Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 119 Issue 7

Current practices, new insights, and emerging trends of financial technologies

Xiuping Hua, Yiping Huang, Yanfeng Zheng

Financial technologies, also known as “FinTech,” have brought disruptive changes to virtually every aspect of financial services and are becoming increasingly important in the…

Artificial Intelligence in FinTech: understanding robo-advisors adoption among customers

Daniel Belanche, Luis V. Casaló, Carlos Flavián

Considering the increasing impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on financial technology (FinTech), the purpose of this paper is to propose a research framework to better…

Understanding speculative investment behavior in the Bitcoin context from a dual-systems perspective

Hyun-Sun Ryu, Kwang Sun Ko

The purpose of this paper is to examine users’ decision-making mechanism of speculative investment behavior and its sequential consequences in the Bitcoin context from a…

Investigating the influence of organizational factors on blockchain adoption: An innovation theory perspective

Trevor Clohessy, Thomas Acton

Blockchain possesses the potential to disrupt and reshape a plethora of industries in the next decade. However, blockchain adoption rates in technology developed countries, such…

Examining the role of narratives in civic crowdfunding: linguistic style and message substance

Chang Heon Lee, Yiyang Bian, Rajaa Karaouzene, Nasreen Suleiman

The purpose of this paper is to explore how linguistic style and message substance influence persuasion in civic crowdfunding marketplaces in which written narrative pitch become…

Exploring individuals’ behavioral intentions toward donation crowdfunding: evidence from China

Tao Wang, Yalan Li, Minghui Kang, Haichao Zheng

The purpose of this paper is to apply the self-determination theory (SDT) to propose a research model that incorporates the SDT framework and contextual variables as determinants…

An empirical analysis of rural farmers’ financing intention of inclusive finance in China: The moderating role of digital finance and social enterprise embeddedness

Gulizhaer Aisaiti, Luhao Liu, Jiaping Xie, Jun Yang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate and understand China’s rural farmers’ financing intention of inclusive finance, and it examines related drivers like knowledge of…