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20
Sep
2010

M-Government and Service Delivery: A Case Study on the Pension System in South Africa

Journal of e-Government Studies and Best Practices
The ability for a government administrator to make just, fair and reasonable decisions, better known as administrative decision making, is dependent on the information flow between the administrator and a citizen. South Africa recognizes that it struggles with the information flow primarily because of a…
19
Sep
2010

The Persuasive Effectiveness of Famous and Non Famous Endorsers in Advertising

IBIMA Business Review
This research aims to compare the persuasive effectiveness and attitudes change induced in the case of famous and non famous endorser in advertisement. An experimentation was conducted by 290 tunisian women. Our empirical results showed that the non celebrity spokesperson was more credible and generated…
15
Sep
2010

Constructivist Use of Business Simulators in Education

Communications of the IBIMA
The goal of this paper is to define and propose a model of possible use of business simulators to support education in constructivism sense and with a respect to revised Bloom’s taxonomy of learning objectives. This model is particularly focused on re-construction of prior partial…
11
Sep
2010

Design of a Performance Measurement System in a RTO

Communications of the IBIMA
Research and Technology Organizations (RTOs) are knowledge-intensive firms. They tend to rely mainly on their employees and their individual competencies (codified or non-codified), the networks and communities they are involved in as well as the structural resources of the organization itself. These resources, mainly of…
07
Sep
2010

Corporate Technology Intelligence Research System through Recycling Public Patent Databases

Communications of the IBIMA
Investment in technology is a sensitive issue in modern corporate decision making processes. Developing software for analyzing the trends of any kind of technology requires the extraction of patent information available through web, but also to clean, transform and load it into a standard database…
01
Sep
2010

Perceptions towards Online Shopping: Analyzing the Greek University Students’ Attitude

Communications of the IBIMA
The sharp increase of Internet usage, as well as, the systematic progress of Information Technology have transformed the way goods are bought and sold, resulting to the exponential growth in the number of online shoppers. However, a lot of differences regarding online purchases have been…
31
Aug
2010

The Correlation between the Number of Tourists and the Number of Nights Spent in the Hotel: Analysis Indicator of Hotel Business Efficiency

Communications of the IBIMA
The aim of a travel agency reorientation was to create tourist packages for tourism business. Consequently, the travel agency intended to study the image of a hotel "H" in Bucharest Romania, regarding its tourism activity effectiveness, considering that the hotel is subject to a law…
28
Aug
2010

Three Different Cases of User Instructions for E-learning Courses

Communications of the IBIMA
The paper presents the structure of the learning material for the interactive course “International commerce”. The whole learning material is described through its six components: learning content, evaluation tests, laboratory works, bibliography, webography, and term glossary. The authors present some possibilities of using an interactive…
23
Aug
2010

The Impact of Collocation on the Effectiveness of Agile IS Development Teams

Communications of the IBIMA
This article looks at the impact of collocation on the effectiveness of information system development teams. The research objective was to investigate which features of the collocation environment have the greatest influence on team effectiveness and how these can assist in a better design for…
20
Aug
2010

Instructors’ Acceptance of Learning Management Systems: A Theoretical Framework

Communications of the IBIMA
In the knowledge age, the use of the information technology (IT) tools including learning management systems (LMS) has became an imperative. The adoption rate of LMS in academic and training institutions is very promising worldwide. Learning Management system includes several tools that provide academic and…