Road freight information systems: a soft system methodology approach

Zarei, Behrouz; Azizian, Saeed; Ghapanchi, Amir Hossein

doi:10.1504/ijlsm.2013.051337

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“…Several of such studies have reported positive impact of technology on various aspects of businesses (eg. Zarei et al, 2013;Atlikhan et al, 2013;Purarjomandlangrudi et al, 2014;Vichitvanichphong et al, 2013;Ghapanchi et al, 2008;Ghapanchi, 2015). Search engine advertising is a technology which has been found as having positive impact on the businesses.…”

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A Systematic Review on Search Engine Advertising

Jafarzadeh

Aurum²,

D’Ambra

et al. 2015

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The innovation of Search Engine Advertising (SEA) was first introduced in 1998. It soon became a very popular tool among practitioners for promoting their websites on the Web and turned into a billion dollar revenue source for search engines. In parallel with its rapid growth in use, SEA attracted the attention of academic researchers resulting in a large number of publications on the topic of SEA. However, no comprehensive review of this accumulated body of knowledge is currently available. This shortcoming has motivated us to conduct a systematic review of SEA literature. Herewith, we searched for and collected 101 papers on the topic of SEA, published in 72 journals from different disciplines and analyzed them to answer the research questions for this study. We have identified the historical development of SEA literature, predominant journals in the publication of SEA research, active reference disciplines as well as the main researchers in the field of SEA. Moreover, we have classified SEA literature into four categories and 10 research topics. We also uncovered a number of gaps in SEA literature and provided future research direction accordingly.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Systematic Review on Search Engine Advertising

Jafarzadeh

Aurum²,

D’Ambra

et al. 2015

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“…Several of such studies have reported positive impact of technology on various aspects of businesses (e.g. Zarei et al, 2013;Atlikhan et al, 2013;Purarjomandlangrudi et al, 2014;Talaei-Khoei et al, 2014;Vichitvanichphong et al, 2013;Ghapanchi et al, 2008;Ghapanchi, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Psychological Factors Influencing the Managers' Intention to Adopt Green IS

Esfahani

Nilashi

Rahman

et al. 2015

International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences

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This paper proposes a comprehensive framework of the individual factors that influence organizational decision-makers to adopt Green information systems (IS), based on a review of psychological theories and empirical studies on Green IS and technology adoption. The objectives of this paper are, firstly, to explain that the adoption of Green IS by managers is directly influenced by their intention, which is assumed to be influenced by their attitude towards Green IS, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control and personal norms. In the framework, attitude towards Green IS is influenced by managers' positive and negative affect in response to Green IS. The findings of this study show that subjective norms are reflected from three sources containing primary, secondary and work referents. Perceived behavioral control includes self-efficacy, monetary cost–benefit assessment and the ethical climate of the organization. Personal norms are influenced by awareness of consequences, ascription of responsibilities and personal values including self-transcendence and self-enhancement. Secondly, the paper aims to assess the importance of the individual factors that influence the organizational decision-makers to adopt Green IS. Accordingly, the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) is applied to rank the importance of the factors incorporated in the proposed framework. The data for this study is collected by conducting an online survey through a structured questionnaire-based instrument comprising 5-point Likert-type scales. The findings of this study contribute to the Green IS literature by improving the decision-making process in IS adoption for the purpose of environmental sustainability enhancement. It is hoped that the proposed model would help to clarify the relative importance of the psychological and socio-demographic factors influencing the adoption of Green IS by organizational decision-makers.

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“…Stage 5 Comparison of conceptual model with the identified problems with a systemic focus, involves comparison of the real situation (stage 2) with the CMs (stage 4) (Zarei et al 2013).…”

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A Soft Systems Methodology Approach to Occupational Cancer Control Problem: a Case Study of the Ministry of Petroleum of Iran

Sepehrirad

Rajabzadeh

Azar

et al. 2017

Syst Pract Action Res

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Petroleum industries of Iran offer some of the best job opportunities within Iranian labor market. However, due to the attributes of the chemicals used in these industries, their staffs are exposed to various risk factors of several chronic diseases. Such exposures might lead to cancer incidence after a decade or two. The Ministry of Petroleum (MoP) runs an organization, namely Petroleum Industry Health Organization (PIHO), which is responsible for the health insurance of the personnel working in Petroleum industries. PIHO and Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) units play fundamental roles in providing the employees with health services during their professional life and retirement period. Yet, these organizations still do not have a system to specify occupational cancer control mechanisms at the MoP. The negative influences of cancer on patients suffering from it as well as its heavy costs of treatment have forced MoP to put measures of coping with this chronic disease in the first priority. This paper aims to define the structure and design a framework for MoP's occupational cancer control problem as the first step for improving the described situation. Given the presence of various stakeholders and actors, and the wide range of complexities of this problematic situation, we have adopted Soft System Methodology (SSM). We have reached an agreement with the problem owners on a rich picture, CATWOE analysis, root definition and a conceptual model for the way this situation could improve within real world circumstances. The results were obtained through various sessions with practitioner from different departments of MoP, while the conflict of interests was common.

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Road freight information systems: a soft system methodology approach

Cited by 7 publications

References 20 publications

A Systematic Review on Search Engine Advertising

A Systematic Review on Search Engine Advertising

Psychological Factors Influencing the Managers' Intention to Adopt Green IS

A Soft Systems Methodology Approach to Occupational Cancer Control Problem: a Case Study of the Ministry of Petroleum of Iran

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