The present study tested a causal model of Internet piracy among university’s students using a structural equation modeling (SEM) procedure. Using a sample of 116 university students, the relationships among habit, affect, intention, and actual behavior towards Internet piracy were tested. The results showed that habit has a strong effect on Internet piracy behavior. The results also revealed t...

i ABSTRACT The gameplay experience can be understood as an interaction between player and game design characteristics. A greater understanding of these characteristics can be gained through empirical means. Subsequently, an enhanced knowledge of these characteristics should enable the creation of games that effectively generate desirable experiences for players. The purpose of this study was to...

In recent years, Malaysian government has increasingly benefited from information technology to enhance their services, known as electronic government (egovernment). However, despite considerable investment, citizens’ adoption rate is still not as expected. Tax e-filing system is one of the critical e-government services, which assists taxpayers in filing their tax returns electronically each y...

Since 2001 Wikipedia has grown up to one of the most important sources of knowledge worldwide. The voluntarily and independent nature of the project has made it a very unique case of Information Systems with various elements which could affect the way each article is developed. In this paper by referring to the DeLone& McLean model of Information Systems success and considering the body of rese...

This study links up the theories of social psychology, economics and sport management to assess the impact of sport participation on subjective well-being (SWB) and use a simple statistic method to estimate the relative monetary value that sport participation derives SWB for Taiwan’s college students. By constructing proper measurements on sport participation and SWB respectively, a structural ...

The primary objective of this study is to verify the effects of the accumulation of intellectual capital on organizational performance of Taiwan-listed IC design houses; while using productivity as the moderator, and interviewing management staff of section-supervisor level and above of these design houses as the research subjects. The simple Random Sampling method is used to sample the populat...

The primary objective of this study is to analyze the characteristics of commuting activities within the historical districts in cities of China. The impacts of various explanatory variables on commuters' travels are evaluated using the structural equation modeling (SEM) approach. The household survey was conducted in the historical districts in Yangzhou, China. Based on the data, various indiv...

While researchers have encouraged more research on the causal chains between information technology investments and Business performance, the results of empirical studies have been inconclusive. This is partly due to the exclusion of IT-business strategic alignment. This study has examined the impact of IT-business strategic alignment antecedents in terms of leadership, structure and process, s...

Purpose: The main purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of work-life balance on affective commitment and in-role performance and to explore the mediating role of affective commitment to link work-life balance and in-role performance in the Korean context. Design/methodology/approach: Through the literature review, the hypothesized model and hypotheses were developed. Using data gat...

Results The model fit for the final Structural Equation Model (SEM) provided an acceptable fit, [2(28)=105.88,p<.001, RMSEA,= .07,CFI=.95, SRMR =.05]. Path analysis revealed sociocultural pressures to diet increased concurrent body dissatisfaction (=.70;p<0.05) and DE at T1 (=.56;p<.05). Internalisation of the thin-ideal and negative appearance comparisons partially mediated the effect of socio...