{"title":"DRIVERS OF E-BUSINESS VALUE CREATION IN BANKING SECTOR IN JORDAN : A STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING APPLICATION","authors":"A. Alawneh, M. Younis","doi":"10.5121/IJMIT.2014.6201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJMIT.2014.6201","url":null,"abstract":"With the development and growth of internet, its applications of e-banking, e-commerce, and e-business became irreplaceable channels regarding its fast access, rich content, and smooth interactivity. High investments are paid toward improving the quality of service offered by the banks. This paper is dedicated to empirically investigating the drivers of e-Business value creation in the Jordanian banking sector. This work summarizes the main differences among employees of Jordanian and foreign bank regarding their perspectives. Many of the competing foreign banks to the Jordanian banks are enforced with huge financial capital, having long periods of banking practices and are employing cutting-edge technologies and tools. To minimize the technological gap, Jordanian banks are working hard to develop their e-Business services. This in one hand has to enhance their trust, satisfaction, and commitment toward existing customers and entice new comers on other hand. Based on business model of Amit and Zott, i.e. the four constructs of eValue framework (efficiency, complementarities, lock-in, and novelty), four hypotheses have been formulated to test the differences in the drivers of e-Business value creation between Jordanian and foreign banks. A survey questionnaire in a form of paper-and-pencil was delivered personally to 200 employees from four main Jordanian banks and 200 employees from four foreign banks working in Jordan. The questionnaire was formed and constructed to test the proposed hypotheses. the findings in this study based on the SEM and T-test analyses, revealed important implications that will help banks’ managers to make well-informed decisions and policies regarding investments and resources allocation for implementing eBusiness strategies and ventures. The paper concludes with discussing the importance of these findings for practitioners and for future research on value accrued from e-Business services.","PeriodicalId":335930,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managing Information Technology","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121494836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RESEARCH ON FRESH AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT BASED ON THE RETAILER'S OVERCONFIDENCE UNDER OPTIONS AND SPOT MARKETS","authors":"K. Nie, Man Yu","doi":"10.5121/IJMIT.2013.5403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJMIT.2013.5403","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we analyze the application of options contract in the special commodity supply chain such as fresh agricultural products. This problem is discussed from the point of the retailer. When spot market and future market are both available, we discuss how the retailer chooses the optimal production. Furthermore, overconfidence is introduced to the supply chain of the fresh agricultural products, which has not happened before. Then based on the overconfidence of the retailer, we explore how overconfidence affects the supply chain system under different circumstances. At last, we get the conclusion that different overconfidence level has different affection on retailer’s optimal ordering quantity and profit.","PeriodicalId":335930,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managing Information Technology","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123388985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ARABIC STEMMING ALGORITHMS","authors":"M. Otair","doi":"10.5121/IJMIT.2013.5201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJMIT.2013.5201","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of Information Retrieval, Arabic stemming algorithms have become a most research area of information retrieval. Many researchers have developed algorithms to solve the problem of stemming. Each researcher proposed his own methodology and measurements to test the performance and compute the accuracy of his algorithm. Thus, nobody can make accurate comparisons between these algorithms. Many generic conflation techniques and stemming algorithms are theoretically analyzed in this paper. Then, the main Arabic language characteristics that are necessary to be mentioned before discussing Arabic stemmers are summarized. The evaluation of the algorithms in this paper shows that Arabic stemming algorithm is still one of the most information retrieval challenges. This paper aims to compare the most of the commonly used light stemmers in terms of affixes lists, algorithms, main ideas, and information retrieval performance. The results show that the light10 stemmer outperformed the other stemmers. Finally, recommendations for future research regarding the development of a standard Arabic stemmer were presented.","PeriodicalId":335930,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managing Information Technology","volume":"3 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121409548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE QUALITY OF MOBILE SHOPPING SYSTEM AND ITS IMPACT ON PURCHASE INTENTION AND PERFORMANCE","authors":"Lisa Y. Chen","doi":"10.5121/IJMIT.2013.5203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJMIT.2013.5203","url":null,"abstract":"Measuring the quality of mobile shopping (m-shopping) system provides retailers with a greater understanding of what improvements need to be made along the way to increase purchase intention and organizational performance. M-shopping is an alternative sales channel available to optimize marketing investments as it can be tailored to customer’s purchase intention and ultimately to drive sales. This study intends to explore the relationships between the m-shopping system quality, purchase intention, and organizational performance based on the extended IS success model. This research model surveyed 217 marketers in Taiwan to measure their perception of m-shopping quality. The results suggest that mshopping system quality (system, information, and service quality) has a significant effect on purchase intention. This study also confirms that purchase intention has a significant effect on organizational performance. The findings contributed to improved understanding of the practical applications of mshopping systems. The practical implication of the findings and directions for future research was discussed..","PeriodicalId":335930,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managing Information Technology","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129110813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CONCEPTUALIZATION OF ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT ADOPTION","authors":"Rahmath Safeena, Abdullah Kammani","doi":"10.5121/IJMIT.2013.5102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJMIT.2013.5102","url":null,"abstract":"E-government facilitates provision of relevant government information in electronic form to the citizens in a timely manner and better service delivery to citizens. Information Technology today is recognized as an effective tool for turning the economic activity in efficient governance and in developing human resource. E-government is a kind of governmental administration which is based on ICT Services. The essence of egovernment is using information technology to break the boundary of administrative organizations, and build up a virtual electronic government. E-government initiatives are common in most countries as they promise a transparent, citizen-centric government and reduce operational cost. Emerging with Egovernment, theories and practices of public administration have stepped into a new knowledge era. Egovernment presents a tremendous impetus to move forward with higher quality, cost-effective, government services and a better relationship between citizens and government. This paper discusses the different issues, challenges, adoption factors for e-government implementation, conceptual demarcation on these factors and, presents a conceptual framework for better e-government performance.","PeriodicalId":335930,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managing Information Technology","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123167545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FOR IMMIGRANT : THE BUSINESS CASE","authors":"D. Schirone","doi":"10.5121/IJMIT.2012.4402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJMIT.2012.4402","url":null,"abstract":"Corporate social responsibility represents for IKEA a competitive factor of extraordinary importance. Social policies of racial integration are one of the challenges that the Swedish multinational faces day to day. In the present work it stands out as the racial integration is not only a socially desirable goal; the economic utility of a multi-ethnic integration policy is also highlighted, because of changes occurred in the ethnic composition of customers.","PeriodicalId":335930,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managing Information Technology","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127075455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EXTENDING UTAUT TO EXPLAIN SOCIAL MEDIA ADOPTION BY MICROBUSINESSES","authors":"D. Mandal, R. McQueen","doi":"10.5121/IJMIT.2012.4401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJMIT.2012.4401","url":null,"abstract":"This paper extends the use of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to explain social media adoption by microbusinesses. A canonical action research method is used to study social media adoption in microbusiness, and a post positivist approach is used to report the results based on a predetermined premise. It is found that the major constructs of performance and effort expectancy played an insignificant role, and social influence and facilitating conditions did not influence the behavioral and adoption intentions of social media by microbusiness owners. Owner characteristics and codification effort dominated the use behavior. The goal of microbusiness owners in gaining additional customers leads to behavioral modification resulting in replacing of behavioral intention with goals as a superior method of predicting adoption behavior within the context of microbusinesses.","PeriodicalId":335930,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managing Information Technology","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116648958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DESIGNING A RECOMMENDER SYSTEM BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS AND LOCATION BASED SERVICES","authors":"Fatemeh Khoshnood, M. Mahdavi, M. Kiani","doi":"10.5121/IJMIT.2012.4404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJMIT.2012.4404","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile devices have diminished spatial limitations, in a way that one can personalize content in a suitable frame considering individual’s location and present it. Yet, it is not possible to consider user’s interests and preferences in a suggestion provided using just place-based services. Current generation of place-based services do not provide users with personalized suggestions, instead they just offer suggestions close to interests based on users distance from the place where they are. In order to solve this problem, the idea of using social recommender systems was discussed which contains capability of identifying user’s interests and preferences and based on them and user’s current place, it offers some suggestions. Social recommender systems are a combination of social data on web like; user’s social networks and spatial information. Because user’s information include personal information and interests in social network sites, considering user’s current location and the information existing in social network data base, it is possible to provide user with a suitable suggestion. Through this method users’ interaction decreases and they can acquire their favorite information and services.","PeriodicalId":335930,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managing Information Technology","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115378140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"E-COMMERCE MOBILE MARKETING MODEL RESOLVING USERS ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA","authors":"V. Moertini, C. D. Nugroho","doi":"10.5121/IJMIT.2012.4403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJMIT.2012.4403","url":null,"abstract":"The growth of e-commerce and mobile services has been creating business opportunities. Among these, mobile marketing is predicted to be a new trend of marketing. As mobile devices are personal tools such that the services ought to be unique, in the last few years, researches have been conducted studies related to the user acceptance of mobile services and produced results. This research aims to develop a model of mobile e-commerce mobile marketing system, in the form of computer-based information system (CBIS) that addresses the recommendations or criteria formulated by researchers. In this paper, the criteria formulated by researches are presented then each of the criteria is resolved and translated into mobile services. A model of CBIS, which is an integration of a website and a mobile application, is designed to materialize the mobile services. The model is presented in the form of business model, system procedures, network topology, software model of the website and mobile application, and database models.","PeriodicalId":335930,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managing Information Technology","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130844953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Sengupta, Bulbul Mukherjee, S. Bhattacharya, Rana Dasgupta
{"title":"OLAP based Scaffolding to support Personalized Synchronous e-Learning","authors":"S. Sengupta, Bulbul Mukherjee, S. Bhattacharya, Rana Dasgupta","doi":"10.5121/IJMIT.2012.4306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJMIT.2012.4306","url":null,"abstract":"The advent of asynchronous web based learning systems has helped the learner in a self paced, personalized and flexible learning style. It can be even more useful with a supportive synchronous tutorial (question-answer) session. The challenge is to provide sufficient information to the instructor about the learner’s experience in that particular course at run time. Online analytical processing (OLAP) is a very useful technique in producing such run time information in the form of reports. In this paper we have designed an automated scaffolding technique to hold this vital information about the learner which we have obtained by OLAP techniques on the log data of the LMS users. We have also proposed an overall architecture of the scaffolding where this information can be easily accessed and used by the instructor in the synchronous tutorial session to make the system more adaptive.","PeriodicalId":335930,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managing Information Technology","volume":"294 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123183235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}