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21
Aug
2008

Online Impulse Buying and Product Involvement

Communications of the IBIMA
Do consumers behavior different on the Internet from other marketing channels? This study investigates impulse buying behaviors in both traditional store and online shopping contexts. The results show that impulsive buying tendency and involvement with clothing products is positively associated with impulse buying behavior of…
19
Aug
2008

Performance Evaluation to Enable Institutionalisation of Technology

Communications of the IBIMA
Technology implementation involves understanding of the structure of the technology, the reasons for choosing particular technology and its implementation approaches, assumptions about the context in which technology is to be used, and previous experiences with technology adoption. However, information systems implementation in engineering organizations generally…
18
Aug
2008

Improving Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) Practices through a Clinical Microsystem in the Malaysian Government Hospitals

Communications of the IBIMA
Healthcare is provided to patients by caregivers who give in complex organizational arrangements but the overwhelming amount of their own daily work is part of a clinical microsystem. The concept of clinical microsystem places medical error and harm reduction into the broader context of safety…
17
Aug
2008

Compliance of X.509 Certification Standard in the Implementation of Third Party Certification in Malaysian E-Commerce Websites

Communications of the IBIMA
The concept of trusted services forms a key issue for any kind of electronic services. Third Party Certification (TPC) endorsement has been used as one of the methods to instill consumers’ trust. Creating initial trust through implementation of TPC is very important because the consumer…
16
Aug
2008

ICT Capability and Innovation Utilization in Turkish SMEs: The Case of Machinery Industry

Communications of the IBIMA
Global competition requires usage of local and global research and innovation networks; transfer of innovative ability to new products, services and processes. Large scale companies have the ability to cope with the dynamics of the fierce global competition whereas, SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises)…
15
Aug
2008

Regulating the Mobile Telecommunications Industry: The Case of Australia

Communications of the IBIMA
The adoption of mobile services has achieved a spectacular growth in many countries around the world. However, regulators in these countries are finding that existing regulatory frameworks are not suitable for dealing with these services. This paper employs qualitative evidence to investigate how regulation can…
14
Aug
2008

Avatar-Based Commerce: The Business World of the Future?

Communications of the IBIMA
In order to keep up with fierce competition in the forever distributed, global and virtual business world, big name companies like IBM, Toyota, etc. have ventured into exploiting the potential of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games (MMORPG) technology, via Second Life, to reinvent themselves. Investigating…
13
Aug
2008

Effective Program Management Practices

Communications of the IBIMA
Enterprises embarking on the journey of transforming business face dilemma about balanced risk, effects of change and benefits of innovation. Effective management of large business transformation programs is necessary to minimize the negative impacts of the change. Business would need to focus on planning, performance…
12
Aug
2008

Privacy-Preserving Data Mining for Horizontally-Distributed Datasets using ”ŽEGADP

Communications of the IBIMA
In this paper, we investigate the possibility of using EGADP for protecting data in horizontally-distributed datasets. EGADP is a new advanced data perturbation method that masks confidential numeric attributes in original datasets while reproducing all linear relationships in masked datasets. It is developed for centralized…
10
Aug
2008

A Study of Global Bankruptcy Trends: Examples from USA, UK, Australia, China and other countries

Communications of the IBIMA
Bankruptcy filings in the US have reached an all time high in recent years. But the European countries have been slow and less aggressive than USA. On the whole there is evidence more and more countries are reforming their bankruptcy laws, albeit at different rates and difference reasons.…