The International Technology Management Review

Volume 4, Issue 4, December 2014
Review Article

1. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: Emergence, Importance and Challenges

Adnan Mustafa AlBar, Mashael A. Hddas, Md. Rakibul Hoque
Pages: 170 - 175
The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has dawned as a tool to facilitate the flow of information and allow information sharing among different business partners. It appears as a response to the inappropriateness of the traditional systems which become outdated as a result of the change in business needs...
Research Article

2. People Management Trends of Australian Public Service Middle Managers

Nicky Antonius
Pages: 176 - 186
Change is more pervasive in the Australian Public Service than ever. Taking the number of vacancy advertisements as an indication, the more stable periods of 2008 and 2009 were followed by vast expansions in 2010 and 2011, but suddenly downturned into drastic cuts in 2012 and 2013. Public service middle...
Research Article

3. A Research Model of Consumers’ Adoption and Continued Use of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) System

Jun Xu, Xiangzhu Gao, Golam Sorwar
Pages: 187 - 200
Built on Xu and Quaddus’s39 model of adoption and continued use of knowledge management systems, this paper develops a model of Australian consumers’ adoption and use of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system. Factors and variables of the developed model are discussed in detail,...
Review Article

4. Effects of Web based cancer support resources use on cancer affected people: A systematic literature review

Seyedezahra Shadi Erfani, Babak Abedin
Pages: 201 - 211
To lay the groundwork for understanding the impact of web based support resources use on cancer affected people and devising plans for taking advantage of rapid development of internet technology for health purposes we conducted a systematic literature review. Studies published between 1993 and 2014...