scholarly journals Individual Personality Factors as Drivers for Electronic and Mobile-Shopping Acceptance in United Arab Emirates

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mohammed A. Otaq ◽  
Hassan S. Al-Dhaafri
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Future Technology ◽  
Service Characteristics ◽  
Mobile Shopping ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Online Shopping Acceptance

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how individual personality factors including functionality factors interactivity, psychological factors, usability and technology factors, and product/service characteristics can influence Dubai Emiratis to adopt and use online shopping. Methodology: Thirty six questionnaire items were administered to 180 adult Emiratis living in Dubai to examine the influence of personality factors on online shopping acceptance. The sample of 180 Emiratis was chosen through random sampling technique.Results: The findings significantly improved the understanding of users in Dubai in terms of their E&M-Shopping acceptance. The factors could assist in achieving successful E&M-Shopping acceptance. Along a similar line of importance, the findings highlighted the low awareness of users concerning government regulations and product return policy.Practical implications: The result of this study showed that usability and technology factors affected the consumers’ acceptance of Electronic and Mobile shopping. Therefore, future technology in E&M-Shopping should be enhanced through government initiatives and such enhancements will be evidenced in the country’s -GDP. This is also expected to achieve the target of the UAE vision 2021 to be among the top 20 countries that are in readiness to capture opportunities provided by information and communication technology to increase competitiveness. Originality or Value: The findings of this study are expected to add knowledge to the behaviour of Dubai Emirati consumers with regard to electronic commerce. Emirati consumers who dwell in Dubai have been compared to international consumers.

scholarly journals Influence of Personal and Task Interdependence on Task Conflict and Team Effectiveness

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva ◽  
Adriana Ortega ◽  
Abdul Hadi Sulaiman
Keyword(s):  
Team Effectiveness ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Task Interdependence ◽  
Task Conflict ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Given ◽  
And Task

<p>Undeniably working in teams are important as tasks are getting more complicated and advanced as a result of globalization and the speedy growth of information and communication technology. This calls for effectiveness from team members to complete all interdependent sub-tasks to ensure that the given tasks achieve its’ desired objectives. During the process of implementing the tasks, teams are poised to face conflicts that may derail the completion of tasks. The focus of this paper is to examine the influence of personality factors and task interdependence on task conflict and team effectiveness. A meta-analysis on past studies was carried out to gather data on the subject matter. The input obtained will be pertinent for future researchers in further understanding the complexities associated with task interdependence and personality on task conflict and team effectiveness.</p>

scholarly journals Intrapersonal Conflict as a Factor of Adaptation of Students to Conditions of Teaching at Universities

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Natalia Gerasimova ◽  
Inna Gerasymova
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Conflict ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
Intrapersonal Conflict ◽  
Individual Differentiation ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Impact

The article reviews the current state of studying the problem of interpersonal conflict as a factor in adaptation, characterized by consideration of the relationship of these categories on two levels: intrapersonal conflict is studied as a driving force, a source of self-in the process of adaptation and as a leading indicator of complications adaptation. It is determined that the impact of interpersonal conflict in the course of adaptation depends on self-identity in a complex interaction of external (socially determined) and internal (individual personality) factors. It is indicated that psychological content intrapersonal conflict experiences have a high degree of individual differentiation and thus determine the uniqueness of perception and interpretation of a specific person. An indicator of the transition from one level to another intrapersonal difficulties acts vulnerability to conflict self-relations context of inner experience. The nature of the adaptation of the student is determined by the internal model and solve interpersonal experiences complications, which are formed in the mind and form the basis of individual experience.

An Outsourcing E-Maintenance System for Improving Maintenance of an Industrial Product Service System

2009 ◽  
Vol 16-19 ◽  
pp. 1077-1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Qi Zhu ◽  
Ping Yu Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Industrial Product ◽  
Application Layer ◽  
Maintenance System ◽  
Layer Function ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Technical Maintenance ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Product Service Systems

To improve maintenance of industrial product service systems, an outsourcing e-maintenance system (OEMS) based on active technical maintenance provision of the product manufacturer/vender or service supplier is presented, and then a framework for enabling the OEMS is proposed. The framework includes three layers, that is, development layer, function layer and application layer. The key information and communication technologies (ICTs) for developing the framework are introduced in detail. In addition, an OEMS prototype is developed for illustrating the proposed framework.

Online Shopping in the United Arab Emirates

2018 ◽  
pp. 668-690
Author(s):  
Salam Abdallah ◽  
Bushra Jaleel
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Purchase Decisions ◽  
Functional Characteristics ◽  
Online Purchase ◽  
Web Experience ◽  
Website Features ◽  
Transaction Value

The aim of this paper is to empirically explore the perception of a group of United Arab Emirates (UAE) web users towards e-commerce transactions, study their willingness to trade online, and isolate factors that drive these users towards purchase decisions. The study finds that web users largely use functional characteristics to assess the effectiveness of e-commerce websites, and are driven towards online purchase decisions by factors such as greater security, better value, and convenience. Overall, web experience was defined by the users in terms of three main dimensions; website features, credibility and trust, and transaction value. Practitioners can use these findings to improve their websites and online offers to better serve this market. The paper fills an identified gap in the literature by investigating the perceptions of the UAE web users, and makes a contribution towards studying the concept of online shopping in this region.

Structural Equation Modelling of the Factors Influencing the Adoption of E-Commerce in Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
pp. 556-579
Author(s):  
Abdullah Saleh Alqahtani ◽  
Robert Goodwin ◽  
Denise de Vries
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Region Growth ◽  
Global Growth

This article presents findings from a study examining the diffusion and adoption of e-commerce in Saudi Arabia. Although the country has the largest and fastest growing information and communication technologies (ICT) sector in the Arab region, growth in e-commerce activities has not progressed at a commensurate rate. In general, e-commerce online shopping has not kept pace with the global growth of online retailing. The authors have conducted research to identify and explore key issues that influence e-commerce in Saudi Arabia in deciding whether or not to adopt online channels. As part of a larger research project using mixed methods, this article focuses on a quantitative analysis of responses obtained from a survey of the online shopping users in Saudi Arabia.

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