Journal of Electronic Business & Digital Economics: Volume 1 Issue 1/2 , Open Access

A comparative study of frequentist vs Bayesian A/B testing in the detection of E-commerce fraud

James Christopher Westland

This paper tests whether Bayesian A/B testing yields better decisions that traditional Neyman-Pearson hypothesis testing. It proposes a model and tests it using a large, multiyear…

The effects of news source credibility and fact-checker credibility on users' beliefs and intentions regarding online misinformation

Anol Bhattacherjee

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the extent to which credibility of news sources and fact-checkers individually and jointly influence online users' beliefs and intended…

A divide quantified—exploring the relationship between ICT infrastructure diffusion and income inequality

David Kocsis, Jason Xiong

Information and communication technology (ICT) has the potential to address and reduce income inequality. However, since 1980, income inequality in the United States has caused…

User-concerned actionable hot topic mining: enhancing interpretability via semantic–syntactic association matrix factorization

Linzi Wang, Qiudan Li, Jingjun David Xu, Minjie Yuan

Mining user-concerned actionable and interpretable hot topics will help management departments fully grasp the latest events and make timely decisions. Existing topic models…

Is online collaboration process suitable for digital youth organization? A design approach

Xusen Cheng, Wanxin Liu, Yuanyuan Li

Collaboration is significant but difficult for the development of youth organizations, this research aims to explore whether the online collaboration process is suitable for youth…

An investigation into factors affecting individuals' gifting intention in live streaming: a streamer–content perspective

Benjiang Lu, Ding Wu, Ruijing Zhao

Gifting is a typical monetization strategy for live streaming platforms to motivate providers’ live content contribution. However, research regarding the factors that affect…

Being digital to being vulnerable: does digital transformation allure a data breach?

Santhosh Srinivas, Huigang Liang

While every firm is striving to embrace digital transformation (DT) to form new differentiating business capabilities, there are dark sides to such initiatives, and it is…

The business models of NFTs and fan tokens and how they build trust

Alex Zarifis, Xusen Cheng

The sale of NFTs and the interest in them has “exploded” recently. While there is a lot of information on them, it is not clear what final form they will take. There are several…

Construing travelers’ choice on peer-to-peer accommodation-sharing platform: an investigation into cultural identity and accommodation type

Tingting Hou, Shixuan Fu, Yichen Cao, Xiaojiang Zheng, Jianhua (Jordan) Yu

This research is motivated by the increasing need for international interactions during the gradual recovery of the tourism industry. By recognizing the paucity of research on…

The expansion and stability of two-sided platform ecological networks: an analysis based on the leverage theory of tying

Zhang Qian, Cui Wei, Tang Chao, Luo Yan

With the rapid development of the digital economy, an increasing number of digitalized two-sided platforms have deployed the tying strategy to leverage their market power from the…

Exploring the metaverse in the digital economy: an overview and research framework

Xusen Cheng, Shuang Zhang, Shixuan Fu, Wanxin Liu, Chong Guan, Jian Mou, Qiongwei Ye, Caiming Huang

Metaverse is a virtual application spawned by digital technology that is becoming increasingly relevant to our lives. However, for the opportunities created and challenges posed…

Understanding gender differences in mHealth apps continuance: a modified protection motivation theory

Yumei Luo, Jian Mou

This paper aims that mobile health (mHealth) applications have emerged as a key tool to support public health. However, there are only a few studies examining the influences of…