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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Perceived risks"”.
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Improving employee adopting of ERP by reducing employees' perceived risks through training
… managers and employees. These challenges lead to perceived high level of risks, which in turn influence employees’ willingness to adopt the system. This research investigated whether employees’ perception of likely risks in adopting ERP influences the actual adoption of ERP, and whether training …
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Primate crop raiding in Uganda: actual and perceived risks around Budongo Forest Reserve
… interdisciplinary study compared the actual and perceived risk of primate crop raiding around Budongo Forest Reserve, northwest Uganda during 2004/2005. Weekly farm monitoring established that at least seven wild species damage crops. and primates (primarily baboons) are responsible for forty …
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‘Ni kubahatisha tu!’-‘It’s just a game of chance!’ Adaptation and resignation to perceived risks in rural Tanzania
… to inform our understandings of how HIV risk is perceived. Through qualitative methods it is both a deductive testing of the risk theories of Douglas and Giddens and an inductive, grounded investigation to identify which risks are prioritised and the discourses which influence risk perceptions in …
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Understanding Consumers' Digital Data Disclosure Decision-Making: A Focus on Data Sharing Cooperations, Perceived Risks and Low-Cognitive-Effort Processing
… to unify and increase the understanding of perceived privacy risks and privacy concerns which are the two major antecedents that reduce consumers’ disclosure willingness. To this end, five studies are conducted: i) essay 1 examines and compares consumers’ privacy risk perception in a DSC …
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Investigation of ride-share service decisions with uncertainty and perceived risks: Case study of young adults in Cape Town, South Africa
… service trips involving uncertainty and perceived risks (trips ‘at night', ‘alone' and ‘alone at night'). Using the Quantum Probability Theory concepts of Belief State and incompatibility, this research aims to better understand the influences of Gender (female, male), Access to a Private …
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¡No Smoking Por Vapor! Systematic Literature Review Examining the Attitudes Toward, Beliefs About, Perceived Risks and Benefits of Electronic Cigarettes and Toward Their Use Among United States Youth
… as nicotine replacement therapy. However, the risks to health that electronic cigarettes pose remain in question and are under study. For example, some constituents of the electronic cigarette’s vapor are known to contain certain compounds that have been documented to cause health-related …
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Perceived Crowding: Consumers’ Lived Experiences of a Tourist Destination
… to offer a more comprehensive understanding of perceived crowding (PC). Data from a single two-phase qualitative empirical study is utilised to map lived crowding experiences longitudinally with a particular emphasis on perceived risks and consumer vulnerabilities. Paper 1 introduces the …
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Exploring the Impacts of Service Guarantee Strategy in the Casual Restaurant Sector
… of service guarantees in terms of consumers' perceived risks, loyalty, and word-of-mouth intent in the casual dining restaurant segment. In addition, the study investigated what type of service guarantee consumers preferred. A total of seven research hypotheses were developed on the basis of …
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An Analysis of the Factors Affecting Attitudes toward Drone Delivery and the Moderating Effect of COVID-19
… delivery as a feasible delivery option. The perceived attributes, COVID-19 variable, performance risk, and drone familiarity were found to be predictors of attitude toward drone delivery. All the predictors have a positive relationship with attitude except perceived risk. Attitude, the …
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The Effect of a Nominal Fee on Treatment Choices for Children Needing Dental Rehabilitation
… examine whether age, the number of appointments, perceived risks of treatment, child's awareness during treatment, or insurance type appeared to play a role in this preference.Methods: Using a cross-sectional survey design, questionnaires were distributed to caregivers of patients in the waiting …
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An investigation of a theoretical model of willingness to donate blood
… personal values, knowledge about blood donation, perceived risks associated with donating blood, and attitudes towards blood donation, as antecedents to willingness to donate.
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Navigating “Innocent” Conversations: Early Childhood Educator’s Rationales’ for Addressing Topics of Gender and Sexuality with Young Children
… with institutional norms and managing the perceived “risks” associated with these topics. In this context, educators often filter, limit, or avoid discussions, reducing children’s engagement with these issues. Given these assertions, I seek to uncover how power dynamics and ethical …
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The effects of direct-to-consumer antidepressent advertising on doctor-patient relationships
… antidepressant advertising, and its perceived risks or benefits to the doctor-patient relationship.
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Social Acceptance of Woody Biomass Energy: Expectations, Risks, and Uncertainties in Montana
… categories: corollary expectations of benefit, perceived risks and uncertainty, and social justice motives. Two themes were coded with a much higher frequency than others: expectations of biomass energy utilization to sustain livelihoods and uncertainty surrounding the economic feasibility of …
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Social Acceptance of Woody Biomass Energy: Expectations, Risks, and Uncertainties in Montana
… categories: corollary expectations of benefit, perceived risks and uncertainty, and social justice motives. Two themes were coded with a much higher frequency than others: expectations of biomass energy utilization to sustain livelihoods and uncertainty surrounding the economic feasibility of …
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Empirical Essays on Corporate Financing Behaviors
… to cater to investors’ appetite for risk. When perceived risks are low, firms tend to choose more leveraged capital structures to take advantage of higher valuations associated with higher risk exposure. When perceived risks are high, firms tend to deleverage to avoid undervaluation associated …
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The ability of renewable energy assets to attract private investment: factors and considerations that influence an investor's decision to invest into South African assets with a renewable energy exposure
… the drivers and restraints identified were the risks and rewards involved in investing into a RE asset, specifically the macro-economic and microeconomic risk and reward factors involved. Renewable energy assets were found to closely be affected by government policies and the stability thereof. …
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Nonemergency visits to the emergency room : revelations from the COVID era.
… in the cost of going to the ER due to more perceived risks. Findings show that the portion of patients that visit the ER but do not need emergency treatment is significant, and the portion significantly dropped during COVID when these patients chose not to go to the ER. This results in …
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"To integrate or to differentiate?" - Towards resolving a multi-channel dilemma investigation of the effects of channel integration strategies on consumers' evaluations of multi-channel utility and their adoption of multi-channel shopping
… on the degree of channel complementarity as perceived by the retailer's customers. Channel complementarity is defined as the degree to which multiple retail channels work synergistically to create value. Complementary channels give customers integrated solutions that create more value than …
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