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Determinants of cloud computing adoption by Romanian SMEs in the digital economy

Dincă, Violeta Mihaela; Dima, Alina Mihaela; Rozsa, Zoltán - In: Journal of business economics and management 20 (2019) 3, pp. 798-820

The purpose of this paper is to explore the process of Cloud Computing adoption within Romanian Small and Medium sized … Enterprises in the digital age. Most of the scientific papers related to this topic examine the general outlook of cloud computing … factors that have an influence over the choice of Romanian SMEs to adopt cloud computing technology, a conceptual model has …

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Adoption of mobile applications for identifying tourism destinations by travellers : an integrative approach

Kuo, Tung-Sheng; Huang, Kuo-Chung; Thang Quyet Nguyen; … - In: Journal of business economics and management 20 (2019) 5, pp. 860-877

The purpose of the study is to provide an assessment of both how consumers adopt mobile tourism apps and how consumers use those apps to orient customer intentions to visit tourism destinations. The technology acceptance model (TAM) is used to explore customer intentions to adopt tourism apps. A...

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Strukturierte Cloud Transformation in Unternehmen – Veränderungen durch Covid-19?

Brechlin, Fabian - In: HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik 58 (2021) 4, pp. 739-753

Die Verlagerung von On-Premise Infrastruktur und Workflows in die Cloud ist schon lange kein Trend mehr, sondern eine gängige und notwendige Unternehmenspraxis. Die Covid-19 Pandemie hat vielen Unternehmen gezeigt, was für eine zentrale Rolle die Nutzung von Cloud-Services heutzutage spielt....

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Mobile App Adoption and Its Differential Impact on Consumer Shopping Behavior

Ba, Sulin; He, Shu; Lee, Shun-Yang - 2021

The mobile application (app) market is one of the fastest growing markets in recent years. In this study, we investigate how app adoption changes customers’ hotel booking behaviors using a dataset of around 16,000 randomly selected customers’ hotel booking and stay information from one of...

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Optimal Planning and Operational Scheduling of Micro Energy Grids

Eldessouky, Ahmed Samir; Fahmy, Abdallah - 2021

This paper presents an optimal planning procedure and operational scheduling of micro energy grids (MEGs). The optimization objectives are to minimize cost, carbon dioxide emissions, and energy deficiency. The energy sources and conversion technologies included in this study are renewable based...

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The mHealth Power Paradox : Improving Data Protection in Health Apps through Self-Regulation in the European Union

van Kolfschooten, Hannah - 2021

An increasing number of EU citizens uses self-monitoring mHealth apps: apps used by consumers in a private setting to monitor their general health. The extensive processing of health data by these apps poses severe risks to users’ privacy. These risks are exacerbated by the inapplicability of...

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Apple's Mounting App Store Woes

Blair, Roger D.; Angerhofer, Tirza - 2021

By making the App Store the only official channel for iPhone owners to buy apps, Apple has created the only market in which iPhone owners and app developers may transact their business. Apple exploits the bottleneck that it creates by imposing a 15 percent or 30 percent commission on...

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COVID-19 Tracing Apps as a Legal Problem : An Investigation of the Norwegian ‘Smittestopp’ App

Lintvedt, Mona Naomi - 2021

In their efforts to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries have introduced contact tracing apps installed on mobile phones with the aim of breaking chains of infection. This raises ethical and legal questions, as these apps have the potential to be used for surveillance of the population....

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Computing Stochastic Dynamic Economic Models with a Large Number of State Variables : A Description and Application of a Smolyak-Collocation Method

Malin, Ben; Krueger, Dirk; Kubler, Felix - 2021

number of state variables. We show how powerful this method may be in applications by computing the nonlinear recursive …

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Privacy by Default, Abuse by Design : EU Competition Concerns About Apple's New App Tracking Policy

Hoppner, Thomas; Westerhoff, Philipp - 2021

With the most recent updates of its mobile operating systems, in April 2021 Apple implemented a new global App Tracking Transparency policy. The policy obliges app developers to display an additional (Apple-designed) prompt to request permission from end users for the developer to “track”...

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