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The Impact of Blockchain Food Tracing Information Quality and Trust on Intention to Purchase

Description: The purpose of our research is to empirically test how system attributes of blockchain build trust through system and information components in blockchain food traceability systems. Findings showed that system attributes of blockchain are strong predictors of trust leading to intention to purchase. A sample of 358 responses were collected from college students through online survey. SmartPLS 3.0 is adopted for data analysis. We made contributions by building a new research model to guide future… more
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Date: August 2022
Creator: Lai, Im Hong
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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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Information Privacy and Security Associated with Healthcare Technology Use

Description: This dissertation consists of three studies that investigate the information privacy & security associated with healthcare technology use. Essay 1 PRISMA-style systematically reviews the existing literature on privacy information disclosure in IoT technology and serves as the theoretical foundation of the current research. It is crucial to comprehend why, how, and under what consequences individuals choose to disclose their personal and health information since doing so is beneficial to the com… more
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Date: July 2023
Creator: Amin, M A Shariful
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Incorporating Ethics in Delegation To and From Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Information Systems

Description: AI-enabled information systems (AI-enabled IS) offer enhanced utility and efficiency due to their knowledge-based endowments, enabling human agents to assign and receive tasks from AI-enabled IS. As a result, this leads to improved decision-making, ability to manage laborious jobs, and a decrease in human errors. Despite the performance-based endowments and efficiencies, there are significant ethical concerns regarding the use of and delegation to AI-enabled IS, which have been extensively addr… more
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Date: July 2023
Creator: Saeed, Kashif
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Three Essays on Collective Privacy and Information Security

Description: In Essay 1, we seek to expand the insights on an individual's decision to share group content. Social networking sites (SNS) have become a ubiquitous means of socializing in the digital age. Using a survey, we collected data from 520 respondents with corporate work experience to test our research model. Our analysis highlights the complex interplay between individual and group factors that shape users' risk-benefit analysis of sharing group content on social networking sites. Furthermore, the r… more
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Date: July 2023
Creator: Memarian Esfahani, Sara
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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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Three Essays on the Role of Social, Legal and Technical Factors on Internet of Things and Smart Contracts Adoption in the Context of COVID-19 Pandemic

Description: I extended and adapted the current technology acceptance models and privacy research to the peculiar context of the COVID-19 pandemic to ascertain the effective "power" of IT in fighting such a pandemic. The research models developed for the purpose of this study contain peculiar modifications to the technological-personal-environmental (TPE) framework and privacy calculus model because of the unique technologies implemented and the peculiar pandemic scenario. I developed three studies that inv… more
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Date: May 2022
Creator: Guerra, Katia
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Factors Influencing Continued Usage of Telemedicine Applications

Description: This study addresses the antecedents of individuals' disposition to use telemedicine applications, as well as the antecedents of their usage to provide insight into creating sustained usage over time. The theoretical framework of this research is Bhattacherjee's expectation-confirmation IS continuance model. By combining a series of key factors which may influence the initial and continued usage of telemedicine applications with key constructs of Bhattacherjee's IS continuance model, this study… more
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Date: August 2022
Creator: Liu, Xiaoyan
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An Analysis of Information Technology (IT) Post-Adoption Behavior

Description: The primary focus of this research is explicating the role of emotion in IT post-adoption behavior. Studied in the context of intelligent personal assistants (IPA), a class of conversational artificial intelligence (AI), the first study integrates elements from computer science, communications, and IS disciplines. The research identifies two constructs vital for speech-based technologies, natural language understanding, and feedback, and examines their role in use decisions. This work provides… more
Date: August 2020
Creator: Mamun, Md Rasel Al
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Does Quality Management Practice Influence Performance in the Healthcare Industry?

Description: This research examines the relationship between quality management (QM) practices and performance in the healthcare industry via the conduct of three studies. The results of this research contribute both to advancing QM theory as well as in developing a unique text mining method that is illustrated by examining QM in the healthcare industry. Essay 1 explains the relationship between operational performance and QM practices in the healthcare industry. This study analyzed the findings from the li… more
Date: August 2020
Creator: Xie, Heng
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Three Essays on Phishing Attacks, Individual Susceptibility, and Detection Accuracy

Description: Phishing is a social engineering attack to deceive and persuade people to divulge private information like usernames and passwords, account details (including bank account details), and social security numbers. Phishers typically utilize e-mail, chat, text messages, or social media. Despite the presence of automatic anti-phishing filters, phishing messages reach online users' inboxes. Understanding the influence of phishing techniques and individual differences on susceptibility and detection … more
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Date: August 2022
Creator: Bera, Debalina
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Robust Methodology in Evaluating and Optimizing the Performance of Decision Making Units: Empirical Financial Evidence

Description: Intelligent algorithm approaches that augment the analytical capabilities of traditional techniques may improve the evaluation and performance of decision making units (DMUs). Crises such as the massive COVID-19 pandemic-related shock to businesses have prompted the deployment of analytical tools to provide solutions to emerging complex questions with incredible speed and accuracy. Performance evaluation of DMUs (e.g., financial institutions) is challenging and often depends on the sophisticat… more
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Date: August 2022
Creator: Gharoie Ahangar, Reza
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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
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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
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Optimizing Value Co-Creation in Education Supply Chains: An Evaluation of Determinants and Resiliency in Service Systems

Description: Services and service-based business are a major part of any economy. However, service-based supply chains require a greater level of interaction between provider and consumer than the traditional manufacturing or product-based supply chain. Therefore, they require optimization and resiliency models that acknowledge the constraints and goals unique to service-based industries. Value co-creation and service-dominant logistics (SDL) are relatively new to operations research. Existing literature in… more
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Date: August 2022
Creator: Smith, Justin Thomas
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Augmented Reality Intentions in Social Networking and Retail Apps

Description: This dissertation contributes to IS research by explaining user intentions while using AR features in mobile social networking and retail app contexts. It consists of three essays, which use partial least squares modeling to analyze different consumer behavior models. The first essay examines the influence of quality, human, and environmental factors on AR reuse intention in a mobile social networking context. The second essay introduces position relevance, a new construct essential to AR resea… more
Date: August 2020
Creator: David, Alsius
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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
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Quantitative Modeling of Healthcare Services and Biodegradable Medical Supplies

Description: This research presents a mathematical model for the transportation and distribution of COVID-19 vaccine, a simulation model for fleet optimization, and a measurement model for "Healthcare 4.0." Essay 1 examines the development of a distribution model using mixed integer programming (MIP) with the objective of maximizing the number of vaccinated individuals, minimizing transportation costs across the entire network, and ensuring widespread access. This research primarily focuses on the distribu… more
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Date: July 2023
Creator: Kumar, Abhijeet
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