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Impact of task characteristics on employee agility: the moderating effect of enterprise social media visibility
Mengyi Zhu, Yuan Sun, Anand Jeyaraj, Jie HaoThis study aims to explore whether and how task characteristics affect employee agility in the context of enterprise social media (ESM).
Effects of customer trust on engagement in live streaming commerce: mediating role of swift guanxi
Lingyun Guo, Xiayu Hu, Jinxuan Lu, Ling MaLive streaming commerce, a new form of social commerce where firms integrate with broadcasters, community members and customers in live chat rooms for real-time…
Jealousy due to social media? A systematic literature review and framework of social media-induced jealousy
Anushree Tandon, Amandeep Dhir, Matti MäntymäkiThe association between social media and jealousy is an aspect of the dark side of social media that has garnered significant attention in the past decade. However, the…
Empathy impairs virtue: the influence of empathy and vulnerability on charitable giving
Chuang Wei, Zhaoji Yu, Yongli LiOnline charitable giving is prevalent, and how to attract individuals' attention to donate is essential for charities. Little is known about the interaction effect of…
Social media platforms and sleep problems: a systematic literature review, synthesis and framework for future research
Puneet Kaur, Amandeep Dhir, Amal Khalifa Alkhalifa, Anushree TandonThis study is a systematic literature review (SLR) on prior research examining the impact of the nocturnal use of social media platforms on a user's sleep, its dimensions…
Trialing or combining? Understanding consumer partial switching in mobile application usage from the variety seeking perspective
Yingying Hu, Ling Zhao, Xin (Robert) Luo, Sumeet Gupta, Xiuhong HeThe purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to clarify what specific behaviors are involved in consumers' partial switching in mobile application (app) usage, and…
Group polarisation among location-based game players: an analysis of use and attitudes towards game slang
Samuli Laato, Nobufumi Inaba, Mauri Paloheimo, Teemu Daniel LaajalaThis study investigates how game design, which divides players into static teams, can reinforce group polarisation. The authors study this phenomenon from the perspective…
User compensation as a data breach recovery action: a methodological replication and investigation of generalizability based on the Home Depot breach
Hartmut Hoehle, Jia Wei, Sebastian Schuetz, Viswanath VenkateshIn the aftermath of data breaches, many firms offer compensation to affected customers to recover from damaged customer sentiments. To understand the effectiveness of such…
Predicting the factors of employee agility using enterprise social media: moderating effects of enterprise social media-related strain
Abdul Hameed Pitafi, Minglun RenThis study aims to investigate the impact of enterprise social media (ESM) usage on employee agility through communication quality and visibility. Theory of communication…
The engagement–addiction dilemma: an empirical evaluation of mobile user interface and mobile game affordance
Qianwen Yang, Xiang GongThe engagement–addiction dilemma has been commonly observed in the information technology (IT) industry. However, this issue has received limited research attention in the…
Consumer response toward native advertising on social media: the roles of source type and content type
Mikyoung Kim, Doori Song, Ahnlee JangDrawing upon attribution theory, this study aims to examine how different types of product information sources (mainstream celebrities vs micro-celebrities) interact with…
Citizen engagement in co-creation of e-government services: a process theory view from a meta-synthesis approach
Anupriya Khan, Satish KrishnanThe purpose of this study is to develop an in-depth understanding of the overall process of facilitating co-creation of e-government services, focusing on the government's…
A review of enterprise social media: visualization of landscape and evolution
Yongfang Li, Si Shi, Yuliang Wu, Yang ChenThe purpose of this review is to systematically understand the development of enterprise social media (ESM) research, quantitatively analyze the landscape and track the…
Jumping over the network threshold of information diffusion: testing the threshold hypothesis of social influence
Cheng-Jun Wang, Jonathan J.H. ZhuSocial influence plays a crucial role in determining the size of information diffusion. Drawing on threshold models, we reformulate the nonlinear threshold hypothesis of…
Understanding automated conversational agent as a decision aid: matching agent's conversation with customer's shopping task
Jengchung Victor Chen, Huyen Thi Le, Sinh Thi Thu TranTo provide better services to customers, especially immediate responses and 24/7 availability, businesses are implementing text-based automated conversational agents, i.e…
Fear of missing out (FoMO) among social media users: a systematic literature review, synthesis and framework for future research
Anushree Tandon, Amandeep Dhir, Intesar Almugren, Ghada Naif AlNemer, Matti MäntymäkiResearch examining the “fear of missing out” (FoMO) is increasingly prominent, with a growing number of studies exploring this phenomenon. Despite the increased academic…
Antecedents of smartphone multitasking: roles of demographics, personalities and motivations
Xingyu Chen, Yitong Wang, Da Tao, Ling Jiang, Shaobo LiSmartphone multitasking behavior has become prevalent in our daily lives, yet factors influencing smartphone multitasking behavior have not been fully investigated. This…
We-intention to continue playing mobile multiplayer games: the role of social play habit
Mengjun Li, Ayoung SuhThe purpose of this study is to develop and test a theoretical model that accounts for an individual's we-intention to continue playing a mobile multiplayer game.
Building trust in sharing economy platforms: trust antecedents and their configurations
Anna Akhmedova, Neus Vila-Brunet, Marta Mas-MachucaThe sharing economy is the internet-enabled business model that has changed the way people travel, work and interact. Similar to other internet-enabled settings, trust is…
Others' fortune in online vs offline settings: how envy affects people's intention to share information
Ana Suárez Vázquez, Manuel Chica SerranoThis paper aims to fill a gap in the existing literature by answering the following question: is the effect of envy on people's intention to share information the same in…
Participation in community-based free/libre open source software development tasks: the impact of task characteristics
Kangning Wei, Kevin Crowston, U. Yeliz EseryelThis paper explores how task characteristics in terms of trigger type and task topic influence individual participation in community-based free/libre open source software…
Does the type of mind wandering matter? Extending the inquiry about the role of mind wandering in the IT use experience
Michael Klesel, Frederike Marie Oschinsky, Colin Conrad, Bjoern NiehavesThis study sought to distinguish characteristics of cognitive processes while using information technology. In particular, it identifies similarities and differences…
Girls in IT: intentionally self-excluded or products of high school as a site of exclusion?
Fanny Vainionpää, Marianne Kinnula, Netta Iivari, Tonja Molin-JuustilaThe low number of women in the information technology (IT) field is a concern. The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors behind the exclusion of girls from the IT field.
Social media advertising reactance model: a theoretical review
Honghong Huo, Zhiyong Liu, Qingfei MinResearch on social media advertising reactance (SMAR) is in the early stages. This paper intends to present a full picture of SMAR studies, introduce a comprehensive…
“Who should I grant access to my post?”: Identifying the most suitable privacy decisions on online social networks
Jose Alemany, Elena Del Val, Ana María García-FornesOnline social networks (OSNs) provide users with mechanisms such as social circles and individual selection to define the audiences (i.e., privacy policy) of the shared…
Understanding the influence of professional status and service feedback on patients' doctor choice in online healthcare markets
Hualong Yang, Helen S. Du, Wei ShangDespite the prevalent use of professional status and service feedback in online healthcare markets, the potential interaction relationship between two types of information…
Unveiling the success factors of BTS: a mixed-methods approach
So-Hyun Lee, Soobin Choi, Hee-Woong KimThe purpose of this paper is to explore the key success factors behind Bangtan Boys’ (BTS) popularity, and how they can contribute to sustaining it, along with detailed…
Exploring the influence of multimodal social media data on stock performance: an empirical perspective and analysis
Hui Yuan, Yuanyuan Tang, Wei Xu, Raymond Yiu Keung LauDespite the extensive academic interest in social media sentiment for financial fields, multimodal data in the stock market has been neglected. The purpose of this paper…
Avoiding the ask on social media: investigating how process-related factors influence SNS donation avoidance
Xiaodong Li, Chen Zhang, Juan Chen, Shengliang ZhangThe domain of monetary donation is evolving with the combination of professional donation platforms and social network sites (SNSs) in the agency process, potentially…
Together we create value: a study of a crowdsourcing community
Telin Chung, Kyuree Kim, Eonyou ShinThe present study aimed to examine the value creation process in an online forum community of a crowdsourcing company by analyzing members' interactions and network structures.
Public responses to employee posts on social media: the effects of message valence, message content, and employer reputation
Yeunjae Lee, Su Yeon Cho, Ruoyu Sun, Cong LiThis study examines the effects of employees' personal social media posts on external publics' online engagement and offline word-of-mouth (WOM) intentions about a…
Intended audience and valence of electronic word-of-mouth on social media: a study of Dutch consumers
Gauze Pitipon Kitirattarkarn, Weiting Tao, Wan-Hsiu Sunny TsaiThis study aims to systematically evaluate the psychological factors of independent versus interdependent self-construal, self-evaluation motives of enhancement versus…
Understanding individuals' engagement and continuance intention of MOOCs: the effect of interactivity and the role of gender
Zhen Shao, Kuanchin ChenThis study aims to examine how three perceived interactivity attributes of massive open online courses (MOOCs), namely, perceived active control, perceived synchronicity…
Effects of pride-tagged money and surprise-tagged money on online tipping
Pianpian Yang, Qingyu Zhang, Yuanyue FengWith the rise of social media, online tipping has developed markedly in recent years. Drawing on emotional accounting, this research examined the effects of pride-tagged…
Virtual trainer system: a tool to increase exercise participation and work productivity
Ron Chi-Wai Kwok, Alvin Chung Man Leung, Stanley Sai-chuen Hui, Clara Choi-Ki WongDue to lack of motivation, individuals often fail to perform regular exercise. In view of this, we developed a virtual trainer system (VTS) to encourage users to perform…
Exploring public mood toward commodity markets: a comparative study of user behavior on Sina Weibo and Twitter
Wenhao Chen, Kin Keung Lai, Yi CaiSina Weibo and Twitter are the top microblogging platforms with billions of users. Accordingly, these two platforms could be used to understand the public mood. In this…
How does internet usage affect the credit consumption among Chinese college students? A mediation model of social comparison and materialism
Xiaowen Zhu, Wei Ren, Qiang Chen, Richard EvansThe use of consumer credit by Chinese citizens has risen rapidly in the Internet era. The purpose of this paper is to predict a mechanism for credit consumption through…
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