Showing papers in "Information & Management in 2013"

TL;DR: The research supports the moderating effect of culture and the mediating role of trust in a social network community on the relationship between social interactions (in terms of closeness and familiarity) and intention to purchase in social commerce environments and suggests that social commerce market penetration in East Asia may have relatively fewer barriers to overcome and be more likely to succeed than in the Latin America region.

TL;DR: A model that shows senior managers' perception of both the antecedents to and the consequences of Green IS adoption by a firm suggests that coercive pressure influences the attitude toward GreenIS adoption while mimetic pressure does not.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that technological capabilities such as data quality, user access and the integration of BI with other systems are necessary for BI success, regardless of the decision environment.

TL;DR: Results showed that in GVTs, deep level diversity has a more significant relationship with team processes of mutual trust and knowledge sharing than visible functional level diversity, and this relationship is moderated by the collaborative capabilities of available technology and levels of interdependence of the task.

TL;DR: An extended Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT) is drawn on to explore factors that affect members' continued use intention toward Social Networking Sites (SNSs) and to theorize about the intricate relationships among a variety of UGT constructs.

TL;DR: The findings show that mHealth service quality is a hierarchical, multidimensional, and reflective construct, which consists of three primary dimensions and eight subdimensions.

TL;DR: A descriptive review reveals many positive signs of rigor such as ensuring the anonymity of experts and providing clear and precise instructions to participants, Nevertheless, there are still several areas for improvement, such as reporting response and retention rates, instrument pretesting, and explicitly justifying modifications to the ranking-type Delphi method.

TL;DR: This research examined the causal pathways by which this trait affects behavioral intention by testing three alternative models based on innovation diffusion theory, the theory of planned behavior, and an integrative perspective that combines them, indicating that PIIT is a strong predictor of intended use of IT but it exerts its influence by altering the mediators.

TL;DR: Regression results showed that all three trust building mechanisms had significant positive effect on trust of the online vendor, however, their effects were not simple; they interacted to produce a different overall effect on the level of trust.

TL;DR: The effects of social media on established and emerging flows of rhetorical practices in organizations are examined, focusing in particular on the expanding, and in some cases switching, roles played by senior management and employees.

TL;DR: This work proposes a novel model based on the theory of interpersonal behavior (TIB) that well predicts the use of the Internet at work for non-work purposes and sheds new light on the influence of habit, affect, role, and self-concept in the useof the Internet.

TL;DR: It is suggested that while e-government maturity did not contribute to economic prosperity and environmental degradation, its value could be realized indirectly via its impacts on corruption.

TL;DR: A Delphi study with 19 IT project managers found 19 skills as being the most critical for IT PMs and ranked them based on their relative importance, compared with two previous studies of IT PM skills.

TL;DR: The findings of this study support the ideas that website content has an effect on e-marketing and e-trust and that e- Trust plays a mediating role in the relationship between e- trust and e -marketing effectiveness.

TL;DR: This study examines two potential design components, embodiment and media richness, that could enhance shoppers' experiences and examines whether the implementation of these two features could increase co-presence, flow, and the intention to use a collaborative online shopping website.

TL;DR: It is argued that individuals adopt an innovation at different times and are likely to be influenced by different factors over time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how patterns of user interaction in discussing a niche cultural product may influence participation levels, which in turn enhance consumption intentions, and show that higher levels of participation can indeed enhance consumption intention.

TL;DR: Results showed statistically significant support for the hypothesized model, indicating that positive and negative technology readiness (PTR and NTR) play an important role in the formation of perceived ease of use (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PU), and perceived playfulness (PP); however, NTR did not significantly affect PP.

TL;DR: The purpose was to describe criteria that enable an informed BPMM choice (conform to decision-making theories, rather than ad hoc) and to propose a design process for building B PMM decision tools.

TL;DR: The results indicated that the indispensable requirements of users with disabilities include the veto or absolutely minimal prerequisites principle; an indication of holistic accessibility paths; and door-to-door access maps.

TL;DR: Two ignored dimensions of job burnout theory, depersonalization and lessened feelings of personal accomplishment, create a more complete picture and extend current models of IT worker burnout.

TL;DR: It is suggested that consumers hold corporations, not the IS, responsible for any inappropriate use of personal information and organizations must be proactive in formulating and enforcing information privacy policy in order to address consumers' concerns.

TL;DR: Interestingly, it is found that a process view is not sufficient to enhance organizational innovation performance and cross-functional integration may also need to be carefully managed for innovation.

TL;DR: It is found that relational investment was the most critical adoption factor, which also indirectly enhanced organizational readiness for technological adoption intention.

TL;DR: This paper presents a Disaster Management Metamodel that can serve as a representational layer of DM expertise that leads to better knowledge sharing and facilitates combining and matching different DM activities to best manage the disaster on hand.

TL;DR: The role of IT in improving firm's dynamic marketing capabilities was considered and important direct effects of a firm's market orientation, use of IT to support CRM, and the functionality of IT infrastructure capabilities on itsynamic marketing capabilities were showed.

TL;DR: An integrated view of the associations among theories is provided to enhance the understanding of IS contributions to organizational performance and provide an integrated approach for examining organizational performance.

TL;DR: The results indicate that individual constructs can be linked to service components and can potentially be instrumental in progress toward a deeper understanding of consumers’ adoption of information services and how this affects the development of such services and systems that support them.

TL;DR: Examination of the relationships between transactive memory systems, team learning, and project performance in new product teams indicates differential effects of three dimensions of a trans active memory system on exploitative and exploratory learning.

TL;DR: The survey results for 101 Software-as-a-service adopters indicate that learning and growth, internal business processes, and customer performance are causally related to financial performance.