Showing papers in "International Journal of Information Management in 2015"

TL;DR: The need to develop appropriate and efficient analytical methods to leverage massive volumes of heterogeneous data in unstructured text, audio, and video formats is highlighted and the need to devise new tools for predictive analytics for structured big data is reinforced.

TL;DR: A causal-chain framework was developed based on the input-moderator-mediator-output model to illustrate the causality between the research constructs used and the conceptualization of theoretical models/theories proposed by previous researchers.

TL;DR: This research investigates the new stream in e-commerce by proposing a new model to develop understanding of social commerce using a PLS-SEM methodology and results show that Web 2.0 applications are attracting individuals to have interactions as well as generate content on the Internet.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the relationship between utilitarian benefits and use is mediated by the attitude toward the use of gamification, while hedonic aspects have a direct positive relationship with use.

TL;DR: During emergency events, individuals are exposed to large quantities of information without being aware of their validity or risk of misinformation, but users are usually swift to correct them, thus making the social media "self-regulating".

TL;DR: The framework can be used by developers as a starting point for creating business models for Internet of Things applications and identifies the building blocks that are relevant in an Internet of Thing business model, types of options that can be focused on within these building blocks and the relative importance.

TL;DR: The results show that trust and satisfaction are the strong predictors of repeat purchase intention, whereas satisfaction has significant influence on trust, whereas perceived value, confirmation, and website quality are the significant antecedents of satisfaction.

TL;DR: The research findings reveal that, besides user's level of satisfaction, continuous knowledge sharing intention is partially mediated by affective commitment and identification trust.

TL;DR: Investigation of purchase behavior for virtual goods in three free-to-play game environments supports both main hypotheses that enjoyment of the game reduces the willingness to buy virtual goods while at the same time it increases the willingness of players to play more of thegame.

TL;DR: Using the largest social networking website in China, renren.com, this study finds that social support, seller uncertainty, and product uncertainty affect user behaviors and shows that social factors can significantly enhance users' purchase intentions in social shopping.

TL;DR: How IT-based capabilities may be used to leverage cloud delivery models to positively influence the successful implementation of cloud computing, and ultimately, firm performance for the processes and operations supported by the cloud is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided an empirical analysis of the effects of situational involvement, perceived risk and trust expectation on the consumer's choice of an online merchant through a survey of 295 college students and found that situational involvement positively affected all five types of perceived risk, whereas only product performance risk was positively related to consumer's trust expectation.

TL;DR: An empirical study to understand the critical factors for the adoption of cloud based e-invoicing, a novel e-government service in Taiwan indicates that effort expectation, social influence, trust in e- government, and perceived risk have significant effects on the intention to adopt e- invoicing.

TL;DR: Old and recent developments in wearable technology are explored with a focus on their current and potential use in the field of healthcare and medical education and some insights are provided from the theoretical perspective of the theory of disruptive innovations as proposed by Clayton Christensen and his colleagues from Harvard Business School.

TL;DR: A conceptual model is proposed in which social competitor pressure, IT infrastructure capability, two organizational capabilities (marketing management and innovation management and firm size) enable small firms to learn to develop a social media competence.

TL;DR: Findings confirm that website service quality and consumers' predispositions to use Facebook for online shopping directly and positively affect consumer trust toward an e-tailer, and indicate that peer recommendations have a significantly stronger influence on attitudes of females than they do on attitude of males.

TL;DR: This study of Twitter users posits that users are drawn to SNS to fulfill their social connection needs and that the sense of social presence SNS engender plays a significant role in fulfilling these needs and argues that this sense ofsocial presence is formed by immediacy-related and intimacy-related characteristics of SNS in Twitter.

TL;DR: In this paper, a trust model in C2C e-commerce was developed, which incorporates four perspectives, namely, (1) natural propensity to trust (NPT) as a personality perspective, (2) perception of website quality (PWSQ) as website feature perspective, other's trust of buyers/sellers (OTBS) as an interpersonal transaction perspective, and (4) third party recognition (TPR) as institutional feature perspective.

TL;DR: A model in which IT influences environmental performance by enabling the integration of IT in environmental management processes is proposed and it is found that this IT integration is stronger when the firm is more oriented to environmental sustainability.

TL;DR: A news popularity prediction model is built that can predict the final number of retweets of a news tweet very quickly and the average interaction frequency between the retweeters and the news source is correlated with news popularity.

TL;DR: The benefits of the premium user account, decoration, status, and boosted enjoyment of the user experience were the most common reasons for teenagers' purchasing within an SVW.

TL;DR: A research model based on the expectancy theory which suggests the effects of reward valence, trust and self efficacy is developed and shows that when task complexity is high (low), there will be a convex relationship between self efficacy and effort.

TL;DR: An integrated model consisting of three distinct elements; SECI modes, 'ba', and knowledge assets is proposed, and it is demonstrated how lean thinking conceptually fit with knowledge creation process, and a set of ten lean thinking tools and methods are proposed to improve the efficiency ofknowledge creation process.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the determinants of online knowledge adoption with respect to informational and normative social influences, and propose a theoretical model of knowledge adoption, in which knowledge quality and source credibility serve as informational determinants, whereas knowledge consensus and knowledge rating serve as normative determinants.

TL;DR: The analysis of 119 financial service firms in Taiwan shows that the impact of e-service innovation on firm outcomes begins with e- Service and cooperation capabilities, and that the complementarity between these factors positively influences e- service innovation.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the framework is able to address the needs of a domain specific BI maturity model, and guide the development of such model that proved acceptable to expert practitioners in the field.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates the cognition-affect-behavior loyalty phases by considering both dedication and constraint factors and helps IT vendors devise proper strategies to build customer loyalty.

TL;DR: Twitter data is used to assess customers early reactions to the launch of two new products by Apple and Samsung by analyzing the streams generated in a 72h window around the two events, showing significant differences in the structural patterns of the two conversations.

TL;DR: It is found that perceived usefulness strongly impacts the continued use of a smart green IT device and that a reference group partially moderates the independent variables and moderator variables.

TL;DR: This case analysis presents and identifies significant and systemic shortcomings of the incident response practices of an Australian financial organization and proposes a number of lessons learned and a novel security-learning model.