Although the acceptance of mobile payment from the business is possibly one of the factors from the supply side that can lead to the success of a mobile payment system, some of the merchants still refuse to implement this payment system in their business. Based on the technological, organizational and environmental framework (TOE framework) of Tornatzky and Fleischer (1990), this present study attempts to identify how mobile payment can have an impact on the firm performance. To do this, this research hypothesized that relative advantage, complexity, ...

The usage of B2C online marketplaces for shopping online is different around the world. While most online consumers in North America and several western countries in Europe as well are used to shop online via well-established B2C online marketplaces such as Amazon for quite some time, online consumers in some Asian countries have started using B2C online marketplaces quite recently. Analyzing cross-country differences in the influences of online consumers’ beliefs and perceptions of B2C online marketplaces on the online consumers’ acceptance of ...

China - ASEAN Expo is the only national class exhibition in China that has the functions of conference, forum and exhibition at the same time. It not only has the role of a general exhibition, but also has a major political, economic, social and diplomatic mission. Although the Expo has been successfully held for 15 years, it is still to be explored whether it can continue to be held successfully and form the China-ASEAN Expo model to be promoted as a model of exhibition, so as to improve the overall level and influence of China's exhibition ...

The present study explored the association between intellectual capital, employees’ innovative behavior in the workplace, the absorptive capacity of a firm, and organizational effectiveness of the Thai listed companies in the service industry. The survey data were collected from 423 managers from 198 listed companies in Thailand. The results showed that intellectual capital tended to improve the employees’ innovative behavior and the firm’s absorptive capacity, and finally enhance corporate organizational effectiveness. Furthermore, the results ...

With the increasing changes of economic structure and society requirements, Chinese government need to pay more attention on the public management activities, correspondingly, the government's financial pressure also gradually increased. The emergence of the PPP (public-private-partnership) model gives Chinese government a new idea to increase the construction of Public facilities. The introduction of social capital also alleviates Chinese local government's financial embarrassment. However, as long as it is the construction of an engineering ...

Further globalization has witnessed China’s dramatic growth in outward direct investment in Thailand and a double increase in the number of Chinese expatriates in Thailand over the past few years. However, the international assignments are inherently challenging. Basically, the excessive travel and less routine work schedule, as well as the increased responsibility and complexity of work content, may put expatriates under great workplace stress. The inability to handle such challenges may cause expatriates to suffer from job burnout. This issue ...

With the current development of mobile food delivery, based on the integrated model of TAM, ISSM, and ECM, this study introduced ten latent variables containing perceived risk, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, system quality, information quality, service quality, switching costs, satisfaction, herd behavior, continuous use intention and set up 17 hypothetical paths to construct the theoretical framework to discuss the factors that affect customers' continuous use intention of mobile food delivery apps and the magnitude of the influence ...

With the development of economic globalization and the continuous improvement of the market economic system, enterprises are generally faced with frequent market changes, diversified development, increasing competitive pressure, emotional conflicts among employees and other problems. With the development of technology, enterprises from traditional products, equipment, channels, systems and other aspects of the competition gradually to the direction of talent competition. Human resource has become the focus of competition among enterprises. The ...

The spreading of information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) provides opportunities for enterprises to maintain a competitive advantage. But information silos appeared with the growing use of IS. Silos have become a severe impediment that made IS inconvenient and inefficient, and impeded enterprise’s innovation and development. Therefore, the present study aims to resolve these issues by helping understand how to encourage information-resource sharing within the enterprise. We first proposed a new concept, consensus perception, based ...

In recent years, the investment of emerging economies has soared, and more and more emerging economies firms (EEFs) have embarked on the process of internationalization. The data points one of the major development trends of the global economy, once an emerging economy that has been invested heavily and hoped to reap rapid growth in profits by multinational companies, it has become a source of investment funds and a competitor with the United States and Europe in terms of foreign investment. The overseas development of EEFs is faced with many ...