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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"adoption and use"”.
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The Adoption and Use of ICT in Micro Firms
… ongoing interest within the academic community and policy makers could be attributed to the belief that such enterprises would grow and become cornerstones of economic prosperity and wealth creation. The SME community however, particularly the micro-sized classified enterprises have remained …
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Making Meanings of the Body: What Cyborg Narratives Reveal About Prosthetic Limb Adoption and Use
In my project, I speak with 20 prosthesis-users, adapting timeline analysis alongside photo-elicitation and semi-structured interviews to examine participants’ cyborg narratives, the stories of how their use of these intimate technologies is integrated into their narratives of self. I ask two …
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Strategic Environmental Assessment: Its Potential Adoption and Use in Corporate Strategic Planning and Decision-Making
… (SEA) is a systematic process for assessing and evaluating the potential environmental effects of proposed policies, plans and programmes (PPPs) and their alternatives, in order to identify and address such issues at the early (pre-project) stages of strategic planning and decision-making. …
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Telesonography Adoption and Use to Improve the Standard of Patient Care Within a Dominican Community
… implications for the health of remote and underserved populations. With coordination of radiographic evaluation and diagnosis from a distance, teleradiology has the potential to raise the standard of patient care throughout the world. Perhaps the safest and most cost-effective mode of …
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The views, adoption and use of e-books by undergraduate students at the University of Namibia
The advancement of Information Communication and Technology, especially the vast development of the Internet, which makes information more widely available to more people, has brought changes to the publishing industry. This technological development includes the introduction of electronic …
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The Adoption and use of ICT's by SME's in the road passenger Operators at Intercity Bus Terminus
The study was aimed at investigating the adoption and use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) by Small-and-Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the road passenger transport sector in Lusaka, Zambia. The study was based on the following general objectives: 1. To determine the factors …
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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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The Adoption and Use of Electronic Information Resources by a Non-Traditional User Group: Automotive Service Technicians.
… has led to a concomitant increase in the amount and complexity of the information needed by those charged with servicing them. This, in turn, has led to a need for more robust methods for storing and distributing information and for a workforce more sophisticated in its use of information …
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Information technology and the employment relationship : an examination of the adoption and use of electronic health records
… the interplay of workplace technological change and features of the employment relationship to inform an active policy debate. In particular, many connect US healthcare's lackluster economic performance -- both historically and relative to other industries -- to its apparent reluctance to adopt …
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Entrepreneurial marketing orientation: the influence on the adoption and use of digital marketing technology in small tourism businesses.
… has become an integral part of modern society and has changed communication between businesses and their customers; a change that is rooted in the speed of the evolution of digital technology and its adoption by consumers and businesses. Tourism customers are increasingly using mobile and …
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The dynamic processes of the adoption and use of cloud computing by small, medium enterprises in South Africa
Small and Medium Enterprises are vital contributors to economic development in middle-income countries like South Africa. SMEs adopt and use various information and communication technologies, such as cloud computing. This is to compete in the information age characterised by the rapidly changing …
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Factors Influencing the Adoption and Use of Computers by the Faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
… pressure that has forced effective computer use in industry is not as intense within universities. This research investigates facilitating and limiting factors that influence faculty members' work-related use of computers.
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Exploring the personal adoption and use of generative artificial intelligence in work and decision-making by employees of multinational corporations : a technology acceptance model perspective
… (MNCs) are increasingly leveraging the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to enhance decision-making and create efficiencies. This study aims to explore how employees of MNCs are adopting and utilising generative AI in their work and decision-making. The researcher approaches the …
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An investigation of implementation, adoption and use of technology for enhancing students’ CoreLife Skills in a vocational institute : A Case Study informed by Actor-Network Theory
… Skills in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and growing use of technology in education; this research investigates the assemblage of CoreLife Skills through technological innovation in a vocational education and training (VET) institute in the UAE. Further, the research explores the influence …
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Information systems implementation and IT-enabled organisational change in the Eastern Caribbean tourism sector : an examination of factors impacting on the successful adoption and use of the Internet and web-based systems in national tourist offices and the Caribbean Tourism Organisation
This research project addresses the adoption of the Internet and implementation of webbased systems by quasi-governmental organisations responsible for the management of tourism in the small island developing states (SIDS) in the Eastern Caribbean. The key aspects of this work entail the …
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User-centered system design in an aging society : an integrated study on technology adoption
… global phenomenon that is bringing changes and challenges to various areas of society. Technology has been explored as one way to cope with the complexities and uncertainties that are emerging with this demographic change. However, the responses from the potential user segment have been far …
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A Behavioral Evaluation of the Transition to Electronic Prescribing in a Hospital Setting
… variables of medication-order compliance and time to first dose of antibiotic was investigated in this quasi-experimental study of a naturally-occurring CPOE intervention. The impact of CPOE on compliance and time to first dose was assessed by comparing measures of these variables from the …
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A framework for data-driven decision-making at a South African higher education institution
… to higher education institutions (HEIs), but its adoption and use in South African HEIs are still low. This low adoption is attributed to various reasons based on decision-makers’ perceptions, expectations and experiences of data-driven decision-making tools and techniques. This thesis presents an …
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Cultural Dimensions of Knowledge Management : A Comparative Analysis of Web 2.0 In Russian and Anglo-Saxon Contexts.
… national culture has an impact on the internal adoption and use of Web 2. 0 in organizations, and providing an explanation to how this may be happening. The rationale for it was derived from two factors. The initial indication that such impact can exist came from the evident skewness in the …
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