Hossein Mohit

Kennesaw State University | KSU · Departmant of Information Systems and Security

Social network services (SNSs) have attracted more than 4.3 billion users worldwide. However, many feel SNSs have had an overall negative impact on society. This study utilizes the theory of reasoned action and rational choice theory to explore factors impacting SNS continuance. In addition, the study explores the moderating effect of commitment (i...

Effective contact tracing is an important tool in trying to control the spread of highly infectious diseases. Utilizing the theory of reasoned action and rational choice theory, this study explores factors impacting the adoption of mobile contact tracing application. Findings indicate that perceived benefits of usage and perceived costs of non-usag...

Internet of Things (IoT) refers to groups of objects with embedded sensors, processors, software, and other technologies that communicate data with other devices and systems via the Internet. IoT technologies have revolutionized the ongoing IT advancements for personal users, commercial, or even infrastructure contexts. Smart infrastructure and dig...

This paper develops a production-inventory model to include multiperiod prediction along with inflation rate and discount policy. We used a nonlinear-programming model to provide an optimal solution using an optimization library in Python programming language, which is called Pyomo. The results show that the proposed model can significantly reduce...

Due to the advent of technology, the total amount of data created has been rapidly increasing. As proposed in this paper, a big data analytics framework can facilitate theory development by exploring topics in a big dataset. We propose a comprehensive toolbox to explain a phenomenon using a big dataset.

Following the emergence of the Internet, online video games, have become a fast-growing trend among adolescents. Among all the IT-related activities, The hedonic use of video games has resulted in non-substance addictions (Charlton & Danforth, 2010; Huh & Bowman, 2008). The video games have been designed to operate in a simulated open-world space,...

The meteoric ascent of the cryptocurrency market in the last two years has drawn a large number of both investors and bystanders (NDTV Business Desk, 2022). Nakamoto (2008, p.4) defines cryptocurrency as "a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash [that] would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going t...

We propose and validate a model based in Theory of Planned Behavior to examine how offline friendships influence a person's intention to contribute to an online crowdfunding campaign. Initial analysis using MPlus for Structural Equation Modelling indicates that Social Norm mediates the relationship between information sharing intent and contributio...

The COVID pandemic has negatively influenced all businesses across the world in 2020, particularly supply chains. Inappropriate reactions to the recent pandemic showed that companies have insufficient learning from prior pandemics such as SARS, resulting in a considerable reduction in the global gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020. Supply chains a...

Over the last two decades, online social network services (SNSs) have become increasingly popular (Kourouthanassis et al., 2015). According to a recent report from Kepios (2021), there are more than 4.33 billion active social media users worldwide accounting for more than 55 percent of the global population. Among the most popular, Facebook has mor...

Organizations often lack the time or resources to investigate the organizational challenges posed by continually evolving technology, especially from an approach based on scientific methodology. Business leaders often express that they would like to collaborate more closely with academia in addressing some of these issues. But they often need solut...

This paper explores 92789 tweets collected since March 2020 to see the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the operations management. Through text mining in the collected big data set, the preliminary results show that the most vulnerable part of the operations management is the supply chains.

Pandemics such as Coronavirus are rare but harm the economy and society. We little know about supply chain reactions to Coronavirus. Using a big data analysis of 60,000 tweets in English from the early stage of Coronavirus, March 2020, we shed light on supply chain risk management during pandemics.