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Development and Exploration of End-User Healthcare Technology Acceptance Models

Description: This dissertation consists of three studies that collectively investigate the factors influencing the consumer adoption intention towards emerging healthcare technologies. Essay 1 systematically reviews the extent literature on healthcare technology adoption and serves as the theoretical foundation of the dissertation. It investigates different models that have been previously applied to study healthcare technology acceptance. Meta-analysis method is used to quantitatively synthesize the findin… more
Date: May 2021
Creator: Wei, Xinyu "Eddy"
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A Heuristic Approach to Selection of Analytical Methods: Three Empirical Healthcare Studies

Description: Managers rely on analytics to make decisions and the choice of the analytical method can influence their decision-making. This dissertation considers three cases and examines how the choice of analytical methods influence interpretations and implications. These areas are communication for health-related information in social media, health information technology investment by hospitals as it relates to patient satisfaction, and health related expenditure policies of countries. These studies deve… more
Date: August 2021
Creator: Tarakci, Yasemin
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Extensions of the Neural Network Models into Applications and Comparisons with General Linear Models

Description: This dissertation is designed to answer the following questions: (1) Which measurement model is better to contribute to the research model in different areas? (2) Within a given model, how does the data size influence the performance of a neural network (NN) and some other methods? (3) Compared to partial least square (PLS), ordinary least square (OLS), XGBoost, how is the performance of NN? Essay 1 systematically compares PLS-SEM to ANN and builds the hybrid vehicle purchasing intention model… more
Date: August 2021
Creator: Wang, Yuchen
Partner: UNT Libraries

Three Essays on Information Privacy: Awareness, Sharing, and Resilience

Description: This work embraces three essays on information privacy: 1) Measures of Personal Information Privacy in Social Networks: Information Control and Situation Awareness, 2) Care to Share your Personal Information? and 3) Privacy Breaches: How Resilient Are You? Every transaction made either online or offline, and every social interaction that is transferred or stored electronically in some way, are generally consumed as big data and ultimately drives the analytics from which consumers benefit. Howev… more
Date: August 2021
Creator: Kim, Kevin
Partner: UNT Libraries

Three Essays on Social Media Use and Information Sharing Behavior

Description: Social media platforms create rich social structures, expand users' boundaries of social networks and revolutionize traditional forms of communications, social interactions and social relationships. These platforms not only facilitate the creation and sharing of news and information, but they also drive various kinds of businesses models, processes and operations, knowledge sharing, marketing strategies for brand management and socio-political discourses essential for healthy and democratic fun… more
Date: May 2021
Creator: Bhagat, Sarbottam
Partner: UNT Libraries
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