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Showing 1 to 20 of 357 for “"Technology Adoption"”.
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Technology Adoption Within UK Retail Construction: An Analysis of the Technology Adoption Model (TAM) on Addressing Barriers Preventing Technology Adoption as a Solution to Productivity
… for its low productivity rates and its slow adoption of technologies. This thesis looked to analyse key barriers that are preventing UK Retail Construction organisations from successfully adopting new technologies, in order to find a resolution to the productivity issues faced by the sector. …
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Technology adoption in automotive product development
… industry is characterized by the early adoption of technology into their products. In recent years, the automotive industry has developed infotainment systems that encompass navigation, digital media, phone calls, safety and other elements. These infotainment systems are based on …
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Internet technology adoption in the banking industry
… banking. Given the prevalence of Internet technology adoption by the banking industry in developed countries, the reason for the lack of such an innovation in developing countries such as Oman is a fruitful research question. The aim of this thesis is to explore managers' perceptions of …
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Essays on Technology Adoption, Demographics, and Development
… first chapter, ``Casual Labor, Uncertainty, and Technology Adoption in Agriculture," examines why both the technology adoption rate and labor productivity in agriculture are low in the context of developing countries. A two-stage model is built to explain how the availability of casual …
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Manufacturing Technology Adoption in Dynamic Product Environments
… are appropriately used to study aspects of the technology investment problem: Stochastic Processes in the form of a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process, Non-Linear Mathematical Programming, and Computer Simulation integrated with a Multi-attribute Model based on measurement theory.
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Essays on health economics and technology adoption
This thesis studies the economics of technology adoption in the healthcare industry. The first chapter analyzes the impact of health information technology (HIT) on the quality and intensity of care delivered to Medicare inpatients. Building an organizational model, I show how the adoption of HIT …
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Essays on Information Technology Adoption among Commercial Firms
… investigates how worker mobility influences the adoption of a new general-purpose technology (GPT) that requires significant complementary investments. I use the state-level changes to the enforceability of noncompete agreements as a plausible exogenous shock to labor mobility, and observe the …
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Ambiguity and credence quality: Implications for technology adoption
… Africa. A possible contributor to low adoption is that farmers are uncertain about the quality of agricultural inputs available to them. While previous studies have shown that risk and uncertainty preferences are relevant to the decision to adopt a technology, existing research assumes …
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Big data technology adoption in dairy and beef production
… analytics, and robotics. Specifically, big data technology can enhance production and reduce illness-related losses by providing real-time insights from the whole farm operation by integrating and analyzing all the data generated. However, because this technology is in an early stage, little is …
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Calibrating Expert Assessments of Advanced Aerospace Technology Adoption Impact
… future space launch vehicles employing advanced technology. In particular (and of specific interest in this case), assessment of operations and support cost implications of adopting proposed new technology is frequently asked of the experts. Often the input consisting of estimates and opinions is …
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Irrigation Water Pricing: Technology Adoption, Welfare, and Political Economy
… of water pricing and its implications on the adoption of modern irrigation technology in the presence of asymmetric information and lobbies. The main results are that under the two-part tariff or the nonlinear pricing, farmers have an incentive to organize and can organize to affect the …
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Educational technology adoption in leading Ghanaian state university business school
Today, the rapid growth of the use of technology in education has substantially increased the focus and relevance of educational technology research. This study addresses the question of whether technology can provide significant support in teaching and learning approaches and the associated issue …
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Agricultural Technology Adoption and Adaptation under Climate Change: Microevidence from Niger
… trap. Other determinants affecting inputs adoption on the land including temperature increase, income, farm size, and rainfall level of the previous year. I discuss policy recommendations.</p>
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Subsidies, aquaculture technology adoption, and welfare impacts in Ghana and Kenya
… empirically examines subsidies, aquaculture technology adoption, and welfare implications of fish farming households in Ghana and Kenya. It is divided into three separate chapters, each addressing a specific empirical issue related to aquaculture in the countries.</p> <p>The second chapter of …
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Networking technology adoption : system dynamics modeling of fiber-to-the-home
… dynamics model is developed and run to study the adoption of fiber-to-the-home as a residential broadband technology. Communities that currently do not have broadband in the United States are modeled. This case is of particular interest to U.S. policymakers, but also relevant to other regions …
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Improving Consumer Well-being: A Focus on Financial Health and Technology Adoption
… harm associated with privacy violations and AI technology adoption. While people might have a vague idea of the negative consequences of such harm, they are often not certain about what specific harm they might encounter and how these could affect them in the future. Given the dynamics of harm, …
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Information technology adoption inhibitor-influencer model for SMEs in the construction industry
… 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 aimed to greatly enhance performance and reduce non-value adding activities, IT structures in reality lack …
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Three essays in experimental and behavioral economics of technology adoption in India
… examine the behavioral phenomena which affect technology adoption in the fields of health and agriculture in developing countries. In the first paper based on the joint work with Mary Arends-Kuenning and Hemant Pullabhotla, I examine whether women's contraceptive method choice can be better …
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Improving Technology Adoption Process in Accounting and Finance Using Systems Thinking Methods
… Tradespace Exploration (MATE) to enhance the technology adoption decision-making process within A&F functions. The focus is on Internal Audit (IA) as a case study for a simplified model and demonstration. While empirical data collection and hypothesis testing were not conducted due to data and …
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