The third theme concerned the factors of technology adoption among older adults.
But the exchange's new president, Horsager, 41, dreamed of using "the leveling factor of technology"–an Internet-based system that would trade new futures contracts on corn and winter wheat and thereby challenge his larger rivals, the Chicago and Kansas City Boards of Trade.
The results illustrate that perceived trust and usefulness, which are the factors of the technology acceptance perspective, positively moderate the relationship between e-service quality, perceived service value, and service satisfaction.
The purpose of this research is to define the critical factors of technology transfer performance (TTP) and to measure its impact on quality performance (QP) and total quality management (TQM).
We use a specially designed survey on French firms located in Haute-Savoie to provide empirical evidence suggesting that Information and Communication Technologies adoption is not only influenced by the traditional factors of technology diffusion but also by complementarity effects between strategies, organization and information technologies.
The goal is to take advantage of "the wow factor" of the technology in marketing 989 OnDemand as offering consumers "a fresh dose of good-for-you," Mr. Musumeci says.
The "cool" factor of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) really shines through when harnessed to develop sustainable solutions for global problems.
This article explores how eight secondary school teachers integrated educational technology into English language teaching in Beijing, China and considers their views of the factors influencing technology use.
(Interestingly for an economist, Krugman believes that the political often determines the economic, rather than the other way around; he believes that the increase in inequality in the U.S. since the sixties is a product less of economic factors — the development of technology, say, leading to the greater importance of skills and education — than of political decisions about taxation and unions).
Some critical points as our closing remarks: First, as the book focuses on socio-economic and other "soft" factors, the role of technology as a disrupting force of change is considered in a "black box" style.
