Preliminary study on factors affecting E-commerce success: a modified Delone and McLean model

Electronic commerce has gained the popularity since last two decades, due to its recompenses towards the online transactions. Academicians and e-retailers eagerly want to identify the factors which affect the e-commerce success. The main intention of this study to investigate the factors which are essential to draw the net benefits of e-commerce from an individual perspective rather than the organization perspective. The proposed framework in this paper is based on Mclean and Delone 2003 IS success model along with two extra variables that are privacy and trust. In this paper, the author discussed the result of the pilot study. The authors designed the quantitative research questionnaire by adopting the items from the previous studies and conducted the pilot study to check the reliability of the questionnaire. The overall value for Cronbach's alpha was 0.89 and also the Cronbach's alpha value for individual constructs were greater than 0.7, which indicates that there is a strong relation between the items. This research engrossed on four factors that are system quality, service quality, privacy, trust, that are essential for achieving the user satisfaction which in turn leads to achieve the e-commerce net benefits. In addition to service quality and system quality, trust and privacy are the important factors that affect the net benefits through user satisfaction, hence the modified version of Delone and Mclean IS success model from individual perspective is proposed

Analysis determinants of social media acceptance in higher educational institution of Pakistan

Seen through the lens of the education sector social media grew a ital source of academic learning. The learning through social media occurs mainly through the collaborative approach to information sharing, where the web-based social networking sites provide the optimal platform for knowledge enhancing among colleagues, co-workers, and others. Developed economies have already recognized the significant value of learning through social media. However, developing economies such as Pakistan did not yet interpret future implications and real benefits of social aided learning. This research focuses on determining significant factors through an integrated framework that features broadly recognized technology models such as technology acceptance model (TAM) and innovation diffusion theory (IDT). The subjects of framework tested were students in higher education institutions that use social media, and the sample size was 350 students. Data analysis results, reached via SPSS software, were substantially in fever of extended model. Results reached through this study, in terms of factors with a significant influence on social media acceptance rate in Pakistani higher education institutions, are particularly crucial for students in the filed of education, located in developing countries. This should assist the increasing acceptance and use of technological solutions, benefiting both faculty and students

An assessment of proximity technology adoption from a user's perspective

The rapid growth and convenience in mobile technologies has attracted every individual in today’s era. Consumer convenience and comfort has remained key focus in almost every industry and such services are also existing and progressing in the domain of other service. Whereas, stakeholders of digital service providers are trying to change the exchange system from one to other society. Whilst, MPs has advanced in some countries, but few are still facing the resistance by people due to dominancy of old system and lack of MP solutions. Whereas, in Pakistan existing MP services are generally offered by FIs and telecom sector. Despite a major share in the market these stakeholders have not played the important role for driving the country towards digital society and bringing the uncovered population of the country into inclusion network. Therefore, this study aims to assess the obstacles in acceptance and use of MPs by using UTAUT model with external variables