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An Adaptive Supplier Selection Mechanism In E-Procurement Marketplace, Liangjun You, Dong-Qing Yao, Riyaz T. Sikora, Barin Nag Jan 2017

An Adaptive Supplier Selection Mechanism In E-Procurement Marketplace, Liangjun You, Dong-Qing Yao, Riyaz T. Sikora, Barin Nag

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

B2B e-commerce has fundamentally changed the way in which an organization purchases goods/service. Nowadays, the adoption of e-procurement, which means the electronic acquisition of goods/service, has been prevalent in supply chain management. A variety of supplier selection models have been developed in supply chain management literature. In this research, an adaptive supplier selection mechanism is proposed to help buyers evaluate suppliers in an e-marketplace. A Multi-Agent System simulation package of Repast is used to create a realistic environment where different kinds of suppliers and buyers equipped with the proposed selection model can interact so as to study the performance of …


Why Mobile Money Users Keep Increasing? Investigating The Continuance Usage Of Mobile Money Services In Tanzania, Daniel Koloseni, Herman Mandari Jan 2017

Why Mobile Money Users Keep Increasing? Investigating The Continuance Usage Of Mobile Money Services In Tanzania, Daniel Koloseni, Herman Mandari

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

This study examined factors that affect continuance usage of mobile money services in Tanzania. The Theory of Planned Behavior was adopted as a theoretical foundation of the study. The theory was further extended by including the constructs of perceived cost, perceived trust and satisfaction as determinants of mobile money service continuance usage behaviour. A total of 309 valid and reliable responses collected using questionnaires were used for data analysis. The data were analysed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach. The findings depict that perceived trust, attitude and perceived behavioral control have significant influence on continuance behavioral intention while perceived trust, …