Mansour Naser Alraja

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• (Ph.D. - FHEA - CMBE)
• Information Systems and Business Analytics at Northumbria University

Technological advancements have helped all sectors to evolve. This advancement has widened the cyberspace and attack surface, which has led to a drastic increase in cyberattacks. Cybersecurity solutions have also evolved. The advancement is relatively slower in developing countries. However, the financial sector in developing countries has shown re...

Green human resource management (GHRM) practices and Big Data are considered to be important antecedents of green innovation and sustainable performance. In this article, a comprehensive path model was developed to ensure sustainable organizational performance. The article explores the impact of GHRM and big data on the green innovation which, in t...

We examine the role of technological-personal factors of university students’ behavioural intention (BI) to continue using online services provided by the Ministry of Education in Oman after the pandemic. In total, 657 valid responses were collected from students who use online ministry services. We found that self-efficacy (SE) to be a determining...

The information and communication technology (ICT) of trade balance is one of the main facilitators of any business sustainability. As ICT and financial inclusion eases access to knowledge and enhances significantly developing several human skills and competencies, its impact in industrial sectors has mainly recognized as positive. But digitalizati...

These days, social media holds a large portion of our daily lives. Millions of people post their images using a social media platform. The enormous amount of images shared on social network presents serious challenges and requires massive computing resources to ensure efficient data processing. However, images are subject to a wide range of distort...

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are introduced to improve individuals’ quality of life by offering a wide range of services. They collect a huge amount of data and exchange them with each other and the infrastructure. The collected data usually includes sensitive information about the users and the surrounding environment. Therefore, data...

COVID-19 restrictions significantly affected SMEs, which have faced many challenges to their sustainability within this fragile new environment. This study proposes a holistic framework of sustainable performance by interrelating factors showing robust associations to produce this effect' for achieving sustainable performance in SMEs, through integ...

There are numerous risks associated with the interconnection of healthcare provision and the Internet of Things (IoT), with its sensory capabilities shown to reduce confidence in novel technology due to fears of a loss of privacy. There exists a clear omission in the extant literature—consideration of gender differences in Frontline Healthcare Prov...

In the past few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged, grown and gradually affected the daily lives of human beings in many new application domains, ranging from wearable devices, smart manufacturing, to smart homes and ambient intelligence just to mention a few. However, realizing the full potential of IoT while ensuring user security an...

In this study, we demonstrate how we can quantify environmental implications of large-scale events and traffic (e.g., human movement) in public spaces, and identify specific regions of a city that are impacted. We develop an innovative data fusion framework that synthesises the state-of-the-art techniques in extracting pollution episodes and detect...

The General Data Protection Regulation came into effect on May 25, 2018, and has rapidly become a touchstone model for modern privacy law. It empowers consumers with unprecedented control over the use of their personal information. However, new guarantees of consumer privacy adversely affect data sharing and data application markets because service...

This study aims to explore the ways in which targeted consumers engage with corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities on social media platforms, specifically when discussing their opinions and experiences regarding the CSR activities of their favorite brands. Therefore, the variable moral norms were integrated in the theory of reasoned actio...

Privacy by Design (PbD) is the most common approach followed by software developers who aim to reduce risks within their application designs, yet it remains commonplace for developers to retain little conceptual understanding of what is meant by privacy. A vision is to develop an intelligent privacy assistant to whom developers can easily ask quest...

Privacy by Design (PbD) is the most common approach followed by software developers who aim to reduce risks within their application designs, yet it remains commonplace for developers to retain little conceptual understanding of what is meant by privacy. A vision is to develop an intelligent privacy assistant to whom developers can easily ask quest...

In today’s highly connected cyber-physical environments, users are becoming more and more concerned about their privacy and ask for more involvement in the control of their data. However, achieving effective involvement of users requires improving their privacy decision-making. This can be achieved by: (i) raising their awareness regarding the dire...

Privacy protection is among the key problems that IoT should resolve in order to be widely adopted in critical domains such as healthcare. In this work, we propose an integrated solution for assisting the average users of IoT applications to protect their privacy effectively. In our solution, whenever a user is queried to share some of her private...

The main objective of this paper is to investigate the SMEs’ leader perspective about the basic factors influencing the transformation into digitalization by SMEs they lead, using technological, organizational, and environmental (TOE) Model. The data were collected from 61 SMEs leaders in Oman, to achieve the study objective TOE model has been adop...

In this article, we present a privacy-preserving technique for user-centric multi-release graphs. Our technique consists of sequentially releasing anonymized versions of these graphs under Blowfish Privacy. To do so, we introduce a graph model that is augmented with a time dimension and sampled at discrete time steps. We show that the direct applic...

This research aims to identify the factors affecting the adoption of Facebook commerce, in specific the adopted Facebook advertisements for both small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and how this contributes to enhancing such SMEs’ organizational performances. Specifically, ease of use, demographic targeting, interaction, and brand awareness are rega...

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the network of devices which contain electronics, sensors or software that enables them to connect at anytimeand anywhere through a cyber-physical system. Before the establishment of such a system, it should be considered to what extent the users are ready to adopt and use it in their daily routines. Therefore...

The vital theme of this paper is to examine and identify the focal possible challenges and constraints faced by small and medium enterprises in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Dhofar Region in the Sultanate of Oman. The heavy dependent of Sultanate of Oman on oil has led to the progress of alternative procedure which li...

According to different views in information systems and the socio-technical perspective, many organizations was led to redefine their business with a more focused IT solutions, this study suggested a number of confirmatory measurement models that establish the ground for the hypothesed research constructs, and utilized the structural equation model...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a crucial tool developing the economy of any country if it is employed in a proper manner. Moreover,FDI has many effects; and one of them is thriving the information and communication technology (ICT) sector as a pivotal sector which includes four subsectors according to the World Bank (ICT service exports,ICT goo...

Internet Banking enables clients to manage their accounts or carrying out their work related to the bank via the Internet, whether at home, office or from any place and at any time he/she desires to do. Hence, the main objective of our paper is to identify the adoption level of internet banking among the clients of Omani banks. Therefore, the techn...

In the same context of previous studies on the adoption of E-government, this paper employs the Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model two constructs from this model were selected (performance expectancy, and effort expectancy) to examine their effect on the intention to adopt electronic government in Sultanate of Oman from an emp...

This study benefited from the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model through choosing two constructs from this model (Social influence, and Facilitating Conditions) to investigate their impact on employees’ intention to adopt electronic government in Sultanate of Oman. To collect the requested data, a manually administered...

One of the main areas in developing the economy of any country is the planning of the foreign direct investment (FDI) to be employed in a proper manner as a very crucial tool in development. FDI has many effects; and one of them is flourishing the ICT sector as a vital sector which includes four sub-sectors according to the World Bank (High-Technol...

During the past few decades there has been an unprecedented revolution in information technology. Technologies have changed the way people live, work and learn. Educational institutions are also adopting the new technologies to enable a better learning. Many institutions are starting to reconsider their traditional methods of student assessment and...

Today, students have adopted information technology in terms of emails through they are conveying their information from one place to another. This study has examined that how a set of constructs shape the information technology adoption. Depending on UTAUT model, the study has tested the effects of five constructs including the computer anxiety, p...

The main goal of this research is to assess the factors affect the overall role of information technology to increase productivity of higher education institutes from staff and students' perspective, as there is a strong need to involve other stakeholders such as employees and students besides top management in these institutes in overall assessmen...

Background / Objectives: Depending on prior models, especially Technology, Organization and Environment (TOE) framework, this study aims to develop a research model to study critical factors that affect E-Business Adoption in the Banking Sector. Methods / Statistical Analysis: The research model focuses on examining the impact of organizational cap...

Using eLearning technology today in education is changing the way in which knowledge is introduced, stored and distributed, accordingly; knowledge management technologies is used to rapidly capture, organize and deliver large amounts of new knowledge. BA as a shared context in eLearning environment requires students to share, construct and utilize...

Retrieval of beneficial information, knowledge and development of new methods can be carried out using data mining for visualizing and analyzing the data. In the environment several kinds of data are present and can be converted into distinct patterns. In automobile, every rotating machine components emit some kind of sound signals. These signals a...

The purpose of this research is to develop an understanding of the Perceived Factors influencing Omani customers to switch to electronic shopping by recognizing the effects of Perceived Channel Risk, Perceived Price Search, and Perceived Efforts of Search and Evaluation on customers' intention to adopt electronic shopping. A manual questionnaire of...

As the market competition becomes keen, constructing a customer relationship management system (CRM system) is coming to the front for winning over new customers, developing service and products to enhance the strategic position of the organization. This paper tried to answer two main questions: do these CRM system apply in several companies busine...

Electronic government provides a diversity of services to citizens using website, which include carrying out a range of transactions that will increases the accessibility of information and government services by citizens. The aim of this study is to determine the critical factors that affect citizen adoption of e-government services. Constructs fr...

We are living in technological era which is growing rapidly. The adaptations of information technology applications have already been carried out in various areas of business. In this study perceived risk, perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness go shaping ecommerce acceptance among potential customers were examined. Drawing on Perceived Ri...

As the market competition becomes keen, constructing acustomer relationship management system (CRM systems) is coming to the front for winning over new customers, developing service and products to enhance the strategic positionof the organization. This paper tried to answer two main questions: do theseCRM systems apply in several companies busines...

The ultimate purpose of this study is to determine the role played by E-management in improving the added value in The Royal Jordanian Airlines. A sample of (75) employees were chosen randomly from the targeted population, so 75 questionnaires were distributed, the response rate was about 84% (63 usable responses), statistical tools were used such...

This study aimed to determine the role played by the general controls of information systems auditing in improving the performance of information systems in banks listed in the Amman Stock Exchange. To achieve the objectives and testing of hypotheses a questionnaire was developed especially for the collection of data from a study sample, which cons...

هدفت الدراسة إلى معرفة الدور الذي يؤديه نظام المعلومات االاستراتيجي من خلال بعديه(عمليات النظام ومخرجات النظام) في عملية التخطيط االاستراتيجي بأبعادها(التهيئة والإعداد لعملية التخطيط الاستراتيجي ، التعرف على نقاط القوة والضعف و الفرص والتهديدات في البنك، وضع الخطة الاستراتيجية، تنفيذ الخطة الاستراتيجية متابعة وتقييم تنفيذ الخطة الاستراتيجية) في الب...

The ultimate purpose of this study is to determine the role played by the general controls of information systems auditing in improving the performance of information systems in banks listed in the Damascus Stock Exchange\ Syria. A random sample of (4) banks were chosen from the targeted population (7 banks), 58 questionnaires were distributed, the...