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Decision Making in Alternative Modes of Transportation: Two Essays on Ridesharing and Self-Driving Vehicles

Description: This manuscript includes an investigation of decision making in alternative modes of transportation in order to understand consumers' decision in different contexts. In essay 1 of this study, the motives for participation in situated ridesharing is investigated. The study proposes a theoretical model that includes economic benefits, time benefits, transportation anxiety, trust, and reciprocity either as direct antecedents of ridesharing participation intention, or mediated through attitude towa… more
Date: May 2019
Creator: Amirkiaee, Seyede Yasaman
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Measurement of Positive Continuance Intention Drivers within a Service Domain

Description: The contribution of this dissertation is how model measurement allows examination of the balance between what is practical in terms of consumer concerns versus what is optimal in terms of cost control. Essay 1 examines a research framework that incorporates various service recovery strategies and simultaneously evaluates their comparative influences. Essay 2 evaluates the complex interrelationships among different factors related to the post-complaint behavioral process. Essay 3 fills a researc… more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Harun, Md Ahasan Uddin
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Optimizing Production System Maintenance Policies when Cyber Threats are Considered

Description: In a production environment, physical and cyber-related failures become unavoidable because of the complexity of highly connected manufacturing systems and a finite equipment life cycle. The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate optimal maintenance outsourcing and replacement policies in the presence of cyber-threats, as well as policies to achieve channel coordination via cost subsidization. Although well-developed maintenance outsourcing literature has addressed many advanced and tren… more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Ta, Anh V
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Propensity for knowledge sharing: An organizational justice perspective.

Description: Converting individual knowledge into organizational knowledge can be difficult because individuals refuse to share knowledge for a number of different reasons. Creating an atmosphere of fairness plays an important role in the creation of a knowledge-sharing climate. This dissertation proposes that perceptions of organizational justice are crucial building blocks of that environment, leading to knowledge sharing. Data was collected using a field survey of IT managers representing a broad spectr… more
Date: August 2006
Creator: Ibragimova, Bashorat
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Relationship Quality in Social Commerce Decision-Making

Description: This research study involves three essays and examines CRQ-driven decision making from the points of view of the common firm, social-commerce platform provider, and social-commerce echo-system. It addresses CRQ's progression from traditional business-to-consumer (B2C) initiatives to social platform-specific antecedents and to environment-driven factors lying outside the direct control of the platform provider, yet influencing social commerce business decisions, such as user-generated content fr… more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Dinulescu, Catalin C
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A social capital perspective on IT professionals' work behavior and attitude.

Description: Abstract Attracting and developing information technology (IT) professionals is one of the top concerns for companies. Although much research has been conducted about the job behavior and attitudes of IT professionals over the last three decades, findings are inconclusive and contradictory. This suggests that something may be missing in how we examine this phenomenon. Most of this research is drawn from theories of motivation, very little examines the effect of social relationships on IT prof… more
Date: August 2006
Creator: Zhang, Lixuan
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Three Essays on Artificial Intelligence Adoption and Use

Description: Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly transforming business operations and society, as AI capabilities are incorporated into applications ranging from mobile personal assistants to self-driving cars. The potentially disruptive nature of AI calls for an extensive investigation into all aspects of AI-human interactions at individual, group, organizational and market levels. However, there is paucity of academic information systems (IS) research in this area that goes beyond the development and … more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Nguyen, Quynh
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Three Essays on Internet of Things Adoption and Use

Description: Internet of Things (IoT) is a promising technology with great potential for individuals, society, governments, and the economy. IoT is expected to become ubiquitous and influence every aspect of everyday experience. Thus, IoT represents an important phenomena for both organizational and behavioral information system (IS) researchers. This dissertation seeks to contribute to IS research by studying the aspects that influence IoT adoption and use at both consumer and organizational levels. This d… more
Date: May 2019
Creator: Aldossari, Mobark
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