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A policy-level perspective to tackle rural digital inclusion
Sharon Wagg, Boyka SimeonovaThis paper explores how policy-level stakeholders tackle digital inclusion in the context of UK rural communities.
Exploring the synergy between nano-influencers and sports community: behavior mapping through machine learning
Jitendra Yadav, Madhvendra Misra, Nripendra P. Rana, Kuldeep SinghThe paper aims to explore the influence of cybersecurity on the semantic orientation of the sports consumers. Focusing on both sport and esports, this study finds the…
Assessing the drivers of the regional digital divide and their impact on eGovernment services: evidence from a South American country
Mónica Pazmiño-Sarango, Mijail Naranjo-Zolotov, Frederico Cruz-JesusThe paper explores the main drivers of the regional-level digital divide in Ecuadorian cities and the extent to which the information and communication technology (ICT…
Digital working during the COVID-19 pandemic: how task–technology fit improves work performance and lessens feelings of loneliness
Simen Nordbø Abelsen, Svenn-Helge Vatne, Patrick Mikalef, Jyoti ChoudrieThis study aims to investigate the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICTs) use and work performance during the coronavirus disease 2019…
Information disclosure willingness and mobile cloud computing collaboration apps: the impact of security and assurance mechanisms
Hamid Reza Nikkhah, Rajiv SabherwalIn this research, the authors focus on mobile cloud computing (MCC) collaboration apps that are multiplatform and send the users’ data to the cloud. Despite their…
Implementing an mHealth app to combat hypertension in India's vulnerable populations
Gina Green, Hope Koch, Peter Kulaba, Shelby L. Garner, Carolin Elizabeth George, Julia Hitchcock, Gift NormanThe purpose of this paper is to understand how to build and implement information and communication technology (i.e. ICT) to help vulnerable people when significant…
The role of big data analytics capabilities in bolstering supply chain resilience and firm performance: a dynamic capability view
Mohamad Bahrami, Sajjad ShokouhyarBig data analytics capability (BDAC) can affect firm performance in several ways. The purpose of this paper is to understand how BDA capabilities affect firm performance…
Exploring sectoral diversity in the timing of organizational blockchain adoption
Cigdem Turhan, Ibrahim AkmanBlockchain is a relatively new technology. Although it has a high potential to influence organizational strategies for adoption into respective operations, it has not been…
Routine dynamics in virtual teams: the role of technological artifacts
Evangelia Baralou, Dionysios D. DionysiouIn this paper, the authors extend their understanding of the internal dynamics of routines in contexts characterized by increased levels of virtuality. In particular, the…
Self-disclosure of social media users in Indonesia: the influence of personal and social media factors
Mona Natasha Siahaan, Putu Wuri Handayani, Fatimah AzzahroIn the context of social media (SM) use, self-disclosure (SD) behaviour meets users' social and emotional needs, but it is also accompanied by risks that can harm users…
Exploring the effects of team coordination and power distance on effective software process tailoring: a theoretical perspective
Jung-Chieh Lee, Chung-Yang ChenSoftware process tailoring (SPT) plays a critical role in contemporary software development. Because SPT determines how a software project proceeds, its effectiveness…
Value co-creation and co-destruction in the first cashless society in Colombia – a middle range theory approach
Aaron van Klyton, Juan-Fernando Tavera-Mesias, Wilson Castaño-MuñozThe research examines the simultaneous processes of value co-creation and value co-destruction in the implementation of a mobile banking application in rural Colombia…
Remote working and employee engagement: a qualitative study of British workers during the pandemic
Toyin Ajibade Adisa, Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, Olatunji David AdekoyaThrough the lens of Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, this study explores how remote working inhibits employee engagement. The authors offer a fresh perspective on…
Expectancy violation in a Facebook group: What is your response?
Stella Tomasi, Chaodong Han, James OttoFacebook groups provide a forum for members to post content and engage with others through comments. Sometimes members behave poorly and violate the expectations of group…
Understanding post-adoption behaviour in the context of ride-hailing apps: the role of customer perceived value
Kwame Simpe Ofori, Hod Anyigba, Ogechi Adeola, Chai Junwu, Christian Nedu Osakwe, Olayinka David-WestDespite the perceived role of customer value in post-adoption behaviour in the context of ride-hailing apps such as Uber, there has been limited research on the subject…
A new mechanism for purchasing through personal interactions: fairness, trust and social influence in online group buying
Shiu-Wan Hung, Min-Jhih Cheng, Chia-Jung LeeThe purpose of this article was to explore the influence of individual perception and social climate on consumer-initiated group-buying purchase decisions. An extended…
How do ambidextrous leadership and self-efficacy influence employees' enterprise system use: an empirical study of customer relationship management system context
Xiaofan Tang, Shaobo WeiBased on leadership and self-efficacy theories, this study investigates how team-level ambidextrous leadership influences employees' enterprise system (ES) use via their…
Understanding the social media interactivity paradox: the effects of social media interactivity on communication quality, work interruptions and job performance
Xiangyu Liu, Bowen Zheng, Hefu LiuAlthough social media is widely used for organizational communication, studies have begun to show its controversial effects on job performance in the workplace. To…
Disconnected citizens in the social media age: unpacking the effects of digital exclusion on satisfaction with democracy in Europe
Ziteng Fan, Nan ZhangThis article explores how digital exclusion measured by citizens' occasional social media use and their skeptical social media attitude may affect their satisfaction with…
New product success through big data analytics: an empirical evidence from Iran
Farid Shirazi, Hsiao-Ting Tseng, Olu Adegbite, Nick Hajli, Saeed RouhaniInnovative firms leverage big data analytics (BDA) benefits in optimising value creation, particularly in business-to-business (B2B) contexts. Examples of this are found…
From phubee to phubber: the transmission of phone snubbing behavior between marital partners
Zhuo Chen, Yanping Gong, Julan XieThe ubiquity of mobile phone use has generated a common phenomenon called phubbing, a reference to snubbing someone in social settings and instead concentrating on one's…
Does social media usage evoke employees' spirituality? A cross-level moderation model of inclusive leadership
Fei Zhou, Jian MouThe purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of social media usage (SMU) and relational energy on employees' workplace spirituality within an organization from a…
The power of stories for impression management: evidence from a city cultural digital storytelling initiative
Fariba Nosrati, Brian DetlorThis research responds to a growing interest among cultural organizations regarding how to use emerging digital technologies in the communication of cultural content. The…
The moderating effect of technology overload on the ability of online learning to meet students' basic psychological needs
Tabitha L. James, Jie Zhang, Han Li, Jennifer L. Ziegelmayer, Eduardo David Villacis-CalderonMost students are considered digital natives and are presumably equipped to handle extensive technology use. However, online learning turns students into involuntary…
Privacy-preserving AI-enabled video surveillance for social distancing: responsible design and deployment for public spaces
Nehemia Sugianto, Dian Tjondronegoro, Rosemary Stockdale, Elizabeth Irenne YuwonoThe paper proposes a privacy-preserving artificial intelligence-enabled video surveillance technology to monitor social distancing in public spaces.
Relationship between users' perceptions of coolness and intention to use digital products: a user-centered approach
Jian Li, Yanping Gong, Julan Xie, Yuxuan TanThe purpose of this study is to employ a user-centered approach to identify subgroups of people with similar profiles based on their perceptions of multiple dimensions of…
Technostress in the workplace: a social network perspective
Sharath SasidharanKnowledge acquired by employees from co-workers through social networks may serve to reduce technostress during the use of a new and complex information system. The role…
Examining the antecedents of everyday rumor retransmission
Tung-Ching Lin, Shiu-Li Huang, Wei-Xing LiaoThis study investigates factors that motivate social media users to retransmit rumors. We focus on everyday rumors rather than catastrophic rumors and develop a model of…
Collaboration technology affordances from virtual collaboration in the time of COVID-19 and post-pandemic strategies
Alanah MitchellThis paper aims to explore key collaboration technology affordances from virtual collaboration and remote work during the time of COVID-19. The purpose of this exploration…
A flash in the pan or a permanent change? The growth of homeworking during the pandemic and its effect on employee productivity in the UK
Alan Felstead, Darja ReuschkeThis paper has three aims: Firstly, it puts the pandemic-induced surge in homeworking into context by charting trends in homeworking in the UK since the early 1980s…
The impact of service quality, trust and satisfaction on young citizen loyalty towards government e-services
Abdullah Alkraiji, Nisreen AmeenThis study examines the effect of multidimensional constructs on citizen loyalty to e-government services. More specifically, it examines the effects of service quality…
Evaluating website quality: which decision criteria do consumers use to evaluate website quality?
Phil Longstreet, Stoney Brooks, Mauricio Featherman, Eleanor LoiaconoThe purpose of this paper is to determine which design and operational attributes of e-commerce websites consumers use to assess website quality. Cue utilization theory is…
Well-being and working from home during COVID-19
Sonia Schifano, Andrew E. Clark, Samuel Greiff, Claus Vögele, Conchita D'AmbrosioThe authors track the well-being of individuals across five European countries during the course of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and relate their…
Acceptance of protection technology in a time of fear: the case of Covid-19 exposure detection apps
Abdallah Alsaad, Manaf Al-OkailyThis study explores the acceptance of protection technology, namely, exposure detection apps, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Unlike other situations, the context…
Understanding the impacts of increasing returns in the context of social media use
Philippe Marchildon, Pierre HadayaSocial networking sites (SNS) follow the same diffusion pattern and are subject to the same phenomena as other technologies (e.g. QWERTY keyboard, Microsoft Office and…
The impact of Danmu technological features on consumer loyalty intention toward recommendation vlogs: a perspective from social presence and immersion
Tiantian Yang, Feng Yang, Jinqi MenThis study investigates how Danmu (danmaku) technological features (DTFs) of recommendation vlogs (rec-vlogs) impact consumer experiences and decisions.
What citizens experience and how omni-channel could help–insights from a building permit case
Birgit Schenk, Mateusz Dolata, Christiane Schwabe, Gerhard SchwabeBy increasing the digitalization of commercial services citizens' expect more from public services. First of all, this study will strive to identify which problems…
A deep-learning-based image forgery detection framework for controlling the spread of misinformation
Ambica Ghai, Pradeep Kumar, Samrat GuptaWeb users rely heavily on online content make decisions without assessing the veracity of the content. The online content comprising text, image, video or audio may be…
Social media analytics for end-users' expectation management in information systems development projects
Snehasish Banerjee, Jyoti Prakash Singh, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Nripendra P. RanaThis study, an exploratory research, aims to investigate social media users' expectations of information systems (IS) products that are conceived but not yet launched. It…
Is smart the new green? The impact of consumer environmental awareness and data network effect
Yugang Yu, Xin Zhang, Xiong Zhang, Wei T. YueNew information technologies such as IoT and big data analytics have reshaped the development of smart green products. These products exhibit two important features that…
Capturing rich person-centred discharge information: exploring the challenges in developing a new model
Nyree J. Taylor, Reeva Lederman, Rachelle Bosua, Marcello La RosaCapture, consumption and use of person-centred information presents challenges for hospitals when operating within the scope of limited resources and the push for…
Understanding digitally enabled complex networks: a plural granulation based hybrid community detection approach
Samrat Gupta, Swanand DeodharCommunities representing groups of agents with similar interests or functions are one of the essential features of complex networks. Finding communities in real-world…
Interactive effects of advising strength and brand familiarity on users' trust and distrust in online recommendation agents
Tao Liu, Weiquan Wang, Jingjun (David) Xu, Donghong Ding, Honglin DengThis paper investigates the effects of advising strength of a recommendation agent on users' trust and distrust beliefs and how the effects are moderated by perceived…
Apps within apps: predicting government WeChat mini-program adoption from trust–risk perspective and innovation diffusion theory
Zhenya Tang, Zhongyun Zhou, Feng Xu, Merrill WarkentinThe WeChat mini-program is a new channel for the delivery of online and mobile services, including electronic government services. Given the distinguishing characteristics…
Understanding the effects of self-peer-platform incentives on users' physical activity in mobile fitness apps: the role of gender
Qiuju Yin, Lun Li, Zhijun Yan, Chenxi GuoMobile fitness apps (MFAs) are increasingly popular for people to promote physical activity (PA) and further enhance health status via behavioral change techniques (BCTs)…
Making sense of business analytics in project selection and prioritisation: insights from the start-up trenches
Efpraxia D. Zamani, Anastasia Griva, Konstantina Spanaki, Paidi O'Raghallaigh, David SammonThe study aims to provide insights in the sensemaking process and the use of business analytics (BA) for project selection and prioritisation in start-up settings. A major…
Technostress and the entitled employee: impacts on work and family
Kenneth J. Harris, Ranida B. Harris, Matthew Valle, John Carlson, Dawn S. Carlson, Suzanne Zivnuska, Briceön WileyThe purpose of this study is to understand the impact of techno-overload and techno-invasion on work and family. Specifically, we focus on intention to turnover in the…
Connecting and being connected: investigating friending practices across multiple social networking sites
Chien Wen Yuan, Yu-Hao LeeSocial networking sites (SNSs) offer people the possibility of maintaining larger networks of social ties, which also entails more complex relationship maintenance across…
Identifying design guidelines for online information resources: a study of expectant and new mothers
Carolanne Mahony, Ciara Heavin, David SammonThe purpose of this article is to identify design guidelines for online resources based on the subjective assessment criteria used by individuals to assess and process…
“Bio to bits”: the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) as a metaphor for Big Data ecosystem assessment
Sepehr Ghazinoory, Shohreh Nasri, Roya Dastranj, Alfred SarkissianBig Data (BD) is not only a quintessential part of many economic activities but also has evolved into a veritable business ecosystem. However, most Big Data ecosystem…
Is this real? Cocreation of value through authentic experiential augmented reality: the mediating effect of perceived ethics and customer engagement
Saifeddin Alimamy, Waqar NadeemRapid advancements in augmented reality (AR) technology have created new opportunities for service providers and customers to cocreate value. Using AR as a platform for…
Reconsidering the digital divide: an analytical framework from access to appropriation
Yvonne Ai-Chi Loh, Arul ChibThis paper presents a framework to measure the digital divide by considering a more comprehensive index of information and communication technology (ICT) predictors. The…
Project management: openings for disruption from AI and advanced analytics
Fred NiedermanThe purpose of this essay is to illustrate how project management “pull” and AI or analytics technology “push” are likely to result in incremental and disruptive evolution…
From fun-lovers to institutionalists: uncovering pluralism in IT occupational culture
Jocelyn Cranefield, Mary Ellen Gordon, Prashant Palvia, Alexander Serenko, Tim JacksThe study aims to explore whether there is diversity of occupational culture among IT workers. Prior work conceptualizes IT occupational culture (ITOC) as based around six…
Sensegiving in organizations via the use of business analytics
Morteza Namvar, Ali Intezari, Ghiyoung ImBusiness analytics (BA) has been a breakthrough technological development in recent years. Although scholars have suggested several solutions in using these technologies…
Healthcare workers' communicative constitution of health information technology (HIT) resilience
Ashley K. BarrettAlthough resilience is heavily studied in both the healthcare and organizational change literatures, it has received less attention in healthcare information technology…
Do social networking sites promote life satisfaction? The explanation from an online and offline social capital transformation
Lin Huang, Daqing Zheng, Weiguo FanThe use of social networking sites (SNSs) can promote life satisfaction mainly because of their social relationship benefits. Although prior studies examined the roles of…
Ensuring employees' information security policy compliance by carrot and stick: the moderating roles of organizational commitment and gender
Chenhui Liu, Huigang Liang, Nengmin Wang, Yajiong XueEmployees’ information security policy (ISP) compliance exerts a significant strain on information security management. Drawing upon the compliance theory and control…
Job qualifications study for data science and big data professions
Marwah Ahmed Halwani, S. Yasaman Amirkiaee, Nicholas Evangelopoulos, Victor PrybutokThe lack of clarity in defining data science is problematic in both academia and industry because the former has a need for clarity to establish curriculum guidelines in…
Technological and informational frames: explaining age-related variation in the use of patient accessible electronic health records as technology and information
Isto Huvila, Åsa Cajander, Jonas Moll, Heidi Enwald, Kristina Eriksson-Backa, Hanife RexhepiData from a national patient survey (N = 1,155) of the Swedish PAEHR “Journalen” users were analysed, and an extended version of the theory of technological frames was…
Exploring the relationship between information and communication technology collective behaviors and sense of community: an urban refugee analysis
Richard Canevez, Carleen Maitland, Ying Xu, Sydney Andrea Hannah, Raphael RodriguezHelping others use information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as mobile phones, can be beneficial for individuals and communities. In urban refugee…
The match and mismatch between providers and customers in accommodation sharing: a cognitive style perspective
Aihui Chen, Ying Yu, Yaobin LuThe peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation-sharing market has developed rapidly on the strength of information technology in recent years. Matching providers and customers in an…
Team social media usage and intra-team competition and cooperation: a social information processing perspective
Shuqin Zhang, Qian Huang, Hefu Liu, Youying WangThis study aims to explore how team task-related social media usage (TSMU) and social-related social media usage (SSMU) affect employees' perceptions of intra-team…
E-waste information security protection motivation: the role of optimism bias
Hao Chen, Ofir Turel, Yufei YuanElectronic waste (e-waste) such as discarded computers and smartphones may contain large amounts of confidential data. Improper handling of remaining information in…
WeChat relationships maintenance behavior and social entrepreneurial intention under conditions of dual narcissism: the mediating role of social capital
Wenqing Wu, Yuzheng Su, Chia-Huei Wu, Sang-Bing Tsai, Yu-Hsi YuanAs social networking sites (SNSs) gain popularity, they are being widely used by entrepreneurs to obtain social capital to carry out business ventures. However not all SNS…
Shared mental models and perceived proximity: a comparative case study
Efpraxia D. Zamani, Nancy PouloudiThe aim of this study is to understand how virtual teams experience perceived proximity. Existing literature suggests that perceived proximity can be achieved through…
Analysis of challenges for blockchain adoption within the Indian public sector: an interpretive structural modelling approach
Nripendra P. Rana, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, D. Laurie HughesBlockchain is one of the most significant emerging technologies that is set to transform many aspects of industry and society. However, it has several major technical…
The dashang feature in social media: a personality and justice theory perspective
Jinlin Wan, Yaobin Lu, Sumeet GuptaDashang refers to a reward given voluntarily to street performers in return for their performance. Some social media platforms have created a way to integrate this as a…
E-participation decision across different channels
Yurong Yao, Peng XuThis study focuses on understanding how channel features can affect people's intention to continue to use an electronic channel in public affairs and their recommendation…
Understanding the effects of personality traits on solver engagement in crowdsourcing communities: a moderated mediation investigation
Xiaoxiao Shi, Wei Pan, Wei Pan, Wei ShanCrowdsourcing communities enable companies to post challenges that are completed by solvers (workers); their success depends on engagement, requiring both creativity and…
Understanding employees' information security identities: an interpretive narrative approach
Jeffrey D. Wall, Prashant PalviaThe authors seek to understand the formation of control- and security-related identities among organizational employees through and interpretive narrative analysis. The…
Artificial intelligence video interviewing for employment: perspectives from applicants, companies, developer and academicians
Jin-Young Kim, WanGyu HeoIn 2018, an artificial intelligence (AI) interview platform was introduced and adopted by companies in Korea. This study aims to explore the perspectives of applicants who…
How does business analytics contribute to organisational performance and business value? A resource-based view
Sheshadri Chatterjee, Nripendra P. Rana, Yogesh K. DwivediThe purpose of this article is to identify how the organisations are able to improve their business value through acquisition of business analytics capabilities and by…
Understanding peer recommendation in mobile social games: the role of needs–supplies fit and game identification
Le WangThe purpose of this paper is to understand the antecedents of peer recommendations (generating positive word-of-mouth and recruiting others) in the context of mobile social games.
Understanding business analytics continuance in agile information system development projects: an expectation-confirmation perspective
Ransome Epie Bawack, Muhammad Ovais AhmadThis paper seeks to examine how expectations from business analytics (BA) by members of agile information systems development (ISD) teams affect their perceptions and…
Social network behavior inappropriateness: the role of individual-level espoused national cultural values
Manjul GuptaThe purpose of the current study is to investigate the effects of individual-level (espoused) cultural values (collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance…
Tablets for problem-solving through a flow theory: the impact of navigation and visual appearance on perceived performance and efficiency
Dezhi Wu, Jingjun (David) Xu, Sue AbdinnourThe paper aims to investigate how a tablet's design features, namely, its navigation design and visual appearance, influence users' enjoyment, concentration and control…
Enhancing supply chain sensing capability through social media: an environmental scanning perspective
Jiahe Song, Kang-Bok Lee, Zhongyun Zhou, Lin Jia, Casey Cegielski, Soo Il ShinThe purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between social media and sensing capability for supply chain management (SCM) from an environmental scanning…
Digital labour platforms in Pakistan: institutional voids and solidarity networks
Fareesa Malik, Richard Heeks, Silvia Masiero, Brian NicholsonWhile digital labour platforms are being increasingly studied across the Global South, the existing literature does not conceptualise the theoretical link between such…
Technostress and its influence on employee information security policy compliance
Forough Nasirpouri Shadbad, David BirosThis study focuses on unintended negative consequences of IT, called technostress. Given that employees are recognized as a major information security threat, it makes…
Social media use by first-generation college students and two forms of social capital: a revealed causal mapping approach
Xuefei (Nancy) Deng, Yesenia Fernández, Meng ZhaoThe purpose of this study is to examine social media use and its impacts on first generation students by answering the two questions: how do FGS use social media on…
Information ecology in digitalising welfare services: a multi-level analysis
Satu Pekkarinen, Mervi Hasu, Helinä Melkas, Eveliina SaariThe purpose of this paper is to examine and reinterpret information ecology in the context of the changing environment of services, which has been strongly affected by…
Investigating predictors of online vigilance among university students
Daniel B. Le Roux, Douglas A. ParryOnline vigilance is a novel construct which describes individual differences in users' cognitive orientation to online connectedness, their attention to and integration of…
Ambient assisted living and European funds: a bibliometric approach
Gloria Puliga, Akhatjon Nasullaev, Flavio Bono, Eugenio Gutiérrez, Fernanda StrozziThe authors analyse the impact of European funding research programmes on the topic of Ambient Assisted Living by considering its status, future context, and the…
A socio-technical system approach to knowledge creation and team performance: evidence from China
Xiongfei Cao, Ahsan Ali, Abdul Hameed Pitafi, Ali Nawaz Khan, Muhammad WaqasThe purpose of this study is to extend the existing literature on knowledge management, which generally focuses on knowledge sharing. The model of this article explains…
Effectiveness of e-learning: the mediating role of student engagement on perceived learning effectiveness
Ritanjali Panigrahi, Praveen Ranjan Srivastava, Prabin Kumar PanigrahiThis study extends the literature on the effectiveness of e-learning by investigating the role of student engagement on perceived learning effectiveness (PLE) in the…
Pathways to improving financial inclusion through mobile money: a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis
PK Senyo, Ellis L.C. Osabutey, Konan A. Seny KanThe purpose of this study is to investigate and explain pathways through which mobile money can improve financial inclusion.
Gamified money: exploring the effectiveness of gamification in mobile payment adoption among the silver generation in China
Donna Wong, Hongfei Liu, Yue Meng-Lewis, Yan Sun, Yun ZhangThis study investigates the use of gamification in promoting the silver generation's adoption of mobile payment technology through the gamified cultural practice of…
Understanding determinants of social networking service fatigue: an interpretive structural modeling approach
Lin Xiao, Ting Pan, Jian Mou, Lihua HuangThe purpose of this paper is to build a comprehensive structural model to demonstrate the interrelationships of factors influencing social networking service (SNS) fatigue…
Community attachment and emotional well-being: an empirical study of an online community for people with diabetes
Philip Fei Wu, Roberta BernardiThe purpose of this study is to investigate how community attachment to an OHC reduces the OHC users' emotional distress and therefore improves their emotional well-being.
Trust and elderly users' continuance intention regarding mobile health services: the contingent role of health and technology anxieties
Fanbo Meng, Xitong Guo, Zeyu Peng, Qiang Ye, Kee-Hung LaiMobile health (mHealth) services are considered an important means of relieving the problems of the aging population. The efficiency of mHealth services can be enhanced by…
The moderating roles of technological self-efficacy and time management in the technostress and employee performance relationship through burnout
Serdar Yener, Aykut Arslan, Sebahattin KilinçThe ongoing dispute as to whether using technology extensively at work may cause harm continues to gain momentum. Thus, the need for more research on the harmful effect of…
The role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations in sharing economy post-adoption
Tiago Oliveira, Iolanda Barbeitos, Antonela CaladoThe purpose of this paper is to examine use and sharing economy (SE) continuance intention, and the mediation effects of use between individuals' motivations and SE…
Digital access through smartphones and well-being of BoP women: insights from a field study in India
Rishikesan Parthiban, Saravana Jaikumar, Jayanta Basak, Somprakash BandyopadhyayThe authors study the effect of access to smartphones on the socio-economic well-being in the case of rural base of the pyramid (BoP) women. While smartphone access may…
Media system dependency and user attachment in social Q&A communities: do active users and lurkers differ?
Xiabing Zheng, Xiao Shi, Feng YangThis study aims at exploring users' motives to form attachments within the social Q&A community context and identifying the differences between active users and lurkers…
Anxiety buffers and the threat of extreme automation: a terror management theory perspective
Frank Goethals, Jennifer L. ZiegelmayerThe advent of extreme automation from new technologies such as artificial intelligence portends a massive increase in unemployment. The psychological impact of this threat…
The role of patient engagement in patient-centric health information exchange (HIE) initiatives: an empirical study in the United States
Pouyan Esmaeilzadeh, Spurthy Dharanikota, Tala MirzaeiPatient-centric exchanges, a major type of Health Information Exchange (HIE), empower patients to aggregate and manage their health information. This exchange model helps…
Creating value using public big data: comparison of driving factors from the provider's perspective
Ji Yeon Cho, Bong Gyou LeeThe revitalization of big data has gained attention in the public sector. However, such open government data (OGD) is facing major challenges with respect to data quality…
Internet users beware, you follow online health rumors (more than counter-rumors) irrespective of risk propensity and prior endorsement
Anjan Pal, Snehasish BanerjeeThe Internet is a breeding ground for rumors. A way to tackle the problem involves the use of counter-rumor messages that refute rumors. This paper analyzes users'…
Dynamics of convergence behaviour in social media crisis communication – a complexity perspective
Milad Mirbabaie, Stefan Stieglitz, Felix BrünkerThe purpose of this study is to investigate communication on Twitter during two unpredicted crises (the Manchester bombings and the Munich shooting) and one natural…
The impact of information technology culture and personal innovativeness in information technology on digital entrepreneurship success
Mumin Abubakre, Yiwei Zhou, Zhongyun ZhouVery little or no study has explored the predictors of behaviour and traits that determine digital entrepreneurship (DE) success. In response, the purpose of this paper is…
Narrative and aesthetics as antecedents of perceived learning in serious games
Andreas Alexiou, Michaéla C. Schippers, Ilan Oshri, Spyros AngelopoulosThis study uses a critically acclaimed digital game as an instructional tool to explore the role of emotional design elements on psychological flow and perceived learning.
Avoidance behaviour towards using pirated software: testing a seven-component model on SME employees
Muhammad Sabbir Rahman, Md Afnan Hossain, Fadi Abdel Muniem Abdel Fattah, Abdel Mubdiu Ibne MokterThis research aims to develop and test a conceptual model for shaping small and medium enterprise (SME) employees' avoidance behaviour towards using pirated software. The…
Exhaustion and dependency: a habituation–sensitization perspective on the duality of habit in social media use
Amr Soror, Zachary R. Steelman, Ofir TurelThe current work builds on the dual process theory of habituation and sensitization to empirically investigate theory-based mechanisms through which social media use habit…
Dark side of online social games (OSG) using Facebook platform: effect of age, gender, and identity as moderators
Sheshadri ChatterjeeOnline social games (OSG) possess unique characteristics that distinguish them from other kind of online games. Its overuse has brought addiction to it. In this…
A dual-factor theory of WTs adoption in aged care service operations – a cross-country analysis
Seyed Mohammad Sadegh Khaksar, Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi, Bret Slade, Sobhan AsianThis study focuses on the adoption of wearable technologies in a context where care-providing organizations can offer, in collaboration with caregivers, better care…
Predicting popular contributors in innovation crowds: the case of My Starbucks Ideas
Chien-Yi Hsiang, Julia Taylor RayzThis study aims to predict popular contributors through text representations of user-generated content in open crowds.
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