This study aims to investigate the moderating effect of enterprise risk management on the relationship between the board of directors’ effectiveness on accounting and market performance in Jordan. The current study uses panel data of 684 firm-year observations, employed regression analysis and analysis of annual reports of 76 listed companies on the Amman stock exchange (ASE) from 2009 to 2017 covering 9 years. The findings of the hierarchical regression analysis showed that the enterprise risk management has a significant positive moderating effect on the relationship between the board of directors’ effectiveness on accounting and market performance in Jordan. The findings reveal that enterprise risk management positively moderated the relationship between board of directors’ effectiveness on Return on Assets, Return on Equity, and Tobin’s Q. It also moderated the interaction of board of directors’ effectiveness intercept enterprise risk management on Return on Assets and Return on Equity, which were found positive and significant. The findings of this paper can provide crucial conclusions and recommendations that clarify the relationship between the board of directors’ effectiveness and the accounting and market performance in Jordan and the moderate impact of the enterprise risk management.

This study aims to investigate the effect of digital marketing, social media marketing and electronic word-of-mouth EWOM, on the purchase intention with moderating effect of brand equity. A quantitative research approach was used to achieve the research objectives. The data was collected from a sample consisting of 254 online shoppers of IKEA Jordan. By using a random sampling technique, the data was collected through an electronic questionnaire. Statistical analyses were conducted such as data normality and scale reliability by using IBM SPSS 21 software, followed by measurement model and hypothesis testing by using Smart PLS3 software. The results assessed the validity of the measurement model, structural model as well moderation analysis that was conducted based on the study objectives. The findings confirmed the assumptions which stated the digital marketing had a positive significant effect on purchase intention, and the moderating effect of brand equity revealed a significant effect. The study has contributed to the existing literature by providing future research suggestions and directions linked to this topic in the context of Jordan social media marketing and shopping.

Bug tracking systems are standard repositories that preserve a large number of uncovered bugs. Once a bug is reported in these repositories, developers search for appropriate changes to fix the bug. However, discovering the changes that can fix the bugs has a negative influence on the schedule and cost of projects. Mainly, fixing bugs could be done by performing some other maintenance changes. In this work, we study and examine the role of adaptive maintenance in the context of API-migration during bug fixing activities through a case study on KOffice, Extragear/graphics, and Open Scene Graph projects. Our goal is to direct developers towards potential bugs early in development which are more likely to be fixed by performing adaptive changes as opposed to other maintenance tasks. We examined the reports of fixed bugs from the bug tracking systems of the studied projects, then we explored several factors related to variant dimensions of the reports and their relevant version history commits, in order to evaluate their effectiveness to decide whether a bug is likely to be fixed by adaptive changes. Our case study results show that bug residency time, textual contents of the report, the component that the bug was found in, and reporter/commenter experience show significant differences between the bugs that are fixed by adaptive changes and other fixed bugs.

Broadening the approval and usage of technology to study online education is not a novel study subject, and several researchers have addressed it. However, the production of a systematic Technology acceptance model capable of examining online education adoption in the current Covid-19 is seen as a vital research path. Literature research was conducted to evaluate the most used external influences of innovation adoption regarding online learning acceptance. The search revealed that computer self-efficacy, corona apprehension, perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness are the external factors for technology acceptance. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the variables that online education programs' approval among students can influence. 185 students from Jordan's Al-Zaytoonah University and Applied Science Private University participated in the online research. The online questionnaire system in this report was analyzed using SmartPLS tools. According to the findings, perceived usefulness, behavioral intent of use, self-efficacy, and Corona fear all positively affect the adoption of online education programs. The findings of this study were used as a required input in the latest online education interactive analytical production that was used extensively during the pandemic.

Since COVID-19 became a pandemic, the global economy has been dramatically affected. Not just that, the consumer behavior in the retail market has also changed. This paper aims to examine the effect of the coronavirus crisis on consumer behavior in retail services. The paper will focus on retail banking services, especially the Jordanian banking sector. The goal of the study was achieved by conducting a survey among Jordanian consumers in the retail banking sector, which was done using questionnaires, a sample of 240 retail customers from 14 valid participants. The paper brings new insight into how the pandemic affected retail banking services and proves the acceptance of online and banking in the conceptual model. The results show that the variables around attitudes toward the internet and mobile banking were directly and positively affected by the variables related to the perception of the pandemic's impact on the consumer's lifestyle. Other variables such as the safety of using online and mobile banking services and phones also contributed to this rise in a positive attitude. The Trust in Mobile and internet banking has several administrative and social implications, which were also discussed. Because new consumption behavior models are being developed, mobile and internet services could prevail even after the later stages of the epidemic. Initiatives to provide online educational programs, especially financial courses, should be intensified by the banks in Jordan to enable their customers to be familiar with the use of the banks' online banking services. They should enhance their communication with their customers and offer new products and services while also showing flexibility while negotiating to refinance and loaning terms.

Recently, the credibility of digital reviews has played an essential role in the shopper's buying behaviors and decisions. Since there is a dearth of experimental research about the shoppers' credibility evaluation regarding digital reviews, this study aimed to investigate the factors that affect digital review credibility and its influence on buying choices among Jordanian consumers. With the help of elaboration likelihood theory, a research model has been established that experimentally test it through structural equation modelling from the data gathered from 246 users of the digital review website Amazon. The study's findings suggest factors that consist of the argument quality, like accuracy, completeness and quantity of digital reviews, and the peripheral cues, such as reviewer expertise, rating of goods or services, and website reputation. However, both significantly influence digital review credibility. Thus, they positively impact the buying decisions of shoppers.

Sustainable Learning and Education (SLE) is a recent emerging philosophy founded on sustainability principles and in response to the UN announced Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Therefore, technologies should be implemented to empower educational institutions to achieve SLE. This study aims to investigate the factors impacting the intentions of using blockchain technology for SLE in Jordanian universities. Accordingly, an extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is proposed where five more factors are integrated. To this end, an extended model was proposed and validated using structural equation modeling based on 407 responses collected using an online survey. The results showed that adopted factors significantly impact blockchain use in SLE. We believe that the study finding would assist decision-makers in building systems for sustainable learning and education for the Jordanian higher educational institutes.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy, digital marketing and green marketing are considered as some of the most emerging topics. However, the major problem is associated with the lack of CSR policies, development and adaptation of green marketing in the companies operating in manufacturing companies in the UK. In this manner, this study aimed to determine the role of digital marketing, CSR policies and green marketing in brand development. Concerning this, the case of UK’s manufacturing companies was considered which can help the manufacturing companies operating in the UK to make the development of brand more effective, as the consumers would perceive the brand which complies with the environmental laws. To attain the aim, the researchers utilized a quantitative method of data collection where a close-ended survey questionnaire was utilized. The data was collected from the concerned participants working in the manufacturing sector of the UK and the sample size considered for the analysis was based on 404 participants. The analysis was conducted using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) on Smart PLS. The analysis revealed that the overall impact of green marketing, CSR policy and digital marketing was statistically significant on the brand development of UK’s manufacturing companies. Considering this, it has been recommended to the manufacturing companies in the UK to focus on environmental disclosure, green innovation, green alliance and promotional activity for the purpose of ensuring brand development. However, this study is limited to the geographical bounds of the UK; therefore, it has a certain room for future research.

Corporate governance has become a common discussion issue in developed and developing countries. Therefore, the intensive interest that the corporate governance determines firm performance and protects the interests of shareholders has result in increasing global concern about the corporate governance concept and determinants. There is an increasing forms of corporate finance literature which build a correlation between corporate governance techniques and financial performance. This study represents a new attempt to show the role of corporate governance characteristics on the performance of Jordanian Banks expressed by return on equity ROE during the period from 2014 to 2017. The investigation employed statistics measurements and tools to state the relationships between ROE and different variables. The study indicates a significant effects of different corporate governance characteristics on the performance of banks. In other words, the study reports significant effects of the board size, board diligence, audit committee size and audit committee diligence separately on ROE by considering two controlling variables; namely, firm size and return on assets.

Social commerce is a first-generation platform that uses a variety of social attributes to attract the attention of internet users. The impact of platform interactivity components; Content Usefulness, Engaging, Real-time communication, and E-wom on customers' purchase intentions was investigated in this study. A Quantitative research method was applied in this study using an online self-administrative questionnaire that was published using Google Docs to collect data, and 521 consumers participated in an online survey. The research used SPSS and AMOS to validate and test the hypotheses. All platform interactivity components were significantly affecting purchase intention. This study provides insights to marketing managers of how consumers perceive social commerce and what affecting them along with practical and theoretical implications.