Supervisions

Τhe completed graduate Theses and Dissertations are listed below. For each completed TD, the abstract is available in English.

  • </p> <p style=``text-align: justify;``>Factors Affecting the Adoption of Electronic Tickets in Public Urban Transportation by Citizens (Case: Yazd)</p> <p>

    Factors Affecting the Adoption of Electronic Tickets in Public Urban Transportation by Citizens (Case: Yazd)

    Yeganehfard, Tahereh (2013). M.A.Sc. in IT Management, University of Science and Art, Yazd, Iran

    Abstract

    The emergence and increasing development of information technologies, has affected the human lives nowadays, and offers speed, efficiency, flexibility and innovation to its users. The success of this phenomenon depends on its acceptance and use by the target population. Rejection and consequent failure of the technology leads to a waste of resources; thus identifying the factors affecting the adoption of a technology is of great important. One of the application areas of information technology is the field of urban public transport and electronic ticket. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting the adoption of electronic ticket by citizens. For this purpose, this study examined the effect of perceived risks (including time, financial, performance, social, security and privacy) on adoption of the electronic ticket among the citizens of Yazd city based on the theory of perceived risk. Results from using structural equations modeling and confirmatory factor analysis showed that financial, performance, time, order, security and privacy risks are main reducing the intentions of citizens to adoption electronic ticket, social risk is very small negative effect on the adoption intention. Based on these results, strategies to reduce significantly the risk of adoption electronic ticket was presented to the citizens of the city of Yazd.

    Keywords

    Adoption, Information Technology, Electronic Ticket, Urban Public Transport, Perceived Risk Theory

  • </p> <p style=``text-align: justify;``>Risks Influencing Adoption of Corporate Internet banking by Corporate Customers in Iran based on the Perceived Risk Theory</p> <p>

    Risks Influencing Adoption of Corporate Internet banking by Corporate Customers in Iran based on the Perceived Risk Theory

    Shahnazi, Arezoo (2014). M.A.Sc. in Industiral engineering (financial engineering), University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran.

    Abstract

    In recent years, increasing of information and communication technology beside the competitive pressures and changing customer expectation demonstrate the need to apply information technology and communications in all industries, organizations and even banks. Therefore internet banking offers those services to the customers or corporate customers. The present study aims to investigate the factors influencing the adoption of corporate internet banking by the corporate customers based on the perceived risk theory. Results after testing the research hypotheses through the structural equation modeling and analysis showed the relationship between intention to accept all risks of corporate Internet banking among corporate customers are significant. The main risks that reduce the intention of adopting of corporate Internet banking respectively are performance risks, privacy, security, time, financial and social risks. Based on these results, Guidelines and recommendations presented to reduce the impact of these risks among corporate customers to adopt corporate Internet banking

     Keywords

    Corporate Internet banking, Technology adoption, Corporate customers, Perceived Risk Theory