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The purpose of this study is to explore how different dimensions of online convenience impact mobile banking (m-banking) adoption intention. The findings from 432 banking users show that access convenience, transaction convenience, and possession/post-possession convenience predict m-banking adoption intention, with the chief driver being the possession/post-possession convenience. Further, results suggest that the intention to adopt m-banking leads to m-banking adoption and usage. These findings offer unique insights to banks about how to make m-banking platforms more convenient for enhancing the pace of m-banking adoption intention and usage. This study also makes several contributions to the mobile commerce and online convenience literature.

Research on innovation attributes- and adoption is an inconclusive branch that has been deemed highly dependent on its context. Attempts to create general scales of measuring innovation attributes as an antecedent of adoption have all failed as evident by the amassed critique of such scales. The only concurrence within this research discipline is that scales that intend to explain innovation adoption as a consequence of perceptions of certain innovation attributes, needs to be adjusted to their context. The purpose of this study is not to develop a general scale of such attributes, nor is it to test existing scales. Instead, this study focuses on how the relationship between perceptions of innovation attributes and innovation adoption unfolds in a specific context. The context in this study is the hospital sector, where one department within the University Hospital of Northern Norway is currently facing a decision of whether or not to adopt an innovation that might potentially the work procedures within department. I felt that the hospital sector was particularly interesting in terms of explaining how innovation adoption occurs. The reason for this this is that hospitals are highly research-intensive institutions with a high demand for innovative solutions. Prior to this study, it was assumed that the course of the adoption-decision process was unique in hospitals due to organizational and professional complexities. An existing framework that can be used to explain the relationship between innovation attributes and innovation adoption was applied, and modified in order to adjust to the assumed complexities of the hospital sector. The result was a context-adjusted model that attempted to explain how perceptions of innovation attributes affected the intention of adopting the innovation. The findings in this study confirmed that this particular case within the hospital sector was distinct in terms of how perceptions of innovation attributes affected the adoption intention. This distinction turned out to be a result of a high focus on task-efficiency among the personnel at this department. Additionally, difficulties related to the usage of the innovation were not important to the users as long as the innovation was perceived to have an impact above some subjective and undefined threshold. These findings deviated from the theoretical assumptions related to existing theories on innovation attributes. Even though the conceptual model applied in this study was able to explore these relationships to a great extent, several unanticipated events were an indication that it needed further adjustment. A revision of this conceptual model was presented before the concluding section of this paper. This model illustrated how the relationship between innovation attributes and adoption intention actually turned out to be.

Indonesia's government was targeting the adoption of 2.1 million units of two-wheeled electric vehicles and 2,200 units of four-wheeled electric vehicles in 2025 through the Republic of Indonesia's Presidential Regulation No. 22 in 2017 about the National Energy General Plan. In 2019, the Government of Indonesia issued Presidential Regulation No. 55 in 2019 concerning the Acceleration of the Battery Electric Vehicle Program for Road Transportation. In 2018, the adoption of two-wheeled electric vehicles only reached 0.14% of the government's target for 2025. Therefore, the adoption of Electric Motorcycle (EM) technology must also consider many factors to be successful. This research develops a non-behavioral electric vehicle adoption intention model. The factors include sociodemographic, financial, technological, and macro-level. The online survey involved 1,223 respondents. Logistic regression is used to obtain the function and probability value of intention to adopt EM in Indonesia. Frequency of sharing on social media, level of environmental awareness, purchase prices, maintenance costs, maximum speed, battery charging time, availability of charging station infrastructure at work, availability of home power based- charging infrastructure, purchase incentive policies, and charging cost discount incentive policies are significantly influencing the intention to adopt electric vehicles. It also shows that the opportunity for Indonesians to adopt electric motorcycles reaches 82.90%. The realization of the adoption of electric motorcycles in Indonesia requires infrastructure readiness and costs that can be accepted by consumers. Lastly, the results of this research provide some suggestions for the government and businesses to accelerate electric motorcycle adoption in Indonesia.

Twenty-three Guatemalan adults were interviewed concerning their attitudes towards adoption. It was found that a majority saw adoption as generally positive. Regarding adoptions by US couples, Guatemalan respondents expressed concern about adoptees experiencing a loss of culture. Barriers to within-country adoptions included 'machismo' and the extensive legal work required. French Vingt-trois adultes guaté maliens é taient interviewé concernant leurs attitudes face à l'adoption. La recherche ré vè le que la majorité perc¸ oivent l'adoption de fac¸ on gé né ralement positive. Ils expriment toutefois des ré serves quant à l'adoption de guaté maliens par des couples amé ricains, les enfants adopté s risquant de perdre leur culture. Les barriè res à l'adoption à l'inté rieur du pays incluent le 'machisme' et un travail lé gal considé rable. Spanish Entrevistamos a 23 adultos guatemaltecos respecto a sus actitudes hacia la adopcio´ n. Hallamos que la mayoría percibe la adopción como positiva. Respecto a la adopción por parte de parejas estadounidenses, los guatemaltecos expresaron preocupación de que los adoptados perdieran su cultura. Dentro del mismo país, la adopción se enfrenta con barreras de tipo 'machista' y de tipo burocrá tico-legal.

There are multiple benefits to eco-innovation. As well as helping to improve sustainability and economic competitiveness at the organizational level through strategy it also has a positive impact on the supply chain. There has been a trend over the past decades for both public and private sectors to promote eco-products rather than chemical products but an enormous number of hazardous chemicals are being used in the agricultural sector. Organic herbicides or fertilizers are alternative products, providing high economic value as well as being environmentally friendly. Unfortunately, there are some invisible barriers in the agricultural sector in Thailand to the adoption and engagement of organic or eco-innovative products. The primary objective of this research was to examine how eco-innovation can be widely adopted by major consumers in the agricultural sector in Thailand. The research results indicate that innovation characteristics play an important role in designing the marketing strategy for crossing the chasm of innovation (suggested by Rogers, (2003). Moreover, three other moderating variables were found to significantly affect the relationship between perceived innovation characteristics and consumer adoption intention. In the analysis, the influence of perceived innovation characteristics was found to weaken when consumers have a high value-belief- norm (supporting current practice or resistance to change), including the bandwagon effect (waiting until more people take up the change) and the effect of government policy on the products (making it easier or cheaper to use). This research explores an alternative way to break through the barriers to adoption and enhance the engagement of organic products in the agricultural sector of Thailand.

The primary aims of this chapter are to analyze Beijing's perceptions of the US & its long-term intentions toward China, & how these impressions are likely to influence Chinese decision making regarding nuclear weapons proliferation. The analysis is based on what has been learned from official & academic publications as well as frequent discussions with Chinese officials for some 20 years. Beyond China's beliefs about US intentions, it is perhaps more important to understand their assessment of US capabilities, since in their view, capability must be met with capability, no matter what the likelihood of action. This task of understanding is not easily accomplished, especially since it is apparent that more than one set of perceptions exists among Chinese policymakers. It can be taken for granted, though, that they all see the US in a quest for continuing hegemony. China is not going to stand still while the US strengthens its capabilities, but will do its own strengthening. It is concluded that the US must choose its actions very carefully to avoid strategic escalation by the Chinese. Taiwan could become an unwanted fuse. J. Stanton

Purpose
There is limited research on consumer intention and credit card adoption in the transitional economies of Southeast Asia. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the key elements that influence an individual's intention of adopting credit cards in the transitional economy Vietnam.


Design/methodology/approach
A questionnaire was developed based on the technology adoption literature. After data cleaning, 595 responses were deemed valid. Factor analysis (EFA and CFA) was utilized on split samples, and a structural equation model developed to identify the influential technology adoption factors.


Findings
The analysis found strong support for the hypotheses theoretically developed. In the transitional economy of Vietnam, consumer's intention to adopt credit cards was influenced by "Perceived usefulness (PU)," "Perceived ease of use (PEOU)," "subjective norm (SN)," "perceived self-efficacy (PSE)" and "Anxiety". However, "perceived financial cost (PFC)" was not a significant factor.


Research limitations/implications
The use of cross-sectional data does not enable the analysis of time sequence of the determinants of consumer intention.


Practical implications
This research provides a body of knowledge on modern banking payment systems and credit card utilization factors in the transitional economy of Vietnam which has relevance for other transitional as well as developing economies of Southeast Asia, and is a good reference source for foreign investors, banks and card service companies.


Originality/value
To date, there are no studies that explore the interaction between "PU," "PEOU," "PFC," "SN," "PSE," "Anxiety" and "Behavioral Intention" in the context of the Vietnamese credit card market, nor other transitional markets in Southeast Asia.

Purpose
Social media remarkably changed the way of interaction between the consumers and organizations. The increased acceptance of social media has given rise to social commerce (s-commerce) and s-commerce usage is gradually increasing over the last few years. The progressive development of technologies suggests that s-commerce will become the mainstream for marketing and a literature survey indicates that there have not been many studies in this area. The purpose of this paper is to predict the factors influencing consumer intention towards the adoption of s-commerce.


Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a survey approach with reference to important behavioural factors such as satisfaction, ethics, trust, enjoyment/easiness, social pressure and awareness. The research model was developed to be in line with the available literature. The data were collected using a five-point Likert scale and the research model was tested using least square regression.


Findings
The results showed that user intention is significantly and positively related to perceived trust, enjoyment/easiness, social pressure, satisfaction and awareness. Also, "intention" was found to be a significant mediating factor for actual usage.


Research limitations/implications
First, the questionnaire was a "snap-shot" instead of longitudinal study. Second, future research should use other moderating variables that may affect the usage of social media. Also the study could apply a variant of research methods to include other techniques such as interviews, which allow for deeper understanding of the problem and issues.


Practical implications
Social media represents an important platform for electronic commerce and has one of the most metamorphic impacts on business. Therefore, investigating the usage of s-commerce with reference to important behavioural factors could provide valuable information for companies in establishing policies and strategies. It could also be useful for management studies and researchers in understanding the consumers' attitude towards usage of social media for commercial purposes.


Social implications
S-commerce creates opportunities for firms. Based on findings this research provides insights with major implications for marketers, who would like to generate direct sales on social network platforms.


Originality/value
Existing literature focusses largely on the effectiveness of social media. Only a handful has endeavoured to analyse s-commerce systems and the literature on consumers' behaviour in using s-commerce is not mature yet. This study is one of the few studies in this field, and aims to predict and explain the user acceptance of social media for commercial purposes.

The concept of Halalan Toyyibban in halal product value chain has increasingly accepted among Muslim community. Halal logistics is the key factor for this concept to be materialized. Therefore, it is crucial for halal logistics to be adopted by halal product producer to uphold the integrity of their product throughout the whole supply chain process. Its vey alarming that still huge number of Malaysian Halal small medium enterprises (SMEs) still not adopting halal logistics. Therefore, this shows the important of this study to be conducted to identify factors that influence the intention of SMEs to adopt halal logistics services (HLS). Three objectives were established. Firstly, investigate the current state of halal logistics adoption among SMEs. Hypotheses derived were based on seven factors acquired: familiarity with innovation, status characteristics and position in social network, benefits, geographical setting, societal culture and political condition. The second objective is to determine the significant factors that influence SMEs intention to adopt HLS. Lastly, final objective is to proposal of an adoption intention model able to significantly predict the adoption intention of HLS among Malaysian SMEs. With extensive data collection, this study has succeeded in stipulating evidence to show: (1) being in the same social group HLS players and being familiar on HLS will significantly influence SMEs to adopt HLS, (2) being positioned in the same group of HLS actors will result in higher accessibility to information on HLS and (3) understanding of HLS benefits versus cost and with good support from the government are the necessary enablers of adoption of HLS among Malaysian SMEs. This research has also contributed to future service innovation adoption researches by providing an instrument to measure intention adoption service innovation model