The International Technology Management Review

Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2014
Research Article

1. Exploring the Effects of Personal Carbon Trading (PCT) System on Carbon Emission and Health Issues: A Preliminary Study on the Norfolk Island

Gary Webb, Alex Hendry, Bruce Armstrong, Robyn McDermott, Boyd Swinburn, Egger Garry
Pages: 1 - 11
The Norfolk Island Carbon and Health Evaluation (NICHE) Program is a project to trial the effects of a Personal Carbon Trading (PCT) system aimed at reducing carbon emissions and obesity related behaviours. This paper reports on a series of factor analyses designed to test attitudinal associations from...
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2. Towards a Knowledge Sharing Model for Small Businesses

Jun Xu, Mohammed Quaddus, Xiangzhu Gao
Pages: 12 - 26
Small businesses contribute significantly in economy. However, a significant number of small businesses fail in five to ten years. Can knowledge sharing in these businesses make a difference? Research has found that knowledge sharing enhances organisational competitiveness and growth in medium and large...
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3. Accounting Information Systems End-User Satisfaction: Evidence of Hong Kong Housing Authority

Steve C.C. Fong, Michael W.H. Ho
Pages: 27 - 41
This research studies the level of satisfaction among end-users of estate management system in a Hong Kong public housing organization. It identifies the interactions of prior experience, perceived usefulness and confirmation for achieving user satisfaction and usage continuance intention. It illustrates...
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4. Networking in Marketing and Advertising Companies: A Soft System Methodology Approach

Behrouz Zarei, Saeed Azizian, Majid Shishehgar, Setareh Sadeghi
Pages: 42 - 57
Nowadays, the quality and diversification of the services in Iranian marketing and advertising industry are growing. But, providing the customers with marketing and advertising services is still conducted using out-dated, complicated and time-consuming processes. So it seems that revising these processes...
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5. Retired Australian’s use of Information Technology: A Preliminary Study

Joanne Phythian, Julie Tucker, Tim Comber, Bruce Armstrong, Simon Pervan
Pages: 58 - 67
In July 2010, Coffs Harbour, Australia was announced as one of fourteen National Broadband Network (NBN) second release sites and in February 2013, a number of households and businesses in Coffs Harbour had infrastructure installed to enable them to access the NBN (www.minister.dbcde.gov.au). High speed...