List of Figures
Introduction
List of Figures Figure 1 – Overview: Literature Review................................................................................ 12 Figure 2 – Smartphone Operating Systems ......................................................................... 16 Figure 3 – Smartphone Specifications .................................................................................. 17 Figure 4 – Smartphones sales: Historical Figures ................................................................. 21 Figure 5 – Major players in smartphone business .................................................................22 Figure 6 – Levels of virtualness ............................................................................................28 Figure 7 – Virtual Organisation variables.............................................................................. 31 Figure 8 – Virtual Organisation Framework ......................................................................... 32 Figure 9 – Virtual Office: Key Concepts................................................................................ 33 Figure 10 – Mobility / Virtualness Grid.................................................................................. 39 Figure 11 – Evolution of Workers .........................................................................................40 Figure 12 – Accenture’s Mobile solution.............................................................................. 48 Figure 13 – Generational Differences ...................................................................................59 Figure 14 – Smartphone adoption among generations ........................................................ 61 Figure 15 – Baby boomers attitude towards PDA’s and mobiles ......................................... 62 Figure 16 – Theory of Reasoned Action................................................................................65 Figure 17 – Technology Acceptance Model ......................................................................... 66 Figure 18 –Unified Theory of Acceptance & Use of Technology .......................................... 68 Figure 19 – Research philosophies ....................................................................................... 76 Figure 20 – Research Orientation with Epistemological philosophy..................................... 77 Figure 21 – Research Approach ............................................................................................ 78 Figure 24 – Types of Research ............................................................................................. 79 Figure 25 – Applied research approaches ............................................................................. 81 Figure 26 – Sources of primary data ................................................................................... 86 Figure 27 – Qualitative vs. Quantitative methods ............................................................... 89 Figure 28 – Proposed Primary Research method ................................................................ 90 Figure 29 – Types of questionnaires.................................................................................... 92 Figure 30 – Questionnaire service providers.........................................................................95 Figure 31 – Structure of the questionnaire ........................................................................... 97 Figure 32 – Facebook event ............................................................................................... 102 Figure 33 – Link-backs Social Networks ............................................................................. 103 Figure 34 – Extract from questionnaire .............................................................................. 105
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