User adoption of social networking sites: Eliciting uses and gratifications through a means–end approach

This research examines users’ motives for adopting and using social networking sites (SNSs), with the aim of providing a better understanding of the fundamental reasons behind SNS adoption behavior. To uncover the relationship between the attributes of SNSs and users’ perceptions of their consequences and values, this study integrates a means–end approach with uses and gratifications theory and thereby extends the technique to a communication media selection context. Laddering interviews identify users’ perceptions of five attributes, 10 consequences, and four values associated with SNS adoption (i.e., Facebook). The results show that belonging, hedonism, self-esteem, and reciprocity are the four main values users attain through SNS adoption. Furthermore, the chains associated with SNS adoption can be represented in a hierarchical value map. This study should help practitioners design online communication platforms that more closely fit their users’ needs and provide users with safer, more friendly, and thus more attractive environments.     

Methodological and Thematic Prescriptions for Defining and Measuring the Organizational Learning Concept

Despite the long tradition of research on organizational learning (OL), theoretically acceptable definitions and empirically derived measures of the concept have not been developed. This paper introduces theoretical proclamations and a methodological plan that can guide researchers towards the goal of operationalizing OL into a valid and reliable instrument. It includes (1) practical and scientific motivations for advancing and measuring the OL construct, (2) a suggested methodology for operationalization of definitions of OL, (3) theoretical and operational themes found in the literature, and (4) scale and subscale expectations. Organizational researchers are encouraged to use the directions embodied in this research to guide attempts at developing measures of organizational learning, in hopes of advancing the field beyond normal science.     

How Can Organizational Memory Theories Contribute to Organizational Memory Systems?

Organizational memory systems (OMS) support organizations to ensure organizational learning, flexibility and efficiency and the management of change. The paper describes the term organizational memory and reviews a set of theories contributing to this field. As organizational memory is considered interdisciplinary, theories are drawn from research fields as different as organization science, psychology, sociology and artificial intelligence. The consequence is that the design of information systems supporting organizational memory has to be seen in this very specific context which leads to different perspectives contrasting traditional software development. These different perspectives are integrated into our view on organizational memory systems. The paper is concluded by an outlook on the main research questions which we intend to address in our research.     

浅析中国建筑的空间观念

本文从中国人对空间的认识的角度论述了中国古典建筑空间布局的特点。分析了中国古代文化对我国古典建筑造成的影响。并且分析了中国古代的这种空间观念对现在的尘世规划和建筑设计等的值得借鉴的地方。从而可以引导我们更好的进行现代城市规划和景观的设计。     

企业信息化与Intranet

企业要在激烈的经济竞争中立于不败,就必须实施信息化,构建企业内部网Intranet是企业信息化的重要途径。本文介绍了Intranet特点、提供服务、对企业的作用、构建方法。     

个人数据管理技术研究

信息技术的发展使个人数据量迅速增长,个人数据管理问题日益突出。对个人数据管理相关概念进行了阐述,从技术方面对个人数据管理与企业数据管理进行了比较,提出了以主体为中心的个人数据管理系统框架。从数据模型、数据集成、数据存储、数据查询、安全与隐私保护、评价技术、系统实现几个方面,综述分析了已有研究工作,提出了基于图的个人数据空间模型、自适应的个人数据集成方法、多级的数据存储策略和基于用户记忆规律的数据查询处理策略,并对该领域未来研究工作进行了展望。     

A product configuration analysis method for emotional design using a personal construct theory

Identifying emotion-related product attributes (perceived by consumers) is no easy task in the realm of emotional design. Conventionally, this process relies heavily on the researchers who conduct the Kansei experiments selecting product attributes such as color, form, and texture for Kansei studies. However, in so doing, other product attributes that also play a vital role in product-emotion associations might be neglected by the researchers. More importantly, the identification of product attributes should be based on consumer's point of view (and feelings). Accordingly, a personal construct theory based product configuration analysis method is proposed in this work. The method develops the customer's mind map for each Kansei tag in order to capture replications of candidate products. A means-value chain is used to generate targets which are later compared with candidate products by consumers. The comparison results could suggest product attributes that are relevant to the desired Kansei. The proposed approach is presented and illustrated using a case study of Graffiti designs on notebooks. Results obtained are discussed. It appears that the proposed method is promising in identifying product attributes with desired Kansei impacts.     

Dimensions Of Institutionalized Organizational Trust And Firm’s Innovativeness

The primary goal of this article was to empirically assess how institutionalized organizational trust dimensions are linked with firm’s innovativeness. An approach to conceptualize and measure multidimensional institutionalized organizational trust as a profile model was proposed. The factor analysis, based on a survey study, was used to examine the dimensionality of the institutionalized organizational trust measure. Next, the regression analysis was used to assess the relationship between institutionalized organizational trust dimensions, such as organizational ability, integrity, benevolence, and willingness to be vulnerable, and the dependent variable of firm’s innovativeness. The findings revealed a significant positive relationship between the dimensions of institutionalized organizational trust and innovativeness. In other words, the higher the dimensions of institutionalized organizational trust, the higher the firm’s innovativeness. In addition, our results reveal that organizational willingness to be vulnerable and benevolence is of primary importance for establishing innovativeness. The practical implications for enhancing firm’s innovativeness based on findings are discussed.     

基于XML的农业专家系统构建技术

基于XML的农业专家系统构建技术包括三个方面:XML服务器的实现技术,无状态服务器上连续推理技术,界面描述与知识库分离技术。研究结果表明这些技术有效地解决了专家系统之间的集成的问题,降低了应用系统的开发难度。     

基于Linux的网站服务器建设

设计采用Fedora Core 5 Linux架设服务器,其主要包括Apache、FTP、SAMBA、DNS、服务器配置。其中采用DNS负载均衡及其他均衡技术来实现快速的响应。在Linux服务器中,实现代理、文件传输、域名解析和虚拟服务器等建设功能。