The present historical moment may seem a particularly inopportune time to review Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam's latest exploration of civic decline in America. After all, the outpouring of volunteerism, solidarity, patriotism, and self-sacrifice displayed by Americans in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks appears to fly in the face of Putnam's central argument: that \"social capital\" -defined as \"social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them\" (p. 19)'has declined to dangerously low levels in America over the last three decades. However, Putnam is not fazed in the least by the recent effusion of solidarity. Quite the contrary, he sees in it the potential to \"reverse what has been a 30to 40-year steady decline in most measures of connectedness or community.\"' As an example of how the current \"war on terrorism\" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says \"permanently marked\" the generation that lived through it and had a \"terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century.\" 3 If Americans can follow this example and channel their current civic

Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community

A meta-analysis of the technology acceptance model

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What drives mobile commerce? An empirical evaluation of the revised technology acceptance model

What makes organizations so similar? We contend that the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the professions. Once a set of organizations emerges as a field, a paradox arises: rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them. We describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative—leading to this outcome. We then specify hypotheses about the impact of resource centralization and dependency, goal ambiguity and technical uncertainty, and professionalization and structuration on isomorphic change. Finally, we suggest implications for theories of organizations and social change.

The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)

Methodological Review: The Technology Acceptance Model: Its past and its future in health care

This study investigates the relationship between ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)-driven innovation outcomes across different industry sectors (i.e., electronics and science (ES) industry vs. traditional industry) and ERP packages (i.e., domestic vs. foreign). The results indicate that the ERP penetration rate for the ES industry is significantly higher than that for traditional industry. The ES industry prefers foreign ERP packages and implementing domestic ERP receives higher user satisfaction rate (i.e., ERP innovation success). However, the degree of innovation success is low for all industry sectors and ERP packages. Several implication suggestions and research issues based on the findings from this research are proposed for practitioners and researchers.

An empirical study on ERP-driven innovation in Taiwan

Improving physicians' performance with a stroke CDSS

Driven by the dominant Internet usage and the prospective profits from the game industry, especially from the thriving and robust free-to-play model of online games, there is a need to realize players’ behaviors. Playing online games is experienceoriented but rare studies further explore what reactions of initial (trial) experiences in game playing are and how they will further influence players’ behaviors. Uses and gratification theory can be seen in cases such as online games selection. Players select an online game not only to fit particular interests but also to attempt to show empowerment or other socially conscience motives. This study, therefore, seeks to explore the important antecedents (i.e. gratifications, presence, service mechanisms, and continuance motivation) of stickiness intention on the online game and examine the associated relationships among them. The implications of findings to both researchers and practitioners are also discussed.

Why Do Players Stick to a Specific Online Game? The Users and Gratifications Perspective

Based upon the theoretical perspective from Uses and Gratifications (UG (2) individual needs and platform synergy enhances consumer active participation in OSC; (3) incentivized gamification and hedonic presence have salient causal effects on consumers' individual needs and their perceptions on platform synergy. Our findings highlight the important roles of consumers' individual needs and their perceptions on platform synergy in mediating the effects of incentivized gamification and hedonic presence on online consumers' active participation.

Falling in love with online shopping carnival on singles' day in China: An uses and Gratifications perspective

While online technologies and applications are rapidly and widely utilized and adopted in e-commerce, it is extremely important to better understand the perceptions of consumers’ use, and acceptance in mobile commerce (MC). This paper adopts the extended technology acceptance model (TAM2) and integrated it with the innovation diffusion theory and the perceived risk variable to model users’ acceptance of using MC. An Empirical study was conducted, the proposed research model was evaluated by structural equation modeling, and then confirmatory factor analysis was applied to test if the empirical data confirmed to the presumed model.

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Jen-Her Wu

Papers

An empirical study on ERP-driven innovation in Taiwan

Improving physicians' performance with a stroke CDSS

Why Do Players Stick to a Specific Online Game? The Users and Gratifications Perspective

Falling in love with online shopping carnival on singles' day in China: An uses and Gratifications perspective

An Empirical Study of Consumers Adopting Mobile Commerce in Taiwan: Analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling