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Social Context of Turnover-Mixed Methods Study of Indian IT Professionals Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Vidya V. Haran,Fred Niederman
This paper examines the social context of turnover, defined by the influence of supervisors, peers, and family. Using a mixed-methods research design, data were collected by two rounds of semi-structured interviews with 75 IT professionals working in the IT outsourcing industry in India. After a span of 10 months, the respondents were contacted again to longitudinally measure actual turnover behavior
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Big Data Analytics Capability and Business Alignment for Organizational Agility Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Chaohong Xie,Xianhao Xu,Yeming Gong,Jie Xiong
This paper investigates the impact of big data analytics capability (BDAC) on organizational agility under the moderating effect of BDAC–business alignment and its impact on performance through organizational agility. Data from a matched-pair survey of business, data technology, and financial executives in 161 organizations were used to examine the proposed research model. This paper used partial least
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Linkage Between Culture, Leadership, and Knowledge Sharing in MNCs Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Safayet Rahman,Munir Hossain,Md. Zahidul Islam,Sajjad M. Jasimuddin
The paper develops a theoretical model that focuses on the integrated effect of organizational factors on knowledge sharing, taking the moderating effect of training and development. The proposed hypotheses were tested with structural equations modeling using self-reports of 200 personnel working in Bngladesh-based MNCs. The organizational factors such as respect for people, job stability, aggressiveness
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Exploring Communication and Networks Using Social Network Analysis Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Qing Li,Nicky Shaw,Victor Shi
Programme management’s importance is increasing, particularly in the public sector, because of government promotion of PM. However, its novelty means PM is an under-researched organizational form.This is particularly the case with the application studied here of PM for asset management in the utility sector with its unique setting of a heavily-regulated monopoly.This study focuses on an asset management
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Organizational Factors, ICT Support, and Affective Commitment Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Safayet Rahman,Md. Zahidul Islam,Munir Hossain,Dayani Ahad Abdullah,Sajjad M. Jasimuddin
This paper investigates the influence of organizational factors on affective commitment, exploring the moderating role of information and communication technology (ICT) on their relationships. The study is based on empirical findings administered on 200 managerial personnel using the PLS-SEM. Team orientation, transformational leadership, transactional leadership and decentralization have a direct
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The Client and Service Provider Relationship in IT Outsourcing Project Success Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Md. Samim Al-Azad,Muhammad Mohiuddin,Zhan Su
The role of organizational attitude for an effective knowledge sharing (KS) in IT outsourcing (ITO) relationships has not been adequately addressed. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between KS and ITO success as well as the potential moderating effect of organizational attitude on the relationship between KS and partnership quality in ITO. By leveraging structural equation modeling (SEM)
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How Far Can the Message Go Through Online Communication Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Jie Meng
The phenomenon of information stickiness is widely seen by a declined information vitality and is hypothesised with multiple causes, but research on it is scant. Therefore, it is necessary to unmask the myth and concretise the concept. This research adopts an agent-based simulation model incorporating information accumulation, attitudinal proposition, interest, and preference for searching and matching
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Exploring the Social and Systemic Influencing Factors of Mobile Short Video Applications on the Consumer Urge to Buy Impulsively Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Yi Cui,Jingrong Zhu,Yanping Liu
With the progress of digital and mobile technologies, mobile short video apps (MSAs) have been booming in recent years. These MSAs are expanding their role in social commerce, which has aroused scholar’s and practitioners’ attention. Drawing on the stimulus-organism-response model,this study proposes an integrated model to examine the impact of social factors (perceived expertise, similarity, and familiarity)
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A Self-Assessment Framework for Global Supply Chain Operations Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Fang-Kai Chang,Wei-Hsi Hung,Chieh-Pin Lin,I-Cheng Chang
This research developed an effective supply chain management (SCM) operation model and a corresponding diagnostic methodology in the global competitive environment by combining three phases and methodologies. In Phases 1, a list of impact factors was collected from relevant studies, and a hierarchy for the current complex research issue was established. In Phase 2, an expert survey was conducted for
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Optimization of Production Decisions Under Resource Constraints and Community Priorities Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Tetyana Nestorenko,Oleksandr Nestorenko,Mangirdas Morkunas,Artiom Volkov,Tomas Balezentis,Dalia Streimikiene,Jinyang Cai
The current paper proposes analytical solution of the problem of optimal allocation of resources in the game of two parties, based on the production function of Cobb-Douglas with constant returns under changing scale of production. The Edgeworth box is used to derive the main scientific findings of this research, namely: the analytic representation of Contract Curve; Community indifference curve, a
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Effect of Technostress on Academic Productivity Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Deepa Sethi,Vijay Pereira,Vikas Arya
The focus of most of the existing studies on technostress is with regard to working professionals. In spite of the explosion of digital device use in education, not many studies have identified its effects on students. This study examines the presence of technostress among management students aged 22-29 years. Using a sample of 300+ students of a management college of India, this study validates the
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Impact of Mobile Banking Application Interactivity on Consumer Engagement Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Amit Shankar
The study aims to examine the impact of mobile banking (m-banking) application interactivity on consumer engagement. The study also analyses the moderation effects of perceived security concerns, consumer innovativeness, and consumer involvement. The study employed a 2 (interactivity: high versus low) × 2 (perceived security concern: high versus low) × 2 (consumer innovativeness: high versus low) x
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Paradigm Shift in the Education Sector Amidst COVID-19 to Improve Online Engagement Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Lakshay Mehla,Pratima Amol Sheorey,Aviral Kumar Tiwari,Aastha Behl
The study aims to identify social, intellectual and conceptual structures along with key areas, contributors, current dynamics and suggest future research directions in the field of engagement with e-learning systems. An objective analysis of a sample of 358 articles taken from the Web of Science database, supported by subjective assessments based on the research focused on the integration of management
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How Do Value Co-Creation and E-Engagement Enhance E-Commerce Consumer Repurchase Intention? Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Charles Jebarajakirthy,Victor Saha,Praveen Goyal,Venkatesh Mani
This study develops an integrated model to investigate how value co-creation, driven by positively-valanced e-engagement, enhances repurchase intention among e-commence consumers. Applying the tenets of UTAUT, this study also examines the moderating role of technology adoption in the association between e-engagement and value co-creation in the e-commerce context. Data were collected via 411 surveys
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How Does Interactivity Impact User Engagement Over Mobile Bookkeeping Applications? Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Pooja Kumari
Purpose of this study to examine the effect of interactivity on musers’ engagement towards mobile bookkeeping application using stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theory and technology acceptance model (TAM). Further, moderation effect of users’ innovativeness was also examined. A total of 376 responses were analyzed for examining the proposed hypotheses. The results exhibited that, application interactivity
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Exploring Customer Engagement on Social Networking Sites Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Mohit Malhan,Prem Prakash Dewani,Achint Nigam,Daicy Vaz,Emmanuel Akaehomen Abumere Ogbeibu
The growth in popularity of social media and its perfunctory use by individuals throughout the day has sprouted the need to study Customer Engagement (CE) on Social Networking Sites (SNSs) from the consumer’s lens. To understand user behaviour, it is thus imperative to explore CE from their perspective. This study examines customer engagement and its antecedents and consequences on Social Networking
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Developing a Framework for Electronic Engagement at Work Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Manish Gupta,Aman Jain,Niladri Bihari Nayak,Anil Kumar,Abhishek Behl
Several electronic-engagement-related questions arise at work due to the beginning of a new era of social distancing, lockdowns, quarantining, and sanitization. These terms were not so common before. What challenges do employees face while working from home? Why do they face those challenges? How are they overcoming these challenges? In summary, in a work-from-home setting, what are the issues and
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Consumer Engagement Through Conditional Promotions Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Achint Nigam,Prem Prakash Dewani
This paper investigates consumers' response to conditional promotions (CP) offered in an offline retail store. Using qualitative research inquiry, we decipher the consumer decision-making process by finding the linkages between 'pre-cart' and the 'post-cart' add-on purchases. Thematic analysis of qualitative data (focus groups and personal interviews) resulted in four themes, i.e. 'Criticality of Product
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Application of Machine Learning Algorithm in Managing Deviant Consumer Behaviors and Enhancing Public Service. Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Shantanu Dubey,Prashant Salwan,Nitin Kumar Agarwal
Consumer-deviant behavior costs global utility firms USD 96 billion yearly, attributable to Non-Technical Losses (NTLs). NTLs affect the operations of power systems by overloading lines and transformers, resulting in voltage imbalances and, thereby, impacting services. They also impact the electricity price paid by the honest customers. Traditional meters constitute 98 % of the total electricity meters
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Effective Online Engagement Strategies Through Gamification Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Nirma Sadamali Jayawardena,Mitchell Ross,Sara Quach,Abhishek Behl,Manish Gupta,Le Dang Lang
Gamification has recently been discovered as an excellent user engagement strategy that has the potential to improve online education, online brand engagement, and information system engagement. Even though the number of studies on gamification has expanded, there is currently no systematic literature review approach for categorizing its online engagement strategies. Therefore, the main purpose of
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How Question Characteristics Impact Answer Outcomes on Social Question-and-Answer Websites Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Yiming Zhao,Linrong Wu,Jin Zhang,Taowen Le
Inducing more and higher-quality answers to questions is essential to sustainable development of Social Question-and-Answer (SQA) websites. Previous research has studied factors affecting question success and user motivation in answering questions, but how a question’s own characteristics affect the question’s answer outcome on SQA websites remains unknown. This study examines the impact of the characteristics
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An Empirical Study of Perception of the End-User on the Acceptance of Smart Government Service in the UAE Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Nasser A. Saif Almuraqab,Sajjad M. Jasimuddin,Wathiq Mansoor
The end-users’ acceptance of electronic government applications is crucial for the effective delivery of public services. This study intends to investigate the factors that influence the end-users' acceptance of smart-government services.This paper identifies key determinants of the end-users’ acceptance of smart government services in the UAE to develop a theoretical model which is tested empirically
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The Effects of Review Presentation Formats on Consumers' Purchase Intention Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Cong Li,Yuming Liu,Rong Du
Perception of products has becoming one of the most important factors influencing consumers’ purchase intention in the context of online shopping. Thus, enriching and studying review presentation formats have been significant things for practitioners and researchers. This study employed dual coding theory and telepresence theory to investigate the effects of review presentation formats (text-based
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Cross-Cultural Effects in Adoption Patterns of a Mobile Coaching Service for Studies Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Niousha Shahidi,Silvia Cacho-Elizondo,Vesselina Tossan
This study applied an adoption model, inspired by the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Multipurpose Information Appliances Adoption Model (MIAAM), to compare key variables explaining adoption patterns of a mobile coaching app that guides and encourages students via a technology-based platform. This article constitutes a pioneer effort to compare adoption behaviors across a developed country and
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A Bibliometric Review of Information Systems Research From 1975-2018 Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Yucheng Zhang,Linjie Ge,Lin Xiao,Meng Zhang,Siqi Liu
Information Systems (IS) scholars attempted to explore the intellectual structure of the IS discipline from previous literature. However, the corpus data, analytical method, and sample size are significantly different among these review studies, which lead to rather mixed results. In this bibliometric review, the authors portray and visualize the panorama of the evolutionary process of IS research
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One-Stop Smart Urban Apps and Determinants of Their Continuance Usage Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Bingqian Zhang,Guochao Peng,Fei Xing,Xinting Liang,Qi Gao
This study aimed to explore factors affecting continual usage of one-stop smart urban apps, which is the key to realise the vision of smart cities. A questionnaire (involved a total of 578 users/citizens) was carried out to test the research model, which was established based on existing user behavioural theories and recent literature on smart cities. The results, derived from confirmatory factor analysis
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Information Management and IoT Technology for Safety and Security of Smart Home and Farm Systems Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Ammar Almomani,Ahmad Al-Nawasrah,Waleed Alomoush,Mustafa Al-Abweh,Ayat Alrosan,Brij B. Gupta
Information management collects data from several online systems. They analyze the information. They issue reports about information for supporting decision-making management. Utilizing current modern innovations try to controlling many obstacles such as, high cost, high battery power, and speed system, safety System without building a full system to solve all these problems together, we created a
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Crowd Workers' Continued Participation Intention in Crowdsourcing Platforms Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Gabriel Shing-Koon Leung,Vincent Cho,C. H. Wu
The micro-task crowdsourcing marketplace, as a novel platform, has provided firms with a new way to recruit employees at a reasonable cost and with a fast turnaround. This research explores how different types of motivations affect individuals’ continued participation intention in compensation-based micro-task crowdsourcing platforms. Our theoretical model builds on expectancy theory, self-determination
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Internet Presence and Multilingual Dissemination in Corporate Websites Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Irene Rivera-Trigueros,María-Dolores Olvera-Lobo
The development of Information and Communication Technologies has enabled companies to spread messages globally, allowing them to open new markets and reach international clients. In this sense, the multilingual dissemination of corporate information plays a key role, and, for this purpose, websites are great communication vehicles. The aim of this paper is to offer an overview of the internet presence
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How Do Investors Perceive the Materiality of Data Security Incidents Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Ahmad H. Juma'h,Yazan Alnsour
Data security incidents are continually increasing; hackers, governments, and other actors increasingly attempt to gain unauthorized access to confidential data. Information Systems (IS) users are becoming more vulnerable to the risks of data breaches. Many stakeholders perceive cybersecurity incidents as indicators of firms' operational and technological internal deficiencies. Previous research has
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Investigating the Usage of IoT-Based Smart Parking Services in the Borough of Westminster Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Guochao Peng,Paul David Clough,Andrew Madden,Fei Xing,Bingqian Zhang
Smart Parking schemes cannot succeed without the engagement and support of the drivers who may benefit from their use. This study investigates engagement with a Smart Parking service in the London Borough of Westminster. Factors likely to influence the use of Smart Parking services were identified from a literature review and incorporated into an explanatory model comprising 9 factors connected by
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The Effect of Dual-Level Transformational Leadership on New Firm Performance Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Ao Zhang,Mingxu Bao,Xiaobo Xu,Lan Zhang,Yuehui Cui
In recent years, entrepreneurial bricolage acts as an effective way to solve the problem of resource constraint in new firms, and then gradually attracted attention from related scholars in entrepreneurship field. However, the existing literatures have an obviously insufficient of the implementation and driving factor of entrepreneurial bricolage behavior. Therefore, in this paper, we integrate entrepreneurial
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Citizen Adoption in E-Government Systems Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Karin Olesen,Lincoln C. Wood,Josephine L. L. Chong
Electronic Government (e-Government) refers to a system of information, communication and interaction between government and its citizens. E-Government adoption has been studied for more than a decade with several meta-analytic studies being produced in that time. This study is differentiated from prior meta-analyses as it splits the empirical studies into pre-adoption and post-adoption studies to
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Do Hedonic or Utilitarian Types of Online Product Reviews Make Reviews More Helpful? Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Maidul Islam,Mincheol Kang,Tegegne Tesfaye Haile
Online sales can be influenced significantly by customer reviews, and thus there are several studies on what makes an online review helpful to consumers. However, none of those researches address the review helpfulness in the context of hedonic and utilitarian review types. This study examines how product type (hedonic and utilitarian) moderates the relationship between the level of review type (hedonicity
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Service Quality Measurement in Information Systems Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Ankit Kesharwani,Venkatesh Mani,Jighyasu Gaur,Samuel Fosso Wamba,Sachin S. Kamble
Traditionally measurements of service quality have followed the expectation-disconfirmation approach. Further, previous studies have shown that negative disconfirmation is more influential than positive disconfirmation. In this research, we hypothesized information systems(IS) service quality scales based on the dimensionality of the expectation-disconfirmation (ED) and desire-disconfirmation (DD)
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Frugal Knowledge Sharing for Frugal Innovation Diffusion in Africa Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Getachew H. Mengesha,Richard Thomas Watson,Solomon Negash
This study explores mechanisms of frugal knowledge sharing for frugal innovation diffusion drawing upon concepts from social capital and diffusion of innovation theories. Three frugal innovations projects from Uganda, Malawi, and Ethiopia are used to undertake a preliminary appraisal of a proposed theoretical model. The study identifies a frugal knowledge sharing mechanism based on “The Church lady
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Impacts of Risks Over Benefits in the Adoption of Self-Tracking Technologies Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Jean-François De Moya,Jessie Pallud,Samuel Fosso Wamba
Self-tracking (ST) technologies offer an unlimited number of opportunities to improve human life, especially health and well-being. Many scholars have been interested in this technology because of its worldwide spread but have not emphasized the benefits versus ST practices risks. This paper presents a literature review of the benefits and risks of ST practices to close this gap. It also develops a
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Are Entrepreneurial Capabilities and Prior Knowledge the Silver Bullet for the Generation of New Digital Venture Ideas in a Digital Context? Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Meifang Yao,Dan Ye,Gao Yang,Hui Shi,Xianrong Zheng
Digital technology has had changed the uncertain nature of the process of new venture idea generation, and it has also brought unprecedented opportunities for the generation of new digital venture ideas. To explore how startups can deal with major challenges brought by digital technology and create new digital venture ideas, this paper focuses on micro level entrepreneurial actions, and constructs
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How Does Online Engagement Drive Consumers' Webrooming Intention? Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Amit Shankar,Rambalak Yadav,Manish Gupta,Charles Jebarajakirthy
Based on the cognitive-motivational-relational (CMR) theory, this study empirically investigates the mechanisms through which consumers' online engagement impacts their channel switching intention. The present study examines the mediating effects of perceived value and the ways in which these mediating effects are moderated by online risk perception. Data were collected from 428 online Indian consumers
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Signaling Information Management in Entrepreneurial Firms' Financing Acquisition Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Leven Jianwen Zheng,Tao Bai,Adam R. Cross
Research has identified the significant effect of new ventures’ signaling information management on their ability to secure private equity financing. This study adopts an integrated signaling and screening perspective to investigate investors’ differing perceptions of signals from ventures, across early financing stages. It proposes a three-step interpretation process. Based on an inductive multiple
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The Environmental Effects of FDI Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Vijay Pereira,Imad A. Moosa,Vikash Ramiah,Yama Temouri
Empirical work on the environmental effects of FDI has produced a mixed bag of results, with hardly any evidence for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. A theoretical model is presented, postulating that whether FDI has a positive or negative effect on the environment depends on the position of the underlying country or region on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). The empirical results
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Addressing Algorithmic Bias in AI-Driven Customer Management Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Shahriar Akter,Yogesh K. Dwivedi,Kumar Biswas,Katina Michael,Ruwan J. Bandara,Shahriar Sajib
Research on AI has gained momentum in recent years. Many scholars and practitioners increasingly highlight the dark sides of AI, particularly related to algorithm bias. This study elucidates situations in which AI-enabled analytics systems make biased decisions against customers based on gender, race, religion, age, nationality or socioeconomic status. Based on a systematic literature review, this
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Patent Analysis in the 5G Network Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Hui Eva Zhang,Kok Hoe Wong,Victor Chang
In recent years, 5G has been the focus of research and development in the telecom industry. This paper aims to understand the development trend and technical hot spots of 5G technology through the patent analysis and build a citation network at the assignee organization level. The workflow of the paper is divided into four steps: patent data collection and cleaning, patent overview analysis, network
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An Emoji Is Worth a Thousand Words Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Yidan Huang,Jun Ma,Chia-Huei Wu,Shu Yang
Face emojis are regularly used in reviews on online shopping sites to add richness and/or levity to the text. However, few researchers have investigated the use of face emojis in consumer reviews. This paper examined the effects of the number of face emojis (none, one and three) in user-generated reviews (UGRs) on trustworthiness and purchase intention. We found that the number of face emojis in UGRs
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End-User Perceptions on Information Security Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Shandre Kim Jansen van Rensburg
Information is a vital asset needed by many organizations to function effectively. However, this asset can easily be compromised thus its protection is crucial to the efficacy of an organization. A common information security breach used is social engineering. Social engineering is the use of manipulative and deceptive techniques against the inherent nature of human beings to access sensitive and confidential
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A Framework for Evaluating Information Transparency in Supply Chains Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Erhan Ada,Muhittin Sagnak,Yigit Kazancoglu,Sunil Luthra,Anil Kumar
Private, public, profit, and non-profit organizations, and society as a whole currently face a significant reliable information necessity problem. Especially supply chains need trustworthy information to perform their activities successfully. This study aims to propose a framework and identify how reliability of information can be evaluated and measured through the concept of transparency. In this
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Mobile Interactivity and Perceived Waiting Time Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Changqin Yin,Huimin Ma,Qian Chen,Yeming Gong,Xiaobing Shu
While perceived waiting time can undermine user evaluation and cause application abandonment, there is little scientific research on waiting in mobile applications. This paper incorporates three mobile interactivity features (ubiquitous connectivity, active control, and responsiveness) into the model and examines the mediating role of cognitive absorption and the moderating role of perceived procedural
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Sustainable Farming Practices, Awareness, and Behavior in Small Farms in Brazil Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Breno Nunes,Roya Gholami,Dolores Añón Higón
This paper investigates the relationship between the use of digital and non-digital sources of information on sustainable farming practices, institutional pressure and adoption of such practices by farmers in Brazilian semi-arid lands. The research uses a model based on the theory of reasoned action (TRA) and the institutional theory. Our results for a sample of 100 Brazilian farmers show that non-digital
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A Dual-Stage SEM-ANN Analysis to Explore Consumer Adoption of Smart Wearable Healthcare Devices Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Imdadullah Hidayat-ur Rehman,Arshad Ahmad,Fahim Akhter,Amer Aljarallah
Advances in information technology have included the development of smart wearable healthcare (SWH) devices that have potential benefits for consumer health. The adoption of SWH devices is limited, however, compared with other established digital technologies. This study examines the determinants of consumers’ adoption of SWH devices. A conceptual model is proposed that incorporates health (health
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The Dark Side of Using Online Social Networks Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Layla Boroon,Babak Abedin,Eila Erfani
Research on online social networks (OSNs) has focused overwhelmingly on their benefits and potential, with their negative effects overlooked. This study builds on the limited existing work on the so-called ‘dark side’ of using OSNs. The authors conducted a systematic review of selected databases and identified 46 negative effects of using OSNs from the users’ perspective, which is a rich spectrum of
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Examining the Role of Social Media Analytics in Providing Competitive Intelligence Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Jiwat Ram,Changyu Zhang
This study examines the role of social media analytics (SMA) in providing competitive intelligence (CI). Building on CI theory, the data from qualitative semi-structured interviews with respondents belonging to social media, manufacturing, telecommunication, IT and service industries were analyzed using Nvivo coding and matrix queries. The results show that SMA provides an expanded CI beyond the previous
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Comparative Reviews vs. Regular Consumer Reviews Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Hessam Vali,Jingjun (David) Xu,Mehmet Bayram Yildirim
This study proposes and evaluates the effect of “mixed” comparative reviews on review value and compares the results with “separate” comparative and regular reviews. A total of 201 subjects have participated in the experiment conducted in this study. Results indicate that mixed comparative reviews in text format are perceived as less valuable than separate comparative reviews in text format. However
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Explaining and Predicting Helpfulness and Funniness of Online Reviews on the Steam Platform Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Zhi Wang,Victor Chang,Gergely Horvath
Online review is a crucial display content of many online shopping platforms and an essential source of product information for consumers. Low-quality reviews often cause inconvenience to the platform and review readers. This article aims to help Steam, one of the largest digital distribution platforms, predict the review helpfulness and funniness. Via Python, 480,000 game reviews related data for
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An Empirical Assessment of the Relationship Between Information Intensity and IT Leaders' Role and Structural Power Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Moyassar Zuhair Al-Taie,Mohamed Abdalla Nour,Aileen Cater-Steel
Using the theoretical lens of the contingency approach to leadership, this study explores the relationship between the information intensity of the organization’s value chains and IT leaders’ role and structural power. Based on data obtained from a sample of 174 Australian IT senior executives, a multiple analysis of variance (MANOVA) is used to empirically test for differences between the IT leader’s
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Effects of Utilitarian and Hedonic Emotion on the Use of Online Banking Services Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Wei-Hsi Hung,Chih-Lang Tseng,Fang-Kai Chang,Chin-Fu Ho
The online banking service is the key element for the development of e-commerce and e-businesses. It provides users with convenient daily transaction services, such as wire transfer and online payment. Past studies on online banking services mostly focused on their functionality, whereas little pay attention to users’ hedonic feelings or a sense of pleasure. Besides, discussions about post-adoption
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Revealing the Dark Side of the Internet Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Yang Gao,Chia-Huei Wu,Di Wang,*Datian Bi,*Xiaomin Du
The purpose of this study is to reveal the dark side the Internet and establish a hierarchical framework to provide its governance path based on users' negative psychology. However, this hierarchical framework must consider unnecessary attributes and the interrelationships between the aspects and the criteria. Hence, fuzzy set theory is used for screening out the unnecessary attributes, a decision-making
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Social Media Exploration and Exploitation by Small and Medium Enterprises for Business Continuity Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Lakshmi Goel,Janice Donaldson
This paper aims to examine social media usage by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the context of business continuity. A key concern for businesses in times of disasters, such as the COVID19 pandemic or hurricanes, is continuity. This is especially true for SMEs that lack the expertise, awareness, and ability to dedicate specific resources to disaster planning and management. SMEs are quick to
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Empirical Investigation of Participation on Crowdsourcing Platforms Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Abhishek Behl,Pratima Sheorey,Meena Chavan,Kokil Jain,Isha Jajodia
Crowdsourcing platforms have gained importance in recent times, and their success is dependent mainly on the participation of the crowd. Participation is a function of both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Moreover, with the growing scale of information, the participants would need to focus on the quality of information to achieve sustainable participation. Our study uses game elements and information
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Towards Convergence of AI and IoT for Smart Policing Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Chen-Hao Huang,Tzu-Chuan Chou,Sheng-Hsiung Wu
With the fast growth of IoT and AI techniques, AIoT’s potential in creating and capturing business value is being increasingly acknowledged. AIoT is the practice of combining AI with IoT-based hardware to proactively predict what might happen and what action needs to be taken. However, research on this issue has been limited and what the key mechanisms for designing AIoT based context-aware services
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Harness the Global Impact of Big Data in Nurturing Social Entrepreneurship Journal of Global Information Management (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Nur Azreen Zulkefly,Norjihan Abdul Ghani,Suraya Hamid,Muneer Ahmad,Brij B. Gupta
The global impact of social values, norms, and cultures set the growth and future dimensions of most businesses. In global business governess, the sustainability of social entrepreneurship is heavily dependent on peoples' opinions and their social interactions. Nowadays, social media platforms represent the big global repositories of publically available information that can be exploited by social