TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to propose a new direction for managing information‐credibility risk in the current information and communications technology (ICT) era, where ICT has had both positive and negative effects on contemporary society.Design/methodology/approach– The paper takes a practical and inductive approach to study the Kyoto avian influenza panic and countermeasures taken in 2004.Findings– The paper identifies factors which led to enormous damage through harmful rumors and proposes new perspectives for devising countermeasures, such as increasing consumer confidence in an agency as a source of information and effective management of knowledge transfer from experts to non‐experts.Practical implications– The study gains a better understanding of both technological and social factors that enable or detract from effective nationwide management of information‐credibility risk. Many related ICT projects have been based on either human resource systems or advanced technology. It considers the integration of both factors from three perspectives.Originality/value– This is a new perspective for examining the transfer of knowledge from experts to consumers in terms of practical solutions, in contrast to the many existing knowledge‐related articles that have mainly focused on knowledge management among experts.
VL  - 18
IS  - 2
SN  - 1066-2243
DO  - 10.1108/10662240810862202
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/10662240810862202
AU  - Hirose Yayoi
AU  - Sonehara Noboru
ED  - Yoshikiyo Kato
ED  - Sadao Kurohashi
ED  - Kentaro Inui
PY  - 2008
Y1  - 2008/01/01
TI  - Management of information‐credibility risk in an ICT society: A social implementation
T2  - Internet Research
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 142
EP  - 154
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -