End user computing challenges and technologies: emerging tools and applications

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Clarke, Steve, 1950-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
• Series: Advances in end user computing.
• Subjects: End-user computing.; Information technology.; Management information systems.; End user computing ergonomics; End user privacy; End-user Web development; Gender differences in relationship quality and loyalty in ISP service; Group support systems; Implications of multilevel computer self-efficacy; Integrative models of IT usage; IT ethical behavior model; Meta-design; Privacy statements in WWW interactions; ROI of enterprise architecture; Semantic composition; Technology acceptance model; User perceptions of third-party organization credibility
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Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1. A proposed IT ethical behavioral model / Timothy Paul Cronan and David E. Douglas
• 2. Understanding the impact of household end users' privacy and risk perceptions on online behavior / Judy Drennan, Gillian Sullivan Mort, and Josephine Previte
• 3. The impact of multilevel computer self-efficacy on effectiveness of computer training / Bassam Hasan
• 4. Optimizing the ROI of enterprise archictecture using real options/ David F. Rico
• 5. An extension of the technology acceptance model to determine the intention to use biometric devices / Tabitha James, Taner Pirim, Katherine Boswell, Brian Reithel, and Reza Barkhi
• 6. Intentions to use information technologies : an integrative model / Ron Thompson, Deborah Compeau, Chris Higgins, and Nathan Lupton
• 7. The organization of end user development in an accounting company / Anders I. Mørch, Hege-René Hansen Ȧsand, and Sten R. Ludvigsen
• 8. End user perceptions of the benefits and risks of end user Web development / Tanya McGill and Chris Klisc
• 9. Advancing end user development through metadesign / Maria Francesca Costabile, Daniela Fogli, Rosa Lanzilotti, Piero Mussio, Loredana Parasiliti Provenza, and Antonio Piccinno
• 10. Semantic composition of Web portal components / Jens H. Weber-Jahnke, Yury Bychkov, David Dahlem, and Luay Kawasme
• 11. Privacy statements as a means of uncertainty reduction in WWW interactions / Irene Pollach
• 12. Examining user perception of third-party organization credibility and trust in an e-retailer / Robin L. Wakefield and Dwayne Whitten
• 13. Supporting distributed groups with group support systems : a study of the effect of group leaders and communication modes on group performance / Youngjin Kim
• 14. Evaluating group differences in gender during the formation of relationship quality and loyalty in ISP service / Chieh-Peng Ling and Cherng G. Ding
• 15. The importance of ease of use, usefulness, and trust to online consumers : an examination of the technology acceptance model with older consumers / Donna Weaver McCloskey
• 16. End user computing ergonomics : facts or fads? / Carol Clark.