Technology,science and American innovation

This article offers for consideration four propositions about business, government, and innovation in the post-World War Two United States, points which may have a wider resonance as well. They concern the long term role of continuous innovation, technology–science relationships, state-led problem setting for innovation, and the ‘permanent uncertainties’ that arise from Cold War-era technological advance. Each of these has implications for the practice of business history, for conceptualizing innovation, and for our understanding of post-war science–technology trajectories.     

Determinants of consumers’ intentions to use smartphones apps for flight ticket bookings

This study examines customers’ adoption and acceptance of smartphone apps to book their flight tickets. By integrating customers’ innovativeness, involvement and perceived trust as additional variables, this study extends the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and proposes a theoretical model that includes seven explanatory variables of the customers’ behavioural intentions: performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, customers’ innovativeness, customers’ involvement and perceived trust. Data were collected from 369 customers who had booked their flight tickets via smartphone apps and was further analysed by employing partial least squares (PLS). Findings suggest that performance expectancy, facilitating conditions, customer innovativeness and perceived trust are positive and significant determinants of customers’ intentions to book their flight tickets on smartphone apps. Accordingly, several important implications for academics and industry decision makers are formulated.     

Feeling hungry? let's order through mobile! examining the fast food mobile commerce in China

This study proposes a unique framework that aids to enrich online shopping experience (psychological and monetary gains) and accelerates fast food mobile commerce (m-commerce). The extended technology acceptance model (TAM) is applied while the stimulus–organism–response (S–O–R) paradigm served as the predominant framework combined with the acquisition-transaction utility theory. This study investigates the mobile website quality, website brand equity (stimulus) influence on (PEOU) and (PU) (organism) to predict Chinese consumer intention to use fast food mobile commerce (response). A total of 936 respondents were participated while data were collected using a convenience sampling technique in China. Results reveal that all dimensions of mobile WQ (i.e., service quality, system quality, and information quality) and Website BE (i.e., brand image, perceived quality, brand association, and brand loyalty) (stimulus) significantly substantially influence PEOU and PU (organism) toward the acceptance of online fast food shopping (response). Digital Coupon Proneness (an accelerator) substantially moderates the relationship between PEOU, PU, and intention to use fast food m-commerce. Based on the assumptions of acquisition-transaction utility theory, category-specific (fast food) digital coupon proneness increase m-commerce for online fast food buying– a novel contribution of the study. Furthermore, research provides unique managerial insights for the industry to utilize the maximum potential of m-commerce in the fast-food industry.     

Computer-Mediated Customization Tendency (CMCT) and the Adaptive e-Service Experience

Adaptive customization systems are common in the delivery of e-service. However, consumers vary in their reaction to these systems. We introduce computer-mediated customization tendency (CMCT), a composite individual difference variable that reflects a consumer's personal preferences for designing and interacting with adaptive online environments to create valuable e-service experiences. To measure CMCT, we developed a formative index composed of need for control, technology innovativeness, and aesthetic appreciation. The results show CMCT influences adaptive online behavior and the perceived value of the adaptive e-service experience. In addition, customization-prone and customization-averse consumers differ in how they perceive the costs, benefits, and overall value of the experience.     

绥中地籍登记信息平台构建

地籍登记信息平台的建立能够支持地籍登记工作实现信息实时更新和共享。系统基于C/S架构进行开发,以绥中县为例,建立农村宅基地数据库,集成多源地理空间数据,为用户提供宅基地信息的基本浏览和查询,实现数据的信息化管理,提高土地管理部门的工作效率和服务质量,对当前登记信息平台的建立进行了有益的探索。     

农村科技特派员实践与探索

农村科技特派员制度,是国家为实现乡村振兴而推行并实施的一项重大决策.经过近20年的推行,获得瞩目成绩,但是在实施过程中也出现一些问题,文章对此进行讨论,并提出建议,供各位同行们参考.     

旅游企业开展网络营销存在的问题和对策——以温州为例研究

旅游网络营销已经成为当前旅游业发展的趋势,旅游业通过与现代信息技术的融合,可以提升旅游目的地的知名度,提高旅游企业的营销效率,降低成本,为旅游企业创造效益。通过分析研究温州旅游企业开展网络营销存在的问题,温州旅游企业应尽快转变旅游营销观念,充分运用现代网络营销技术,改进网络营销手段,并积极开发建设温州旅游电子商务平台,建立专业网络旅游资料库,为游客提供各种旅游相关信息和服务,也为众多的旅游企业提供在线旅游交易,为企业创造商机,促进旅游产业的持续发展和产业升级。     

Reduction in nitrogen fertilizer use results in increased rice yields and improved environmental protection

Overuse of nitrogen fertilizer represents a considerable environmental problem globally, but especially in China. Recently, a recent approach on an experimental scale based on the diffusion of the so-called Three-Control Technology (TCT) successfully alleviated the overuse of nitrogen fertilizer in southern China villages in the Guangdong Province, serving as a reference point for other rice-producing countries tackling similar challenges. Here, we assessed the correlation between rice yields and reduction in the use of nitrogen fertilizer following the introduction of TCT. Our study was based on the collection of primary data from 248 households randomly selected from four rice-growing areas of Guangdong Province, China. Our results show that TCT significantly improved the efficiency in the use of nitrogen. Crucially, participating farmers, including both full adopters and partial adopters, were found to fundamentally change their application practices of nitrogen fertilizer, resulting in major improvements in the local soil and water systems.     

日韩技术创新的经验及对中国的启示

本文从历史的角度探索了日、韩两国从模仿走向创新的经验,指出中国企业要根据自身体制特征、技术情况,借鉴国内外优秀企业的创新经验选择合适的技术创新策略,政府及社会也要为之创造相应条件。     

加强干部管理提升企业核心竞争力

本文从岗位轮换、团委讲堂、拓展训练、公推直选、技术论坛几个方面论述了新桥煤矿干部管理的实际做法。