THE ANTECEDENTS OF AN INDIVIDUAL\u27S COMMITMENTS TOWARD CONTINUOUSLY USING SOCIAL NETWORK SITE

The Social network sites (SNS) has been rapid diffusion around the world. With the increasing importance of SNS, continuance intention also becomes a popular issue in the SNS context. SNS providers have to maintain better relationships with users and make individuals continue to use their sites. Based on this phenomenon, the objective of this study is to gain a better understanding of the continuance intention of SNS through examining the effects of commitments. Specifically, followed Meyer and Allen’s three-component model of commitment, we develop a theoretical model to understand the factors that influence normative, affective and continued commitment and investigate the effects of commitments on continuance intention in the SNS context. Through a survey-based empirical investigation, we anticipate the results to enhance our existing knowledge on continuance intention in the SNS context

IS Continuance in Experiential Computing Contexts: Linking Rational and Non-rational Behaviors through Technology Associability

The IS literature currently explains continuous-use of IT as a post-adoptive behavior driven by rational cognitive beliefs or non-rational affective/automatic responses. Yet the use contexts, IT artifact characteristics, and the notion of the IT user, underlying the current thinking have evolved. We are in a so-called experiential computing paradigm where computing capabilities have become so deeply embedded in everyday life experiences that IT artifacts have become an extension of the human self, closely tied to the personal behaviors and preferences of users. In this empirical context, new continuance behaviors are emerging for which the current literature falls short in explanation. We have just begun a program of study to address this issue. In the summer paper reported here, we build on previous work in IS and draw from theories of self-identity and stereotypes in social psychology to introduce the concept of IT Associability, and argue that it plays a central role in explaining and predicting continuous-use in experiential computing contexts. Our concept of IT associability taps the social and relational characteristics of an IT to theorize how user attachment to an IT they currently use may significantly influence their decisions concerning future versions of the IT. We attempt, through this perspective, to bridge the gap between rational and non-rational theories by offering a novel yet complementary lens for exploring other processes shaping continuous-use of everyday IT artifacts. We present preliminary validated items for measuring IT associability. Some implications for managing the blurring lines between organizational and personal IT use at the workplace are also discussed

Crowdfunding awareness and adoption intentions in Africa: Empirical evidence from Tanzania

Purpose – Crowdfunding is a viable alternative to access finance to overcome the limited capital problem among developing countries. Despite the low rate of crowdfunding adoption in Africa, there is a dearth of literature on the continent, specifically on adoption drivers and behavioural intentions. This thesis aims to investigate the drivers of crowdfunding adoption intentions in Africa and fully understand the impact of awareness on crowdfunding, both as an antecedent and a dependent variable. Design/Methodology/approach – The hypotheses developed are based on the extended theory of planned behaviour by incorporating the challenges highlighted in previous conceptual papers. This study utilises an approach based on quantitative research. An online survey was administered that collected data from 471 respondents in Tanzania. The authors further used PLS-SEM for analysis and implemented several quality tests to ensure the robustness of the results. Findings – The empirical results in this study reveal that attitudes and interests towards crowdfunding and prior contribution experiences are the crucial drivers of crowdfunding contribution intentions. Furthermore, education and training, as well as subjective norms, play an essential role in increasing crowdfunding awareness. Also, crowdfunding awareness was found to have a positive and significant influence on interest, self-efficacy, and perceived behavioural control. Finally, awareness, interest, perceived IT infrastructure and social trust had a favourable impact on attitude towards crowdfunding. Originality/value – First, the study provides empirical insight into the crowdfunding concept in the sluggish growth context. Second, it clarifies the impact of awareness on crowdfunding, both as an antecedent and dependent variable (identification of effective strategies for increasing awareness among potential backers). Third, it further helps to refine existing models and develop new ones that better reflect the unique characteristics of different regions. Keywords Crowdfunding, Theory of planned behaviour, Awareness, Adoption, Intentions, Africa, Tanzania

Crowdfunding awareness and adoption intentions in Africa: Empirical evidence from Tanzania

Purpose – Crowdfunding is a viable alternative to access finance to overcome the limited capital problem among developing countries. Despite the low rate of crowdfunding adoption in Africa, there is a dearth of literature on the continent, specifically on adoption drivers and behavioural intentions. This thesis aims to investigate the drivers of crowdfunding adoption intentions in Africa and fully understand the impact of awareness on crowdfunding, both as an antecedent and a dependent variable. Design/Methodology/approach – The hypotheses developed are based on the extended theory of planned behaviour by incorporating the challenges highlighted in previous conceptual papers. This study utilises an approach based on quantitative research. An online survey was administered that collected data from 471 respondents in Tanzania. The authors further used PLS-SEM for analysis and implemented several quality tests to ensure the robustness of the results. Findings – The empirical results in this study reveal that attitudes and interests towards crowdfunding and prior contribution experiences are the crucial drivers of crowdfunding contribution intentions. Furthermore, education and training, as well as subjective norms, play an essential role in increasing crowdfunding awareness. Also, crowdfunding awareness was found to have a positive and significant influence on interest, self-efficacy, and perceived behavioural control. Finally, awareness, interest, perceived IT infrastructure and social trust had a favourable impact on attitude towards crowdfunding. Originality/value – First, the study provides empirical insight into the crowdfunding concept in the sluggish growth context. Second, it clarifies the impact of awareness on crowdfunding, both as an antecedent and dependent variable (identification of effective strategies for increasing awareness among potential backers). Third, it further helps to refine existing models and develop new ones that better reflect the unique characteristics of different regions. Keywords Crowdfunding, Theory of planned behaviour, Awareness, Adoption, Intentions, Africa, Tanzania

A qualitative analysis of the impact of cultural inertia on studynet/canvas use in teaching and learning at a post-92 university

IJAR, 2021,. All rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Since this line of inquiry is underrepresented in the literature on technology adoption, this study investigates the effect of inertia on technology usage and acceptance in Higher Education institutions. Inertia is described in this study as students' and academics' unwillingness to accept new technology as a teaching and learning resource. The paper considers the benefits and drawbacks of using technology, especially studynet/canvas and its effect on teaching and learning, as well as why some people embrace technology more slowly than others. The researcher used open-ended questions to assess the views of UH academics and students on a variety of topics, including self-efficacy, for example, self-confidence and self-belief in one's ability to master new technology; compatibility; instructor effectiveness; and facilitating conditions; and then analysed their overall influence on teaching and learning, especially in relation to technology use, adoption and acceptance in HEIs. The researcher discovered that users have a high level of self-efficacy, and compatibility has also been suggested to play a significant role in user adoption of the platform. Our findings indicate that inertia, such as self-efficacy, compatibility, instructor effectiveness, and facilitating conditions, influence studynet/canvas use. Based on researcher’s results, it is certain that capacity building, connectivity, technology update, and adaptation are the most important aspects of inertia affecting academics and students' use of studynet/canvas. This paper adds to organisational theories by elucidating the main factors influencing the slow adoption and use of new technology, such as studynet/canvas and its impact on staff and students’ success. It offers guidance to HEI management and technologists on the main factors preventing increased use of the studynet/canvas platform as a teaching and learning resource. The study also considers the long-term effects of these factors on universities, especially those founded after 1992.Peer reviewe

Do clusters matter to the entrepreneurial process? Deriving a conceptual model from the case study of Yalumba

In this book the authors are exploring how the linkages within the system can be conceptualised and made transparent.Huanmei Li, Allan O'Conno

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Surrendering Privacy for Security’s Sake in an Identity Ecosystem

Despite individuals’ and organizations’ best efforts, many significant information security threats exist. To alleviate these threats, researchers and policy makers have proposed new digital environments called identity ecosystems. These ecosystems would provide protection against attackers in that a third party intermediary would need to authenticate users of the ecosystem. While the additional security may help alleviate security threats, significant concern exists regarding ecosystem users’ privacy. For example, the possibility of targeted attacks against the centralized identity repository, potential mismanagement of the verified credentials of millions of users, and the threat of activity monitoring and surveillance become serious privacy considerations. Thus, individuals must be willing to surrender personal privacy to a known intermediary to obtain the additional levels of protection that the proposed ecosystems suggest. We investigate the reasons why individuals would use a future identity ecosystem that exhibits such a privacy-security tradeoff. Specifically, we adopted a mixed-methods approach to elicit and assess the major factors associated with such decisions. We show that 1) intrapersonal characteristics, 2) perceptions of the controlling agent, and 3) perceptions of the system are key categories for driving intentions to use ecosystems. We found that trustworthiness of the controlling agent, perceived inconvenience, system efficacy, behavioral-based inertia, censorship attitude, and previous similar experience significantly explained variance in intentions. Interestingly, general privacy concerns failed to exhibit significant relationships with intentions in any of our use contexts. We discuss what these findings mean for research and practice and provide guidance for future research that investigates identity ecosystems and the AIS Bright ICT Initiative

ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE, LEADERSHIP STYLE AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AS PREDICTORS OF QUALITY OF WORK LIFE AMONG BANK WORKERS IN IBADAN, NIGERIA

The effects of organizational climate, leadership style and emotional intelligence on the quality of work life were investigated in this study. The participants were two hundred and fifty bank workers drawn from selected commercial banks within Ibadan metropolis. Three research questions and hypotheses were raised in the study. Four valid and standardized instruments were administered on the participants. Pearson product moment correlation, multiple regression analysis and analysis of variance were used to analyse data at 0.05 level of significance. The result shows that the three independent variables when combined were effective in predicting quality of work life. The three variables contributed significantly to quality of work life of the participants with leadership styles as the most potent predictor in the study.. the result also show there was also a significant difference in quality of work life among participants with Democratic, Autocratic and Laissez faire leadership with contributions of democratic style being the most potent. Based on the findings, it is suggested that management should take into cognizance the importance and roles of emotional intelligence and leadership styles in enhancing quality of work life among employee

Factors Influencing Baseball Fans\u27 Brand Loyalty: A Comparison of Florida Marlins and Tampa Bay Devil Rays

Factors influencing Major League Baseball fans\u27 brand loyalty is important because these fans bring significant financial benefits to the industry every year, and stimulate economic growth in the United States. An intercept and quota sampling plan resulted in a sample of 285 Florida Marlins fans and 213 Tampa Bay Devil Rays fans for this comparative and correlational study. The purpose was to test for an explanatory relationship among fans\u27 characteristics, influencing factors, and the loyalty of fans to a winning team and to a losing team. Comparative and multiple regression analyses tested hypothesized relationships among fan characteristics, brand association attributes, benefits, and attitudes and brand loyalty using the Team Association Questionnaire (Gladden & Funk, 2002). Cronbach\u27s alphas and exploratory factor analyses estimated reliability and established validity of the measures for this study. Three dimensions of brand association (attributes, benefits, and attitudes) were significant explanatory variables of brand loyalty. However, fan characteristics did not influence fans loyalty. Attitudes influenced fans associating with a team, suggesting short term strategies for this rational component of sports fans\u27 behavior. However, implementing short-term tactics does not necessarily guarantee long-term and consistent revenue streams (Gladden & Milne, 1999, p. 21). Fans might support a team because the team has a winning record, super star players, a renowned head coach, or an attractive stadium. However, this dimension is insufficient to explain why the fans also strongly support a team when these factors are not present. Findings supported the dimension of benefits and how it plays a role in explaining irrational sport fans\u27 behavior and the loyalties of fans of both winning and losing teams. Sports provide fans with a temporary escape from their daily routines. Sport teams also provide a platform for fans to identify with the team, to associate themselves with the same peer groups, or to share memories with one other. For the dimension of attitudes, the affective reaction of fans was also an important factor influencing brand loyalty. Structural equation modeling in future studies may further clarify relationships in hypothesized models involving fan characteristics, brand association attributes, benefits, and attitudes and brand loyalty

Transport and travel in a fragile rural tourist destination: a social representations perspective of residents' and visitors' mobility patterns.

It is a well established fact that visitors to rural destinations in the UK and other parts of Europe are highly car dependent. This car dependency has resulted in a variety of initiatives intended to tackle the associated undesirable consequences. While there are some success stories, the negative impacts of transport still pervade for residents and visitors in many destination areas. Few studies address the social assumptions that underlie travel behaviour decisions. When Moscovici's social representations theory is employed it suggests that we should develop and draw on shared perceptions, or theories, of the world around us in order to interpret our behaviour. Social representations theory offers a dynamic approach to understanding how social conceptions shape our understanding of transport and travel behaviour. This approach brings in a theoretical perspective that has been absent from tourism and local transport literature and is largely absent from the wider transport debate. The aim of the study was to enhance the understanding of tourism and leisure mobility in a rural tourism context by applying social representations theory. A case study approach was employed to provide an in-depth investigation of the transport issues in a fragile tourism destination area: Purbeck, Dorset, UK. The study includes exploratory research to define the important value concepts for the population in the study area relating to transport and tourism, followed by an examination of travel patterns and travel behaviour of visitors to the area through the use of a travel diary. Finally, a questionnaire survey was undertaken with visitors at various attractions in the area. A social representations perspective demonstrates the importance of examining the social reality and the social processes that underlie people's decision making. The findings indicate that there are pervasive representations of tourism and transport forming a socially constructed consensus which shapes views of transport and tourism. While the study shows that people would like public transport to be improved, this is essentially an idealised representation and an idea perpetuated by a public that makes little use of public transport and has little intention of leaving the car behind. Arguably, people have developed a social construction of how to deal with transport problems whereby the failure of public transport reinforces the existing situation of high car use and there is little attempt to restrict car use. This study challenges this strategy and discusses practical implications for managing mobility in sensitive rural destinations