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Article Citation - WoS: 14Citation - Scopus: 18Online Purchase Behaviour Among Professionals: a Socio-Demographic Perspective for Turkey(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014) Akman, Ibrahim; Rehan, MohammadThis study reports the findings of a survey concerning the impact of professionals' selected socio-demographic factors with regard to their online purchasing behaviour in Turkey, since this consumer group plays an important role in adopting new technologies in societies. The survey has been conducted using a 'face-to-face interview' approach during an IT event. To keep in line with the available literature, gender, age, education level, income and daily Internet usage, constitute the socio-demographic variants for this study. Five hypotheses were constructed to investigate the nature of the relationship between the socio-demographic factors and the usage of online purchasing. The chi-square method was selected to test the hypotheses. According to the test results, age, income and education level have a significant impact on the online purchasing behaviour of professionals.Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 6The Predictive Impact of Socio-Demographic and Behavioural Factors on Professionals' E-Commerce Attitudes(Academic Journals, 2010) Akman, Ibrahim; Rehan, Mohammad; Information Systems Engineering; Computer EngineeringThis paper first reviews the e-commerce issues in general and then gives a detailed report of the findings of a survey concerning how sociodemographic (gender and income) and behavioural (computer experience and average daily use of the Internet) factors influence e-commerce attitude of professionals. The survey was conducted among professionals from the government and private sectors. The results indicated that income is significantly related to the usage of e-commerce. Additionally, computer experience and average daily use of the internet were found to be significant in explaining usage reason for e-commerce users whereas the variable income was found to be significant in explaining nonusage reason for e-commerce nonusers.Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 5Examination of Factors Influencing Employees' Adoption of Mobile Commerce and Services in Turkey(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016) Akman, Ibrahim; Rehan, MohammadThis study first reviews and discusses mobile technology issues from a global perspective, and then investigates the impact of demographic (gender, age, income), personal (ICT experience, work experience), and organisational (sector) factors related to employees on adopting mobile commerce (m-commerce) and mobile services (m-services). A survey is conducted among employees from government-and private-sector organisations for this purpose, assuming that this group plays an important role in helping to adopt new technologies in societies. Based on this survey, the results indicate that gender, experience, and sector have an impact on attitude towards using m-technologies and that such attitude has a significant effect on the actual use of m-technologies.Article Citation - WoS: 45Citation - Scopus: 71Requirements for Forming an 'e-supply Chain'(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2009) Akyuz, Goknur Arzu; Rehan, MohammadIn today's digital economy, web-based integration of the enterprises to form an e-supply chain is a critical weapon for orchestrating the whole supply chain towards competitiveness. This paper intends to discuss the requirements for forming an e-supply chain from different perspectives, such as integration with the legacy systems, timing and prior presence of ERP (enterprise resources planning) systems, BPR (business process re-engineering) needs of internal and external business processes and business intelligence/decision support needs. A look at technical knowledge and structure to construct an e-supply chain is provided. Challenges involved in forming an e-supply chain are also briefly mentioned as a separate section in this paper. During the study, requirements are gathered by making a review of recent literature.Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 2Designing Senior Graduation Project Course for Computing Curricula: an Active Learning Approach(Tempus Publications, 2010) Kilic, Hurevren; Kılıç, Hürevren; Koyuncu, Murat; Koyuncu, Murat; Rehan, Mohammad; Rehan, Mohammad; Kılıç, Hürevren; Koyuncu, Murat; Rehan, Mohammad; Computer Engineering; Computer Engineering; Information Systems Engineering; Information Systems Engineering; Computer Engineering; Information Systems EngineeringThis paper proposes an active learning-based design approach to senior graduation project courses for computing curricula. The proposed approach focuses mainly on course requirements including increasing the interaction between instructor and project team members; providing better and fair student/team performance assessment; encouraging students to practise life-cycle driven development; preparing students for role-based team-working; motivating students to communicate with experts from industry and supporting cooperation between students. It is observed that implementation of the proposed approach increases the student course satisfaction level while higher quality student projects are achieved.Article Impact of Job Requirements on Ict Curriculum(Tempus Publications, 2011) Canturk, Mehmet; Rehan, Mohammad; Computer Engineering; Information Systems EngineeringThis study presents an approach to address the issue of keeping curriculum content in synch with the changing demands; in other words dynamic curriculum delivery or dynamic curriculum updating based on a model. In this approach, the analysis of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) job data from the industry, and as well as the ongoing use of expert knowledge from the field of information science keep the ICT curriculum content up-to-date, relevant, and consistent with the educational goals of the universities, and students in a variety of educational and cultural contexts. A number of recommendations are put forward for educating students in Turkish universities in order to enhance their opportunities in the international job market.
