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Spillover effects of data breach on consumer perceptions: evidence from the E-commerce industry
Jaeyoung Park, Woosik Shin, Beomsoo Kim, Miyea KimThis study aims to explore the spillover effects of data breaches from a consumer perspective in the e-commerce context. Specifically, we investigate how an online retailer’s data…
Selling by contributing: the monetization strategy of individual content providers in the light of human brand
Sha Zhou, Yaqin Su, Muhammad Aamir Shahzad, Zhengchi LiuThe integration of social media and e-commerce has resulted in a rising phenomenon among individual content providers (ICPs), who used to offer free content, to provide consumers…
Social influence and the choice of product upgrades: evidence from virtual product adoption in online games
Qing Huang, Xiaoling Li, Dianwen WangPrevious studies on social influence and virtual product adoption have mainly taken users’ purchase behavior as a dichotomous variable (i.e. purchasing or not). Given the…
A study on the cross-platform influence mechanism of physicians’ live streaming behavior on performance
Chen Chen, Hong WuThe advent of online live streaming platforms (OLSPs) and online health communities (OHCs) has expedited the integration of traditional medical services with Internet new media…
Sharenting in China: perspectives from mothers and adolescents
Lin Zhu, Yan Wang, Yanhong ChenMothers sharing images and information on social media about their children is a contemporary cultural norm. While the practice has been heavily discussed in popular media, there…
How do small-to-medium-sized e-commerce businesses stay competitive? Evidence on the critical roles of IT capability, innovation and multihoming
Qin Weng, Danping Wang, Stephen De Lurgio II, Sebastian SchuetzSmall-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in e-commerce often invest in information technology (IT) to stay competitive. However, whether and how IT capability (ITC) translates…
Not all IT addictions are handled equally: guilt-vs shame-driven coping with IT addiction
Hamed Qahri-Saremi, Isaac Vaghefi, Ofir TurelWe build on the transactional model of stress and coping and the appraisal theory of emotions to theorize how users cognitively and emotionally cope with IT addiction-induced…
Exploring the dual routes in influencing sales and adoption in augmented reality retailing: a mixed approach of SEM and FsQCA
Xiaoyu Xu, Qingdan Jia, Syed Muhammad Usman TayyabThis study investigates augmented reality (AR) retailing and attempts to develop a profound understanding of consumer decision-making processes in AR-enabled e-retailing.
My online self identifies with you, but my offline self skips you: the duality of online and offline personalities in identification with the endorser
Yongwoog Andrew JeonThe current study examines a novel model that examines how the online and offline or general personality of the same person predicts social identification with the endorser in a…
Learning for success: understanding crowdfunding relaunch performance after initial failures
Xiaochen Liu, Yukuan Xu, Qiang Ye, Yu JinFierce competition in the crowdfunding market has resulted in high failure rates. Owing to their dedication and efforts, many founders have relaunched failed campaigns as a…
Performance implications of match between social media–enabled interactions and contracts in interfirm governance
Chao Feng, Jinjun Yu, Yajing Fan, Hui ChenIntegrating transaction costs economics and task-technology fit theory, this study distinguishes two categories of social media–enabled interactions, namely task-related…
Value implications of followers in social marketplaces: insights into ego network structures
Shan Wang, Fang WangIn social marketplaces, follower ego networks are integral social capital assets for online sellers. While previous research has underscored the positive impact of the follower…
Inducing shoppers’ impulsive buying tendency in live-streaming: integrating signaling theory with social exchange theory
Xi Luo, Jun-Hwa Cheah, Xin-Jean Lim, T. Ramayah, Yogesh K. DwivediThe increasing popularity of live-streaming commerce has provided a new opportunity for e-retailers to boost sales. This study integrated signaling theory and social exchange…
Beyond lazy; external locus of control as an alternative explanation for the privacy paradox
Eoin Whelan, Michael Lang, Martin ButlerThe privacy paradox refers to the situation where users of online services continue to disclose personal information even when they are concerned about their privacy. One recent…
Examining the effects of cognitive load on information systems security policy compliance
Derrick Ganye, Kane SmithEnforcing employee compliance with information systems security policies (ISSP) is a herculean task for organizations as security breaches due to non-compliance continue to soar…
Archetypes of influential users in social question-answering sites
Miaomiao Chen, Alton Y.K. Chua, Lu AnThis paper seeks to address the following two research questions. RQ1: What are the influential user archetypes in the social question-answering (SQA) community? RQ2: To what…
Mitigating perceived overload of communication visibility: the role of ESM policies
Yuan Sun, Shuyue Fang, Anand Jeyaraj, Mengyi ZhuThis study aims to explore how communication visibility affects employees’ work engagement from the negative perspective of employees’ perceived overload in the context of…

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