This paper employed the modified Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) model as a conceptual framework to assess the effects of three key beliefs of TPB: attitude, subjective norm and behavioural control, on e-government service acceptance and explain adopters' behavioural intention.

In this paper we will analyse sourcing decisions in the finance sector, dealing with a mature area, IT outsourcing and a relatively new field, operations outsourcing. For introducing this topic, we will first detail the current state in outsourcing of

This research investigated the dealer patronage behaviour relationship to perceived quality dimensions. A total of 831 questionnaires were personally administered to customers of nine auto-repair companies in Greece. Factor analysis revealed three dimensions, namely, holistic customer consideration, infrastructure, and personalised

With the gradual opening of the services sector which China has committed to WTO, China has paid more and more attention to the services sector in recently years. On the base of the fact that the development of services sector

We examine the historical behaviour of interest rate movements in seven major currencies AUD, CAD, CHF, EUR, GBP, JPY and USD. We apply principle components analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis to illustrate, understand and model the past collective movements of

Administration service centers (ASCs) are the beginning of the one-stop service in Chinese government besides electronic government. The purpose of this paper is to provide a practice report and a theoretical analysis of such an organisational innovation in public service.

The aim of this paper is to discuss the service sector trends in relation to the issue of entrepreneurship. Talking about entrepreneurship in service industries means talking about a variety of items and related academic fields. The paper tries to

The quality of the information directly affects the optimal contract and the expected output in principal-agent theory. In this paper, with Bayesian rules, we design an IT service outsourcing model under the framework of the principal-agent in order to analyse

This paper analyses the mechanism of how development of producer services improves the productivity of manufacturing through mathematical model. We argue that as an advanced input of manufacturing, producer services not only improve their own efficiency, but also reduce the

Chinese leadership literature had documented that employees' compliance interacts with Chinese traditional leadership in determining employee's effectiveness. However, previous studies reported inconsistent findings on this interaction effect. The present study extended past research by illustrating that the interaction effect of

Intergroup coordination is critical for the success of large software projects. This paper examines the impact of national culture and organisational culture on intergroup coordination success factors (knowledge sharing, communication, mutual support and stakeholder commitment) through a qualitative analysis of

Earlier endeavours engaging intercultural comparisons have incorporated 'guanxi' (simplified Chinese), a term denoting the basic dynamic in personalised networks of influence, into their analyses on Chinese economic and political behaviours. The notion of guanxi, along with manzi (face), has been

This empirical study explores organizational learning culture in China's domestic enterprises by using Western concepts, the Dimension of Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ) instrument, and the data collected from 948 Chinese native employees in four State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) and five Privately-owned

The capabilities for Technology Transfer (TT) within organisations are the key elements of competition in the era of innovation. TT is considered to be a profitable activity for both technology transferor and receiver. From the early 1990s, facing the rapid

This paper discusses the problem of intercultural management in international Chinese companies with a major focus on Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in Germany. With an increasing number of Chinese enterprises investing abroad, the need for intercultural competences becomes an issue

Few Chinese subsidiaries of European manufacturing companies are reported as making profits. The majority find it extremely difficult to transfer their traditional business model to China. According to the business model, the European manufacturing companies generate a major share of

Collaboration is essential for enterprises' survival in today's competitive global market. Web-based environments enable designers to communicate and perform functionalities with their geographically distributed partners. Although much research has been conducted in fixture design theory and verification, little attention was

The current globalising industry is highly desired for synchronous collaborative working environment to perform multisited and multiuser cooperation during complex product design among partners, to provide customisation-oriented service to fulfil market demands and to satisfy customer's requirement around the world.

This paper examines the impact of the Human Resource Management (HRM) of distributor companies on the performance of manufacturer-distributor partnerships in the Chinese context. A multiple case study methodology is employed in the study. The case study illustrates the importance

Current trends towards products customisation, increase of quality and reduction on delivery time are radically changing the products/processes design approach. Automotive companies, which continuously face product variant soaring, require new methods development for products/equipment design, manufacturing system planning and process