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The present research exhibits the measurement of university students' behavioral intention in using a blended learning system. Two representative cases from a developed region and a developing region were assessed in the present measurement. Two well-known models, namely the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), were used as the measurement tools. A total of six hypotheses was tested. The result revealed the suitability of the TAM-TPB model in interpreting the sample students behavioral intentions' for both regions. The result also showed that for the Taiwanese data, five out of six hypotheses were accepted. For the Indonesian data, only four out of six hypotheses were exhibiting acceptable statistical measurement. Several recommendations, such as creating a more socialoriented blended learning system for developed countries was recommended. Utilizing the favourable feeling shown by developing countries students to create a better blended learning system, was also highly suggested to be considered for improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the proven potential of e-commerce in the small business sector studies have shown that larger businesses have reaped the benefits, with SME adoption remaining relatively low by comparison. This slow growth of e-commerce adoption in SMEs has been attributed to various adoption barriers that are faced by small business owners/managers. These barriers have been well documented in numerous research studies. While these studies have gone some ways to determine the nature and role of barriers to e-commerce adoption, there is a suggestion that as most have been conducted in developed economies, their value for developing economies remains in question. This article compares the perception of barriers to e-commerce adoption in a developed and a developing economy Two hundred forty-seven non-adopters in Australia are compared to 96 non-adopters in Indonesia. The data shows that the perception of importance of barriers to e-commerce adoption differs across the two locations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]