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26
Feb
2018

Improving Malware Mitigation for Online Bitcoin Wallets

Journal of Information Assurance & Cybersecurity
Bitcoin cryptocurrency has risen in popularity. Therefore, it not only attracts users to use it, but also it attracts the malware developers to attack it. While online Bitcoin wallets allow users to conveniently store and manage their bitcoins, they are vulnerable to several attacks. There…
23
Feb
2018

Securing the Future: Retention among Generation Y Employees

Journal of Human Resources Management Research
The prime purpose of this study is to consider the changes in management paradigms that will be required to successfully motivate as well as retain Generation-Y employees (Gen-Y) to achieve the goals of the organization.  Given the strategic importance of human resource management in creating…
22
Feb
2018

Management Participation Programmes for German Target Companies—Current Developments of Fiscal Treatment in Germany

Journal of EU Research in Business
The participation of the leading management (Top-line-and Second-Line Managers) in the business development of a parent company or a group company is a popular way to incentivise the managers. In private equity transactions, managers fairly regularly get the opportunity to purchase shares in order to…
21
Feb
2018

Online Review Ratings and the Impact on the Number of Visits to a Tourist and Cultural Attraction: the case of the Loire Valley and TripAdvisor

Journal of Internet Social Networking and Virtual Communities
Do TripAdvisor ratings affect the choice of attraction visited? Is there a link between these ratings and browsing experience on the tourist attraction’s web page? The first part of this research programme focuses on precisely measuring web and physical visits of 104 large tourist attractions…
20
Feb
2018

Online Health Information Search: What Behavior for which Users? Towards a Typology of e-Patients

Journal of Internet and e-business Studies
Nowaday, Internet fills the best function of health-related information dissemination. It represents both a free information access tool and a social and a psychological support mechanism. These dimensions do distinguish the Internet from other information-providing services. The aim of this study is to explore health-related…
19
Feb
2018

An Innovative Cost-Benefit Model for Analyzing Solution Architectures Considering Uncertainty

Journal of Software and Systems Development
In the dynamic environment nowadays, companies require continuously to implement and improve their technology solutions to respond to new technology tendencies, business requirements, and enterprise architecture initiatives. This transformation is supported by solution architectures, which contain solution components that are implemented to respond to company’s…
15
Feb
2018

Exploring the Factors Influencing Employees’ Willingness to Use Mobile Applications in Oman: Using UTAUT Model

Journal of e-Government Studies and Best Practices
Nowadays, people are on the move and they are using mobile applications on mobile phones, tablets, or other mobile devices. That is why mobile applications are becoming so much important in our daily-life. Mobile applications allow customers to have services readily available. Obviously, mobile technology…
13
Feb
2018

An Efficient Mining Based Approach Using PSO Selection Technique For Analysis and Detection of Obfuscated Malware

Journal of Information Assurance & Cybersecurity
Malware plays a threatening role to the security of the data and information systems, as they created in different forms targeting data and networks. Malware developers use obfuscation techniques to hide malwares structure from detection of Anti-Virus (AV) programs, which use signature based detection; it…
12
Feb
2018

Online Grocery Shopping and Consumer Perception: A Case of Karachi Market in Pakistan

Journal of Internet and e-business Studies
This research study aims to comprehend the attitude and behavior of Pakistani consumers towards online grocery shopping. Factors identified (quality of product, service quality, guarantee on products, convenience or consumers, cost of services and products, range of products and varieties, perceived risk, social norms and…
09
Feb
2018

Identifying Factors Influencing the Leadership Performance of Saudi’s Healthcare Sector

Journal of Organizational Management Studies
The purpose of this article is to identify the aspects that relate to performance level; including enablers and inhibitors that influence leadership performance in the healthcare sector of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). A grounded research methodology and an action research approach that was ‘issue…