Ammar Rashid

• Ph.D
• Professor (Associate) at Ajman University

Objective: The global challenge of climate change and the need for energy conservation have prompted a reevaluation of energy sources and policies worldwide. This study aims to investigate the societal acceptability of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems among citizens of smart cities, an aspect crucial yet underexplored in the context of renewable ene...

The objective of this research is to examine an open government data (OGD) intention-adoption behavioural model for the public sector organisations (PSOs), since examining the model is expected to lead to a better understanding of how to realise this technological innovation among PSOs on a large scale to excavate its innovative value. In this resp...

The adoption of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems is seen as an important part of the sustainable energy transition. In this regard, it is crucial to identify the determinants of solar (PV) systems’ adoption to facilitate this process. Therefore, this article aims to examine the determinants of SPVS adoption by contrasting the relationships in a cros...

Business Intelligence (BI) leverages IT tools and services to transform data into insights that inform an organization's business decisions. BI using Big Data has gained popularity in recent years and has become a significant study area for academics and practitioners. However, prior studies have highlighted the technical challenges of BI using Big...

Open government data (OGD) has gained much attention worldwide; however, there is still an increasing demand for exploring research from the perspective of its adoption and diffusion. Policymakers expect that OGD will be used on a large scale by the public, which will result in a range of benefits, such as: faith and trust in governments, innovatio...

This study provides some clarification and extends literature by investigating the effects of the use of social networking sites by organizational employees on job satisfaction, organizational commitment and employee job performance. A survey was conducted to empirically test the proposed research model consisting of latent constructs: social netwo...

Open Data initiative is attracting considerable interest globally due to growing phenomena of transparency, accountability, quality of life, and business. Adoption of open data technologies is inevitably an issue to better exploit full potential and benefits of open data available to the public. The main issue in our knowledge of open data technolo...

Open Government Data (an innovation in the electronic government enabling public sector information accessible by the public in open formats and the ways to enable such facility) has huge potential to increase transparency, accountability, participation, efficiency in operations, data-driven/evidence-based policymaking, and trust on government inst...

Open Data initiative is attracting considerable interest globally due to the growing phenomena of transparency, accountability, quality of life, and business. The adoption of open data technologies is inevitably an issue to better exploit the full potential and benefits of open data available to the public. The main issue in our knowledge of open d...

Open government data (OGD) has huge potential to increase transparency, accountability, and participation while improving efficiency in operations, data-driven and evidence-based policymaking, and trust in government institutions. Despite its potential benefits, OGD has not been widely and successfully adopted in public sector organizations, partic...

Governments around the world are using information and communication technologies to offer both simple information portals and transactional services. A less than one-third of the electronic government (e-government) initiatives focused on the provision of transactional services and understanding on studies related to the adoption of such services...

Qualitative case study methodology enables researchers to conduct an in-depth exploration of intricate phenomena within some specific context. By keeping in mind research students, this article presents a systematic step-by-step guide to conduct a case study in the business discipline. Research students belonging to said discipline face issues in t...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution begins, and policies are being formulated by economies as well as efforts are being made to meet the needs of the current times. Among other technologies which are part of Fourth Industrial Revolution, big open data is also the part of Pakistan’s digital policy framework. Scholarship is available to explore and exam...

Background and Objective: This paper examined the role of customer trust in the relationship of customer satisfaction and advocacy. Trust is an important element in strengthening the relationship between the customer and the firm. Methodology: Winning customer trust is surely not a miracle rather it is the result of careful planning and implementat...

This study examines factors that can be argued to influence the academician's behavioral intentions in using open government data (OGD). Policy-makers and practitioners will determine policy instruments in increasing acceptance and use of OGD by maintaining a good understanding of these factors. In this study, Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations (DOI)...

This study provides some clarification and extends literature by investigating the effects of the use of social networking sites by organizational employees on job satisfaction, organizational commitment and employee job performance. A survey was conducted to empirically test the proposed research model consisting of latent constructs: social netwo...

Governmental entities are one of the producers of voluminous data. Proactive release of big open data (BOD) by the governmental entities is on the way around the globe. Pakistan’s Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2013 has been considered the compelling cause of big open data policy innovation adoption among governmental entities. Taking big open dat...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the next generation of internet-connected information communication technologies (ICT). IoT typically integrates supply chain activities to enhance green supply chain performance (GSCP). Since every organization has different IoT capabilities in comparison with other organizations, GSCP can enable supply chain integr...

Research on the topic of social media for teaching and learning in the higher education have received much attention from academia and practitioners. Social media technology was acknowledged not only as an important communication tool between faculty members and students but also shows great potential as the next social learning platform that bette...

This article examines factors that can be argued to influence the academician's behavioral intentions in using open government data (OGD). Policy-makers and practitioners will determine policy instruments in increasing acceptance and use of OGD by maintaining a good understanding of these factors. In this article, Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations (...

In a supply chain setting, the manufacturer's strategy to offer mail-in rebates directly to customers or retailer rebates to retailer is pivotal. Retailer may pass some fraction of such retailer rebates to end customers. We discuss two important implications for rebates: 1) For both type of rebates, we analyze the case of explicitly defined wholesa...

In this paper, we study a price discovery algorithm for searching the optimal price for a service with price-sensitive demand. The customer’s response to price is unknown and the customer arrival process follows an arbitrary point process. This algorithm is suitable for new services with no prior knowledge or historical data available. Furthermore,...

The purpose of the study is to identify influential factors in the use of collaborative networks within the context of manufacturing. The study aims to investigate factors that influence employees' learning, and to bridge the gap between theory and praxis in collaborative networks in manufacturing. The study further extends the boundary of a collab...

This study aims to investigate the antecedents of collaborative networked learning (CNL), to develop an integrative CNL framework and to bridge the gap between theory and praxis in manufacturing. It provides a holistic perspective of CNL within the complexity of the manufacturing environment, including empirical investigation using survey questionn...

Mobile learning (m-learning) is gaining popularity as the “anytime, anywhere” online learning channel. Academics and practitioners alike are showing interest in examining its ability to support online learning. However, prior studies have highlighted the challenges in promoting m-learning adoption. The extant m-learning literature has mainly focuse...

In recent years, there has been considerable interest in cloud services in academic literature. Most research in this area has focused on the technical aspects of designing and implementing cloud services, with few studies focusing on understanding the value of cloud services and the processes by which consumer and service providers engage each oth...

In recent years, there has been considerable interest in cloud services in academic literature. Most research in this area has focused on the technical aspects of designing and implementing cloud services, with few studies focusing on understanding the value of cloud services and the processes by which consumer and service providers engage each oth...

A considerable amount of research has been conducted to explore different issues pertaining to customer knowledge management. The focus of majority of studies lie in the exploration of benefits gained from properly acquiring, managing and integrating customer knowledge for improved efficiency, increased productivity and greater innovation. Comparat...

Over the last decade, information systems research has been preoccupied with examining the pre-adoption, use and impact of information technology. A great majority of the research efforts has been focused towards studying the cognitive processes associated with an individual's pre adoption activities, adoption decisions, and initial user behaviours...

The popularity of social networking sites' (SNSs) services is changing the landscape of e-commerce. SNSs are providing consumers and businesses the platform to engage in social commerce (s-commerce). The use of SNSs to conduct s-commerce activities is utilising the advantages of the synergetic experience and motivation to buy in crowds. Through SNS...

Drawing upon the literature review and analysis of current published research, this paper identifies the issues in and highlights the importance of post-adoption stage. There has been a considerable amount of research undertaken which have studied different issues related to pre-adoption. The focus of majority of these studies generally lies in the...

There exist plethora of research that investigates different topics related to management, use and impact of information technology in the organization. Despite the presence of heaps of research to date, considerably large number of information technology projects does not reap the maximum benefit. This paper provides a critical review of studies r...

Given the growing interest and popularity of the social network studies at an individual and organizational level, this paper present critical review of literature, identify gaps and appraise current trends and limitations. Nowadays, the topic of social networks is generally viewed from technology perspective; that is to study the adoption and impa...

Cloud Computing has recently been recognized as one of the most emerging technology. A considerable amount of research has been carried out to explore different areas in Cloud Computing. Nevertheless, few areas including reliability, security and business value of Cloud Computing are yet to be explored. This paper presents a brief summary on the an...

This paper proposes a conceptual model to investigate the relationship between information systems maintenance and process innovation. A comprehensive review of information systems innovation and business process innovation literature is presented and proposed research model is discussed. The model highlights four innovation enabling factors of pro...

Knowledge Cities fall under a new area of academic research entitled Knowledge-Based Development (KBD), which brings together research in urban development and urban studies and planning with knowledge management and intellectual capital. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of social computing and a promising role it could play...

Differences in the type and nature of tasks insoftware development and maintenance require acareful selection of separate methods and procedures tohandle each task. A great deal of academic andpractical attention has been devoted to studyingmethods of developing software; considerably lessattention has been devoted to studying the managementof soft...

Businesses designed and implemented systems in the past, based on the technology of the day and current business needs they had at that time. This resulted in heterogeneous systems and unplanned, non-interoperable architectures. Enterprise Application integration (EAI) provides an infrastructure that allows applications to inter-operate thereby pro...

The presenters will be discussing their CS658 project which implements several distributed components all tied together by the power of XML. The final project provides a student the ability to access his/her grades from a telephone (or even a cell phone), the professor is given the capability of entering the students grades in via a mobile applicat...