The gap of measurement results of maturity levels of IT governance reflects that adoption of IT governance has possessed no clarity on critical factors of success in assuring the availability of ...information services and improving the business performance of online stores. Business strategy should be reinforced. Also, alternatives of competitive strategy should be formulated. In this study context, the scopes were on variables of strategic alignment, IT leadership, and culture. This study put its goal of cognizing to what extent influences of IT governance adoption could support and ensure IT operation services improving the business performance of online stores in West Kalimantan. An explanatory survey method was applied to analysis units of organizations. The respondents were heads or managers with more than five-year experience. The survey was conducted through google form to 112 online stores. However, only 99 respondents submitted the filled forms. Data were processed through Likert Scales and SEM - PLS analysis. Based on the analysis of the path diagram, the whole coefficients showed positive, direct influences. Nevertheless, based on t-statistics, there were some insignificant influences. Adjusted R-squared value was 0.740, meaning that business performance was immensely influenced by all perspective variables, especially strategic alignment regardless of IT governance adoption in online stores in West Kalimantan.
With the development of e-commerce in China, some obstacles, such as poor Internet infrastructure and logistics problems have been gradually removed. Consumers' distrust of online stores becomes the ...main problem impeding the acceptance of online shopping. Initial trust is the focus of this study because most Internet users in China have no experience of online shopping. Although the technology acceptance model (TAM) has been extensively studied, it is rarely tested in the context of initial trust or in developing countries such as China. Because China has a very different cultural environment from western countries, the results of existing studies on TAM and trust may not be directly applied to China without actual examination. The study integrates TAM with initial trust to explain online shopping behaviour of Chinese consumers. The results demonstrate that perceived usefulness, consumers' trust propensity, website security and vendor reputation have significant effect on initial trust. Perceived usefulness fully mediates the relationship between perceived ease of use and initial trust as well as the relationship between perceived ease of use and purchase intention.
In this work we propose and analyze a model which addresses the pulsing behavior of sellers in an online auction (store). This pulsing behavior is observed when sellers switch between advertising and ...processing states. We assert that a seller switches her state in order to maximize her profit, and further that this switch can be identified through the seller's reputation. We show that for each seller there is an optimal reputation, i.e., the reputation at which the seller should switch her state in order to maximize her total profit. We design a stochastic behavioral model for an online seller, which incorporates the dynamics of resource allocation and reputation. The design of the model is optimized by using a stochastic advertising model from 1 and used effectively in the Stochastic Optimal Control of Advertising 2. This model of reputation is combined with the effect of online reputation on sales price empirically verified in 3. We derive the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) differential equation, whose solution relates optimal wealth level to a seller's reputation. We formulate both a full model, as well as a reduced model with fewer parameters, both of which have the same qualitative description of the optimal seller behavior. Coincidentally, the reduced model has a closed form analytical solution that we construct.
The goal of the present paper is to evaluate the status of the protection of consumer right to information before the purchase from Romanian online stores. The perspective focuses on technical ...consumer goods. The research pursued two major objectives. The former consisted in analysing the compliance of the online stores with the provisions of article 6 paragraph 1 of the Directive 2011/83/EU on consumer rights, relative to the information provided to potential buyers before the purchase. The latter was to identify the consumer awareness of the rights stipulated by article 6 of the directive, as well as to study the opinions of consumers relative to the information that online stores are compelled to supply before purchase. The first objective was accomplished by applying the content analysis method to the information available on the Web for a sample of 100 online stores. The second objective was achieved through the survey method on a sample of 351 persons from the 25 to 34 age group, residing in Bucharest. Compared to other studies, the major contributions of the present research approach are the following: the investigation of an extensive sample of online stores; the wider range of products; the focus on both online stores and consumers. The results show that improvements are needed in the level of compliance and in the consumer awareness of own rights.
When setting out a research roadmap for software testing, Bertolino 1 presented four dreams, one of which was 100% automatic testing. Fifteen years later, the dream has not been realised but the ...promise of artificial intelligence techniques brings us closer than ever before. In this paper, we propose that one way to achieve this goal is to leverage the commonalities that exist amongst domain-specific applications. That is to say that whilst every application within a particular domain is arguably unique, they all share a considerable overlap in terms of features.We propose an approach based on Behavioural Cloning, an AI technique whereby an agent observes traces by an expert and attempts to carry out domain-specific tasks in previously unseen contexts based on those traces. Using online stores as a case study, we discuss initial investigations into this idea, present results and identify a roadmap going forward.
The intention of conducting such the research was to evaluate mediating roles of IT service management on information system success model and IT governance, further boosting E-service quality. A ...method combining convergent triangulation and an explanatory, follow-up design was implemented. The population engaged middle-up online stores that have marketed products online in five-year time in West Kalimantan. Questionnaires were completed by 99 out of 112 managers. Quantitative analysis was performed through SEM- PLS. In-depth interviews and FGDs with 5 key informants, however, yielded data used for qualitative analysis. Results conclusively reveal that information system success model is insignificant for E-service quality despite direct, positive influences gained. In other words, the business success of online stores has no reliance on this type of model. The focus should be on IT governance reinforcing IT service management. The fact is supported by qualitative findings emphasizing that such the governance is eminently influenced by information system success model and it is requisite to actualize IT service management for progressed E-service quality.
The Power of Access Mallya, Vinutha
Logos (London, England),
2013, Letnik:
24, Številka:
2
Journal Article
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The publishing sector in India is growing at an estimated 30 per cent annually. New publishing technologies are creating opportunities for book publishers in the country. The current ebook market is ...said to be less than one per cent of the total book market, but expected to grow multifold in the next 2–3 years. This paper scopes out the factors that will lead to the growth of ebooks, namely, growth of literacy; internet penetration; proliferation of personal handheld devices; localization; and the government’s policies and initiatives. It lists the epublishing efforts of private publishers and new enterprises in education and trade segments of the industry. The article observes that although ebook publishing is at a nascent stage with potential for remarkable growth, print runs of printed books are increasing simultaneously. A hybrid model for the book industry, of both printed books and ebooks, is suggested as a viable option for the needs of a developing country such as India, where access to digital content continues to be a significant challenge.
The guarantee of reliable IT operation services in producing relevant, punctual, and accurate information relies on IT maturity levels. It is noted that smoothness and appropriateness of IT operation ...services influence rework of dissemination of information. This research included 65 online stores in West Kalimantan as the sample. Questionnaires with groups of domains of IT processes and Likert scales were used to collect the data. Managers marketing the products through online stores became the respondents. The research aimed to cognize impacts of maturity levels of IT governance on needs of IT operation services. Results indicate that values of maturity levels that are less than 2.51 are dominated by PO Domain (PO1, PO2, PO3, PO4, PO8, and PO9), AI Domain (AI4 and AI5), DS Domain (DS4 and DS5), and ME Domain (ME4). The lowest value (2.421) is at PO3 (determining IT directions). Meanwhile, the highest one (2.975) is at DS6 (identifying and allocating costs). These values of maturity levels become important indicators of perspectives on IT operation services to map structures, processes, and relationships. Management of IT resources through interrelationships of applications, information, infrastructure, and human resources is inevitably necessary.
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