing market environment. It is very important to check whether the decision by supply chain partner firms to cut down the level of re-integrated coor...

In the current era, such changes have occurred in the service sector which it has never experienced throughout its history. These changes have impact either on industry structure or competition nature. So, this study aims to Study effect of site quality on online repurchase intention through satisfaction, trust and commitment of customer. This research is survey research, in terms of methodolog...

This study develops and tests a research model that investigates work engagement as a mediator of the e¤ects of coworker and supervisor support on career satisfaction, service recovery performance, job performance, and creative performance. Data were obtained from frontline hotel employees with a time lag of one month and their immediate supervisors in Cameroon. The relationships were tested us...

1567-4223/$34.00 Crown Copyright 2008 Publishe doi:10.1016/j.elerap.2008.11.001 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 7 5254713; fax: E-mail address: [email protected] (C.-C. H While eWOM advertising has recently emerged as an effective marketing strategy among marketing practitioners, comparatively few studies have been conducted to examine the eWOM from the perspective of pass-along emails....

Change of attitude of organizations’ managers toward human forces (as human capitals and resources) as well as technological advancement and accumulation of information in organizations reflects the necessity of valuing knowledge management. On the other hand, extraction of necessary, appropriate information and turning them into the knowledge required by organizations for making decisions, vis...

The role of organizational reputation (OR) was studied as a source of sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) and superior performance, theoretically and empirically, among local authorities in Israel. Using the LISREL VIII program, we proposed a mediation model that argued for a relationship between OR and financial performance, mediated by three tests for SCA: OR-value, OR-rareness and OR-ini...

This paper tests the ability of two consumer theories the theory of reasoned action and the theory of planned behavior in predicting consumer online grocery buying intention. In addition, a comparison of the two theories is conducted. Data were collected from two webbased surveys of Danish (n=1222) and Swedish (n=1038) consumers using self-administered questionnaires. Lisrel results suggest tha...

For effective Bayesian networks (BN) prediction with prior knowledge, this study proposes an integrated BN mechanism that adopts linear structural relation model (LISREL) to examine the belief or causal relationships which are subsequently used as the BN network structure for predicting tourism loyalty. Four hundred and fifty-two valid samples were collected from tourists with the tour experien...

This research examined sex differences in the factorial structure of the Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale. In particular, we view the covariance structure of the scale items as a function of several parameter matrices. We analyzed the factorial invariance by testing hypotheses involving the equivalence constraints of one or more parameter matrices in the male and female populations. D...