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Volume 17, 2022

IJIKM Volume 17, 2022 – Table of Contents

Geoffrey Z. Liu

Table of Contents for Volume 17, 2022, of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management

IJIKM, contents, Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management

.i - iv

The Influence of Ethical and Transformational Leadership on Employee Creativity in Malaysia's Private Higher Education Institutions: The Mediating Role of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour

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Modeling the Impact of Covid-19 on the Farm Produce Availability and Pricing in India

Niharika Prasanna Kumar

Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to analyze the availability and pricing of perishable farm produce before and during the lockdown restrictions imposed due to Covid-19. This paper also proposes machine learning and deep learning models to help the farmers decide on an appropriate market to sell their farm produce and get a fair price for their product.

Background: Developing countries like India hav ...

Machine Learning, Classification, Logistic Regression, K-Nearest Neighbors, Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, Deep Learning, Artificial Neural Network, Deep Neural Network, Covid-19, Agriculture

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The Impacts of KM-Centred Strategies and Practices on Innovation: A Survey Study of R&D Firms in Malaysia

Chin Wei Chong, Yee Yen Yuen

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to examine the influences of KM-centred strategies on innovation capability among Malaysian R&D firms. It also deepens understanding of the pathways and conditions to improve the innovation capability by assessing the mediating role of both KM practices, i.e., knowledge exploration practices, and knowledge exploitation practices.

Background: Knowledge is the ...

KM-centred strategies, knowledge exploration, knowledge exploitation, innovation

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Impact of Text Diversity on Review Helpfulness: A Topic Modeling Approach

Lusi Li, Liuliu Fu, Wenlu Zhang

Aim/Purpose: In this study, we aim to investigate the impact of an important characteristic of textual reviews – the diversity of the review content on review helpfulness.

Background: Consumer-generated reviews are an essential format of online Word-of-Month that help customers reduce uncertainty and information asymmetry. However, not all reviews are equally helpful as reflected by the varying n ...

review helpfulness, text diversity, latent dirichlet allocation, online consumer reviews

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Adoption of Mobile Commerce Services Among Artisans in Developing Countries

Isaac Asampana, Albert Akanlisikum Akanferi, Akwetey Henry Matey, Hannah Ayaba Tanye

Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to analyze how artisans in Ghana are incorporating mobile commerce into their everyday business and how perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, subjective norms, age, gender, expertise, and educational level affected the adoption and usage of m-commerce.

Background: This study integrates well-established theoretical models to create a new conceptual model that e ...

mobile commerce, attitude, artisans, behavioral intention, adoption, actual use

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The Extended TRA Model for the Assessment of Factors Driving Individuals’ Behavioral Intention to Use Cryptocurrency

Saad Alaklabi, Kyeong Kang

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the factors driving individuals’ behavioral intention to use cryptocurrency in Saudi Arabia using the extended TRA model.

Background: Despite the great potential of cryptocurrencies and the exponential growth of cryptocurrency use throughout the world, scholarly research on this topic remained scarce. Whereas prior studies are mostly done in deve ...

cryptocurrency, TRA model, behavioral intention to use cryptocurrency, Saudi Arabia

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The International Case for Micro-Credentials for Life-Wide And Life-Long Learning: A Systematic Literature Review

Nkosikhona T Msweli, Hossana Twinomurinzi, Mymoena Ismail (was Sharif)

Aim/Purpose: Systematic literature reviews seek to locate all studies that contain material of relevance to a research question and to synthesize the relevant outcomes of those studies. The primary aim of this paper was to synthesize both research and practice reports on micro-credentials (MCRs).

Background: There has been an increase in reports and research on the plausibility of MCRs to support ...

micro-credentials, digital badges, online learning, credentials, education 4.0, COVID-19

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BITCOIN: An Exploratory Study Investigating Adoption in South Africa

Raphael W Jankeeparsad, Devi Datt Tewari

Aim/Purpose: This paper identified and explored the factors influencing Bitcoin adoption and use in South Africa.

Background: Since its introduction in 2008, the value and popularity of Bitcoin has risen exponentially. Captivating the eyes of the world, from regulators to economists, Bitcoin promises to revolutionize the digital currency space. Despite being over 10 years old, the concept of cryp ...

Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, South Africa

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The Effect of Perceived Support on Repatriate Knowledge Transfer in MNCs: The Mediating Role of Repatriate Adjustment

Sunayana Kumar, Anam Aslam, Aamir Aslam

Aim/Purpose: The present study examines the effect of perceived organisational and co-worker support on the adjustment of repatriates and its impact on their intention to transfer knowledge in multinational companies (MNCs). It also examines the relationship between perceived organisational support, co-worker support, and knowledge transfer through the mediating role of repatriate adjustment.

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repatriates, repatriate adjustment, co-worker support, organisational support, repatriate knowledge transfer, structural equation modelling

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Human Resource Management and Humanitarian Operations Performance: A Case Study of Humanitarian Organizations in Malaysia

Zeti Suzila Mat Jusoh, Nasruddin Hassan, Mazlan Hassan, Haslinda Hashim

Aim/Purpose: This research aims to analyze the effect of human resource management on humanitarian operations performance, using humanitarian organizations in Malaysia as a case.

Background: Humanitarian organizations need to develop and continue effective on-the-job human resource management, such as training and development and managing employee performance to enhance the performance of their h ...

PLS-SEM, humanitarian operations performance, human resource management, humanitarian organizations

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Drivers of the Consumers Adoption of Fintech Services

Heba Alhajjaj, Alaeddin Mohammad Khalaf Ahmad

Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to explore the impact of environmental drivers and trust on consumers’ adoption of Fintech services in the Jordanian context. It had also evaluated the mediating role of trust on the relation between environmental drivers and consumers adoption of Fintech services.

Background: The reviewed studies on Fintech adoption demonstrated a lack of focus on the role of extern ...

environmental drivers, Fintech, adoption, Jordan, COVID-19

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Adoption of Mobile Commerce and Mobile Payments in Ghana: An Examination of Factors Influencing Public Servants

Albert Akanlisikum Akanferi, Isaac Asampana, Akwetey Henry Matey, Hannah Ayaba Tanye

Aim/Purpose: Mobile commerce adoption is low in developing countries; hence, public servants may not consider mobile commerce and mobile payments. Understanding the factors that influence mobile commerce and mobile payments in their context will aid in promoting those services.

Background: The study investigates the factors that influence public servants’ mobile commerce and mobile payments in Gh ...

mobile commerce, Ghanaian public servants, trust, behavioural intention, adoption

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Traits Contributing to the Promotion of the Individual’s Continuance Usage Intention and Perceived Value of M-University Services

Ashraf Ahmed Fadelelmoula

Aim/Purpose: This study aims to examine the roles of key traits of m-university services and their users in promoting two crucial post-adoption outcomes of these services; namely, continuance usage intention and perceived value.

Background: M-university (i.e., a university providing services via mobile technologies) has gained a great interest in the higher education sector as a driver of new bus ...

m-university, faculty-oriented m-university services, m-university service trait, user trait, continuance usage intention, perceived value

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Determinants of Online Behavior Among Jordanian Consumers: An Empirical Study of OpenSooq

Dmaithan Abdelkarim Almajali

Aim/Purpose: This study identifies the elements that influence intentions to purchase from the most popular Arabic online classifieds platform, OpenSooq.com.

Background: Online purchasing has become popular among consumers in the past two decades, with perceived risk and trust playing key roles in consumers’ intention to purchase online.

Methodology: A questionnaire survey was conducted of Inter ...

online purchasing, trust, transaction security, perceived risk, privacy concern

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Automatic Generation of Temporal Data Provenance From Biodiversity Information Systems

Zaenal Akbar, Dadan Ridwan Saleh, Yulia Aris Kartika, Widya Fatriasari, Adila A Krisnadhi, Deded Sarip Nawawi

Aim/Purpose: Although the significance of data provenance has been recognized in a variety of sectors, there is currently no standardized technique or approach for gathering data provenance. The present automated technique mostly employs workflow-based strategies. Unfortunately, the majority of current information systems do not embrace the strategy, particularly biodiversity information systems i ...

temporal data provenance, biodiversity, ontology, rule-based reasoning

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Towards a Framework on the Use of Infomediaries in Maternal mHealth in Rural Malawi

Priscilla I Maliwichi, Wallace Chigona

Aim/Purpose: The aim of the study is to explore factors that affect how healthcare clients in rural areas use infomediaries in maternal mHealth interventions. The study focuses on maternal healthcare clients who do not own mobile phones but use the mHealth intervention.

Background: Maternal mHealth interventions in poor-resource settings are bedevilled by inequalities in mobile phone ownership. ...

infomediaries, mHealth, maternal mHealth interventions, volunteers

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The Influence of Crisis Management, Risk-Taking, and Innovation in Sustainability Practices: Empirical Evidence From Iraq

Ali Shakir Zaidan, Dr. Khai Wah Khaw, Alhamzah Alnoor

Aim/Purpose: This study examines the impact of decision-making, crisis management, and decision-making on sustainability through the mediation of open innovation in the energy sector.

Background: Public companies study high-performance practices, requiring overcoming basic obstacles such as financial crises that prevent the adoption and development of sustainability programs.

Methodology: Due to ...

crisis management, innovation, decision-making environment, sustainable performance

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Adoption of Telecommuting in the Banking Industry: A Technology Acceptance Model Approach

Amro Al-Madadha, Mohammad Hamdi Al Khasawneh, Ola Al Haddid, Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan

Aim/Purpose: Currently, the world faces unprecedented challenges due to COVID-19, particularly concerning individuals’ health and livelihood and organizations and industrial performance. Indeed, the pandemic has caused rapid intensifying socio-economic effects. For instance, organizations are shifting from traditional working patterns toward telecommuting. By adopting remote working, organizations ...

telecommuting, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), employee’s self-efficacy, behavioral intentions, banking

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The Relationship Between Critical Success Factors, Perceived Benefits, and Usage Intention of Mobile Knowledge Management Systems in the Malaysian Semiconductor Industry

Audrey Poh Choo Cheak, Chin Wei Chong, Yee Yen Yuen, Irene Yoke Chu Leong

Aim/Purpose: This study examined the relationship between critical success factors (CSFs), perceived benefits, and usage intention of Mobile Knowledge Management Systems (MKMS) via an integrated Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Information Systems Success Model (ISSM).

Background: This study investigates the CSFs (i.e., Strategic Leadership, Employee Training, System Quality, and Information ...

Technology Acceptance Model, Information Systems Success Model, mobile knowledge management systems, strategic leadership, employee training, system quality, information quality, perceived benefits, perceived user-friendly, usage intention

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Predicting Key Predictors of Project Desertion in Blockchain: Experts’ Verification Using One-Sample T-Test

Shehu Malami SarkinTudu, Alawiyah Abd Wahab, Huda H Ibrahim

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the critical predictors affecting project desertion in Blockchain projects.

Background: Blockchain is one of the innovations that disrupt a broad range of industries and has attracted the interest of software developers. However, despite being an open-source software (OSS) project, the maintenance of the project ultimately relies on small core de ...

blockchain project, open source software, project desertion, expert review

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A Systematic Literature Review of Business Intelligence Framework for Tourism Organizations: Functions and Issues

Niko Ibrahim, Putu Wuri Handayani

Aim/Purpose: The main goal of this systematic literature review was to look for studies that provide information relevant to business intelligence’s (BI) framework development and implementation in the tourism sector. This paper tries to classify the tourism sectors where BI is implemented, group various BI functionalities, and identify common problems encountered by previous research.

Background ...

business intelligence, framework, functionalities, literature review, tourism

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A Framework for Ranking Critical Success Factors of Business Intelligence Based on Enterprise Architecture and Maturity Model

Ramina Farshadi, Eslam Nazemi, Neda Abdolvand

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to identify Critical Success Factors (CSF) of Business Intelligence (BI) and provide a framework to classify CSF into layers or perspectives using an enterprise architecture approach, then rank CSF within each perspective and evaluate the importance of each perspective at different BI maturity levels as well.

Background: Although the implementation of the BI ...

business intelligence, critical success factor, maturity model, enterprise architecture

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Volume 16, 2021

IJIKM Volume 16, 2021 – Table of Contents

Geoffrey Z. Liu

Table of Contents for Volume 16, 2021, of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management

IJIKM, contents, Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management

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Implementing Security in IoT Ecosystem Using 5G Network Slicing and Pattern Matched Intrusion Detection System: A Simulation Study

Anshul Jain, Tanya Singh, Satyendra Kumar Sharma, Vikas Prajapati

Aim/Purpose: 5G and IoT are two path-breaking technologies, and they are like wall and climbers, where IoT as a climber is growing tremendously, taking the support of 5G as a wall. The main challenge that emerges here is to secure the ecosystem created by the collaboration of 5G and IoT, which consists of a network, users, endpoints, devices, and data. Other than underlying and hereditary security ...

IoT, 5G, network slicing, 5G security, IoT security, IoT ecosystem, intrusion detection system

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A Decision Support System and Warehouse Operations Design for Pricing Products and Minimizing Product Returns in a Food Plant

Yahel Giat, Dan Bouhnik

Aim/Purpose: The first goal is to develop a decision support system for pricing and production amounts for a firm facing high levels of product returns. The second goal is to improve the management of the product returns process.

Background: This study was conducted at a food importer and manufacturer in Israel facing a very high rate of product returns, much of which is eventually discarded. The ...

supply chain, pricing model, Israel, food industry, product returns, decision support system, ergonomics

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Mediating Effect of Leaders’ Behaviour on Organisational Knowledge Sharing and Manufacturing Firms’ Competitiveness

Adlin Ugo-Agharanya, Anthony Igwe, Ejikeme Emmanuel Isichei

Aim/Purpose: The need to explore leaders’ role as a mediating factor between knowledge sharing and firms’ competitiveness was the focus of this paper. Further, gaps related to knowledge sharing influence on firms’ competitiveness from an emerging economy perspective was a major driver of this study.

Background: The relevance of knowledge sharing is today crucial for firms that seek to harness int ...

leaders’ behaviour, knowledge sharing, competitiveness, Nigeria manufacturing firms

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An Augmented Infocommunication Model for Unified Communications in Situational Contexts of Collaboration

Carolina F Abrantes, Óscar Mealha, Diogo Gomes, João Paulo Barraca, Carlos Ferreira

Aim/Purpose: In this work, the authors propose an augmented model for human-centered Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC&C) product design and evaluation, which is supported by previous theoretical work.

Background: Although the goal of implementing UC&C in an organization is to promote and mediate group dynamics, increasing overall productivity and collaboration; it does not seem to provi ...

human-computer interaction, organizational communication and collaboration, human-centred design, interpersonal communication, empirical study

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Challenges in Contact Tracing by Mining Mobile Phone Location Data for COVID-19: Implications for Public Governance in South Africa

Paul Kariuki, Lizzy O Ofusori, Prabhakar Rontala Subramanniam, Moses Okpeku, Maria L Goyayi

Aim/Purpose: The paper’s objective is to examine the challenges of using the mobile phone to mine location data for effective contact tracing of symptomatic, pre-symptomatic, and asymptomatic individuals and the implications of this technology for public health governance.

Background: The COVID-19 crisis has created an unprecedented need for contact tracing across South Africa, requiring thousand ...

COVID-19, contact tracing, public governance, South Africa

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The Roles of Knowledge Management and Cooperation in Determining Company Innovation Capability: A Literature Review

Elan N Purwanto, Ernie T Sule, Imas Soemaryani, Yudi Azis

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to develop a research model derived from relevant literature to guide empirical efforts.

Background: Companies struggle to innovate, which is essential for improving their performance, surviving in competition, and growing. A number of studies have discussed company innovation capability, stating that innovation capability is influenced by several variables s ...

knowledge management, cooperation, innovation capability

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The Nexus Between Learning Orientation, TQM Practices, Innovation Culture, and Organizational Performance of SMEs in Kuwait

Fahad Sawaean, Khairul A. M. Ali

Aim/Purpose: This paper aimed to examine the impact of learning orientation on organizational performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) via the mediating role of total quality management (TQM) practices and the moderating role of innovation culture.

Background: SMEs’ organizational performance in developing countries, particularly in Kuwait, remains below expectation due to increasing co ...

small and medium enterprises, learning orientation, total quality management practices, innovation culture, organizational performance, resource-based view, Kuwait

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Understanding the Determinants of Wearable Payment Adoption: An Empirical Study

Ahmad A. Rabaa'i, Xiaodi Zhu

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to determine the variables which affect the intention to use Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled smart wearables (e.g., smartwatches, rings, wristbands) payments.

Background: Despite the enormous potential of wearable payments, studies investigating the adoption of this technology are scarce.

Methodology: This study extends the Technology Acceptance Model ...

gender, mobile payment, near field communication, smart wearables, wearable payment, Kuwait

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Software as a Service (SaaS) Cloud Computing: An Empirical Investigation on University Students’ Perception

Ghilan Al-Madhagy Taufiq-Hail, Ayed Rheal A. Alanzi, Shafiz A Mohd Yusof, Madallah M Alruwaili

Aim/Purpose: This study aims to propose and empirically validate a model and investigates the factors influencing acceptance and use of Software as a Services cloud computing services (SaaS) from individuals’ perspectives utilizing an integrative model of Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with modifications to suit the objective of the study.

Background: Even ...

common method bias, PLS-SEM, SaaS cloud computing, subjective norms, technology acceptance, TPB and TAM integrated model

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The Influence of Soft Skills on Employability: A Case Study on Technology Industry Sector in Malaysia

Sally Saad Fadhil, Ramlee Ismail, Alhamzah Alnoor

Aim/Purpose: This research investigates the influence of soft skills on graduates’ employability in the technology industry, using the technology industry sector in Malaysia as a case.

Background: Organizations are looking for appropriate mechanisms to hire qualified employees with strong soft skills and hard skills. This requires that job candidates possess a set of qualifications and skills whi ...

soft skills, human development, unemployment, industry, employability, human resource

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China’s Halal Food Industry: The Link Between Knowledge Management Capacity, Supply Chain Practices, and Company Performance

Kamila Usmanova, Daoping Wang, Eli Sumarliah, Kawthar Mousa, Safiatou S Maiga

Aim/Purpose: The study attempts to analyse the influences of knowledge management capacity on company performance and supply chain practices. It also examines whether supply chain practices significantly and positively impact company performance.

Background: Knowledge management capacity is an essential tactical resource that enables the integration and coordination among supply chain stakeholder ...

knowledge management capacity, company performance, supply chain practices, China, halal food industry

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Establishing a Security Control Framework for Blockchain Technology

Maitha Al Ketbi, Khaled Shuaib, Ezedin Barka, Marton Gergely

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to propose a new information security controls framework for blockchain technology, which is currently absent from the National and International Information Security Standards.

Background: Blockchain technology is a secure and relatively new technology of distributed digital ledgers, which is based on inter-linked blocks of transactions, providing great bene ...

blockchain technology, standards, security controls, information security, security governance

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Security as a Solution: An Intrusion Detection System Using a Neural Network for IoT Enabled Healthcare Ecosystem

Anshul Jain, Tanya Singh, Satyendra Kumar Sharma

Aim/Purpose: The primary purpose of this study is to provide a cost-effective and artificial intelligence enabled security solution for IoT enabled healthcare ecosystem. It helps to implement, improve, and add new attributes to healthcare services. The paper aims to develop a method based on an artificial neural network technique to predict suspicious devices based on bandwidth usage.

Background: ...

IoT, Network Slicing, Software Defined Network (SDN), IoT Ecosystem, IoT Security, Healthcare, Intrusion Detection System (IDS), Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Neural Network (ANN)

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Modelling End Users’ Continuance Intention to Use Information Systems in Academic Settings: Expectation-Confirmation and Stress Perspective

Mohamed Emran Hossain, Imran Mahmud, Rozhan M Idrus

Aim/Purpose: The main aim of this study is to identify the factors that influence the continuance intention of use of innovative systems by non-academic employees of a private university and associated academic institutions in Bangladesh.

Background: The targeted academic institutions have introduced many new online services aimed at improving students’ access to information and services, inclu ...

continuance intention, technostress, business intelligence, Bangladesh

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Students’ Continuance Intention to Use Moodle: An Expectation-Confirmation Model Approach

Ahmad A. Rabaa'i, Shareef Abu ALmaati, Xiaodi Zhu

Aim/Purpose: This study aims at investigating the factors that influence students’ continuous intention to use Moodle, as an exemplar of learning management systems (LMSs), in the post-adoption phase.

Background: Higher education institutions (HEIs) have invested heavily in learning management systems (LMSs), such as Moodle and BlackBoard, as these systems enhance students’ learning and improve t ...

continuance use, expectation confirmation model (ECM), Kuwait, learning management systems (LMS), Moodle

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The Impact of Knowledge Management on Firm Innovativeness via Mediating Role of Innovative Culture – The Case of MNEs in Malaysia

Anantha Raj A. Arokiasamy, Khanh-Linh Nguyen, Hoa Thi Nhu Nguyen

Aim/Purpose: This paper aimed to examine the impact of knowledge management on firm innovativeness of multinational enterprises (MNEs) via the mediating role of innovative culture in Malaysia.

Background: Inadequate management practices and growing competition among MNEs operating in developing nations, notably in Malaysia, have hindered their organizational success. Although several studies have ...

knowledge management, firm innovativeness, innovative culture, MNEs, Malaysia

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Entrepreneurial Leadership and Organisational Performance of SMEs in Kuwait: The Intermediate Mechanisms of Innovation Management and Learning Orientation

Fahad Awad Sawaean, Khairul A. M. Ali, Ahmad Awad Alenezi

Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the impact of innovation management and learning orientation as the mechanisms playing the role of an intermediate relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and organisational performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kuwait.

Background: SMEs are currently among the principal economic instruments in most industrialised and developing ...

small and medium enterprises, entrepreneurial leadership, innovation management, learning orientation, organisational performance, Resource-Based View, Kuwait

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Transition to a Competitive Consultant Selection Method: A Case Study of a Public Agency in Israel

Amichai Mitelman, Yahel Giat

Aim/Purpose: This paper reports a case study of organizational transition from a non-competitive selection method to a novel bidding method for the selection of consultants in the Architectural and Engineering (A/E) industry.

Background: Public procurement agencies are increasingly relying on external consultants for the design of construction projects. Consultant selection can be based on either ...

A/E services, consultant selection, public procurement, design management, team building

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A Knowledge Transfer Perspective on Front/Back-Office Structure and New Service Development Performance: An Empirical Study of Retail Banking in China

Qiubo Huang, Qing Xia, Rukmal Nishantha Weerasinghe

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the mechanism of the front/back-office structure affecting new service development (NSD) performance and examine the role of knowledge transfer in the relationship between front/back-office structure and NSD.

Background: The separation of front and back-office has become the prevailing trend of the organizational transformation of modern s ...

new service development, NSD, front and back-office, social capital, knowledge transfer

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Volume 15, 2020

IJIKM Volume 15, 2020 – Table of Contents

Geoffrey Z. Liu, June Lu

Table of Contents for Volume 15, 2020, of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management

IJIKM, contents, Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management

.i - iii

The Longitudinal Empirical Study of Organizational Socialization and Knowledge Sharing – From the Perspective of Job Embeddedness

Chunjiang Yang, Aobo Chen

Aim/Purpose: Based on the social exchange theory, this study aimed to explore the underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions between organizational socialization and knowledge sharing.

Background: With the advent of the era of the knowledge economy, knowledge has been replacing traditional resources such as capital, labor, and land to become the critical resources of enterprises. The competiti ...

organizational socialization, job embeddedness, trust, knowledge sharing

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Social Media Use and Its Effect on Knowledge Sharing: Evidence from Public Organisations in Delta State, Nigeria

Anthony Igwe, Uzoma Heman Ononye

Aim/Purpose: This study investigates social media use and its effect on knowledge sharing. Based on the review of related literature, we hypothesised that social media use has a significant effect on outward and inward knowledge sharing.

Background: While the notion of social media use in work organisations has been progressively developed, empirical studies linking social media to the context of ...

social media, knowledge sharing, outward knowledge sharing, inward knowledge sharing, public organisation

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The Challenge of Evaluating Virtual Communities of Practice: A Systematic Mapping Study

Rogerio Ferreira da Silva, Itana Maria de Souza Gimenes, José Carlos Maldonado

Aim/Purpose: This paper presents a study of Virtual Communities of Practice (VCoP) evaluation methods that aims to identify their current status and impact on knowledge sharing. The purposes of the study are as follows: (i) to identify trends and research gaps in VCoP evaluation methods; and, (ii) to assist researchers to position new research activities in this domain.

Background: VCoP have beco ...

systematic mapping, virtual community of practice, evaluation

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Consumer Engagement in Online Brand Communities: Community Values, Brand Symbolism and Social Strategies

Haili Pan

Aim/Purpose: This study examines the kind of community value companies should provide when strengthening the relationship between customers and brands through the establishment of an online brand community, and how this kind of community value promotes customers’ sense of community engagement and willingness to spread brand reputation. The paper also discusses how an enterprise’s brand symbolism a ...

WOM, online brand community, brand symbolism, customer engagement

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IDCUP Algorithm to Classifying Arbitrary Shapes and Densities for Center-based Clustering Performance Analysis

Saud Altaf, Muhammad Waseem Soomro, Laila Kazmi

Aim/Purpose: The clustering techniques are normally considered to determine the significant and meaningful subclasses purposed in datasets. It is an unsupervised type of Machine Learning (ML) where the objective is to form groups from objects based on their similarity and used to determine the implicit relationships between the different features of the data. Cluster Analysis is considered a signi ...

clustering, density-based, large data sets, parameter, IDCUP, arbitrary shapes

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The Effect of Rational Based Beliefs and Awareness on Employee Compliance with Information Security Procedures: A Case Study of a Financial Corporation in Israel

Golan Carmi, Dan Bouhnik

Aim/Purpose: This paper examines the behavior of financial firm employees with regard to information security procedures instituted within their organization. Furthermore, the effect of information security awareness and its importance within a firm is explored.

Background: The study focuses on employees’ attitude toward compliance with information security policies (ISP), combined with various n ...

information security behavior, information security awareness, information security management, information security policy, employee compliance finan-cial corporation

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An Exploratory Study on the DevOps IT Alignment Model

Michael Hart, John Burke

Aim/Purpose: Based on business-IT alignment, this study addresses the understudied practice of DevOps.

Background: Although organizations continue to implement DevOps practices, few studies explore connections with prior theory. This study contributes to this need by developing the DevOps strategic IT alignment model.

Methodology: The sample included 57 firms from the current Forbes Global 2000 ...

DevOps, strategic IT alignment, contingency theory, continuous integration, knowledge sharing, continuous deployment, software theory

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Enterprise Knowledge Generation Driven by Internet Integration Capability: A Mediated Moderation Model

Caiyun Zhuang, Guohong Chen, Xiaoyu Du

Aim/Purpose: Drawing on theories of organizational learning, this study analyzes the mechanism of Internet integration capability affecting knowledge generation by 399 Chinese enterprises. This paper will further explore whether there is a moderating role of learning orientation in the mechanism of Internet integration capability affecting enterprise knowledge generation.

Background: The Internet ...

internet integration capability, organizational learning, knowledge genera-tion, learning orientation

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Critical Success Factors for Implementing Business Intelligence Projects (A BI Implementation Methodology Perspective)

Mina Ranjbarfard, Zeynab Hatami

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for Business Intelligence (BI) implementation projects by studying the existing BI project implementation methodologies and to compare these methodologies based on the identified CSFs.

Background: The implementation of BI project has become one of the most important technological and organizational innovations ...

business intelligence, business intelligence project implementation, business intelligence implementation methodologies, Fuzzy Delphi method, critical success factors (CSF)

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The Effect of Marketing Knowledge Management on Bank Performance Through Fintech Innovations: A Survey Study of Jordanian Commercial Banks

Hani H Al-Dmour, Futon Asfour, Rand Al-Dmour, Ahmed Al-Dmour

Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to examine the effect of marketing knowledge management (MKM) on bank performance via the mediating role of the Fintech innovation in Jordanian commercial banks.

Background: An extensive number of studies found a significant relationship between Marketing knowledge management and bank performance (e.g., Akroush & Al-Mohammad, 2010; Hou & Chien 2010; Rezaee & Jafari, ...

marketing knowledge management, Fintech innovation, bank performance

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A Multicluster Approach to Selecting Initial Sets for Clustering of Categorical Data

Carlos Santos-Mangudo, Antonio J. Heras

Aim/Purpose: This article proposes a methodology for selecting the initial sets for clustering categorical data. The main idea is to combine all the different values of every single criterion or attribute, to form the first proposal of the so-called multiclusters, obtaining in this way the maximum number of clusters for the whole dataset. The multiclusters thus obtained, are themselves clustered i ...

clustering, categorical data, K-Modes

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A Cognitive Knowledge-based Model for an Academic Adaptive e-Advising System

Ahmed A. Al-Hunaiyyan, Andrew Thomas Bimba, Salah Alsharhan

Aim/Purpose: This study describes a conceptual model, based on the principles of concept algebra that can provide intelligent academic advice using adaptive, knowledge-based feedback. The proposed model advises students based on their traits and academic history. The system aims to deliver adaptive advice to students using historical data from previous and current students. This data-driven approa ...

e-advising, academic advising, academic model, student model, cognitive knowledge-based model, course selection, adaptive algorithm

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Volume 14, 2019

IJIKM Volume 14, 2019 – Table of Contents

Geoffrey Z. Liu, June Lu

IJIKM, contents

The Role of Knowledge Management Infrastructure in Enhancing Job Satisfaction: A Developing Country Perspective

Ra'ed Masa'deh, Dmaithan Abdelkarim Almajali, Ala'aldin Alrowwad, Bader Obeidat

Aim/Purpose: This research aims to examine the role of Knowledge Management (KM) infrastructure (technological, structural, and cultural) in enhancing job satisfaction in the context of developing countries, as exemplified by Jordan.

Background: Despite the presence of job satisfaction studies conducted in educational institutions across the world, knowledge management issues have not been taken ...

knowledge management infrastructure, knowledge management, job perfor-mance, Jordan

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Improving Webpage Access Predictions Based on Sequence Prediction and PageRank Algorithm

Da Thon Nguyen, Hanh T Tan, Duy Hoang Pham

Aim/Purpose: In this article, we provide a better solution to Webpage access prediction. In particularly, our core proposed approach is to increase accuracy and efficiency by reducing the sequence space with integration of PageRank into CPT+.

Background: The problem of predicting the next page on a web site has become significant because of the non-stop growth of Internet in terms of the volume o ...

Webpage access prediction, sequence prediction, compact prediction tree, PageRank algorithm

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A New Typology Design of Performance Metrics to Measure Errors in Machine Learning Regression Algorithms

Alexei Botchkarev

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyze various performance metrics and approaches to their classification. The main goal of the study was to develop a new typology that will help to advance knowledge of metrics and facilitate their use in machine learning regression algorithms

Background: Performance metrics (error measures) are vital components of the evaluation frameworks in various ...

performance metrics, error measures, accuracy measures, distance, similarity, dissimilarity, properties, typology, classification, machine learning, regression, forecasting, prognostics, prediction, evaluation, estimation, modeling

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The Role of Job Satisfaction in Turnover and Turn-away Intention of IT Staff in South Africa

Brenda M Scholtz, Jean-Paul Van Belle, Kennedy Njenga, Alexander Serenko, Prashant Palvia

Aim/Purpose: This study forms part of the World IT Project, which aims to gain a deeper understanding of individual, personal and organisational factors influencing IT staff in a modern, work environment. The project also aims to provide a global view that complements the traditional American/Western view. The purpose of this study is to investigate and report on some of these factors, in particu ...

turnover intention, job satisfaction in IT staff, IS personnel, workforce, burn-out, exhaustion

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Agile Self-selecting Teams Foster Expertise Coordination

Mawarny M Rejab, James Noble, Stuart Marshall

Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the activities involved in facilitating self-selecting teams for Agile software development projects. This paper also discussed how these activities can influence the successful expertise coordination in Agile teams.

Background: Self-selecting teams enable Agile team members to choose teams based on whom they prefer to work with. Good team bonding allows A ...

agile software development, self-selecting teams, expertise coordination, grounded theory

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Prosumers’ Engagement in Business Process Innovation – The Case of Poland and the UK

Ewa Wanda Ziemba, Monika Eisenbardt, Roisin Mullins, Sandra Dettmer

Aim/Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to identify prosumers’ engagement in business process innovation through knowledge sharing.

Background: In the increasingly competitive knowledge-based economy, companies must seek innovative methods of doing business, quickly react to consumer demand, and provide superior value to consumers. Simultaneously, contemporary consumers, named “prosumers ...

consumer engagement, consumer knowledge, prosumer, knowledge sharing, business processes, consumer innovations

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The Relationship between Ambidextrous Knowledge Sharing and Innovation within Industrial Clusters: Evidence from China

Ying Han

Aim/Purpose: This study examines the influence of ambidextrous knowledge sharing in industrial clusters on innovation performance from the perspective of knowledge-based dynamic capabilities.

Background: The key factor to improving innovation performance in an enterprise is to share knowledge with other enterprises in the same cluster and use dynamic capabilities to absorb, integrate, and create ...

industrial cluster, ambidextrous knowledge sharing, innovation, dynamic capabilities, China

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Effects of Advocacy Banners after Abandoning Products in Online Shopping Carts

Hsiaoping Yeh, Fenghung Kuo

Aim/Purpose: This study empirically analyzed and examined the effectiveness of the online advocacy banners on customers’ reactions to make replacements with the similar products in their shopping carts.

Background: When a product in a shopping cart is removed, it might be put back into the cart again during the same purchase or it may be bought in the future. Otherwise, it might be abandoned and ...

recommendation banner, product similarity, association rule

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Knowledge Sharing Process and Innovation Success: Evidence from Public Organisations in Southern Nigeria

Uzoma Heman Ononye, Anthony Igwe

Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the relationship between knowledge sharing process and innovation success with specific emphasis on tacit knowledge. Based on the literature review, we hypothesised that knowledge donating and collecting have a positive relationship with innovation success.

Methodology: The hypotheses were empirically tested using the partial least square path modelling with d ...

tacit knowledge, knowledge sharing, knowledge donating, knowledge collecting, innovation success

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The Role of Social Network in Family Business Diversification: Evidence from South Eastern Nigeria

Kenneth Chukwujioke Agbim, Anthony Igwe

Aim/Purpose: This study seeks to investigate if participation in business association’s programs through the traditional and new media platforms influences family businesses in South Eastern Nigeria to diversify into similar or different businesses.

Background: Before the advances in information and communication technology, businesses were carried on via the traditional media. The application of ...

family business, social network, unrelated diversification strategy, related diversification strategy

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Reinforcing Innovation through Knowledge Management: Mediating Role of Organizational Learning

Abed Al-Fatah A. Karasneh

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between knowledge management (KM) and organizational innovation (OI). It also enriches our understanding of the mediating effect of organizational learning (OL) in this relationship.

Background: KM’s relationship with OL and OI has been tackled extensively in developed countries’ literature. Nowadays, the challenges of dev ...

knowledge management, organizational learning, organizational innovation, Jordanian manufacturing companies

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Information Technology Capabilities and SMEs Performance: An Understanding of a Multi-Mediation Model for the Manufacturing Sector

Rana Nabeel-Rehman, Mohammad Nazri

Aim/Purpose: Despite the fact that the plethora of studies demonstrate the positive impact of information technology (IT) capabilities on SMEs performance, the understanding of underlying mechanisms through which IT capabilities affect the firm performance is not yet clear. This study fills these gaps by explaining the roles of absorptive capacity and corporate entrepreneurship. The study also ela ...

information technology capabilities, IT integration, IT alignment, absorptive capacity, corporate entrepreneurship, innovation performance, firm perfor-mance

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Millennial Experience with Online Food Home Delivery: A Lesson from Indonesia

Dwi Suhartanto, David Dean, Gundur Leo, Ni Nyoman Triyuni

Aim/Purpose: To examine millennial satisfaction towards online food delivery services, including e-service quality, food quality, and perceived value as the determinants and behavioral intention as the consequence.

Background: Among the generational cohorts, millennials are a demanding target group for many retailers, including restaurants. Despite many studies examining millennial behavior in th ...

millennial, satisfaction, online food, home delivery service

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Revealing the Influential Factors Driving Social Commerce Adoption

Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan

Aim/Purpose: This study aims to identify the main factors influencing consumers’ adoption of social commerce (s-commerce). Based on the socio-technical theory, the study suggests a research model that investigates the key social and technical factors driving consumers’ decision to purchase from social commerce websites. In addition, the research model explores the interactive relationship among th ...

social commerce, trust, e-commerce, post purchase experience, familiarity, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, TAM

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Contextualist Inquiry into E-Commerce Institutionalization in Developing Countries: The Case of Mozambican Women-led SMMES

Salah Kabanda, Fernanda Matsinhe

Aim/Purpose: This study explores how women-led SMMEs in developing countries, specifically in the Mozambican context, institutionalise e-commerce by focusing on the ongoing interaction between the SMME, its context, and process of e-commerce institutionalization.

Background: It is believed that institutionalization of e-commerce provides significant benefits of unlimited access to new markets, an ...

small micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs), contextualist inquiry, e-commerce, developing countries

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Crisis and Disaster Situations on Social Media Streams: An Ontology-Based Knowledge Harvesting Approach

SenthilKumar Narayanasamy, Dinakaran Muruganantham, Atilla Elçi

Aim/Purpose: Vis-à-vis management of crisis and disaster situations, this paper focuses on important use cases of social media functions, such as information collection & dissemination, disaster event identification & monitoring, collaborative problem-solving mechanism, and decision-making process. With the prolific utilization of disaster-based ontological framework, a strong disambiguation syste ...

disaster management, social media, ontological support, semantic search, SPARQL, RDF

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The Adoption of CRM Initiative among Palestinian Enterprises: A Proposed Framework

Omar Hasan Salah, Prof.Dr. Zawiyah Mohammad Yusof, Dr.Hazura Mohamed

Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to examine the relationships among compatibility, relative advantage, complexity, IT Infrastructure, security, top Management Support, financial Support, information Policies, employee engagement, customer pressure, competitive pressure, information integrity, information sharing, attitude toward adopting technology factors, and CRM adoption

Background: Customer rela ...

customer relationship management system, small and medium enterprise, CRM adoption, Palestine

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Volume 13, 2018

IJIKM Volume 13, 2018 – Table of Contents

Geoffrey Z. Liu, June Lu

IJIKM, contents

. i - iii

Investigating Knowledge Acquisition among Faculty Members

Abdoulaye Kaba, Chennupati K. Ramaiah

Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the issue of knowledge acquisition among faculty members.

Background: The paper reports the use of knowledge acquisition tools and reading knowledge sources by faculty members. It also identifies demographic differ-ences among participants in using knowledge acquisition tools and reading knowledge sources.

Methodology: The study used an online survey-based q ...

knowledge, knowledge sources, knowledge acquisition tools, faculty members, universities, colleges, UAE

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The Effects of the Critical Success Factors for ERP Implementation on the Comprehensive Achievement of the Crucial Roles of Information Systems in the Higher Education Sector

Ashraf Ahmed Fadelelmoula

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine empirically the effects of certain key Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems on the comprehensive achievement of the crucial roles of Computer-Based Information Systems (CBISs)

Background: The effects of the CSFSs were examined in the higher education sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arab ...

enterprise resource planning, critical success factors, ERP implementation, comprehensive achievement of the CBIS’s roles

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Reinforcing Consumers’ Impulsive Buying Tendencies through M-Devices and Emails in Pakistan

Abdul Waheed, Jianhua Yang, Jon K. Webber

Aim/Purpose: The current study investigates the relationship between mobile and email marketing and consumer impulse buying tendencies in Pakistan.

Background: Technology has become a primary driver for all business operations, which has dramatically transformed the wireless communications marketing paradigm. However, researchers have claimed that further inquiry is still needed to explore the ro ...

marketing communications, mobile marketing, email marketing, impulse buy-ing tendencies, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

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Identification of Influential Factors in Implementing IT Governance: A Survey Study of Indonesian Companies in the Public Sector

Lanto Ningrayati Amali, Muhammad Rifai Katili

Aim/Purpose: This study is carried out to determine the factors influencing the implementation of IT governance in public sector.

Background: IT governance in organizations plays strategic roles in deciding whether IT strategies and investments of both private and public organizations could be efficient, consistent, and transparent. IT governance has the potential to be the best practice that cou ...

IT governance process, public organizations

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Multilevel Authentication System for Stemming Crime in Online Banking

Boniface K Alese, Aderonke Favour-Bethy Thompson, Olufunso Dayo Alowolodu, Blessing Emmanuel Oladele

Aim/Purpose: The wide use of online banking and technological advancement has attracted the interest of malicious and criminal users with a more sophisticated form of attacks.

Background: Therefore, banks need to adapt their security systems to effectively stem threats posed by imposters and hackers and to also provide higher security standards that assure customers of a secured environment to ...

multilevel-security, authentication, soft-token, cybercrime

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The Ways of Prosumers’ Knowledge Sharing with Organizations

Ewa Wanda Ziemba, Monika Eisenbardt

Aim/Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to answer the research question whether the ways in which prosumers share their knowledge with enterprises and public organizations are in line with the ways in which enterprises and public organizations expect them to get engaged in knowledge sharing.

Background: Contemporary consumers do not wish to be passive consumers anymore. They want to satisf ...

knowledge, knowledge sharing, prosumer, prosumption, consumer, product evaluation, product co-creation

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Text Classification Techniques: A Literature Review

M. Thangaraj, M Sivakami

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to analyze various text classification techniques employed in practice, their strengths and weaknesses, to provide an improved awareness regarding various knowledge extraction possibilities in the field of data mining.

Background: Artificial Intelligence is reshaping text classification techniques to better acquire knowledge. However, in spite of the growth a ...

classification, machine learning, statistical methods, analysis

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An Overlapless Incident Management Maturity Model for Multi-Framework Assessment (ITIL, COBIT, CMMI-SVC)

João Aguiar, Ruben Pereira, José Braga Vasconcelos, Isaias Bianchi

Aim/Purpose: This research aims to develop an information technology (IT) maturity model for incident management (IM) process that merges the most known IT frameworks’ practices. Our proposal intends to help organizations overcome the current limitations of multiframework implementation by informing organizations about frameworks’ overlap before their implementation.

Background: By previously ide ...

IT framework, maturity model, DSR, incident management, overlap, ITIL, COBIT, CMMI

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Exploring Perceptions of Bitcoin Adoption: The South African Virtual Community Perspective

Aiden J Walton, Kevin A. Johnston

Aim/Purpose: This paper explored the factors (enablers and barriers) that affect Bitcoin adoption in South Africa, a Sub-Saharan country with the high potential for Bitcoin adoption.

Background: In recent years, Bitcoin has seen a rapid growth as a virtual cryptocurrency throughout the world. Bitcoin is a protocol which allows value to be exchanged over the internet without a central bank or inte ...

Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, virtual community, virtual investment community, South Africa

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Knowledge Management Orientation, Market Orientation, and SME’s Performance: A Lesson from Indonesia’s Creative Economy Sector

Ananda Sabil Hussein, Mintarti Rahayu, Nadiyah Hirfiyana Rosita, Risca Fitri Ayuni

Aim/Purpose: Two research objectives were addressed in this study. The first objective was to determine the effect of knowledge management orientation behaviour on business performance, and the second objective was to investigate the mediating effect of market orientation in the relationship between knowledge management orientation behaviour and business performance.

Background: In business strat ...

knowledge management orientation, market orientation, business performance, economy creative, small and medium enterprises

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A Thematic Analysis of Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management (IJIKM)

Shouhong Wang , Hai Wang, Nadia Khalil

Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the research profile of the papers published in Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management (IJIKM) to provide silhouette information of the journal for the editorial team, researchers, and the audience of the journal.

Background: Information and knowledge management is an interdisciplinary subject. IJIKM defines intersections of multip ...

Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management, IJIKM, research profile, content analysis, thematic analysis

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Predicting the Adoption of Social Media: An Integrated Model and Empirical Study on Facebook Usage

Ahmed Al-Azawei

Aim/Purpose: This study aims at (1) extending an existing theoretical framework to gain a deeper understanding of the technology acceptance process, notably of the Facebook social network in an unexplored Middle East context, (2) investigating the influence of social support theory on Facebook adoption outside the work context, (3) validating the effectiveness of the proposed research model for en ...

social media networks, Facebook acceptance, unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, (UTAUT), social support theory, perceived playfulness, individual differences, Middle East

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The Mechanism of Internet Capability Driving Knowledge Creation Performance: The Effects of Strategic Flexibility and Informatization Density

Caiyun Zhuang, Guohong Chen, Jian Hou, Juan Liang

Aim/Purpose: This study analyzes the mechanism of Internet capability (IC) driving knowledge creation performance (KCP). We consider the mediating role of strategic flexibility and the moderating role of informatization density.

Background: The key to achieving KCP for firms is to transform knowledge created into new products or services and to realize the economic benefits. However, the research ...

Internet capability, knowledge creation performance, strategic flexibility, informatization density

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The Role of Knowledge Management Process and Intellectual Capital as Intermediary Variables between Knowledge Management Infrastructure and Organization Performance

Shadi Abualoush, Ra'ed Masa'deh, Khaled Bataineh, Ala'aldin Alrowwad

Aim/Purpose: The objective of this study was to assess the interrelationships among knowledge management infrastructure, knowledge management process, intellectual capital, and organization performance.

Background: Although knowledge management capability is extensively used by organizations, reaching their maximum financial and non-financial performances has not been fully researched. Therefore, ...

knowledge management infrastructure, knowledge management process, intellectual capital, organization performance, Jordan

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A Grounded Theory for ICT-Mediated Tacit Knowledge Transferability in MNCs

Mohammad Sharaf Al-Qdah, Amer Nizar Fayez AbuAli, Juhana Salim, Tarek Issa Khalil

Aim/Purpose: A vital business activity within organizations is tacit knowledge (TK) transfer. This work aims to propose a novel framework for TK transferability in multinational corporations (MNCs) from the information and communication technology (ICT) perspective.

Background: In the past two decades, researchers have developed several frameworks for TK transfer based on humanistic, business, an ...

tacit knowledge, transferability, information and communication technology, multinational corporations

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To Read or Not to Read: Modeling Online Newspaper Reading Satisfaction and Its Impact on Revisit Intention and Word-Of-Mouth

Tapushe Rabaya Toma, Imran Mahmud, Mohamed Emran Hossain, Nusrat Jahan, T. Ramayah, Pravina Jayapal

Aim/Purpose: In this research, we examined the influence of the information system (IS) quality dimensions proposed by Wixom and Todd on reading satisfaction of online newspaper readers in Bangladesh, especially the readers’ intention to revisit and recommendations through electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM).

Background: We identified the top 50 most visited websites, of which 13 were online newspape ...

information quality, system quality, IS success model, online newspapers, PLS

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Antecedents and Adoption of E-Banking in Bank Performance: The Perspective of Private Bank Employees

Ibrahim Hussien Musa Magboul, Muneer Abbad

Aim/Purpose: This paper identifies the antecedents that affect E-Banking (EB) adoption and investigates the relationship between the level of EB adoption and the performance of private banks.

Background: Rapid technological advancement has transformed the business environment dramatically. These advancements particularly the Internet has reshaped the way businesses operate. Over the last decade, ...

technology acceptance, e-banking, adoption, performance, Sudan

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PRATO: An Automated Taxonomy-Based Reviewer-Proposal Assignment System

Basem Y. Alkazemi

Aim/Purpose: This paper reports our implementation of a prototype system, namely PRATO (Proposals Reviewers Automated Taxonomy-based Organization), for automatic assignment of proposals to reviewers based on categorized tracks and partial matching of reviewers’ profiles of research interests against proposal keywords.

Background: The process of assigning reviewers to proposals tends to be a compl ...

reviewers matching, taxonomy-based, Jaccard index, proposals auto assignment

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Socio-Technical Approach, Decision-Making Environment, and Sustainable Performance: Role of ERP Systems

Hadi AL-Abrrow, Alhamzah Alnoor, Hasan Oudah Abdullah

Aim/Purpose: This explanatory study aimed to determine the mediating role of ERP in the relation between the effect of a socio-technical approach and decision-making environment, and firms’ sustainable performance.

Background: Although earlier studies have discussed the critical success factors of the failure or success of an ERP system and the extent to which it achieves its desired objectives, ...

organizational culture; socio-technical approach; decision-making environment; ERP system; sustainable performance

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Investigation of the Relationship between the Knowledge Management Process and Performance of a Construction Company: An Empirical Study

Mochamad Agung Wibowo, Rudi Waluyo, Zhabrinna Zhabrinna

Aim/Purpose: This study aims to investigate the relationship between the knowledge management (KM) process and the performance of construction companies. The ultimate goal is to promote better efficiency and competitive advantage in the construction industry by making the best use of knowledge.

Background: While attention to KM is currently on the rise, as shown by the number of studies conducted ...

knowledge, knowledge management, corporate performance, construction

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Volume 12, 2017

Printable Table of Contents IJIKM Volume 12, 2017

Table of Contents for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management, Volume 12, 2017

i - iii

Understanding Internal Information Systems Security Policy Violations as Paradoxes

Kennedy Njenga

Aim/Purpose: Violations of Information Systems (IS) security policies continue to generate great anxiety amongst many organizations that use information systems, partly because these violations are carried out by internal employees. This article addresses IS security policy violations in organizational settings, and conceptualizes and problematizes IS security violations by employees of organizati ...

information security, violations, paradox, systematic literature review (SLR), security policies

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Factors Affecting Re-usage Intentions of Virtual Communities Supporting Cosmetic Products

Chien-Ta Ho, Jhong-Min Yang, Wei-Ting Chen

Aim/Purpose: This study uses a cosmetic virtual community (VC) as the research context and the UTAUT model as the theoretical structure aim to explore factors affecting the re-usage intentions of VC members.

Background: The Internet use rate of VC was up to 50%, thereby implying that VC gained the attention of Internet users. Therefore, operating a VC will be an effective way to communicate w ...

virtual community, cosmetic products, UTAUT model, structural equation modelling approach, effort expectancy, performance expectancy, social influ-ence, trust, re-usage intentions

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ICT-Platform to Transform Car Dealerships to Regional Providers of Sustainable Mobility Services

Benjamin Wagner vom Berg, Jorge Marx Gómez, Alexander Sandau

Aim/Purpose: The topic of this study is the ICT-enabled transformation of car dealerships to regional providers of sustainable mobility (e.g., car sharing).

Background: Car dealerships offer specific conditions that enable a sustainable mobility offer, based on individual motorized transport like car sharing. This is especially useful in small towns or rural areas where people’s mobility is st ...

car dealership, automotive retailer, car sharing, SusCRM, sustainability CRM, sustainable mobility, rural regions

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A Systematic Literature Review of Agile Maturity Model Research

Vaughan Henriques, Maureen Tanner

Background/Aim/Purpose: A commonly implemented software process improvement framework is the capability maturity model integrated (CMMI). Existing literature indicates higher levels of CMMI maturity could result in a loss of agility due to its organizational focus. To maintain agility, research has focussed attention on agile maturity models. The objective of this paper is to find the common resea ...

Agile, Scrum, XP, Maturity Model, Agile Maturity Model, Agile Process Improve-ment

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A Cognitive Knowledge-based Framework for Social and Metacognitive Support in Mobile Learning

Ahmed A. Al-Hunaiyyan, Andrew T Bimba, Norisma Idris, Salah Al-Sharhan

Aim/Purpose: This work aims to present a knowledge modeling technique that supports the representation of the student learning process and that is capable of providing a means for self-assessment and evaluating newly acquired knowledge. The objective is to propose a means to address the pedagogical challenges in m-learning by aiding students’ metacognition through a model of a student with the tar ...

m-learning, pedagogy, mobile device, knowledge modeling

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EO Model for Tacit Knowledge Externalization in Socio-Technical Enterprises

Shreyas Suresh Rao, Ashalatha Nayak

Aim/Purpose: A vital business activity within socio-technical enterprises is tacit knowledge externalization, which elicits and explicates tacit knowledge of enterprise employees as external knowledge. The aim of this paper is to integrate diverse aspects of externalization through the Enterprise Ontology model.

Background: Across two decades, researchers have explored various aspects of tacit ...

tacit knowledge, enterprise ontology, socio-technical enterprise, externalization, certainty-factor

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Data Visualization in Support of Executive Decision Making

Jeanne Moore

Aim/Purpose: This journal paper seeks to understand historical aspects of data management, leading to the current data issues faced by organizational executives in relation to big data and how best to present the information to circumvent big data challenges for executive strategic decision making.

Background: This journal paper seeks to understand what executives value in data visualization, b ...

big data, data analytics, data visualization, cognitive fit theory, Cynefin Frame-work, executive strategic decision making

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The Effect of Personality Traits on Sales Performance: An Empirical Investigation to Test the Five-Factor Model (FFM) in Pakistan

Abdul Waheed, Jianhua Yang, Jon K. Webber

Aim/Purpose: The present study investigates the relationship between the five-factor model (FFM) of personality traits and sales performance in Pakistan.

Background: Personality is a well-researched area in which numerous studies have examined the correlation between personality traits and job performance. In this study, a positive effect between the various dimensions of the five-factor mode ...

personality traits, five-factor model (FFM), sales performance, sales force of Pakistan, females, religious and cultural forces

139 - 157

The Penta Helix Model of Innovation in Oman: An HEI Perspective

Alrence S Halibas, Rowena Ocier Sibayan, Rolou Lyn Maata

Aim/Purpose: Countries today strategically pursue regional development and economic diversification to compete in the world market. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are at the crux of this political strategy. The paper reviews how HEIs can propel regional socio-economic growth and development by way of research innovation and entrepreneurship.

Background: Offering an academic perspective ab ...

entrepreneurship, HEI, innovation, knowledge economy, Penta Helix

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Transforming Communications in the Workplace: The Impact of UC on Perceived Productivity in a Multi-national Corporation

Joy Fluker, Meg Coffin Murray

Aim/Purpose: Unified Communications (UC) is touted as a technology that will transform business communication. While positive claims abound, the factors of UC attributable to its success have yet to be identified. By examining how users perceive UC impacts productivity, this study aids organizations in making better decisions regarding investments in and usage of communications technologies.

...

Unified Communications (UC), business communications, communications channels, perceived productivity

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Reasons for Poor Acceptance of Web-Based Learning using an LMS and VLE in Ghana

Isaac Asampana, Albert Akanlisikum Akanferi, James Ami-Narh

Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the factors that affect the post implementation success of a web-based learning management system at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA).

Background: UPSA implemented an LMS to blend Web-based learning environment with the traditional methods of education to enable working students to acquire education.

Methodology: An explanatory sequen ...

web-based learning, information system, information technology, IT infrastructure, web-based learning management system, Moodle

189 - 208

Typology on Leadership toward Creativity in Virtual Work

Iris A Humala

Aim/Purpose: This study aims to develop a descriptive typology to better identify leadership toward creativity in virtual work in different types of companies.

Background: The study empirically explores how leadership toward creativity occurs in virtual work and uses the theoretical lenses of creativity-conducive leadership and heterarchy to generate a typology.

Methodology : A multiple qua ...

virtual work, creativity, leadership, typology, heterarchy

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Research Foci, Methodologies, and Theories Used in Addressing E-Government Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities in Developing Countries

Millicent Agangiba, salah Kabanda

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the key research foci, methodologies, and theoretical perspectives adopted by researchers when studying E-government accessibility for persons with disabilities (PWDs), particularly in developing countries. The study aims to develop a conceptual framework for designing accessible E-government for PWDs in developing countries.

Background: Stu ...

e-government accessibility, persons with disabilities, developing countries

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The Utilisation of Facebook for Knowledge Sharing in Selected Local Government Councils in Delta State, Nigeria

Uzoma Heman Ononye, Anthony Igwe

Aim/Purpose: Facebook has made it possible for organisation to embrace social and network centric knowledge processes by creating opportunities to connect, interact, and collaborate with stakeholders. We have witnessed a significant increase in the popularity and use of this tool in many organisations, especially in the private sector. But the utilisation of Facebook in public organisations is at ...

social media, Facebook, knowledge sharing

269 - 282

An Empirical Examination of Customers’ Mobile Phone Experience and Awareness of Mobile Banking Services in Mobile Banking in Saudi Arabia

Ayman N. Alkhaldi

Aim/Purpose: This work aims to understand why a disparity between the popularity of smart phones and the limited adoption of m-banking exists. Accordingly, this study investigates factors that affect a person’s decision to adopt m-banking services. Such an investigation seeks to determine if and to what extent customers’ mobile phone experience as well as their awareness of m-banking services infl ...

mobile banking, mobile commerce, mobile phone experience, awareness of services, behavioral intention to use

283 - 308

Accounting Information Systems Effectiveness: Evidence from the Nigerian Banking Sector

Shamsudeen Ladan Shagari, Akilah Abdullah, Rafeah Mat Saat

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the interrelationship among the quality measures of information system success, including system quality, information, quality, and service quality, that eventually influence accounting information systems effectiveness.

Background: It is generally believed that investment in an information system offers opportunities to organizations for b ...

accounting information systems effectiveness, system quality, information quality, service quality, Nigeria

309 - 335

The Application of a Knowledge Management Framework to Automotive Original Component Manufacturers

Andre Calitz, Margaret Cullen

Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to present an example of the application of a Knowledge Man-agement (KM) framework to automotive original component manufacturers (OEMs). The objective is to explore KM according to the four pillars of a selected KM framework.

Background: This research demonstrates how a framework, namely the George Washington University’s Four Pillar Framework, can be used to determi ...

knowledge management, knowledge management system, framework, automotive industry

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Volume 11, 2016

Printable Table of Contents IJIKM Volume 11, 2016

table of contents, IJIKM, Information, Knowledge, Management

i - iii

A Conceptual Model for the Creation of a Process-Oriented Knowledge Map (POK-Map) and Implementation in an Electric Power Distribution Company

Babak Teimourpour , Vahid Eslami, Maghsoud Mohammadi, Milad Padidarfard

Helping a company organize and capture the knowledge used by its employees and business processes is a daunting task. In this work we examine several proposed methodologies and synthesize them into a new methodology that we demonstrate through a case study of an electric power distribution company. This is a practical research study. First, the research approach for creating the knowledge map is p ...

Knowledge mapping, knowledge breakdown structure, knowledge levelling, business-process oriented knowledge management, knowledge meta-model

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Behavioural Aspects of ERP Implementation: A Conceptual Review

Prokreeti Mitra, Sasmita Mishra

Recently ERP implementation has seen increasing significance in different sectors. The research related to the implementation issues of ERP has also increased during the past decade. Particularly the behavioral aspects of ERP implementations have been researched in terms of identifying appropriate frameworks, critical success factors, perception and attitude of users and managers, the role of chan ...

ERP Implementation, critical success factors, perception of users, leadership

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The Effect of Perceived Expected Satisfaction with Electronic Health Records Availability on Expected Satisfaction with Electronic Health Records Portability in a Multi-Stakeholder Environment

Karoly Bozan, Pratim Datta

A central premise for the creation of Electronic Health Records (EHR) is ensuring the portability of patient health records across various clinical, insurance, and regulatory entities. From portability standards such as International Classification of Diseases (ICD) to data sharing across institutions, a lack of portability of health data can jeopardize optimal care and reduce meaningful use. This ...

Design Theory, Data Availability, Data Portability, Satisfaction, Stakeholders, Patient Care Processes

31 - 53

Doing the Organizational Tango: Symbiotic Relationship between Formal and Informal Organizational Structures for an Agile Organization

Irena Malgorzata Ali

This paper reports on research with a broad objective to examine the relationship between two organizational entities, the formally structured organization and informal organizational structures, in a changing operational environment, more specifically during military deployments. The paper draws on organizational and complexity paradigms; based on empirical evidence obtained through qualitative t ...

organizational studies, formal and informal organizational structures – symbiotic re-lationship, organizational adaptation, organizational agility, organizations and institutions, complexity, frameworks, case studies

55 - 72

External Variables as Antecedents of Users Perception in Virtual Library Usage

Olusola I. Akinbobola, Akinniyi A. Adeleke

Several studies extended the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) by examining the antecedents of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use; the present study looks at demographic aspect of external variables in virtual library use among undergraduate students. The purpose of this study is to identify the demographic factors sex, level of study, cumulative grade point average, and computer knowl ...

Technology acceptance model, Theory of reasoned action, demographic variables, users’ perception, virtual library usage

73 - 87

Factors Affecting the Adoption and Usage of ICTs within Polish Households

Ewa Ziemba

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) encompassing computer and network hardware and software, and so on, as well as various services and applications associated with them, are assuming a growing presence within the modern homestead and have an indelible impact on the professional and everyday life of people. This research aims to explore factors influencing the successful adoption and ...

ICTs, households, ICT adoption, ICT usage, success factors, Poland

89 - 113

Facilitating mCommerce Growth in Nigeria through mMoney Usage: A Preliminary Analysis

Christian Nedu Osakwe, Titus Chukwuemezie Okeke

A general belief is that Mobile Money (mMoney) has the catalytic effect of spurring mCommerce growth and driving financial inclusion in developing nations like Nigeria. In Nigeria, mMoney service is certainly a new financial service innovation in the country, and as a result critical issues surrounding its early critical mass adoption, including its perceived usefulness, remain largely opaque. In ...

BoP, consumer behaviour, financial inclusion, mMoney, mCommerce, Nigeria, SSA, sub-Saharan Africa

115 - 139

Management of Knowledge, Innovation and Performance in SMEs

Luis E Valdez-Juárez, Domingo García-Pérez de Lema, Gonzalo Maldonado-Guzmán

For more than two decades, knowledge management (KM) has been examined in the literature and considered a basic factor in business management. The purpose of this article is to explore the ability of knowledge management to achieve small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) innovation and business performance. Data analysis procedures of PLS-SEM was used to analyze the data based on responses from th ...

Knowledge management (KM), innovation, performance, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), information and communication technology (ICT)

141 - 176

Knowledge Management and Problem Solving in Real Time: The Role of Swarm Intelligence

Chris W Callaghan

Knowledge management research applied to the development of real-time research capability, or capability to solve societal problems in hours and days instead of years and decades, is perhaps increasingly important, given persistent global problems such as the Zika virus and rapidly developing antibiotic resistance. Drawing on swarm intelligence theory, this paper presents an approach to real-time ...

Knowledge management, crowdsourcing, swarm solving, theory development, complex problem solving

177 - 199

Analogical Thinking for Generation of Innovative Ideas: An Exploratory Study of Influential Factors

Eunyoung Kim, Hideyuki Horii

Analogical thinking is one of the most effective tools to generate innovative ideas. It enables us to develop new ideas by transferring information from well-known domains and utilizing them in a novel domain. However, using analogical thinking does not always yield appropriate ideas, and there is a lack of consensus among researchers regarding the evaluation methods for assessing new ideas. Here, ...

analogical thinking, idea generation, innovation workshops, thinking processes in idea generation, assessment of new ideas

201 - 214

Towards A Methodology for the Pre-Stage of Implementing a Reengineering Project

Shahram Nasiri, Mohammad Javad Nasiri, Asiyeh Sa’adati Azar

In order to reduce cost, improve functionality and gain competitive advantages, organizations resort to reengineering projects by developing and making changes to organizational processes. The absence of a unified methodology and appropriate analytic approaches prior to the implementation of reengineering projects has made authorities not to adopt correct decision making approaches in this respect ...

Business Process Reengineering, Redesigning Processes, Improvement Process, Multiple-criteria decision-making, Analytical Hierarchy Process

215 - 234

Innovation Capability: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda

Faisal Iddris

Purpose: Innovation capability is a growing and significant area of academic research. However, there is little attempt to provide a cumulative overview of this phenomenon. The purpose of this systematic review is to synthesize peer reviewed articles published in the area to develop a conceptual framework and to aid future research.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The paper adopted a systematic revi ...

innovation capability, collaboration, creativity, innovation, systematic review

235 - 260

A Multi-task Principal Agent Model for Knowledge Contribution of Enterprise Staff

Chengyi LE

According to the different behavior characteristics of knowledge contribution of enterprise employees, a multi-task principal-agent relationship of knowledge contribution between enterprise and employees is established based on principal-agent theory, analyzing staff’s knowledge contribution behavior of knowledge creation and knowledge participation. Based on this, a multi-task principal agent mod ...

multi-task principal-agent model, knowledge contribution, knowledge creation and participation, Incentive measures

261 - 271

Aspects of Digital Forensics in South Africa

Alastair Irons, Jacques Ophoff

This paper explores the issues facing digital forensics in South Africa. It examines particular cyber threats and cyber threat levels for South Africa and the challenges in addressing the cybercrimes in the country through digital forensics. The paper paints a picture of the cybercrime threats facing South Africa and argues for the need to develop a skill base in digital forensics in order to coun ...

digital forensics, cybercrime, legislation, skills development, South Africa

273 - 283

Challenges of Knowledge and Information Management during New Product Introduction: Experiences from a Finnish Multinational Company

Eeva M. Järvenpää, Miia-Johanna Kopra, Minna Lanz

Efficient knowledge and information management is essential for companies to prosper in the rapidly changing global environment. This article presents challenges of a large Finnish multinational company relating to their current knowledge and information management practices and systems. The focus is on New Product Introduction (NPI) process. The study is based on interviews and facilitated worksh ...

knowledge management, information management, knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, information sharing, information flows, case study

285 - 308

Does Usability Matter? An Analysis of the Impact of Usability on Technology Acceptance in ERP Settings

Brenda M Scholtz, Imran Mahmud, Ramayah T.

Though the field of management information systems, as a sector and a discipline, is the inventor of many guidelines and models, it appears to be a slow runner on practical implications of interface usability. This usability can influence end users’ attitude and behavior to use IT. The purpose of this paper was to examine the interface usability of a popular Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) soft ...

Enterprise Resource Planning, Interface usability, ERP usability, Technology Acceptance Model, Partial Least Squares

309 - 330

Knowledge Management in Nigerian Universities: A Conceptual Model

Adebowale I Ojo

Universities have traditionally been leaders in the field of knowledge production, research, and societal development. They are expected to be drivers of innovation, thereby contributing to the development of a learning society. The array of challenges facing universities in Nigeria and other developing countries forces one to question their levels of innovation. While knowledge management has bee ...

knowledge management, higher education, innovation, university, Nigeria

331 - 345

Intention to Use and Satisfaction of e-Learning for Training in the Corporate Context

Maxine P Esterhuyse, Brenda M Scholtz, Danie Venter

Together, the fields of education and information technology have identified the need for an online solution to training. The introduction of e-learning has optimised the learning process, allowing organisations to realise the many advantages that e-learning offers. The importance of user involvement in the success of e-learning makes it imperative that the forces driving intention to use e-learni ...

e-learning, intention, satisfaction, survey, self-efficacy, enjoyment, computer anxiety

347 - 365

Volume 10, 2015

Printable Table of Contents IJIKM Volume 10, 2015

Kevin A. Johnston, Elsje Scott , Mike Hart

This table of contents will be updated throughout the year as new papers are published.

i - iii

Influential Factors of Collaborative Networks in Manufacturing: Validation of a Conceptual Model

Danny Wee Hock Quik, Nevan Wright, Ammar Rashid, Sivadass Thiruchelvam

The purpose of the study is to identify influential factors in the use of collaborative networks within the context of manufacturing. The study aims to investigate factors that influence employees’ learning, and to bridge the gap between theory and praxis in collaborative networks in manufacturing. The study further extends the boundary of a collaborative network beyond enterprises to include supp ...

Employees’ learning, collaborative networked learning, collaborative networks, socio-technical systems theory

1 - 19

HUNT: Scavenger Hunt with Augmented Reality

Yan Lu, Joseph T. Chao, Kevin R. Parker

This project shows a creative approach to the familiar scavenger hunt game. It involved the implementation of an iPhone application, HUNT, with Augmented Reality (AR) capability for the users to play the game as well as an administrative website that game organizers can use to create and make available games for users to play. Using the HUNT mobile app, users will first make a selection from a lis ...

Software Engineering, Augmented Reality, iOS Application, Scavenger Hunt

21 - 35

KenVACS: Improving Vaccination of Children through Cellular Network Technology in Developing Countries

George Gatuha, Tao Jiang

Health Data collection is one of the major components of public health systems. Decision makers, policy makers, and medical service providers need accurate and timely data in order to improve the quality of health services. The rapid growth and use of mobile technologies has exerted pressure on the demand for mobile-based data collection solutions to bridge the information gaps in the health secto ...

Health Data collection, Short Message Service, Open Source data frameworks, Mobile Technologies, Vaccination, Kenya

37 - 46

Change management in information systems projects for public organizations

Ewa Ziemba, Iwona Oblak

It can be argued that public organizations, in order to provide the public with sufficient services in the current, highly competitive and continuously evolving environment, require changes. The changes that become necessary are often related to the implementation of information systems (IS). Moreover, when organizations are faced with changes, a change management (CM) process needs to be put in p ...

project management, change management, public organizations, information systems, IS, critical success factors, CSF

47 - 62

Factors of Project Manager Success

Raafat George Saadé, Heliu Dong, James Wan

This research seeks to analyse the project success factors related to project managers’ traits. The context of the research entails a ‘United Nations’ type of organization. Critical success factors from previous recent studies were adopted for this research. Nineteen factors were adopted and a survey methodology approach was followed. Sixty six participants completed the survey. Exploratory factor ...

Project Manager, United Nations, Critical Success Factors.

63 - 80

The Potential for Facebook Application in Undergraduate Learning: A Study of Jordanian Students

Ayman Alarabiat, Samer Al-Mohammad

The purpose of this paper was to explore the current and potential use of Facebook for learning purposes by Jordanian university students. The paper attempted to compare such use with other uses of Facebook. Further, the paper investigated Jordanian university students’ attitudes towards using Facebook as a formal academic tool, through the use of course-specific Facebook groups. To that end, quan ...

Facebook, social networks, academic context, purposes, uses, universities, Jordan

81 - 103

Knowledge Capture and Acquisition Mechanisms at Kisii University

Nemwel Aming'a

Knowledge management and knowledge assets have gained much prominence in recent years and are said to improve organizational performance. Knowledge capture and acquisition mechanisms enhance organizational memory and performance. However, knowledge capture and acquisition mechanisms in higher education institutions are not well known. The aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge capture ...

Knowledge Management, Mechanisms, Knowledge Capture and Acquisition mechanisms, knowledge capture and acquisition

105 - 116

Employees’ Involuntary Non-Use of ICT Influenced by Power Differences: A Case Study with the Grounded Theory Approach

Thale Kvernberg Andersen

Power differences affect implementation of information and communication technology (ICT) in a way that creates differences in ICT use. Involuntary non-use of new ICT at work occurs when employees want to use the new technology, but are unable to due to factors beyond their control. Findings from an in-depth qualitative study show how involuntary non-use of new ICT can be attributed to power diffe ...

ICT implementation, power, organizational change, involuntary non-use, working conditions, learn-ing, ICT resistance

117 - 143

Perceived Organizational ERP Benefits for SMEs: Middle Eastern Perspective

Soud Almahamid, Omer Awsi

This study aims to examine the impact of organizational environment (top management support, company-wide support, business process reengineering, effective project management, and organizational culture) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor environment (ERP vendor support) on ERP perceived benefits. In order to achieve the study’s aim, a questionnaire was developed based on the extant li ...

top management support, business process reengineering, effective project management, company-wide support, organizational culture, vendor support, SMEs, ERP benefits

145 - 172

A Qualitative Descriptive Analysis of Collaboration Technology in the Navy

Ryan Wark, Jon K. Webber

Collaboration technologies enable people to communicate and use information to make organizational decisions. The United States Navy refers to this concept as information dominance. Various collaboration technologies are used by the Navy to achieve this mission. This qualitative descriptive study objectively examined how a matrix oriented Navy activity perceived an implemented collaboration tec ...

Government, Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Information Technology, E-collaboration

173 - 192

How the Use of ICT can Contribute to a Misleading Picture of Conditions – A Five-Step Process

Stefan Holgersson

This paper contributes to the limited research on roles ICT can play in impression-management strategies and is based on case studies done in the Swedish Police. It also gives a theoretical contribution by adopting a holistic approach to explain how ICT can contribute to giving a misleading picture of conditions. Output generated by ICT has nowadays a central role in follow-up activities and decis ...

ICT, information quality, output, impression-management, misleading, decision-making

193 - 215

FEATURED

Estimating the Accuracy of the Return on Investment (ROI) Performance Evaluations

Alexei Botchkarev

Return on Investment (ROI) is one of the most popular performance measurement and evaluation metrics. ROI analysis (when applied correctly) is a powerful tool in comparing solutions and making informed decisions on the acquisitions of information systems. The purpose of this study is to provide a systematic research of the accuracy of the ROI evaluations in the context of information systems imple ...

Return on Investment, ROI, evaluation, costs, benefits, accuracy, estimation error, error propagation, uncertainty, information system, performance measure, business value

217 - 233

Volume 9, 2014

Printable Table of Contents IJIKM Volume 9, 2014

i - iii

An Examination of Home Internet and Mobile Device Use in the U.S.

James N. Morgan, Sury Ravindran

1 - 18

Mise en Scène: A Film Scholarship Augmented Reality Mobile Application

Joseph T. Chao, Tanxin Du, Christopher Wagenheim, Theodore Rippey

19 - 30

The Survey of Information Systems in Public Administration in Poland

Ewa Ziemba, Iwona Obłąk

31 - 58

The Generalized Requirement Approach for Requirement Validation with Automatically Generated Program Code

Aleksandar Bulajic, Radoslav Stojic, Samuel Sambasivam

59 - 88

A Comparison of International Information Security Regulations

Joseph Johnson, Susan J. Lincke, Ralf Imhof, Charles Lim

89 - 116

The Impact of Business Intelligence on Healthcare Delivery in the USA

Noushin Ashrafi, Lori Kelleher, Jean-Pierre Kuilboer

117 - 130

Interaction and Innovation - Reframing Innovation Activities for a Matrix Organization

Martti Mäkimattila, Minna Saunila, Juho Salminen

131 - 152

Social Capital and Knowledge Transfer in New Service Development: The Front/Back Office Perspective

Jing-Hua Li, Qui-Bo Huang, Li Lin

153 - 174

A Knowledge Integration Methodology for Developing Customized Maintenance Documents

Ying Huang, Xingjun Wang, Mickaël Gardoni, Coulibaly Amadou

175 - 191

Heart Rate Recovery in Decision Support for High Performance Athlete Training Schedules

David J. Cornforth, Dean Robinson, Ian Spence, Herbert Jelinek

This work investigated the suitability of a new tool for decision support in training programs of high performance athletes. The aim of this study was to find a reliable and robust measure of the fitness of an athlete for use as a tool for adjusting training schedules. We examined the use of heart rate recovery percentage (HRr%) for this purpose, using a two-phased approach. Phase 1 consisted of t ...

heart rate recovery, decision support, training schedule, high performance sport, aerobic fitness

193 - 207

Volume 8, 2013

Printable Table of Contents IJIKM Volume 8, 2013

i - iii

Critical Success Factors for ERP Systems Implementation in Public Administration

Ewa Ziemba, Iwona Obłąk

1 - 19

Boosting Creativity with Transformational Leadership in Fuzzy Front-end Innovation Processes

Mirva Hyypiä, Satu Parjanen

21 - 41

The Influence of User Efficacy and Expectation on Actual System Use

Olusola I. Akinbobola, Akinniyi A. Adeleke

43 - 57

Evaluating and Developing Innovation Capabilities with a Structured Method

Anna-Maija Nisula, Aino Kianto

59 - 82

The Effects of Knowledge Sharing and Absorption on Organizational Innovation Performance – A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective

Fan-Yun Pai, Hung-Fan Chang

83 - 97

Environmental Knowledge Management of Finnish Food and Drink Companies in Eco-Efficiency and Waste Management

Momir Beljić, Virgilio Panapanaan, Lassi Linnanen, Tuomo Uotila

99 - 119

Volume 7, 2012

Printable Table of Contents IJIKM Volume 7, 2012

i - iii

Determinants of Intent to Continue Using Online Learning: A Tale of Two Universities

Tantatape Brahmasrene, Jung-Wan Lee

1 - 20

Locating the Weak Points of Innovation Capability before Launching a Development Project

Anne Kallio, Paula Kujansivu, Satu Parjanen

21 - 38

Social Networking, Teaching, and Learning: Introduction to Special Section on Social Networking, Teaching, and Learning (SNTL)

Jelena Jovanovic, Raymond Chiong, Thomas Weise

39 - 43

(SNTL #1) Costs and Benefits of Facebook for Undergraduate Students

Ruti Gafni , Moran Deri

45 - 61

(SNTL #2) Social Networking in Undergraduate Education

Nicole A. Buzzetto-More

63 - 90

(SNTL #3) Design and Implementation Challenges to an Interactive Social Media Based Learning Environment

Glen Hordemann, Joseph T. Chao

91 - 107

Experiencing Creativity in the Organization: From Individual Creativity to Collective Creativity

Satu Parjanen

109 - 128

Critical Success Factors for Implementing Business Intelligence Systems in Small and Medium Enterprises on the Example of Upper Silesia, Poland

Celina M. Olszak, Ewa Ziemba

129 - 150

Text-Based Collaborative Work and Innovation: Effects of Communication Media Affordances on Divergent and Convergent Thinking in Group-Based Problem-Solving

Leif Jarle Gressgård

151 - 176

Barriers to the Effective Deployment of Information Assets: An Executive Management Perspective

Nina Evans, James Price

177 - 199

Introduction to the Special Section on Game-based Learning: Design and Applications (GbL)

Jelena Jovanovic, Raymond Chiong

201 - 203

(GbL #1) Life Skills Developed by Those Who Have Played in Video Game Tournaments

M. O. Thirunarayanan, Manuel Vilchez

205 - 220

(GbL #2) Constructive Simulation as a Collaborative Learning Tool in Education and Training of Crisis Staff

Goran Šimić

221 - 236

(GbL #3) Innovative Teaching Using Simulation and Virtual Environments

Joseph Barjis, Ashish Gupta, Ramesh Sharda, Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva, Peggy D. Lee, Alexander Verbraeck

237 - 255

Volume 6, 2011

Printable Table of Contents: IJIKM, Volume 6, 2011

Socio-Technical Knowledge Management and Epistemological Paradigms: Theoretical Connections at the Individual and Organisational Level

Matthew Jelavic

1 - 16

Relationship between Knowledge Management Process and Creativity among Faculty Members in the University

Hamid Rahimi, Azizollah ArbabiSarjou , Sayeed Mohsen Allammeh , Razieh Aghababaei

17 - 33

Knowledge Management Systems Development: Theory and Practice

Raafat George Saadé, Fassil Nebebe, Tak Mak

35 - 72

Relational Algebra Programming With Microsoft Access Databases

Kirby McMaster, Samuel Sambasivam, Nicole Anderson

73 - 83

Empowering PowerPoint: Slides and Teaching Effectiveness

Sabra E. Brock, Yogini Joglekar

85 - 94

Using eTechnologies for Active Learning

Jo Coldwell, Annemieke Craig, Annegret Goold

95 - 106

Second Time Lucky? A Tale of Two Systems

Hans Lehmann

107 - 118

Pair Modeling with DynaLearn – Students’ Attitudes and Actual Effects

Rachel Or-Bach, Bert Bredeweg

119 - 135

Web Usage Association Rule Mining System

Maja Dimitrijevic, Zita Bošnjak

137 - 150

A Guide for Novice Researchers on Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Studies in Information Systems Research

Yair Levy, Timothy J. Ellis

151 - 161

Assessment of Risk of Misinforming: Dynamic Measures

Dimitar Christozov, Stefanka Chukova, Plamen Mateev

163 - 176

Back to Basics of Informing: The INIS Principle

Bob Travica

177 - 196

The Use of ICT for Economic Development in the Silesian Region in Poland

Celina M. Olszak, Ewa Ziemba

197 - 216

Analysis of Explanatory and Predictive Architectures and the Relevance in Explaining the Adoption of IT in SMEs

Ojiabo Ukoha, Hart Awa, Christen A. Nwuche, Ikechukwu Asiegbu

217 - 230

Examining a Flow-Usage Model to Understand MultiMedia-Based Learning

Raafat George Saadé, Serge Elgaly, Fassil Nebebe

231 - 243

A Return on Investment as a Metric for Evaluating Information Systems: Taxonomy and Application

Alexei Botchkarev, Peter Andru

245 - 269

Volume 5, 2010

Printable Table of Contents: IJIKM, Volume 5, 2010

Collective Creativity and Brokerage Functions in Heavily Cross-Disciplined Innovation Processes

Satu Parjanen, Vesa Harmaakorpi, Tapani Frantsi

1 - 21

The Reference List Formatter: An Object-Oriented Development Project

Kevin R. Parker

23 - 48

Using Research Techniques to Teach Management of IT Concepts to Postgraduate Business Students

Stephen Burgess, G. Michael McGrath

49 - 59

Assessment of Quality of Warranty Policy

Dimitar Christozov, Stefanka Chukova, Plamen Mateev

61 - 72

The Effect of Static Visual Instruction on Students’ Online Learning: A Pilot Study

Pao-Nan Chou, Hsi-Chi Hsiao

73 - 81

Secure Software Engineering: A New Teaching Perspective Based on the SWEBOK

Manar Abu Talib, Adel Khelifi, Leon Jololian

83 - 99

Simulation Modeling of an Iron Ore Operation to Enable Informed Planning

J. E. Everett

101 - 114

Time Management: Procrastination Tendency in Individual and Collaborative Tasks

Ruti Gafni , Nitza Geri

115 - 125

Generativity: The New Frontier for Information and Communication Technology Literacy

Jorge Pérez, Meg Coffin Murray

127 - 137

Clickers in the Laboratory: Student Thoughts and Views

Kevin Johnson, Catherine Lillis

139 - 151

Transaction Flow in Card Payment Systems Using Mobile Agents

Olufunke R. Vincent, Olusegun Folorunso, Adio Taofiki Akinwale, Adebayo D. Akinde

153 - 166

Factors Determining the Balance between Online and Face-to-Face Teaching: An Analysis using Actor-Network Theory

Lily Wong, Arthur Tatnall

167 - 176

An Initiative to Address the Gender Imbalance in Tertiary IT Studies

Annemieke Craig, Jo Coldwell

177 - 190

Discovering Interesting Association Rules in the Web Log Usage Data

Maja Dimitrijevi?, Zita Bošnjak

191 - 207

Can We Help Information Systems Students Improve Their Ethical Decision Making?

Theda Thomas, Mary Ahyick

209 - 224

Adaptive Innovation and a MOODLE-based VLE to Support a Fully Online MSc Business Information Technology (BIT) at the University of East London (UEL)

Anastasis Petrou

225 - 236

Interest in ICT Studies and Careers: Perspectives of Secondary School Female Students from Low Socioeconomic Backgrounds

Iwona Miliszewska , Ewa Sztendur

237 - 260

Designing a Self-Assessment Item Repository: An Authentic Project in Higher Education

Dorothy Langley, Miki Ronen

261 - 275

Development and Testing of a Graphical FORTRAN Learning Tool for Novice Programmers

Anuoluwapo Ajayi, Emmanuel A. Olajubu, D. F. Ninan, S. A. Akinboro, H. Abimbola Soriyan

277 - 291

Egocentric Database Operations for Social and Economic Network Analysis

Adio Taofiki Akinwale, Adekoya Felix Adebayo, S. Adebukola Onashoga

293 - 303

Understanding ICT Based Advantages: A Techno Savvy Case Study

Karyn Rastrick, James Corner

305 - 326

The Relationship among Organizational Knowledge Sharing Practices, Employees' Learning Commitments, Employees' Adaptability, and Employees' Job Satisfaction: An Empirical Investigation

Soud Almahamid, Arthur C. McAdams, Taher Kalaldeh

327 - 356

Information Quality and Absorptive Capacity in Service and Product Innovation Processes

Helinä Melkas, Tuomo Uotila, Anne Kallio

357 - 374

Pedagogy for Mobile ICT Learning Using Video-Conferencing Technology

Dragana Martinovic, Timothy Pugh, Jelena Magliaro

375 - 394

User Acceptance of the E-Government Services in Malaysia: Structural Equation Modelling Approach

Norazah Mohd Suki, T Ramayah

395 - 413

Volume 4, 2009

Printable Table of Contents: IJIKM, Volume 4, 2009

Discovering a Decision Maker’s Mental Model with Instance-Based Cognitive Mining:

David M. Steiger, Natalie M. Steiger

1 - 22

Decision Making for Predictive Maintenance in Asset Information Management

R. B. Faiz, Eran A. Edirisinghe

23 - 36

Ontology-based Collaborative Inter-organizational Knowledge Management Network

Nelson K. Y. Leung, Seung Hwan Kang, Sim Kim Lau, Joshua Fan

37 - 50

An Improved SMS User Interface Result Checking System

Oludele Awodele, Emmanuel Rotimi Adagunodo, Adio Taofiki Akinwale, Sunday Idowu, M. Agbaje

51 - 62

Volume 3, 2008

Printable Table of Contents: IJIKM, Volume 3, 2008

Multi-Agent System for Knowledge-Based Access to Distributed Databases

Priti Srinivas Sajja

1 - 9

A Guided Approach for Personalized Information Search and Visualization

Wei-Bang Chen, Yufeng Li, Seng-Jaw Soong, Dongquan Chen

11 - 21

Framework for Quality Metrics in Mobile-Wireless Information Systems

Ruti Gafni

23 - 38

An Integrated ICT Management Framework for Commercial Banking Organisations

Simon Mukenge Tshinu, Gerrit Botha, Marlien Herselman

39 - 53

Performance Attributions: A Cross Cultural Study Comparing Singapore, Japan and US Companies

Hendrik Halim, Irene Keng Howe Chew

55 - 72

Improving Security for SCADA Control Systems

Mariana Hentea

73 - 86

Knowledge Production in Networked Practice-based Innovation Processes – Interrogative Model as a Methodological Approach

Vesa Harmaakorpi, Arto Mutanen

87 - 101

From Tailored Databases to Wikis: Using Emerging Technologies to Work Together More Efficiently

Amanda Regolini, Frédéric Berger, Emmanuelle Jannès-Ober, Luuk Dorren

103 - 113

Designing an ‘Electronic Village’ of Local Interest on Tourism: The eKoNES Framework

Demosthenes Akoumianakis

115 - 134

Expectancy Theory and Behavioral Intentions to Use Computer Applications

Lori Baker-Eveleth, Robert W. Stone

135 - 146

Volume 2, 2007

Printable Table of Contents: IJIKM, Volume 2, 2007

Driving Creativity: Extending Knowledge Management into the Multinational Corporation

James W. Gabberty, Jennifer D. E. Thomas

1 - 15

Information Retrieval Systems: A Human Centered Approach

Panagiotis Petratos

17 - 32

Experiences in Building and Using Decision-Support Systems in Postgraduate University Courses

Arthur Tatnall , Stephen Burgess

33 - 42

Towards Network Perspective of Intra-Organizational Learning: Bridging the Gap between Acquisition and Participation Perspective

Miha Škerlavaj, Vlado Dimovski

43 - 58

The Technology Ownership and Information Acquisition Habits of HBCU Freshmen

Nicole A. Buzzetto-More , Retta Guy

59 - 72

Criteria for the Evaluation of Business Process Simulation Tools

Vesna Bosilj-Vuksic, Vlatko Ceric, Vlatka Hlupic

73 - 88

Integrated Information Systems - A Challenge for Long-Term Digital Preservation

Viveca Asproth

89 - 98

An Evolutionary Software Project Management Maturity Model for Mauritius

Aneerav Sukhoo, Andries Barnard, Mariki M. Eloff, John A. Van der Poll

99 - 118

A Methodology for Increasing Business Process Maturity in Public Sector

Mojca Indihar Stemberger, Andrej Kovacic, Jurij Jaklic

119 - 133

Approach to Building and Implementing Business Intelligence Systems

Celina M. Olszak, Ewa Ziemba

135 - 148

A Generic Agent Framework to Support the Various Software Project Management Processes

Rita C Nienaber, Andries Barnard

149 - 162

An Improved Assessment of Personality Traits in Software Engineering

Adesina S. Sodiya , Olumide Babatope Longe, S. Adebukola Onashoga, Oludele Awodele, L. O. Omotosho

163 - 177

Towards a Methodology to Elicit Tacit Domain Knowledge from Users

Wernher R. Friedrich, John A. Van der Poll

179 - 193

Volume 1, 2006

Printable Table of Contents: IJIKM, Volume 1, 2006

Predicting Internet-based Online Community Size and Time to Peak Membership Using the Bass Model of New Product Growth

David R. Firth, Cameron Lawrence, Shawn F. Clouse

1 - 12

A Framework for Designing Nursing Knowledge Management Systems

Tzyh-Lih Hsia, Li-Min Lin, Jen-Her Wu , Hsien-Tang Tsai

13 - 22

Do Project Management Tools and Outcomes Differ in Organizations of Varying Size and Sector?

Kimberly Furumo, J. Michael Pearson, Nancy L. Martin

23 - 36

Measurement of Supply Chain Integration Benefits

Peter Trkman , Ales Groznik

37 - 45

Business Intelligence Systems in the Holistic Infrastructure Development Supporting Decision Making in Organisations

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The Underlying Issues in Knowledge Elicitation

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Applicability of Process Maps for Simulation Modeling in Business Process Change Projects

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TQM for Information Systems: Are Indian Organizations Ready?

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Knowledge Conversion and Transfer: A Mathematical Interpretation

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Gender Differences among IT Professionals in Dealing with Change and Skill Set Maintenance

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