The Impact of Percieved Usefulness, Ease of Use and Trust on Managers’ Acceptance of e-Commerce Services in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Palestine

The internet revolution, specifically using the internet in business environment has resulted into significant changes in how business is conducted in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Recent research has pointed to the important role that electronic commerce (EC) plays in improving the performance of SMEs. Yet, in the context of Palestine, adoption of EC in SMEs is still slow. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the effect of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness and perceived trust on managers’ acceptance of EC in SMEs. In order to achieve this, the study used the technology acceptance model (TAM). The study used a survey that was administered to 250 managers of SMEs from Palestine. The data was analysed employing a structural equation modelling (SEM) approach through partial least square (PLS) software. The results revealed that perceived trust and perceived usefulness had positive effect on the participating managers’ behavioural intention to adopt EC services. It was also found that the manager’s perception, including their perceived ease of use significantly affected their perceived trust of using EC services. Moreover, perceived ease of use had a significant impact on perceived usefulness. However, the managers’ perceived ease of use failed to predict their intention to adopt such EC services, and perceived usefulness failed to predict their perceived trust. Based on these results, the study offers a developed research model of the major factors that affect managers’ trust to accept and use EC services in SMEs

The impact of internal organization factors on the adoption of e-commerce and its effect on organizational performance among Palestinian small and medium enterprise

Electronic Commerce (EC) can without a doubt help firms reduce cost, enhance efficiency, and expand their market reach.However, small and medium sized enterprises in Palestine are slow in adopting EC.As a result, it became important to analyse the situation and determine the factors affecting the implementation process.Numerous firms encounter hurdles during the EC dispersion process, thus, failing to gain any benefits from EC adoption.The paper aims to determine the technological, organizational, and information culture factors that have an impact on EC adoption process, and how EC adoption in turn affects the organization’s performance.A quantitative research technique using the survey method will be used in this research.The technology-organization-environment-framework known as TOE framework is the base upon which the paper proposed an integrated model to study the effects of factors from the technological, organizational, and informational culture points of view during the EC process adoption. Information culture factors have gained more focus; as they have hardly been examined by previous literature regarding their influence on EC adoption.For the specific objective of this study, Palestine has been chosen to examine how information culture factors influence EC adoption during the diffusion process, not only providing practical guidelines for enterprises engaging in EC adoption, but also providing academics an insight on the EC adoption process perspective, particularly during diffusion of EC

Beberapa Ulasan Baru Tentang Struktur Aljabar Tensor

In the field of classical tensor algebra, there still exists a few concepts that have not been formulated by using concepts of multilinear algebra and analysis on manifolds. Hence, we have tried to reformulate some matters that arise in classical tensor analysis and a few others that we had identified and resolved. These being: the meaning of the equivalence of first order tensor with vector; the pull back and push forward structure, the structure of contraction of tensors, the inner product term, ds 2 as a differential and the algebraic structure of relative tensors and tensor densities

A Study on Benchmarking Models and Frameworks in Industrial SMEs: Challenges and Issues

This paper is based on a literature review of recent publications in the field of benchmarking methodology implemented in small and medium enterprises with regards to measure and benchmark upstream, leading or developmental aspects of organizations. Benchmarking has been recognized as an essential tool for continuous improvement and competitiveness.  It can also help SMEs to improve their operational and financial performances. However, only few entrepreneurs turn to benchmarking implementation, due to lack of time and resources. In this study current benchmarking models (2005 onwards), dedicated specifically to the SMEs, have been identified and their characteristics and objectives have been discussed.  Key findings from this review confirm that this is an under-developed area of research and that most practitioner approaches are focused on benchmarking practices within SMEs. There is a need to extend theoretical and practical aspects of benchmarking in SMEs by studying the process of benchmarking with regards to the novel concept of lead benchmarking as a possible means of achieving increased radical and innovative transformation in organizational change.   From the review it emerged that, lead, forward looking and predictive benchmarking have not been considered in SMEs, and future researches could include them

Automated Service Identification Methods: A Review

Service identification represents the first phase in service modelling, a necessary step in SOA. This research study reviewed and analyzed the issues related to automation issues of service identification. However, the importance of service identification methods’ (SIM) automation and their business alignment are emphasized in literature, reviewing existing service identification methods (SIMs) reveals the lack of business alignment, automation as challenging issues. We close the gap by proposing ASIF which relies on automating the SIMs’ steps to identify business aligned services based on business processes and business goals