Technology Diffusion and Adoption: Global Complexity, Global Innovation

Technology Diffusion and Adoption: Global Complexity, Global Innovation

Ali Hussein Saleh Zolait

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 366

ISBN13: 9781466627918|ISBN10: 1466627913|EISBN13: 9781466627925

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2791-8

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Technology Diffusion and Adoption: Global Complexity, Global Innovation discusses the emerging topics of information technology and the IT based solutions in global and multi-cultural environments. This comprehensive collection addresses the aspects of innovation diffusion in the field of business computing technologies and is essential for researchers, practitioners, academicians and educators all over the world.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Mobile Application and Network

Chapter 1

Deployment and Success Factors for the Mobile Internet: A Case Study Approach (pages 1-16)

Krassie Petrova, Raymond Yiwen Huang

The mobile Internet is a fast-growing technology that provides access to the traditional stationary (fixed-line) Internet from devices connected to mobile communication networks. It is predicted that the convergence between mobile...

Chapter 2

Tackling M-Government Service Complexity: The Case of Bahrain (pages 17-31)

Ahmed Sowaileh, Ali AlSoufi

The development of mobile government services in Bahrain is moving slowly, when compared with traditional e-government services. Few informational and transactional services are available on the mobile portal. The complexity of...

Chapter 3

An Intelligent Approach to Assess Tacit Knowledge Fitness in Networked Enterprises (pages 32-50)

Khalid A. Al-Mutawah

Many organizations attempt to form strategic networked enterprises, yet such strategies are difficult to implement because they are as likely to fail as to succeed. This failure is due to intangible differences and mismatches between...

Chapter 4

ANN Based Approach to Integrate Smell Sense in Multimedia Systems (pages 51-62)

Yousif Al-Bastaki, Khalid A. Al-Mutawah

Despite the wide usage of multimedia in several applications, research in the field of olfaction is immature in helping humans work and communicate through multi-sensory interfaces, including smell. There is no consistent method of...

Chapter 5

The Role of a Collaborative Research Network (CRN) in Improving the Arabian Gulf Countries’ Performance in Research and Innovation (pages 63-75)

Ali Al-Soufi, Jaflah Al-Ammary

Research and development is considered a main source of knowledge and innovation in the Gulf countries and Arab region. Therefore, building a Collaborative Research Network (CRN) in the Gulf is necessary for high quality and...

Global Technology and System Adoption

Chapter 6

A Comparative Study of the Effects of Culture on the Deployment of Information Technology (pages 77-90)

George Ditsa, Saleh Alwahaishi, Shayma Al-Kobaisi, Václav Snášel

Culture is thought to be the most difficult to isolate, define, and measure in the adoption and use of IT (Information Technology) (Hassan & Ditsa, 1999). Consequently, the impact of culture on the adoption and use of IT does not...

Chapter 7

Social Drivers for ICT Diffusion among Agrarian Business Enterprises in Nigeria (pages 91-104)

Bartholomew Aleke, Udechukwu Ojiako, David Wainwright

In this paper, the authors examine the process of diffusion of innovation ICT within agrarian business enterprises operating in developing countries. There is substantial research in the area of Diffusion of Innovation Theory (DoI)...

Chapter 8

A Preliminary Classification of Usage Measures in Information System Acceptance: A Q-Sort Approach (pages 105-129)

Muhammad Z. I. Lallmahomed, Nor Zairah Ab Rahim, Roliana Ibrahim, Azizah Abdul Rahman

In the light of a diverse body of disorganized usage measures available and the difficulty of building a cumulative research tradition, a literature review is conducted on system use in Information Systems (IS) Acceptance through the...

Chapter 9

The Driving Internal Beliefs of Household Internet Adoption among Jordanians and the Role of Cultural Values (pages 130-151)

Khaled Saleh Al Omoush, Raed Musbah Alqirem, Amin A. Shaqrah

The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a comprehensive model for the determinants of household Internet adoption through identifying the driving internal beliefs of individuals and the effect of cultural values on...

Chapter 10

Barriers Hindering Ecommerce Adoption: A Case Study of Kurdistan Region of Iraq (pages 152-165)

Japhet E. Lawrence

Electronic commerce (EC) has the potential to improve efficiency and productivity in many areas and has received significant attention in many countries. However, there has been some doubt about the relevance of ecommerce for...

Trends in Digital Divide

Chapter 11

Global Trends in Digital Governance: A Longitudinal Study (pages 167-181)

Aroon Manoharan, Marc Fudge, Marc Holzer

This paper highlights the research findings of a digital governance survey conducted in the fall of 2009. The study replicates previous surveys of large municipalities worldwide in 2007, 2005, and 2003. This longitudinal assessment...

Chapter 12

Public Information Service for the Disadvantaged in China’s Towns: Case Study of Two Chinese Towns (pages 182-199)

Jianbin Zhang

This study uses the methods of questionnaire and group discussion to conduct field research in A and B towns, which are located in the eastern developed region and the western undeveloped region of China, respectively. According to...

Chapter 13

Software Quality Initiatives: An Empirical Study of Indian SMEs in the IT Sector (pages 200-210)

D. P. Goyal, Adarsh Garg

Through extensive research into the area of quality management practices, such as ISO (International Standard Organization), Six Sigma has been observed within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Few empirical studies have...

Database and Algorithms Applications

Chapter 14

Using OCL to Model Constraints in Data Warehouses (pages 212-224)

François Pinet, Myoung-Ah Kang, Kamal Boulil, Sandro Bimonte, Gil De Sousa, Catherine Roussey, Michel Schneider, Jean-Pierre Chanet

Recent research works propose using Object-Oriented (OO) approaches, such as UML to model data warehouses. This paper overviews these recent OO techniques, describing the facts and different analysis dimensions of the data. The...

Chapter 15

Semantic Search Engine and Object Database Guidelines for Service Oriented Architecture Models (pages 225-250)

Omar Shehab, Ali Hussein Saleh Zolait

In this paper, the authors propose a Semantic Search Engine, which retrieves software components precisely and uses techniques to store these components in a database, such as ontology technology. The engine uses semantic query...

Chapter 16

Segmentation of Arabic Characters: A Comprehensive Survey (pages 251-288)

Ahmed M. Zeki, Mohamad S. Zakaria, Choong-Yeun Liong

The cursive nature of Arabic writing is the main challenge to Arabic Optical Character Recognition developer. Methods to segment Arabic words into characters have been proposed. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the...

Chapter 17

Information Hiding Using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm (pages 289-301)

Wasan Shaker Awad

This paper aims to find an effective and efficient information hiding method used for protecting secret information by embedding it in a cover media such as images. Finding the optimal set of the image pixel bits to be substituted by...

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