This study examines the fashioning of a model for a surrogate to facilitate user selection of the most appropriate film or video work for a particular use. Such a surrogate is intended to enable a user to bring to a collection of moving image documents the habits of scrutiny characteristic of...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the viability of transinformation analysis as a multimodal readability metric. A novel approach was called for, considering that existing and established readability metrics are strictly used to measure linguistic complexity. Yet, the corpus of...

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to examine how information technology, strategic planning processes, and people interact in an emerging e‐government environment. Design/methodology/approach – A discriminant model was developed to test the ability to distinguish between the...

With the growth in social networking and the highly competitive nature of the social networking market, it is important to understand the factors that influence social network site (SNS) member retention. In order to better understand continuation intention among SNS members, the authors propose...

Construction and operation of the Century Freeway (1-105) created problems for and presented opportunities to the socioeconomically diverse south Los Angeles County area. Early decisions regarding the interstate facility effected economic decline of the area, encouraging disinvestment and...

This research examines the importance of access to light rail transit and highway systems in estimating office and industrial property rents. The analysis improves our understanding of the role played by transport facilities in locational decisions for the firm. Hedonic price analysis is...

U.S. academic centers for quality and productivity provide many benefits for academic and business communities. The centers support the diffusion of new technologies and business practices that allow U.S. businesses to improve their competitiveness. These centers also provide opportunitiesto...

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to investigate how the consumer’s trusting mechanism influences their behavioral adoption intention in the context of genetic testing. Design/methodology/approach: Based on the technology acceptance theory and trust formation theory, the research...

Purpose: Through the use of netnography, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the interaction of 192 inside sales agents who collaborate within discussion forums to create communities of practice (CoPs). Drawing on situated learning theory and inside salespersons’ discussion forums,...

Purpose: Previous sales research remains limited to analyzing the influence of sales activities with sales agent tenure. To date, research on this subject has focused on the downstream direct or indirect impact of sales activities to sales performance, failing to consider whether sales...