Information Technology & People: Volume 30 Issue 3

The impact research of online reviews’ sentiment polarity presentation on consumer purchase decision

Qi Wang, Lin Wang, Xiaohang Zhang, Yunxia Mao, Peng Wang

Because online shopping is risky, there is a strong need to develop better presentation of online reviews, which may reduce the perceived risk and create more pleasurable shopping…

Don’t throw rocks from the side-lines: A sociomaterial exploration of organizational blogs as boundary objects

Elizabeth Daniel, Elizabeth Hartnett, Maureen Meadows

Social media such as blogs are being widely used in organizations in order to undertake internal communication and share knowledge, rendering them important boundary objects. A…

Revisiting the trajectory of IT implementation in organisations: an IT culture perspective

Mumin Abubakre, M.N. Ravishankar, Crispin Coombs

Organisational implementations of information technology (IT) normally fail due to cultural forces that inhibit the usage levels required to facilitate successful IT…

Enhancing customer brand experience and loyalty through enterprise microblogs: Empirical evidence from a communication framework perspective

Jun Yang, Rui Zheng, Ling Zhao, Sumeet Gupta

As the social media platform becomes an ever more important communication channel between company and customer, companies are learning how they can best utilize social media to…

U-District Job Co-op: constructing a future vision for homeless young people and employment

David G. Hendry, Jill Palzkill Woelfer, Thuy Duong

Addressing the question, how might socio-technical systems help homeless young people to succeed broadly in employment, the purpose of this paper is to present a future vision…

The importance of enhancing, maintaining and saving face in smartphone repurchase intentions of Chinese early adopters: An exploratory study

Raffaele Filieri, Wenshin Chen, Bidit Lal Dey

China is the world’s largest consumer market for smartphones. Early adopters are highly influential in consumers’ decisions of new technologies. Therefore, understanding Chinese…

The effects of innovative, consumer and social characteristics on willingness to try nano-foods: Product uncertainty as a moderator

Hsin Hsin Chang, Ching Ying Huang, Chen Su Fu, Ming Tse Hsu

By integrating the diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory, technology acceptance model (TAM), and social capital theory, the purpose of this paper is to: develop a model of consumer…

Investigating the individual trust and school performance in semi-virtual collaboration groups

Xusen Cheng, Shixuan Fu, Yajing Han, Alex Zarifis

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between individual trust of students in computer supported semi-virtual collaboration groups and student’s performance…