Information Technology & People: Volume 31 Issue 1

Internet Village Motoman Project in rural Cambodia: bridging the digital divide

Margaret Meiling Luo, Sophea Chea

Community wireless networking has become a growing trend in both metropolitan and rural areas around the world. However, few studies have sought to understand what motivates…

Revisiting innovation adoption theory through electronic public relations

Anastasios Panopoulos, Prokopis Theodoridis, Athanasios Poulis

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the innovation adoption process taking place in the public relations field through the use of Web 2.0 applications and social network…

Age stereotypes in agile software development – an empirical study of performance expectations

Uta Schloegel, Sebastian Stegmann, Alexander Maedche, Rolf van Dick

Research on agile software development (ASD) has so far primarily focused on processes and tools. Recently, researchers have started to investigate the social dimensions of ASD…

Comparative human development thresholds for absolute and relative pro-poor mobile banking in developing countries

Simplice A. Asongu, Jacinta C. Nwachukwu

The purpose of this paper is to assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year 2011.

Investigating the online social network development through the Five Cs Model of Similarity: The Facebook case

Elena-Mădălina Vătămănescu, Andreia Gabriela Andrei, Florina Pînzaru

The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of five dimensions of similarity (i.e. condition similarity, context similarity, catalyst similarity, consequence similarity…

Using member checking in interpretive research practice: A hermeneutic analysis of informants’ interpretation of their organizational realities

Netta Iivari

In recent years, there has been a growing desire to more fully integrate informants into the overall research process. In response to this trend, the purpose of this paper is to…

Toward a unified view of technology and activity: The contribution of activity theory to information systems research

Stan Karanasios

This theory development paper argues that activity theory, as a theory of practice, can help overcome long-standing challenges in the field of information systems (IS) by better…

A conceptual framework highlighting e-learning implementation barriers

Samnan Ali, M. Amaad Uppal, Stephen R. Gulliver

E-learning has gained much focus from educators and researchers, with many extolling e-learning over traditional learning. Despite this focus, implementation of e-learning systems…

A comparison of high-speed internet service in Ghana: an analytical hierarchy approach

Michael F. Frimpon, Ebenezer Adaku

The rising proportion of internet users in Sub-Saharan Africa and the lack of analytical techniques, as decision support systems, in choosing among alternative internet service…

Investigation of employers’ performance expectations for new IT graduates in individual and team work settings for software development

Ibrahim Akman, Cigdem Turhan

In general, software development work environments involve many different tasks and have high demands on efficiency and quality of performance at both individual and team levels…

Understanding microblogging continuance intention: The directed social network perspective

Kristijian Mirkovski, Yanli Jia, Libo Liu, Kun Chen

The purpose of this paper is to explain how individuals form microblogging habits and why they continue to use microblogs from the perspective of direction social networks.

Hidden facets of IT projects are revealed only after deployment: The case of French agricultural cooperatives

Mario Saba, Peter Bou Saba, Antoine Harfouche

The purpose of this paper is to focus on an information technology (IT) deployment project in the specific field of agricultural cooperatives. It also aims to underline the…

#IUseTwitterBecause: content analytic study of a trending topic in Twitter

Muhterem Dindar, Nihal Dulkadir Yaman

The purpose of this paper is to propose a robust framework for assessing motivations to use Twitter. Drawing on previous studies, diffusion of innovations, unified theory of…

Openness, ICT and entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa

Simplice A. Asongu, Jacinta C. Nwachukwu

The purpose of this paper is to examine how information and communication technology (ICT) influences openness to improve the conditions of doing business in sub-Saharan Africa.