Showing papers in "Information & Management in 2014"

TL;DR: Assessing the determinants of cloud computing adoption is based on an analysis of the manufacturing and services sectors and the results show clear trends in adoption towards cloud-based services.

TL;DR: A model to investigate the effects of technological features of social commerce on customers' virtual experiences and subsequently their participation intention indicates that social commerce intention is determined by social support, social presence and flow experiences.

TL;DR: It is found that an entrepreneur's social network ties, obligations to fund other entrepreneurs, and the shared meaning of the crowdfunding project between the entrepreneur and the sponsors had significant effects on crowdfunding performance in both China and the U.S.

TL;DR: A new multi-theory based model that explained employees' adherence to security policies combined elements from the Protection Motivation Theory, the Theory of Reasoned Action, and the Cognitive Evaluation Theory showed that perceived severity of potential information security threats, employees' belief as to whether they can apply and adhere to information security policies, and social norms toward complying with these policies had a significant and positive effect on the employees' intention to comply with Information security policies.

TL;DR: The constructs in the research model enhance the understanding of the social-organisational and psychological factors that might encourage or accentuate employees' ISSP compliance in the workplace.

TL;DR: This study explores how customer relationship management (CRM) systems support customer knowledge creation processes, including socialization, externalization, combination and internalization, as well as three-way interactions among CRM systems.

TL;DR: A research model on the determinants of user continuance using Bagozzi's framework of self-regulation as the theoretical foundation found that appraisal factors were strong determinant of emotional reaction (user satisfaction and sense of belonging).

TL;DR: The model is based on the technology acceptance model (TAM) and operationalizes the perceived usefulness construct according to the ''desirable properties of software measures'' and provides guidance for software engineers in selecting among different software measures and for software metrics coordinators who are planning measurement programs.

TL;DR: The results suggest that trust is enforced when organizations develop shared goals, form social relational embeddedness, and initiate influence strategies, which leads to better inter-organizational collaboration and knowledge sharing.

TL;DR: The operationalization of the BPM culture concept provides a theoretical foundation for future research and a tool to assist organizations in developing a cultural environment that supports successful BPM.

TL;DR: Findings show that satisfaction and perceived usefulness positively affect continuance intention, which, together with perceived usefulness, positively influences the Word of Mouth behavior.

TL;DR: This study analyzes and empirically confirms how and why organizations balance between their prevention and response strategies, and provides an overarching security framework that focuses on managing the proper balance between Prevention and response paradigms.

TL;DR: This study proposes a contingency model for investigating the effects of KM strategies on KM performance and provides valuable practical suggestions to managers for selecting a KM strategy based on multiple contingencies related to the external and internal conditions of a firm.

TL;DR: Investigation of how public administrations can influence citizens' continued usage of public e-services and focus on the role of different trust elements shows that trust in thepublic e-service mediates the influence of bothtrust in the public administration and trust inThe Internet on continuance intentions.

TL;DR: The study proposes that consumers' online experience of interaction and arousal serves as the mediator of the relationship between social motivations and use behaviors and empirical results indicate that arousal fully mediates the relationships between social gratifications and problematic social network service use.

TL;DR: This research identifies variables that play a role and influence online behaviors in a specific experiential environment, namely the high culture museum website, and proposes a research model tested with two different websites that indicates esthetics is the most important design criteria for experientials interfaces.

TL;DR: This paper reports on a case study of adoption of a contained nomadic information environment, exemplified by the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to keep track of hospital patients, and the technology, organization, and environment framework is applied.

TL;DR: Econometric analysis provides empirical evidence to support a cause-and-effect relationship of managerial actions to financial performance in a post-ERP implementation stage and senior information systems managers reveal the state of affairs during that time period.

TL;DR: This model modeled the relationships among the extent of IT outsourcing, the ZOT (the Zone of Tolerance), and IS success and found significant direct and indirect effects of outsourcing on IS systems’ perceived usefulness and their users’ satisfaction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the mindset of insiders regarding their relationship with information security efforts and compare it against the viewpoint of information security professionals, and discuss key differences between insiders' and professionals' security mindsets.

TL;DR: A nomological network of antecedents and outcomes of knowledge transfer and utilization in IT outsourcing relationships is developed and tested using a survey of 146 IT outsourcing partnerships in Singapore, showing that the characteristics of outsourcing clients, vendors, and knowledge transferred played important roles in facilitating knowledge transfer.

TL;DR: The results suggest microblog service providers can increase the sense of community in order to reduce the negative impact of information overload on stickiness.

TL;DR: A research model analyzing the process through which CRM technology infrastructure translates into organizational performance, drawing on the resource-based view (RBV) and the knowledge- based view (KBV) of the firm suggests that organizational commitment and knowledge management fully mediate this process.

TL;DR: Internal personalized learning mechanisms are formulated by implementing intelligent agents in a VLE under a constructivist learning model and an e-learning effectiveness framework is developed by integrating educational and IS theories.

TL;DR: The results provide strong support for the major hypotheses and indicate that the determinants of behavior may differ in using pleasure-oriented versus productivity-oriented IT.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a set of ethical principles for DSR in IS must be created and that all DSR practitioners in IS should devote at least some time to consider ethical principles.

TL;DR: A general technology switching model is proposed to explain why IT users switch from an incumbent technology to a disruptive one and results indicate that users' switching intention is determined by their expectations regarding the disruptive technology and dissatisfaction with the incumbent technology.

TL;DR: The paper argues that there is currently a broader development in the area of research governance, which is referred to as 'responsible research and innovation' (RRI), which addresses some of the limitations of computer ethics and points toward a broader approach to the governance of science, technology and innovation.

TL;DR: This study analyzes 212 firm-level cloud computing announcements between 2006 and 2011 by employing the event study methodology and indicates that the market positively reacts to the cloud computing initiatives of firms.

TL;DR: The findings suggested that focusing on the enhancement of site characteristics that have low fit with the task is not effective as it resulted in slowing the successful completion of the online task.