Unemployment is a pressing societal problem world-wide. The consequences of unemployment are disproportionately more severe for older individuals. Building on literature on digital technologies in the context of unemployment and social support in digital peer groups, we design and evaluate a novel job counseling approach to leverage the power of digital peer groups to assist older unemployed individuals

Software development organizations (SDOs) are increasingly working to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) tools, like GitHub Copilot, to meet varied expectations. Nevertheless, we know little about how SDOs manage these expectations. This paper investigates how different SDOs expect AI tools to impact software development, and how these expectations change after a period of considering and evaluating

In this Era of digitalization and digital transformation, both Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) have become vital resources for organizations. IT/IS support organizations to effectively respond to evolving business needs and emerging opportunities, enhancing their competitiveness. Therefore, the success of today’s organizations is almost totally dependent on their IS. Organizations

The impact of machine learning within public organizations relies on coordinated effort over the functional chain from data generation to decision-making. This coordination faces challenges due to the separation between data intelligence departments and operational intelligence. Through theory about knowledge sharing between occupational communities and a case study at a Dutch inspectorate, we explore

Competing with dominant players in the digital platform (DP) economy is an increasingly complex and expensive endeavor for alternative digital platform (ADP) providers trying to disrupt established platform ecosystems. Nevertheless, ADPs position themselves deliberately in the competitive space of large competitors, targeting customer groups whose values and mindsets differ from mainstream DPs. Although

In this paper, we examine the discourses and ideologies that underpin trust in Bitcoin (BTC) as an algorithm-driven socio-technical system, raising critical questions about how trust is established and sustained in complex socio-technical assemblages. Through a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of three significant events in the cryptocurrency, we identify two interconnected, yet sometimes contradictory

Although researchers have investigated how organizations work with consultants to navigate complexities and uncertainties in enterprise system (ES) implementation, we know little about how consultants view ES implementation projects. Moreover, ES consultants are typically assumed to be homogenous in their assumptions, expectations, and knowledge, with little emphasis on how their different roles impact

Purpose This study aims to explore how different decision-making logics (DML) and organizational learning (OL) styles are used and combined by project managers to navigate the complexities of Digital Servitization (DS) and Digital Service Innovation (DSI) projects. Specifically, the research shows the impact and interplay between the two managerial levers OL and team-level DML, and how these influence

Purpose This study aims to assess the influence of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies using the resource-based view (RBV) framework to examine the impact of new-age enterprises. It means to investigate the impact of different resources on competitive advantages’ steering toward the contemporary business environment. Design/methodology/approach The paper investigates the critical success factors (CSFs)

Purpose Supply chains are facing several challenges due to disruptions and changing situations such as COVID-19 and the need for increased levels of resilience is more important than ever. This paper focuses on exploring the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on supply chain resilience (SCR) through a review of the existing literature. To address the gap of AI on SCR, this study focused on answering

Digital transformation involves radical change—change in material technologies, certainly, but also a departure from the institutional referents that have guided organizational practice in the past. Still, even during transformation, some elements of the organizational system remain stable, and even new practices are not created out of wholecloth. Therefore, organizations must reconcile stability and

Firm-sponsored online support communities are ideal places for consumers to solve problems related to product failure after their purchases. Community participants post questions and answers and, inevitably, are influenced by other participants' thoughts, emotions, and intentions. This study seeks to identify the patterns of social contagion and their development processes in online support communities

Purpose This paper aims to examine the antecedents and performance outcomes of proactive and reactive knowledge-sharing behaviour. Specifically, it investigates from the employee’s perspective how human resource management, with the system of human resource (HR) practices and work climate, influences proactive and reactive knowledge-sharing behaviours via the employees’ interest-based motivation.

Purpose The transition from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs) is a complex process influenced by the interplay of technical, social and economic factors. This study aims to identify the socio-technical factors shaping the transition from ICE vehicles to EVs and to propose plausible transition pathways within the Indonesian context. Design/methodology/approach The

In our data-centric society, the imperative to determine the value of data has risen. Therefore, this paper presents a taxonomy for a data valuation business capability. Utilizing an initial taxonomy version, which originated from a systematic literature review, this paper validates and extends the taxonomy, culminating in four layers, twelve dimensions, and 59 characteristics. The taxonomy validation

Purpose Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen-AI) has provided new opportunities and challenges in using educational environments for students’ interaction and knowledge acquisition. Based on the expectation–confirmation theory, this paper aims to investigate the effect of different constructs associated with Gen-AI on engagement, satisfaction and word-of-mouth. Design/methodology/approach We collected

Purpose Digitalization in precision agriculture incorporates state-of-the-art digital technologies. The transformation requires manufacturers to launch digital platforms and services. As a result, innovation ecosystems emerge. In turn, digital technologies introduce novelty into innovation processes. This socio-technical transition is critical to understanding Digital Service Innovation (DSI). Thus

Purpose Recognizing the crucial role of leadership in innovation, this study aims to investigate the role of ambidextrous leadership (opening and closing leadership behaviors) in marketing departments’ innovation ambidexterity (exploratory and exploitative innovations), including the mediating and moderating roles of marketing managers’ psychological capital (PsyCap) and proactive personality, respectively

Purpose This study focuses on case studies to identify the antecedents to the effective use of business intelligence (BI). For decades, research has shown that post-adoption behaviour has a critical role in the success of technology adoption. Efforts have been drawn beyond intention and adoption point to the effective use of technology. In the case of BI adoption, its nature of discretional use adds

This article investigates support structures for remote knowledge work during the COVID-19 pandemic. The exploratory article defines a novel holistic perspective of knowledge work infrastructures as structures that are embedded in everyday socially organized practices and arrangements which support one's work. Based on an in-depth analysis of semi-structured interviews (N = 14) of knowledge work professionals

Purpose This study aims to determine the extent to which the textile industry considers ecological issues in the supplier evaluation process by examining the relationships between environmental and operational criteria. Design/methodology/approach The supplier evaluation process within the industry was examined using the Fuzzy DEMATEL-based Analytic Network Process (FDANP) hybrid method. Criterion

Purpose In this paper, we propose and test a conceptual model of how the psychological constructs of immersion, cognitive load (CL) and perceived autonomy (PA) relate to the performance of users at cybersecurity games. Design/methodology/approach We test the proposed model through an experimental study of 208 participants who play a cybersecurity game and answer a survey. We use structural equation

The rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is profoundly transforming the nature of work and organizations, challenging prevalent views of AI as primarily enabling prediction and optimization. This paper argues that GenAI represents a qualitative shift that necessitates a fundamental reassessment of AI's role in management and organizations. By identifying and analyzing four

The public launch of generative AI systems in 2022 has prompted considerable popular interest in their potential to transform work and to achieve the long-sought goal of machine intelligence. While the uncanny abilities of Large Language Models to produce fluent text on almost any subject lends these ideas some plausibility, they are based on debatable, if not erroneous, claims about the capabilities

Purpose E-commerce companies use manipulative user interface (UI) designs known as dark patterns to influence customer decisions over internet platforms. Although dark patterns are known to annoy users and erode customer trust, e-commerce companies continue to use them heavily. Therefore, this study identifies and ranks the factors that motivate e-commerce companies to use dark patterns. Design/methodology/approach

Purpose Tacit and explicit knowledge sharing play crucial roles in today’s rapidly changing business environment, particularly in fostering innovation. However, uncovering tacit knowledge sharing remains complex. The purpose of this study is to analyze the mediating roles of tacit and explicit knowledge in the relationship between a knowledge-sharing culture and organizational creativity. Design/methodology/approach

Historically, junior professionals have mentored senior professionals around new technologies, because juniors are typically more willing than seniors to perform lower-level tasks to learn new skills, better able than seniors to engage in real-time experimentation close to the work itself, and more willing than seniors to learn innovative methods that conflict with traditional identities and norms

Despite ongoing progress towards gender equality in education, women remain significantly underrepresented in computer science—a field still shaped by stereotypical expectations in our society. This gap is evident in both traditional classroom settings and online learning platforms such as MOOCs, where women face psychological barriers that hinder their learning success. As MOOCs increase accessibility

Purpose This study aims to establish an understanding of commonsense, a valuable mechanism for navigating disruptive, volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (DVUCA) environments. Design/methodology/approach This study conducts a scientometric (bibliometric) analysis of commonsense through the lens of tacit knowledge, practical intelligence and sensemaking to unpack is nomological network. Findings

Purpose The paper aims to interpret sustainable regional development (SRD) as an exchange ecosystem in which stakeholders provide reciprocal access to resources, benefiting both individual and systemic levels. This paper suggests that knowledge, as a shared and value-transcribed critical resource, nourishes a community’s motivational system (CMS), orienting it toward SRD. This inherently raises questions

Social commerce (s-commerce), as a new form of e-commerce, has transformed customer behavior with the rise of social networking sites (SNSs). This development has created new opportunities for online businesses seeking to establish customer-centric operations and leverage the power of SNSs by implementing effective customer engagement strategies for a competitive advantage. However, limited effort

Recent interest in artificial intelligence technologies has led to much discussion about what the age of AI portends for how we live and work. And specifically for the present discussion, what it means for agency. In offering our contributions to these considerations, we build on approaches to treat AI not as a “thing” but as phenomena in-the-making. Such a framing orients us to doings, to practices

Purpose Open innovation platform has become an effective field through which enterprises can acquire valuable knowledge for incremental and breakthrough innovation. However, as more entities join the innovation platform, the knowledge activities in the platform ecosystem are now facing higher complexity and vulnerability due to the differences in the knowledge demands as well as conflicting interest

Purpose This study aims to investigate how cultural factors – specifically power distance (PD) and uncertainty avoidance (UA) – affect employees’ use of neutralization techniques to rationalize deviant information systems (IS) behaviors. The goal is to enhance strategies for managing insider threats and improving security policies. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional survey was used to examine

Purpose The existing literature presents mixed findings on how intra-multinational enterprise (MNE) competition affects cross-border interpersonal knowledge sharing; some studies indicate that it hinders, while others suggest that it facilitates, such exchanges. The purpose of this study is to address this issue by proposing and testing the U-shaped curvilinear effects of intra-MNE competition on cross-border

Purpose This paper aims to explore the evolution of the electric vehicles (EVs) supply chain eco-system from the lens of economy, enterprises, environment and strategy. The paper highlights the opportunities and gaps in the supply chains of EVs and further explores the evolution of the EV supply chain in the context of Asia, and other developing regions, which are transitioning towards sustainable

Purpose The impact of enterprise social media (ESM) on employees is not always beneficial. The constant connectivity of ESM can trigger emotional issues, threatening employees' psychological states. This study aims to explore the potential risks of ESM usage on thriving at work by examining how ESM usage affects thriving and for whom this relationship is amplified. Design/methodology/approach Drawing

Purpose Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies are pivotal in enhancing supply chain resilience (SCRES). The extant literature identifies multiple antecedents of SCRES. However, the holistic impact of I4.0 technologies on all the antecedents of SCRES has not been rigorously studied. Practising managers have a limited understanding of the interrelationship of these technologies and their impact on each SCRES

Purpose In the turbulence of a business-to-business (B2B) environment, employees often face role conflict as the result of changes in task allocations due to work requirements. This research uses organizational role theory to investigate the impact of role conflict on active lurking in B2B online communities. Active lurking, defined as the behavior of seeking information and acquiring knowledge without

Information Systems (IS) champions enthusiastically promote a digital innovation project throughout its development by obtaining the necessary resources. These individuals shape the innovativeness of an organization, as they initiate digital innovation projects and lead them toward successful completion. We still know little about how these champions can be identified and nurtured in organizations

The operations of built environment-related sectors are often run on centralized organizational structures. This centralized approach could lead to operational challenges that restrict efficiency, hinder transparency, and misalign with the community’s interests. The emergence of decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) presents a promising avenue for addressing these issues by leveraging blockchain

Purpose This paper aims to advocate for a paradigm shift that prioritizes a human-centered approach in the pursuit of innovation during crises, urging a departure from the prevailing dominance of the technology-centric approach. The incorporation of emotional capabilities as a dynamic capability is posited as a pivotal contribution, in harmony with the tenets of Society 5.0 and imperative for establishing

Purpose This study aims to highlight the fundamental elements about the potential knowledge ecosystems underlying the crowdfunding environment, providing a tentative analysis of the state of the art and suggesting a possible research agenda. Design/methodology/approach Based on a sample of 51 papers retrieved from the Web of Science (WOS) database, the investigation, implementing a bibliometric literature

Purpose This study aims to explore the factors that influence the development of big data analytics capabilities (BDAC) in organizations, an area that has received limited attention in the academic literature. Design/methodology/approach Employing partial least squares structural equation modeling, this research scrutinizes the interconnections between various antecedents and BDAC. Notably, it examines

Operating as micro-economies, electronic marketplace (EM) platforms connect numerous consumers and sellers and facilitate value-creating interactions. However, EM platform providers (platform owners)/ have limited authority over independent sellers, who often connect with several platforms, referred to as multihoming behaviors. An effective control portfolio serves as a crucial tool for owners to influence

Purpose This paper aims to study the adverse effects of performance motivation and goal setting. The study investigates the unethical behavior of knowledge hiding that requires moral disengagement. The research further investigates the influence of performance motivation on knowledge hiding, along with investigating the mediating effect of moral disengagement. Design/methodology/approach Structural

Purpose This study aims to investigate how knowledge management (KM) influences the achievement of sustainable objectives in new ventures, considering the mediating roles of board composition and financial performance. Design/methodology/approach This study considers primary and secondary data from 177 Italian start-ups. Data collection involved a standardized questionnaire to assess KM processes and

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the connections between knowledge-based economies, entrepreneurial orientation (EO), sustainable business model innovation and technology transfer (TT). This study specifically investigates whether TT might foster EO and long-term business model innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This study focuses on economies that are knowledge-based

Purpose Social media data contains a wealth of content related to customers’ reactions to, and comments on, firms’ performance. Through the lens of signaling theory, this paper aims to investigate the use of social media data as a knowledge resource in communicating firms’ noncompliance risk to regulatory agencies. Design/methodology/approach This paper proposes a two-step social media analytics framework

Purpose Design thinking is widely recognized as an effective problem-solving approach in the professional and academic world, albeit with varying interpretations. It has been studied in multiple forms – as a tool, a practice, a skill and a mindset – leading to ongoing debates about its fundamental nature. This study aims to explore the use of design thinking in practice and determine how its application

The growth of today’s digitalization trend goes along with an active and influential role of other fundamental factors in organizational development (e.g., people, processes). Excelling in these factors boosts efficiency and helps achieve strategic goals, for which support is needed. In recent years, studies concentrate on organizational maturity to describe (and sometimes prescribe) how to gradually

Given the continuous global degradation of the Earth’s ecosystem due to unsustainable human activity, it is increasingly important for enterprises to evaluate the effects they have on the environment. Consequently, assessing the impact of business processes on sustainability is becoming an important consideration in the discipline of Business Process Management (BPM). However, existing practical approaches

Purpose This study aims to investigate the influence of supervisor knowledge sharing on the task performance and the overall evaluation of employees in the context of supervisor-subordinate relationships, a prevalent yet underexplored mode of knowledge transfer. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the social exchange perspective, we propose a framework integrating supervisors’ self-sacrificial leadership

Companies worldwide increasingly leverage digital platforms to sell, innovate, and collaborate. Despite the global pool of resources available on digital platforms and the known benefits of information, knowledge, and networking, the international entrepreneurship literature has accorded limited attention to the role of time, temporality, and digital context in international opportunity creation. Drawing

Purpose This research aims to uncover how the adoption process of a mobile payment solution unfolds in its local use. We examined micro-enterprises’ adoption of UPI-based payment system in India. Design/methodology/approach We employed an ethnographic approach to study the micro-entrepreneurs’ daily practice and adopted a relational ontology to conduct an “in-practice” enquiry of the UPI payment adoption

Purpose This study aims to explore the impact mechanism of social support on individual health knowledge creation among users in online patient communities, guide and promote the creation of health knowledge and provide insights into managing online patient communities. Design/methodology/approach A theoretical model was constructed by integrating social impact and social support theories. Data were

Purpose Owing to the growing importance of human resource practices (HRM) and open innovation (OI) in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) context, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of high-performance working systems (HPWS) on inbound and outbound open innovation in SMEs through the mediating role of innovative work behaviour (IWB). Using ability-enhancing, motivation-enhancing