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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"IT adoption"”.
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IT adoption in the Construction Sector in Libya
The main aim of this research is to study the IT adoption in the Libyan construction industry. In order to achieve this aim, two methodologies (qualitative and quantitative methodologies) were used for this purpose. The interviews with 26 managers reveal that The Libyan construction industry faces …
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IT adoption in hospitals : social networking, governance and the clockspeed of change
… is expanding swiftly and total healthcare expenditures are expected to reach 18% of GDP by 2008. However there exist steep variances in quality of care and high incidences of medical error. This has given impetus to efforts at progressively evolving the healthcare delivery system. The role of …
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Information technology adoption inhibitor-influencer model for SMEs in the construction industry
… construction industry has been struggling with the issues of improper materials management practices. In an attempt to address these issues, Information Technology (IT) was initiated primarily to overcome the shortcomings of the conventional materials management practices. Although, IT was …
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Environmental and organisational drivers influencing the adoption of unified communications technology in South Africa
Even though Information technology (IT) adoption has been widely studied most of this research has been conducted from within a limited set of perspectives. This study used a combination of perspectives as lenses to understand the factors that enable the adoption of unified communications in South …
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IT strategizing of small firms in Malta: a grounded theory approach.
… innovation is widely acknowledged. Relatively little is known on how small firms are adopting IT strategically to acheive business-IT alignment and how alignment changes over time. This study examines from a dynamic perspective IT adoption actions undertaken by owner-managers, in relation to …
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Knowledge Requirements, Gaps and Learning Responses in Smart Grid Adoption: An Exploratory Study in U.S. Electric Utility Industry
<p>The U.S. electric utility industry is facing a number of challenges today, including aging infrastructure, growing customer demand, CO2 emissions, and increased vulnerability to overloads and outages. Utilities are under greater regulatory, societal and consumer pressure to provide a more …
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Information Technology and Its Transformational Effect on the Health Care Industry
This dissertation examines the adoption of health IT by addressing the barriers to adoption from the perspective of multiple stakeholders. I examine three different phenomena using alternative methodologies and theoretical lenses. Essay 1: The Impact of Firm Characteristics and Spatial Proximity on …
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Small Businesses Encounters with Information Technology
This dissertation advances the concept of IT encountering, defined as the process whereby individuals pay attention, interpret and respond to cues suggesting changes to IT, in ways that appear sensible to them, and it studies IT encountering in the context of small businesses. I review the …
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A pre-post study of patient journey modeling as a change management tool to increase clinician acceptance of EHRs.
… tool to support electronic health record (EHR) adoption, at a tertiary-care mental health centre. This research study was based on a pre/post design, which evaluated the attitudes of clinicians’ pre and post implementation of the EHR. A survey was used to assess the attitudes of various …
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Essential Factors Influencing E-banking Services Intention to Use The Case of Jordanian Commercial Banks
… their clients in an endeavour to enhance the quality of their services. However, some banks are somewhat reluctant to invest heavily in this field for fear of losing customers who, for various reasons, do not appreciate such technology-oriented services. These banks are not totally sure that the …
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Determinants of e-government services adoption in developing countries (Egypt)
… mechanism for increasing government productivity and efficiency and a key enabler for citizen-centric services. E-government services are yet to be universally accepted as a medium for accessing online public services since its inception more than a decade ago. Both governments and academic …
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Impact of corporate orientation of information technology adoption in the United States forest products industry
… operations play in information technology (IT) adoption in organizations. In particular, this research stems from investigating the relationship between company success at adopting information technology systems (the Internet) in the United States forest products industry (specifically, the …
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Information technology and the employment relationship : an examination of the adoption and use of electronic health records
… and relative to other industries -- to its apparent reluctance to adopt electronic health record (EHR) systems. Drawing on management and employment relations theory as well as a multi-method field study of a large-scale healthcare provider, I first demonstrate that performance …
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Factors affecting end-user computing sophistication in small business
… adopt EUC, encourage better utilisation of their IT resources and gain the benefits associated with computerisation. The factors examined are derived inductively from previous studies where a model is developed to map these factors with the degree of sophistication associated with IT and EUC. This …
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Essays on Information Technology, Human Capital, and the Future of Work
… economics of information technology, human capital, and the future of work. In the first essay, ’Occupational Change: Automation and Reskilling Risks’, I develop a methodology to study occupational skill demands and estimate the returns to skills, by leveraging novel data from over 200 million …
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The Nature of Nonprofit Professional Development and Training in Montana
Since sociology of nonprofit professionals and organizations is new and sociologists have not yet been able to theorize or adequately address the strategies and behavior of nonprofit organizations, this study is to give an in-depth view on the nature of nonprofit professional development and …
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The Nature of Nonprofit Professional Development and Training in Montana
Since sociology of nonprofit professionals and organizations is new and sociologists have not yet been able to theorize or adequately address the strategies and behavior of nonprofit organizations, this study is to give an in-depth view on the nature of nonprofit professional development and …
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An Investigation into the Adoption, Implementation and Utilisation of Campus Portals: A Comparative Case Study of Saudi and U.K. Universities.
… in contemporary organisations, including universities. Campus portals (CPs) have found their way into the academic environment and universities are increasingly implementing these technologies. While there are many studies concerning EIPs in organisations, there are few studies that touch this …
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Systemic problems related to multiple stakeholders in technology adoption and use in organizations : a systems thinking perspective
Understanding and creating the conditions under which information systems will be embraced by human organizations (thinking systems) remain high-priority research issues. Despite numerous benefits associated with information technology (IT), implementing an information system (IS) in organizational …
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Pilot Acceptance of Personal, Wearable Fatigue Monitoring Technology: An Application of the Extended Technology Acceptance Model
… a causal factor for aircraft accidents in many United States National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) accident reports; however, the United States Code of Federal Regulations 14 CFR Part 117, Flight and Duty Limitations and Rest Requirements for Flight Crew Members, does not provide a …
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