Yajiong Xue

TL;DR: This model explains how top management mediates the impact of external institutional pressures on the degree of usage of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and finds that normative pressures directly affect ERP usage.

TL;DR: This study draws upon and extends the principal-agent perspective to identify and propose a set of four antecedents of perceived uncertainty in online buyer seller relationship superceived information asymmetry, fears of seller opportunism, information privacy concerns, and information security concerns which facilitate online exchange relationships by overcoming the agency problems of adverse selection and moral hazard.

TL;DR: The technology threat avoidance theory (TTAT), which explains individual IT users' behavior of avoiding the threat of malicious information technologies, enhances the understanding of human behavior under IT threats and makes an important contribution to IT security research and practice.

TL;DR: It is found that users’ IT threat avoidance behavior is predicted by avoidance motivation, which, in turn, is determined by perceived threat, safeguard effectiveness, safeguard cost, and self-efficacy.

TL;DR: China's ERP evolution is described and it is argued that a historical perspective and a social-cultural perspective can offer a rich understanding on ERP implementations in China.