...Edda Tandi Lwoga; Tumaini Nagu; Alfred Said Sife Purpose This paper aims to determine factors that influence people living with HIV (PLHIV) to engage in internet-based HIV information seeking behaviour in selected Tanzanian public regional hospitals. Design/methodology/approach The authors...

...Dimitrios Maditinos; Dimitrios Chatzoudes; Lazaros Sarigiannidis Purpose The recent advances in the technology of electronic banking have helped develop new ways of handling banking affairs, especially through online banking. Moreover, the rapid development of the internet has stimulated...

... context. It will be particularly helpful to business leaders who are looking for answers in the fast‐moving area of social media applications. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Social media Internet Information exchange Information Information management Social media, defined...

... behaviour Online interaction Perceived sociability Perceived usability User studies Information exchange Internet Social media Social networks are the influential medium where the process of information flow takes place. Theory of social networking explain this phenomena in the context...

... Tourism management Narratives Communication technologies Internet New Zealand In order to explore the role of context in technological adaptation or configuration, this paper discusses the findings of a study of website development in New Zealand regional tourism organizations (RTOs) – small...

.... Originality/value The findings of this paper can be used in shaping PHIM solutions of the near future. The described challenges can also be used to identify potential problems of the internet and new media on a larger scale in the context of health and medical informatics. Janne Lahtiranta can be contacted...

... point out the research developed by Jarvenpaa and Tood (1997), who examined online consumers' perceptions to identify the aspects that could influence their attitudes and intentions to buy on the internet. These authors affirmed that the aspects related to the perceptions about the products...

...Denise E. Gengatharen Purpose This paper aims to examine the impact of cultural factors on the success or failure of three Western Australian (WA) government‐funded collaboratively‐owned regional internet community portals designed to encourage small to medium‐sized enterprise adoption of e...

...E. AbuShanab; J.M. Pearson Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate the key determinants of the adoption of internet banking in Jordan. The paper also attempts to validate the appropriateness of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) within the context...

...C Standing; S Standing; T Vasudavan The on‐line purchase of travel related products has become an important sector to researchers to study the business success of the Internet. Early indications suggested that the Internet was likely to alter the travel industry from a structural perspective...

...Marco Meier; Peter Mertens In order to improve decision support through knowledge management it is becoming increasingly important to combine internal and external as well as quantitative and qualitative management information. The Internet is already one of the most important media for accessing...

...Jeanette K. van Akkeren; Angèle L.M. Cavaye The adoption of Internet technologies by the small business sector is important to their on‐going survival. Yet, given the opportunities and benefits that Internet technologies can provide it has been shown that Australian small businesses are relatively...