Mina Tajvidi

People, Technologies, and Organizations Interactions in a Social Commerce Era

Social commerce, a powerful combination of customer-oriented social computing technologies and new commercial features, is having an increasing impact on e-commerce, potentially generating substantial economic benefits. Drawing on socio-technical theory, this study establishes a research framework to help understand the social and technical factors affecting consumers’ intention to purchase on social commerce sites. Our results demonstrate that familiarity, user experience, learning and training, and social commerce constructs all have a positive effect on consumers’ perceptions of ease of use and usefulness, thereby enhancing their trust and intention to purchase. For systems designers and engineers, our results highlight the importance of social commerce features for building consumers’ trust of social commerce sites and supporting their intention to purchase.

Use of Social Media in Citizen-Centric Electronic Government Services: A Literature Analysis

This article undertakes a literature review on such articles on social media and citizen-centric e-governmentservices.This researchuses139articles toperformthe intended literature review. ThekeywordsanalysisofthesearticlesindicatesthatWeb2.0,participationandopengovernment/ open data were some of the frequently used keywords in addition to the two major themes of e-governmentandsocialmediaonwhichallthearticlesweresearchedfor.Theanalysisofresearch methodsindicatedthatmajorityofthestudieswereanalytical,conceptual,descriptive,ortheoretical innature.Thetheoreticalanalysishoweverindicatedthatthereisalackoftheory-basedresearch inthisarea.Thereviewofliteratureindicatedthatresearchthemessuchaselectronicparticipation, engagement,transparency,communication/interaction,trust,securityandcollaborationaresomeof themostfrequentlyusedcategoriesunderthisareaofresearch.Aresearchframeworkhasalsobeen proposedfromthekeythemesemergingfromthereview. KEywoRdS E-Government, Electronic Government, Engagement, Framework, Literature Review, Participation, Social Media

Product Development Strategy

1 Introduction 2 Literature review 3 Researching strategy 4 Product Development Strategy 5 Innovation capacity 6 Entrepreneurial firm performance 7 Final lessons and conclusion

Entrepreneurial Firm Performance

This chapter discusses entrepreneurial firm performance in high-tech small and medium enterprises. The chapter begins with a broad discussion of entrepreneurship in SMEs. Then a comprehensive conceptual framework of study is introduced and discussed. The chapter also provides empirical analysis of the proposed research framework. There is a detailed discussion on the relationship between innovation and entrepreneurship. Different aspects of entrepreneurship, including risk taking and proactivity, are discussed. Then the discussion focuses on the relationship between entrepreneurship and product development strategy. Finally the relationship between innovation capacity and entrepreneurial firm performance is discussed.

Final Lessons and Conclusion

The main objective of this book was to examine the effect of new product development strategy on entrepreneurial performance in high-tech SMEs in the UK. Chapter 1 introduced the objective and scope of the study. It also gave an overview of the main studies in the areas of new product development and entrepreneurial firm performance. Then it discussed the research objectives and questions and a brief methodological view of the study. Chapter 2 discussed strategic management in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises. It covered the theories and definitions of strategy and strategic management, product development and new product development strategies in SMEs. This chapter also reviewed the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship. It discussed the innovation model, innovation capacity and entrepreneurial firm performance. Chapter 3 began with an outline of the research objectives and questions. It introduced the research philosophy, approach and design of the research. Then it provided the proposed conceptual model and hypotheses about the relationship between new product development and entrepreneurial performance in SMEs. It ended with the data analysis plan for the study. Chapter 4 reviewed the objectives and process of product development in firms. It also discussed the relationship between product development and product life cycle, management resources innovation and performance.