Abstract Social capital generated by frequent, face-to-face interactions provides the foundation for collective action. Does this also hold for a community action in post-communist, Central European countries where modern NGOs are perceived to be ineffective? This article examines this question...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the theoretical and empirical possibility of measuring trust and commitment in collective actions. Design/methodology/approach The study employs choice experiments to estimate trust implicitly as opposed to the common practice of measuring trust...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive model to illustrate the mediating role of sense of virtual community (SOVC) in virtual communities of practices (VCoPs). The interrelations between social capital and collective action in terms of knowledge contribution in the VCoP...

Information systems (IS) have become an integral part of many organizations as they depend on it to execute their critical business function. The purpose of this research was to explore the enablers and inhibitors of information systems disaster recovery planning in organizations in the Ghanaian...

Individuals taking information system training courses can benefit from learning information systems use and thus have the ability to implement systems before graduation. Previous studies have mentioned that an individual's system acceptance is likely to be determined by the information system,...

Decline of student enrollment in MIS major is still an issue. In order to reverse the trend, this study highlights the drivers toward the management information system (MIS) major in an Arab country based on the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) and the Network Externalities Theory. This is the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of entrepreneurial attributes, subjective norms and perceived desirability on entrepreneurial intentions. Design/methodology/approach – The data were collected from the business students of the Quaid-i-Azam School of Management...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to test the impact of entrepreneurship education on business, engineering and arts and science students using the theory of planned behaviour. The study adopted a pre-test–post-test (time 1, t 1 and time 2, t 2 ) to measure the change of attitudes and...

Purpose This paper aims to evaluate the bane of home ownership in Nigeria through mortgage financing by examining the determinants of intention of using mortgage in financing home ownership. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopted a survey quantitative research design. A total of 235 valid...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to delineate the impact of social context and savings attitudes on consumers’ self-reported long-term savings and discuss how these drivers can be influenced to increase an individual’s savings rate. Design/methodology/approach – An online survey...