Description
E-adoption has been the central focus of the 21st century since both organizations and individuals around the globe are adopting the internet and other internet-based technologies for their daily and business activities. Businesses are adopting internet-based technologies for personal increase efficiency, improving marketing, reducing costs, increasing turnover, and profitability. Individuals are using e-adoptions for empowering themselves through their online active participations through a number of different activities. There have been worldwide success stories about how e-adoption has impacted individuals and organizations. It has been reported that through e-mail and web sites, human rights organizations in Egypt, the Palestinian territories, and elsewhere disseminate information far more effectively than ever before, despite their modest resources and limited access to the local media. On one hand, e-adoption has provided opportunities for individuals, communities, and organizations to participate in the knowledge-based society effectively. On the other side, it has also evoked many issues such as digital divide, knowledge divide, access and accessibility barriers, social relationships, work, culture, political participation, social empowerment, spatial boundaries, and the socio-economic impact of e-adoption.
The International Journal of E-Adoption (IJEA) is a double-blind refereed international journal whose focus is to promote research in the area of e-adoption. IJEA distinguishes itself as a unique journal to cover the wide facets of e-adoption ranging from infrastructural research to socio-economic impact. The thrust of IJEA is to publish papers of both theory and practice that provide guidance to the policy makers, decision makers and practicing managers in business, industry, government, and academia for various e-adoption perspectives. IJEA draws on a wide range of disciplines, including information systems, computer science, decision sciences, operations management, marketing, cognitive psychology, social psychology, strategic management, and communication. As the use of internet technologies and electronic commerce revolution is growing, it is catching the attention of researchers worldwide. Researchers are trying to understand organizational, demographic, cultural factors, and socio-economic influences for e-adoption and how e-adoption has an impact at individual, firm, and country level.
Topics Covered
- Adoption and diffusion of e-technologies among firms
- Adoption e-government services
- Adoption of e-government and its outcomes
- Adoption of e-learning
- Adoption of radio frequency identification technology
- Architecture of e-workspace
- Assessment of e-adoption and diffusion models
- Cross-national e-adoptions
- Determinants of e-adoption in small and medium-sized enterprises
- Digital divides and the e-adoption
- E-adoption and supply chain
- E-adoption and supply chain management
- E-adoption in healthcare organizations
- E-commerce adoption by non-profit organizations
- Economic cost of e-adoption
- Effects of e-readiness factors on e-business adoption
- E-governance and service delivery
- E-health adoption
- E-learning architectures
- Electronic community networking and community-based technologies
- Empowering virtual communities with mobility
- Examining the impact of organizational characteristics on the extent of e-commerce adoption
- Examining the socio-economic determinants of e-adoption
- Factors affecting the e-adoption
- Factors influencing the adoption of internet banking
- Factors influencing the e-adoption of wireless technologies
- Framework for e-adoption in government
- Human factors challenges of e-workspaces
- Impacts of government intervention on e-adoption
- Internet adoption by SMEs
- Major barriers and facilitators for the e-adoption
- Managing knowledge in e- adoption
- Model for e-commerce adoption
- Perceptions and adoption of online banking
- Privacy and security issues in e-world
- Relationship between consumers' trust and e-commerce adoption
- Role of individual and organizational factors in the e-adoption
- Role of knowledge in the adoption of new technologies
- Significant predictors of e-adoption
- Social networks and e-adoption
- Spatial externalities and e-adoption
Mission and Scope
The mission of the
International Journal of E-Adoption (IJEA) is to broaden the overall body of knowledge in Internet and other information and communication technologies adoption at the firm, state, and country levels through contemporaneous research. IJEA publishes papers of both theory and practice that provide guidance to the policy makers, decision makers, and practicing managers in business, industry, government, and academia for various e-adoption perspectives.
Table of Contents and List of Contributors
Volume 11: 2 Issues (2019): 0 Released, 2 Forthcoming
Volume 11: 2 Issues (2019): Forthcoming, Available for Pre-Order
Volume 10: 2 Issues (2018): 1 Released, 1 Forthcoming
Volume 10: 2 Issues (2018): Forthcoming, Available for Pre-Order
Volume 9: 2 Issues (2017)
Volume 9: 2 Issues (2017): Forthcoming, Available for Pre-Order
Volume 8: 2 Issues (2016)
Volume 8: 2 Issues (2016): Forthcoming, Available for Pre-Order
Volume 7: 2 Issues (2015)
Volume 7: 2 Issues (2015): Forthcoming, Available for Pre-Order
Volume 6: 2 Issues (2014)
Volume 6: 2 Issues (2014): Forthcoming, Available for Pre-Order
Volume 5: 4 Issues (2013)
Volume 5: 4 Issues (2013): Forthcoming, Available for Pre-Order
Volume 4: 4 Issues (2012)
Volume 4: 4 Issues (2012): Forthcoming, Available for Pre-Order
Volume 3: 4 Issues (2011)
Volume 3: 4 Issues (2011): Forthcoming, Available for Pre-Order
Volume 2: 4 Issues (2010)
Volume 2: 4 Issues (2010): Forthcoming, Available for Pre-Order
Volume 1: 4 Issues (2009)
Volume 1: 4 Issues (2009): Forthcoming, Available for Pre-Order
Indices
Editor(s)-in-Chief Biography
Sushil K. Sharma is currently Associate Dean and Professor of Information Systems and Executive Director of the MBA and Certificate Programs at the Miller College of Business, Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana, USA). He co-edited five books that include the
Handbook of Research on Information Assurance and Security and
Creating Knowledge-based Healthcare Organizations. He is also the co-editor of the book:
Managing E-Business (Heidelberg Press, Australia). Dr. Sharma has authored over 100 refereed research papers in many peer-reviewed national and international MIS and management journals, conferences proceedings and books. He serves on editorial boards of several national and international journals and has also edited special issues. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the
International Journal of E-Adoption. His primary teaching and research interests are in e-commerce, computer-mediated communications, community and social informatics, information systems security, e-government, ERP systems, database management systems, cluster computing, Web services and knowledge management. He has a wide consulting experience in information systems and e-commerce and he has served as an advisor and consultant to several government and private organizations including projects funded by the World Bank.
Hayden Wimmer, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology at Georgia Southern University. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Information Systems, an M.S. in Information Systems from UMBC, an M.B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg campus and a B.S. in Information Systems from York College of PA. Prior to academia, he worked in industry for over 10 years in different capacities in Information Technology performing programming, web design and administration, server administration, network configuration, database administration, and technical support on all levels. His research interests include artificial intelligence and data mining and science.
Editorial Board
- International Advisory Board
- Orkun YILDIZ, Gazi University, Turkey
- Associate Editors
- Donald Amoroso, Auburn University Montgomery, United States
- Jie Du, Grand Valley State University, United States
- Loreen Powell, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Rajeev Raje, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, United States
- Alshawi Sarmad, Brunel University, United Kingdom
- Chia-Wen Tsai, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
- Chen-Ya Wang, National Open University, Taiwan
- Editorial Review Board
- Paul Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
- David Barnes, University of Westminster, United Kingdom
- Kürşat Çağıltay, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
- Maria Laura Caliusco, Universidad Technologica Nacional, Argentina
- Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
- Lei Chen, Georgia Southern University, United States
- Chung-Yean Chiang, Georgia Southern University, United States
- G. Erickson, Ithaca College, United States
- Tiong-Thye Goh, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Tarkan Gürbüz, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
- Kenneth Hall, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Gashaw Kebede, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
- Harilaos Koumaras, National Center For Scientific Research - Demokritos, Greece
- James Lawler, Pace University, United States
- Maria Lee, Shih Chien University, Taiwan
- Nelson Leung, University of Wollongong, Australia
- Shinyi Lin, National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan
- Oswaldo Lorenzo, University of Deusto, Spain
- Pericles Loucopoulos, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
- Laura Marquez-Ramos, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
- Immaculada Martinez-Zarzoso, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
- Stephen Mutula, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Karna Naidoo, School of Information Systems and Technology, South Africa
- Vilas Nandavadekar, Sinhgad Institute of Management, India
- Costake Nicolae, CMC Certification Committee, United States
- Iliana Nikolova, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
- Michael Wole Olatokun, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- Meltem Ozturan, Bogazici University, Turkey
- Jinie Pak, Towson University, United States
- Yue Pan, University of Dayton, United States
- Prantosh Kumar Paul, Raiganj University, India
- James Piecowye, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
- Michael Pollock, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Yew Siang Poong, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Alcina Prata, Higher School of Management Sciences ESCE, Portugal
- Leonard Presby, William Patterson University, United States
- Roy Rada, UMBC, United States
- Steve Reames, Angelo State University, United States
- Carl Rebman, Jr., University of San Diego, United States
- Laura Ripamonti, Universita di Milano, Italy
- Kamel Rouibah, Kuwait University, Kuwait
- Abhijit Roy, University of Scranton, United States
- Rahmath Safeena, Taif University, Saudi Arabia
- Ramesh Sharma, Wawasan Open University, Malaysia, India
- Miguel-Ángel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain
- Mark Simkin, University of Nevada, United States
- Changsoo Sohn, St. Cloud State University, United States
- Ken Stevens, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
- Reima Suomi, University of Turku, Finland
- Hilda Tellioglu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Russell Thackston, Georgia Southern University, United States
- Chandana Unnithan, Monash University Australia and Torrens University Australia, Australia
- Kam Vat, University of Macau, China
- Gottfried Vossen, University of Muenster, Germany
- Lejla Vrazalic, University of Wollongong in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Chengbo Wang, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom
- Kangning Wei, Syracuse University, United States
- Dick Whiddett, Massey University, New Zealand
- Xiaoni Zhang, Northern Kentucky University, United States
Submission
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines-for-submission.aspx PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically.All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
All inquiries regarding IJEA should be directed to the attention of:
Sushil K. Sharma
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of E-Adoption
E-mail: ssharma@bsu.edu
All manuscript submissions to IJEA should be sent through the online submission system:
http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/titlesubmission/newproject.aspx