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30
Sep
2010

An Approach of Web Service Quality Attributes Specification

Communications of the IBIMA
Web Services are considered a new way of building software applications based on Services that are available through the Internet. However, Web Services still face many problems that are limiting their adoption. One of the causes of this problem is the lack of metadata about…
30
Sep
2010

Integrating Knowledge Management and Human Resource Management for Sustainable Performance

Journal of Organizational Knowledge Management
Strategic knowledge is increasingly becoming an engine for change and creativity in many industries and organizations: enabling effective operational and strategic initiatives. Existing literature in knowledge management (KM), however, has focused mainly on generic outputs obtainable from KM systems. This paper examines the strategic relevance…
29
Sep
2010

Information Usefulness in an Information System: Performance at the Strategic Level of the Organization

Communications of the IBIMA
This research studies the relation between information quality management in an information system and performance at the strategic level of the organization. This relation includes the "usefulness" which is an aspect of information quality management and organizational strategy’s benefits. Through a quantitative analysis, this study…
28
Sep
2010

Ethical Decision Making in ICT: Discussing the Impact of an Ethical Code of Conduct

Communications of the IBIMA
In December 2007 and January 2008 a survey on ethical aspects of ICT was executed. The aim was to assess the ethical behaviour of ICT-professionals in Belgium and thus opening a discussion on the need for an ethical code of conduct in the ICT-management domain.…
25
Sep
2010

The Impact of Quality of Online Banking on Customer Commitment

Communications of the IBIMA
This article demonstrates the existence of a causal relationship between perceived quality, satisfaction and commitment in the context of online banking. The results show that the perceived quality heavily influences the commitment of customers and that this effect is direct and not mediated by satisfaction.
23
Sep
2010

A Proposed Interpretivist Framework to Research the Adoption of Learning Management Systems in Universities

Communications of the IBIMA
This paper proposes a practical research framework based on activity theory as a lens to research the adoption of learning management systems in tertiary education institutions. Following the identification of the interpretivist paradigm as an appropriate research approach, approaches such structuration theory, actor network theory,…
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…