Showing papers in "International Journal of Information Management in 2018"

TL;DR: This paper examines how blockchain is likely to affect key supply chain management objectives such as cost, quality, speed, dependability, risk reduction, sustainability and flexibility and illustrates the various mechanisms by which blockchain help achieve the above supply chain objectives.

TL;DR: An extended and structured literature analysis is conducted through which the most important challenges for researchers are discussed and potential solutions proposed and used to extend an existing framework on social media analytics.

TL;DR: The study explores patterns created by the aggregated interactions of online users on Facebook during disaster responses and provides insights to understand the critical role of social media use for emergency information propagation.

TL;DR: The study findings suggest that compulsive media use significantly triggered social media fatigue, which later result in elevated anxiety and depression.

TL;DR: The findings reveal that SNSs’ participation motivations positively influence customer participation, which in turn significantly affects brand trust and brand loyalty, which contributes as a mediator between customer participation andbrand loyalty on social media brand communities.

TL;DR: This study aims to identify and test the main factors related to social media advertising that could predict purchase intention and provide a number of theoretical and practical guidelines on how marketers can effectively plan and implement their ads over social media platforms.

TL;DR: The notion of platform centralization/decentralization as an effective organizing principle for the variety of perspectives on the sharing economy, and also evaluate scholars' treatment of technology itself are presented.

TL;DR: An integration of online learning with virtual communities to foster student engagement for obtaining better learning outcomes is discussed.

TL;DR: This study could serve as a reference for managers who wish to initiate an evaluation cycle on the adoption and usage of big data technologies, and points out the most frequently recognized strategic, transactional, transformational and informational benefits and risks related to the usage ofbig data technologies by companies.

TL;DR: A big data driven approach for disaster response through sentiment analysis that helps the emergency responders and rescue personnel to develop better strategies for effective information management of the rapidly changing disaster environment.

TL;DR: This study investigates how perceived value influences the perceptions of online trust among online buyers and their willingness to repurchase from the same website and proposes a research model that compares the relative importance of perceived value and online trust to perceived usefulness.

TL;DR: The characteristics of cognitive computing were mapped to the five V’s of big data namely volume, variety, veracity, velocity and value to provide a complete understanding of past, present and future directions in the domain big data and cognitive computing.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that extant cloud computing literature tends to skew towards the technological dimension to the detriment of other under researched dimensions such as business, conceptualization and application domain.

TL;DR: This study uses Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory to explain variance in consumer trust in e-commerce and finds that national culture solely explain 23% of the variance in the consumer’'s general disposition to trust, and that disposition totrust is a highly significant predictor of the perceived trustworthiness of an online store.

TL;DR: A study on Hainan Airlines (HNA) group, a large conglomerate, which has successfully implemented a blockchain-enabled E-commerce platform to offer employees flexible benefits, unveils that blockchain of value in three ways: issuing cryptocurrency, protecting sensitive information, and eliminating institutional intermediaries.

TL;DR: This study highlights how SEM often not only fails to provide benefits but also destructs value if not done properly, with potential fallouts which affect the long-term benefits.

TL;DR: Nine key factors were identified and defined through six action research projects with industry and government that used specific datasets to design new IISs and by analyzing data usage in 149 IIS cases to provide a simple yet comprehensive and empirically tested basis for the use and management of data to facilitate service value creation.

TL;DR: The main findings of this study indicate that knowledge sharing is the most frequent KM process studied, followed by knowledge acquisition and knowledge application, and questionnaire surveys were found to be the primarily relied research methods for data collection in the context of KM processes.

TL;DR: Current research validates most of the proposed hypotheses on mediating effects of ESM and validates the following claims: psychological availability mediates the relationships between ESM usage and the three dimensions of agility performance.

TL;DR: Evidence from the findings suggests that knowledge-based interactions between the customers and the salesforce in those organizations form the core of knowledge co-creation, which can in turn adequately lead to evidence-based, effective and efficient decision making for better business returns.

TL;DR: A systematic literature review is conducted that provides an overview of the current state of research concerning the use of Twitter to emergencies management, as well as presents the challenges and future research directions.

TL;DR: The research results showed that there are six points of core knowledge of Facebook: the behavior analysis of users; the social impact of social networks; the influence and application of Facebook in universities; the evaluation of use motivation and theoretical models; privacy risk and interpersonal impression; and the strategies ofsocial networks.

TL;DR: This review provides a base classification for researchers and an editable and continuously augmenting typology for further research in the area, and reveals which is the most used subcategory for each classification, trends and tendencies.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that consumer-to-consumer trust and consumer- to-marketer trust have positive impact on consumer engagement, which subsequently influence brand trust.

TL;DR: Different dimensions of the dark triad were most strongly related to different knowledge hiding strategies and gender moderated the relationships between narcissism and psychopathy with transactional psychological contract.

TL;DR: Certain types of Twitter users (news and weather agencies) were dominant as information sources and information diffusers (the public and organizations) however, the information flow in the network was controlled by numerous types of users including news, agency, weather agencies and the public.

TL;DR: This research study presents a systematic review of scholarly articles of cloud computing in the healthcare sector to present a classification framework that has three dimensions: cloud computing-enabled healthcare opportunities, issues, and applications.

TL;DR: Information congruity, competence, and empathy were identified as key factors in online service quality and attitudes towards the sharing economy were validated to moderate the relationship between servicequality and loyalty.

TL;DR: The results showed that each of Hofstedes national cultural dimensions has a moderating effect on some of the relationships between consumer behavioral intentions to use electronic banking and the constructs of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, perceived risk, and trust.

TL;DR: This study integrates the three issues to examine their influence on supply chain collaboration and in turn, realized firm performance.