Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 118 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Younghoon Chang, Hwansoo Lee, Jae-Nam Lee, Shan Wang

Wearable health information systems intermittent discontinuance: A revised expectation-disconfirmation model

Xiao-Liang Shen, Yang-Jun Li, Yongqiang Sun

Wearable health information systems (IS) open up a new era for personal health self-management, and bring about disruptive changes to individual lives. However, prior studies on…

Understanding users’ attitude toward mobile payment use: A comparative study between China and the USA

Jing Fan, Mingxing Shao, Yafang Li, Xuemei Huang

The authors position security measures and payment culture as key determinants of perceived security (PS) and trust. The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate how PS…

What makes users willing or hesitant to use Fintech?: the moderating effect of user type

Hyun-Sun Ryu

The purpose of this paper is to better understand why people are willing or hesitant to use Financial technology (Fintech) as well as to determine whether the effect of perceived…

Subverting organizational IS policy with feral systems: a case in China

Robert M. Davison, Carol X.J. Ou

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how selected employees in China deliberately subvert organizational information systems (IS) policy by developing feral working…

Strategic response to Industry 4.0: an empirical investigation on the Chinese automotive industry

Danping Lin, C.K.M. Lee, Henry Lau, Yang Yang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the strategic response to Industry 4.0 for Chinese automotive industry and to identify the critical factors for its successful…

Expectations gap, anticipated regret, and behavior intention in the context of rapid technology evolvement

Youngwook Ha

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the gap between the expected benefit of the current system and that of the future upgraded system affects consumer behavior when…

Understanding adoption of intelligent personal assistants: A parasocial relationship perspective

Sangyeal Han, Heetae Yang

The purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive research model that can explain customers’ continuance intentions to adopt and use intelligent personal assistants (IPAs).

With a little help from the miners: distributed ledger technology and market disintermediation

Efpraxia D. Zamani, George M. Giaglis

The purpose of this paper is to argue for the role of the blockchain, i.e., distributed ledger technology, in building innovative business models, including machine money…