A focal approach may also allow for an intermediary management option between active surveillance and initiating whole-gland therapy.
They found that both monetary and non-monetary rewards are top motivators in the intermediary community whereas options such as Webcam, chat function, connection with other social networks platform are low motivators in both communities.
We randomly assigned - 108 graduate and undergraduate students who received a small monetary compensation for participating - to three different options for intermediaries, information systems, and consumer activity control variables, and they evaluated the options in terms of their perceived costs and benefits and their intention to use the health recommendation system for each option.
We test H1 by determining if the parameter estimates for the different options in the intermediary and information system domains are significant.
The outcome of these models are reported in Table 3, and we find many significant effects of health recommendation system options in the intermediary and information systems domains for each of the four cost-benefit perceptions.
First, we estimate a regression model with consumers' intentions to use a health recommendation system as dependent variable and the options in the intermediary, information system, and consumer activity domains as independent variables.
Options from both the intermediary and information systems domains significantly influence consumers' intention to use a health recommendation system providing support for H1.
In an application to personalized nutritional advice, we find empirical support for the hypotheses that the different options in both the intermediary and information systems domains of a health recommendation system influence consumers' intentions to use such as system and that these effects are mediated by consumers' cost-benefit perceptions for effort, privacy risk, usefulness, and enjoyment.
And financial advisers often rely on these intermediaries to expand the range of fund options they can offer clients.
If a collaborative approach is pursued, it could also provide options for smaller, less-resourced intermediaries, ensuring that when individuals operate across multiple platforms, there is some institutional memory and coordination to prevent either under- or over-determination of individual requests.
