...Univ Access Inf Soc (2015) 14:81–95 DOI 10.1007/s10209-014-0348-1 LONG PAPER Technology acceptance model: a literature review from 1986 to 2013 ´ ´ Nikola Marangunic • Andrina Granic Published online: 16 February 2014 Ó Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract With the ever-increasing development of technology and its integration into users’ private and professional life, a decision regarding its acceptance or rejection still remains an open question. A respectable amount of work dealing with the technology acceptance model (TAM), from its first appearance more than a quarter of a century ago, clearly indicates a popularity of the model in the field of technology acceptance. Originated in the psychological theory of reasoned action and theory of planned behavior, TAM has evolved to become a key model in understanding predictors of human behavior toward potential acceptance or rejection of the technology. The main aim of the paper is to provide an up-to-date, wellresearched resource of past and current references to TAMrelated literature and to identify possible directions for future TAM research. The paper presents a comprehensive concept-centric literature review of the TAM, from 1986 onwards. According to a designed methodology, 85 scientific publications have been selected and classified according to their aim and content into three categories such as (i) TAM literature reviews, (ii) development and extension of TAM, and (iii) modification...
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...DOES THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM INCREASE STUDENTS‟ OVERALL ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE? A Thesis Presented to the Faculty in Communication and Organizational Leadership Studies School of Professional Studies Gonzaga University Under the Supervision and Mentorship of Dr. Heather Crandall In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in Communication and Leadership Studies By J. Mariah Brown December 2011 Technology in the Classroom 2 Abstract Technological advances and a decrease in the cost of technology have resulted in nearly 93 percent of public schools classrooms in the United States having access to the Internet, and a considerable increase in educational programs that incorporate technology into the curriculum (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, 2005). Due to the prevalence of technology in the classroom, the effectiveness of such programs has become a prevailing research topic amongst social scientists. This thesis reviews past research and provides an analysis of relevant studies conducted within the last ten years. Using Daft and Lengel‟s media richness theory as a basis, this meta-analysis provides a comprehensive overview of the effect of technology enhanced learning (TEL) programs on K-12 students‟ overall academic performance and factors that can increase the effectiveness of such programs. Technology in the Classroom 3 Technology in the Classroom 4 Table of Contents CHAPTER...
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...The Applied Research Technologies Incorporation Strategic Analysis Tools Introduction of Case study:- The case study is about the Applied Research Technologies Incorporation, which is an emerging corporation in the field of technology. Company has built up its strength from mergers and acquisitions in the year of 1980 and 1990. As a result, in the year of 2006, the ART portfolio consist of 60 business units having major divisions of Industrial automation, Health care, HVAC (Heating ventilation and air conditioning) and Water management Division. Backbone of the business:- Innovative Culture:- The company success is based on the innovative environment and friendly culture for the entrepreneur mind people. The encouragement for innovative ideas can be idealized from the fact that company spends double money on supporting innovative ideas from the other industrial companies. This innovative culture comes from the top, because the CEO (David Hall) encourage employees to spend half day in a week in brainstorming, problem solving and experimenting which is referred as “tinker time”. According to the CEO, he likes to have meetings of managers and innovators so that new ideas emerged. According to him, it is the fact that you will not succeed every time but we should celebrate worthy attempts even they are unsuccessful. Knowledge Sharing:- Knowledge dissemination and sharing is also a promising picture that reflects the cooperative culture of the company. Experts of different...
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...Using Technology for Educational Purposes Student’s Name Institution of Learning Abstract The drive of this research was to scrutinize teachers’ attitudes en route for the use of technology. There were sixty-six participants who responded to the technology survey on an attitude. The investigation had twenty-nine queries about realism, attitudes and ability toward technology. Since the data contained older and younger scholars, the academic examined whether there were any significant differences between the two groups with respect to their attitudes toward technology. The researcher found that the mean of students’ attitudes for the older students was slightly higher on almost all queries. Nonetheless, this was significant only for the three questions of the survey. The study ranked the means for all questions in the survey and found five questions with the highest mean, indicating better attitudes, and five questions with low five means and which indicates the lowest attitudes on technology Introduction The aim of this item is to share with the students the results of a study carried out to examine the attitude of technology application amongst educators. Furthermore, this learning is discovering the attitudes of teachers towards the usage of technology for educational. The usage technology is today at inevitable level in all sectors. An impression of the study in the worth of using technology in learning and education process showed that the use of technology has...
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...Using Technology for Educational Purposes Student’s Name Institution of Learning Abstract The drive of this research was to scrutinize teachers’ attitudes en route for the use of technology. There were sixty-six participants who responded to the technology survey on an attitude. The investigation had twenty-nine queries about realism, attitudes and ability toward technology. Since the data contained older and younger scholars, the academic examined whether there were any significant differences between the two groups with respect to their attitudes toward technology. The researcher found that the mean of students’ attitudes for the older students was slightly higher on almost all queries. Nonetheless, this was significant only for the three questions of the survey. The study ranked the means for all questions in the survey and found five questions with the highest mean, indicating better attitudes, and five questions with low five means and which indicates the lowest attitudes on technology Introduction The aim of this item is to share with the students the results of a study carried out to examine the attitude of technology application amongst educators. Furthermore, this learning is discovering the attitudes of teachers towards the usage of technology for educational. The usage technology is today at inevitable level in all sectors. An impression of the study in the worth of using technology in learning and education process showed that the use of technology has...
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...Egwu-Oti (son) 10. POSOTION AND SALARY SCALE: Professor / UASS 78 11. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: DURATION (i) Ngodo/Amachi Primary School Afikpo. 1970-1975 (ii) Government Secondary School Afikpo. 1975-1980 (iii) Alvan lkoku College of Education, Owerri. 1980-1983 (iv) University of Jos, Jos Nigeria. 1984-1987 (v) University of Jos, Jos. 1989-1990 (vi) Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Nigeria. 1993-1999 (12) ACADEMIC/ PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS i) Ph.D 1999 (Fish Toxicology, Applied Fisheries and Aquaculture, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka Nigeria. ii) M.Sc. 1990...
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...A Literature Review: Incorporating Ethics Training in Business Abstract As the need for showing the importance of ethical behavior standards has become more prominent of the past decade, this review intends to show the need for standards of ethics in businesses based on previous research. Ethical training within a business is a topic that has been debated on importance. It has been discussed as a benefit and as more of a cosmetic topic. There are many articles written that discuss what business ethics is, and then there are articles that talk about the need for or against training of business ethics by businesses. This review is aimed towards showing the pros and cons of ethics training by businesses as discussed in current or recent surveys, studies, and articles. Introduction Business ethics has been a controversial topic for many years. It is said to be a double-edged sword and is seen as both an evil and as a proactive approach to preventing lies and motive good behavior (Bayley, 2012). There have been many surveys and articles that have been written on the subject matter. Many of these show the importance of ethical standards and training within a business. There seems to be controversy on whether training on ethics in a business is a benefit or just a cosmetic cover. It has been shown through several surveys and discussed in many articles of the benefits of providing ethics training within a business. However, some still believe that it is a short-lived...
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...The Applied Research Technologies Incorporation Strategic Analysis Tools Introduction of Case study:- The case study is about the Applied Research Technologies Incorporation, which is an emerging corporation in the field of technology. Company has built up its strength from mergers and acquisitions in the year of 1980 and 1990. As a result, in the year of 2006, the ART portfolio consist of 60 business units having major divisions of Industrial automation, Health care, HVAC (Heating ventilation and air conditioning) and Water management Division. Backbone of the business:- Innovative Culture:- The company success is based on the innovative environment and friendly culture for the entrepreneur mind people. The encouragement for innovative ideas can be idealized from the fact that company spends double money on supporting innovative ideas from the other industrial companies. This innovative culture comes from the top, because the CEO (David Hall) encourage employees to spend half day in a week in brainstorming, problem solving and experimenting which is referred as "tinker time". According to the CEO, he likes to have meetings of managers and innovators so that new ideas emerged. According to him, it is the fact that you will not succeed every time but we should celebrate worthy attempts even they are unsuccessful. Knowledge Sharing:- Knowledge dissemination and sharing is also a promising picture that reflects the cooperative culture of the company. Experts of different...
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...Learning and Change for Sustainability at Yarra Valley Water Patrick Crittenden Suzanne Benn Dexter Dunphy A Case Study March 2010 Enquiries The Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability Graduate School of the Environment Macquarie University NSW 2109 ariescoordinator@gse.mq.edu.au (02) 9850 8597 2 Contents Introduction ............................................................................ 4 Methodology ............................................................................ 5 Background ............................................................................. 5 Approaches to Learning and Change at YVW .................................... 6 Creating a more innovative organisational culture.....................................6 Integrating environment as a strategic issue............................................7 Sustainability tools ..........................................................................9 The Natural Step................................................................................... 9 Life Cycle Assessment ...........................................................................11 Collaborative learning through stakeholder engagement ........................... 12 Linking culture, strategy and mechanisms for learning and change ......13 Organisational learning ................................................................... 14 Conclusion ....................................................................
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...Introduction Samsung is a company which is known as a global multinational dealing with the manufacturing and promotion of the White Goods. In other words, it is a global supplier of appliances and gadgets used by potential consumers all around the world. The company has accomplished this wider business through powerful and strengthening strategies which helped them in gripping their products on the grounds. This assignment is based on the evaluation of the strategic direction of this company and so the culture is taken into consideration. This also provides the complete structure of the hierarchy structure of this organization.1 Background and History The history of this company starts with its opening as a general store in 1938 at North Kyung-sang Province, Korea. In these stores, trade was undergone until 1950s when the company started working as sugar and wool producer. The company was involved in the insurance business in 1958. The 1960s is taken as the era when this company became the first globally expanding company in Korea.2 This era was also an adoption period for the company when the communication sector joined with it. The operations for shaping the future planning of the communication sector was started in 1970s and in 1980s the company managed to access the global market for these products. In the 20th century it was a final stage of development of this sector n till 2000 the operations and management was properly maintained. In the recent era...
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...CASE PROJECT 3 SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES A STRATEGIC RECOMMENDATION REPORT Table of content Content Page 1. Introduction.................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Definitions 1.2 Purpose 1.3 Limitations 2. Implementation.............................................................................................. 5 2.1 Selections Criteria 2.2 Methodology 3. Social Networking Sites................................................................................. 9 3.1 Facebook 3.2 Twitter 3.3 LinkedIn 4. Recommendation......................................................................................... 14 5. Conclusion.................................................................................................... 15 6. Tables I. Figure 1............................................................................................ 7 II. Figure 2............................................................................................ 14 INTRODUCTION The rapid and continuous growth of Social Networking website (SNS) has presided over the greatest increase in social media market exposure capabilities as has been seen in the last decade; this growth has also gone through so many changes in the same period making it difficult for organisations to set a comprehensive strategy to continue to harness this extensive potential...
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...Microbial Degradation of Hydrocarbons Vijay Kothari*, Meera Panchal, Namrata Srivastava Institute of Science, Nirma University *Corresponding author: vijay.kothari@nirmauni.ac.in; vijay23112004@yahoo.co.in Abstract Hydrocarbon contamination in the environment has been a notable problem since years. Particularly the major oil spills in last few decades, and resulting loss to biodiversity has brought public attention to this problem. Bioremediation is a promising approach for recovery of environmental sites contaminated with crude oil and other hydrocarbons. Many microorganisms have been identified to possess hydrocarbon degradation potential. This review covers an overview of common hydrocarbon pollutants, microbes known as hydrocarbon degraders, major pathways and enzymes involved therein, factors affecting hydrocarbon degradation, and various approaches employed to exploit degrading capacity of microbes for remedial purpose. In addition to making use of inherent catabolic ability of degrader populations, metabolic engineering can be of considerable value in dealing with the problem of hydrocarbon contamination. Keywords: Bioremediation, Oxygenase, Biomagnification, Cometabolism, Consortium, Biosurfactant. Introduction Hydrocarbon (HC) group of compounds consist of hydrogen and carbon in their structure. As petrochemical industries are flourishing worldwide, HC contamination has become one of the major environmental problems faced globally. Environment is particularly being...
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...The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1463-5771.htm BIJ 13,1/2 Best practices of collaboration between university and industrial SMEs P. Pecas and E. Henriques ¸ Technology and Management Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ´ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the implementation of best practices of collaboration between university and industrial small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents the experience carried on by a university group fostering the collaboration with SME companies involving young engineering students and researchers in projects designed for the resolution of real industrial problems. A collaboration model is proposed and described. Four real case studies are presented. Findings – The purposed model promotes the involvement of the young engineers with authentic industrial experiences, enables the build-up of their practical framework and encourages their entrepreneurial growth. It also promotes the innovation process in SME companies through the close collaboration with universities. Practical implications – The collaboration between universities and SME companies should be based on a small projects base. These projects must be focus in localized and specific problematic areas in the industrial companies, where the potential of improvement and innovation is large...
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...ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING & BUDGETARY PLANNING AND CONTROL AT AEROSPACE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY By WAN MOHD SHOFIAN CHE WAN ABU BAKAR SITI IRSALINA AIZAD ABU BAKAR MOHD FARID HUSSEIN JUNAIDA MOHD DAUD HASLAN LAIRIN Subject: MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING (ACC 720) Lecturer:- DR. HJ. SOFIAN SHAMSUDDIN TABLE OF CONTENT No | Title | Page | 1. | Group member personal profile | | 2. | Objective of study | | 3. | Definition 1) Activity Based costing 2) budgetary planning & Control | | 4. | introduction of the company | | 5. | product | | 6. | Activity based costing | | 7. | budgetary planning & Control | | 8. | | | | | | GROUP MEMBER PERSONAL PROFILE | Name:Mohd Farid bin Hussein | | Job Designation:Executive, Talent Management in Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) | | Qualification: Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Hons. (Human Resource Management), Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) | | Contact Number : 019-2898909 | | Relevant Working Experience:Farid has more than 3 years in human resource background in areas such as Organisational Design, Training and Performance Support and Talent Management. He joined TNB after serving another GLC, Chemical Company of Malaysia (CCM) as a Management Trainee for a year.He specializes in talent management namely identifying and develop internal talents, developing assessment tools and forming HR strategy such as designing the organisation structure, designing...
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...Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods In Environmental Accounting Research Evangeline Elijido-Ten Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology Address for correspondence: Faculty of Business and Enterprise Swinburne University of Technology John Street, Hawthorn Victoria, Australia 3122 Phone: +61 3 9214 4471 Fax: +61 3 9819 2117 E-mail: eelijidoten@swin.edu.au 1 Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods In Environmental Accounting Research Abstract Purpose: To explore how the combination of quantitative and qualitative methods can enhance a study on the environmental reporting decisions made by Malaysian companies using the emergent stakeholder theory. Methodology/approach: The paper provides an illustration of how the descriptive, exploratory and explanatory type of research is entrenched with the objectives of the research and how the combination of quantitative (statistical regression and weighting/mean ranking) and qualitative (archival analysis, qualitative interviews) methods may enhance accounting research not only from results that corroborate. Findings: The three-fold objective of this study, corresponding to its three phases, illustrates that combining qualitative and quantitative methods involves considerations at each phase of the investigation. The research design shows that when the researcher work with different types of data within the same project, the way data is used varies according...
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