The authors investigate how job-related beliefs, professors, and families influence major decidedness for undergraduate business students. When students are decided about their major, they can focus on studies, have clearer direction, and reduce the time and number of classes necessary to...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model to understand the relationship of supply chain risk sources, risk drivers, and risk mitigation strategies to the overall risk exposure of the firm and to validate the model empirically. An attempt has been made to determine the major contributors...

Many organisations are known to focus more on their financial gains to the detriments of their other roles that they are expected to discharge to their workforce and the communities. It has also been established from previous researches that financial performance would not be adequately valid...

Today, the effect of the tourism industry is observed in all economic, social, cultural, and political dimensions of societies and finding innovative and creative ways to develop it has doubled the importance of research in this area. The purpose of this study is to address the effect of...

According to different views in information systems and the socio-technical perspective, many organizations was led to redefine their business with a more focused IT solutions, this study suggested a number of confirmatory measurement models that establish the ground for the hypothesed research...

The most fundamental problem currently associated with structural equation modeling employing the partial least squares method is that it does not properly account for measurement error, which often leads to path coefficient estimates that asymptotically converge to values of lower magnitude...

Mobile-device-based social networking services (SNS) have become popular technology mediated communication modalities. Users' actively accesses Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn for social communication and entertainment. This study aims to examine the structural relationships of (i)...

The present study aims to empirically test and evaluate the direct and indirect effects of service encounter constructs of service quality, customer satisfaction and service value on loyalty related behavioral intentions of customers in Indian Life services in India to determine the best fitting...

This article explores the influence of social, self, and use factors on the intention to perform social computing actions in online social sites. A survey was conducted using peer-to-peer file sharing as representative of a social computing action. Collected data was analyzed using the...

Path models with and without latent variables are extensively used in e-collaboration research. Both direct and moderating relationships can be included in such path models. Moderating relationships involve three latent variables, the moderating variable and a pair of variables that are...