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

The use of online live-streaming videos to promote brands and products in e-commerce is “exploding” in China. Whereas, little is known about the mechanism underlying viewers/ audience participating behavior in the rapidly growing online live-streaming videos for commerce phenomenon. Based on the stimulus–organism–response paradigm, this study endeavors to investigate the effects of content and social features (information quality, broadcaster attractiveness and para-social interaction) of on customers cognitive and emotional state (cognitive assimilation and emotional energy) and the subsequently their responses (hedonic consumption, impulsive consumption, and social sharing). 200 valid respondents were collected via cross-sectional online survey websites. The research results provide empirical evidences to support most of our hypotheses, indicating that hedonic consumption and social sharing behavior are determined by emotional energy and cognitive assimilation. These cognitive and emotional states, are influenced by information quality, broadcaster attractiveness, and para-social interaction. Impulsive consumption is only determined by emotional energy.

The Investigation of Hedonic Consumption, Impulsive Consumption and Social Sharing in E-commerce Live-streaming Videos.

While mobile technologies and applications are rapidly and widely utilized in electronic commerce, it is extremely important to better understand the evaluative criteria from the consumers' viewpoint in mobile-shopping site selection. This paper investigated the consumer-oriented criteria for mobile shopping site selection. A questionnaire was developed and tested to prove its reliability and validity. Initial analyses of mobile shopping characteristics important for the environment were explored. The final criteria list includes three factors: merchandise, enabling functions, and assurance.

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Mobile shopping site selection: the consumers' viewpoint

In this study, the authors used the activity competency model (Wu, Chen, and Lin 2004) to investigate the perceived importance of managerial activities and skills required of three levels of nurse managers. They identify the portfolio of the management activities and the needed skills at each management level. The results of this study provide guidelines for management development programs, training, and career planning for nurse managers, and can also serve as guidelines for recruiting and selecting effective nurse managers.

Managerial activities and skills of nurse managers: an exploratory study.

Knowledge resource has become one of the most important assets for an organisation to cope with the highly competitive and changing environment. This study investigated which knowledge topics are critical to an Information System (IS) professional from an industrial perspective. More than 200 IS professionals participated in this study to provide what they thought about 43 IS-related professional courses. The participants were asked to rate the knowledge level that they had learned in each course in their formal education, how familiar they are with it now and how practical the topic will be in their career. These findings might be instrumental for IS training institutes, licensing bodies, departments and curriculum designers in universities or colleges. The results of this study can provide useful suggestions to help IS professionals choose suitable learning courses and act as practicable guidelines for IS professional curriculum planning and development.

Closing off the knowledge gaps in IS education

This study utilises a hypercube innovation model to analyse the changes in both healthcare informatics and medical related delivery models based on the innovations from Tele-healthcare, electronic healthcare (E-healthcare), to mobile healthcare (M-healthcare). Further, the critical impacts of these E-health innovations on the stakeholders: healthcare customers, hospitals, healthcare complementary providers and healthcare regulators are identified. Thereafter, the critical capabilities for adopting each innovation are discussed.

Jen-Her Wu

Papers

The Investigation of Hedonic Consumption, Impulsive Consumption and Social Sharing in E-commerce Live-streaming Videos.

Mobile shopping site selection: the consumers' viewpoint

Managerial activities and skills of nurse managers: an exploratory study.

Closing off the knowledge gaps in IS education

Revolution or evolution? An analysis of E-health innovation and impact using a hypercube model.