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This study investigates Romanian physicians' acceptance of telemedicine using the Technology Acceptance Model. We analyzed 1093 responses to an online survey distributed nationwide to physicians via email by the National Authority of Quality Management in Health, employing the partial least squares algorithm to estimate the relationship between the behavioral intention to adopt telemedicine and its potential determinants. Our findings reveal that the model accounts for 84.6% of the variance in behavioral intention to use telemedicine. Among the two constructs of the TAM model, perceived usefulness is a stronger predictor of behavioral intention than perceived ease of use. Additionally, subjective norms positively and significantly influence physicians' intention to use telemedicine and their perception of its usefulness. Furthermore, perceived incentives and accessibility to medical records also positively impact the behavioral intention to use telemedicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research delves into how different structural factors influence employee satisfaction and organizational commitment in three job categories within a prominent public gas company in Romania. The research adopted a multidimensional perspective on organizational commitment and job satisfaction, further enriched by incorporating the propensity for maintaining the status quo. We collected survey data, which included 2,641 respondents from 32 branches of the company across the country and employed the Partial Least Squares -- Path Modeling (PLS-PM) approach with WarpPLS 7.0 for our empirical analyses. The findings highlight the critical role of job satisfaction as a mediator between structural determinants, including organizational, job-related, and individual characteristics, and organizational commitment. Conversely, several predictors appear unsuitable for interventions aimed at enhancing employee satisfaction. Variations in the effects of predictors on organizational commitment across different employee categories off er insights for potential intervention strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hal Varian's concept of "combinatorial innovation" underlined the ascend of a new period of a tremendous burst of innovation. Now we can quickly and conveniently combine different Internet-based components, which are all bits, to create entirely new products and services, available for everyone. The mushrooming of nudging logic based initiatives all over the world, open the room for a new discussion -- to what extent the intended target audiences of nudging initiatives will participate in co-generating of the new policies and campaigns, based on the employment of the combinatorial innovation? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]