Information Technology & People: Volume 29 Issue 4

Adopting Agile software development: the project manager experience

Katie Jane Taylor

Early research into Agile approaches explored particular practices or quantified improvements in code production. Less well researched is how Agile teams are managed. The project…

How user personality and social value orientation influence avatar-mediated friendship

Thomas Chesney, Swee-Hoon Chuah, Robert Hoffmann, Wendy Hui, Jeremy Larner

The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of user personality and vlaues on the number of connections users make, the number of requests for connections that users give…

Understanding the emergence of wearable devices as next-generation tools for health communication

Eunil Park, Ki Joon Kim, Sang Jib Kwon

The purpose of this paper is to identify motivational factors for using wearable healthcare devices and examine the process by which these factors are integrated with the…

Evaluating the impact of serious games: the effect of gaming on entrepreneurial intent

Robert Newbery, Jonathan Lean, Jonathan Moizer

Serious games are playing an increasingly significant role across a range of educational contexts. Business focused serious games can provide students with an authentic learning…

How do students trust Wikipedia? An examination across genders

Jun Huang, Si Shi, Yang Chen, Wing S. Chow

The purpose of this paper is to tend to further develop an understanding of information trustworthiness in the context of Wikipedia and examine the moderating effects of gender on…

Understanding knowledge outcome improvement at the post-adoption stage in a virtual community

Shih-Wei Chou, I.H. Hung

The purpose of this paper is to solve the challenges in knowledge outcome (e.g. knowledge contribution, knowledge exploration) improvement at the post-adoption phase in the…

Enhancing knowledge sharing intention through the satisfactory context of continual service of knowledge management systems

Tse-Ping Dong, Chia-Liang Hung, Nai-Chang Cheng

The purpose of this paper is to show how continual enhancement of knowledge management systems (KMSs) enhances knowledge sharing intention.

Extending the UTAUT model to understand the customers’ acceptance and use of internet banking in Lebanon: A structural equation modeling approach

Ali Tarhini, Mazen El-Masri, Maged Ali, Alan Serrano

A number of studies have shown that internet banking (IB) implementation is not only determined by banks or government support, but also by perceptions and experience of IB users…

The role of context in the co-evolution of work and tools: A case from the primary health sector in Tanzania

Nima Herman Shidende, Margunn Aanestad, Faraja Igira

This paper presents a work-centred study of how information systems practices and tools become shaped by their context. The purpose of this paper is to increase the understanding…

Health beliefs and the valence framework in health information seeking behaviors

Jian Mou, Dong-Hee Shin, Jason Cohen

The purpose of this paper is to help understand consumer acceptance of online health information services by integrating the health belief model and extended valence framework.

A model of adoption determinants of ERP within T-O-E framework

Hart O. Awa, Ojiabo Ukoha Ojiabo

The purpose of this paper is to attempts to provide further insight into IS adoption by investigating how 12 factors within the technology-organization-environment framework…