Information Technology & People: Volume 34 Issue 2

Exploring interpretations of blockchain's value in healthcare: a multi-stakeholder approach

Md. Jahir Uddin Palas, Raluca Bunduchi

Drawing broadly from the technology frame (Davidson, 2002) and organizing vision perspectives (Swanson and Ramiller, 1997) which consider the business value of information…

Exploring determinants of consumers' attitudes toward real-time bidding (RTB) advertising

Sixuan Zhang, Robin Wakefield, Jinsong Huang, Xi Li

Since its inception in 2009, the growth of real-time bidding (RTB) advertising has been dramatic. Yet, there is a dearth of research in the information system (IS) literature…

Different eyes on the same prize: implications of entry timing heterogeneity and incentives for contestant effort in innovation tournament

Swanand Deodhar

This paper examines an apparent contrast in organizing innovation tournaments; seekers offer contestant-agnostic incentives to elicit greater effort from a heterogeneous pool of…

Correlates of social media fatigue and academic performance decrement: A large cross-sectional study

Aqdas Malik, Amandeep Dhir, Puneet Kaur, Aditya Johri

The current study aims to investigate if different measures related to online psychosocial well-being and online behavior correlate with social media fatigue.

Curvilinear performance effects of social cyberloafing out of class: the mediating role as a recovery experience

Jinnan Wu, Wenjuan Mei, Joseph Ugrin, Lin Liu, Fang Wang

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether Chinese college students' social cyberloafing out of class has a curvilinear effect on academic performance and whether…

Exploring the role of intrinsic motivation in ISSP compliance: enterprise digital rights management system case

Soohyun Jeon, Insoo Son, Jinyoung Han

Employee compliance with information system security policies (ISSPs) has been emphasized as a key factor in protecting information assets against insider threats. Even though…

Exploring a mobile phone user's attitude toward watching TV content on a mobile phone – uses and gratifications perspective

Soo Il Shin, J.B. Kim, Sumin Han, Sangmi Lee

The purpose of this study is to examine factors affecting mobile phone users' attitude toward watching TV content on a mobile device. Under the uses and gratifications theory, the…

Enablers of and constraints on employees' information sharing on enterprise social media

Kaisa Laitinen, Anu Sivunen

The purpose of this study is to investigate the various enablers of and constraints on employees' information sharing on an enterprise social media platform. It draws on two…

Cloud computing technology adoption: an evaluation of key factors in local governments

Omar Ali, Anup Shrestha, Valmira Osmanaj, Shahnawaz Muhammed

The significance of cloud services in information technology (IT) is increasing as a means of achieving enhanced productivity, efficiency and cost reduction. Through cloud-based…

Moderating role of addiction to social media usage in managing cultural intelligence and cultural identity change

Shangui Hu, Lingyu Hu, Guoyin Wang

This paper aims to investigate the adverse effects of addiction to social media usage on expatriates' cultural identity change in cross-cultural settings.

Building brand loyalty and endorsement with brand pages: integration of the lens of affordance and customer-dominant logic

Yu-Hui Fang, Chia-Ying Li, Zeeshan Ahmed Bhatti

Numerous companies have launched brand pages (BPs) on social networking sites to enhance customer-brand communication, cultivate the customer-brand relationship and promote brand…

Information security awareness in a developing country context: insights from the government sector in Saudi Arabia

Raneem AlMindeel, Jorge Tiago Martins

The purpose of this paper is to increase understanding of employee information security awareness in a government sector setting and illuminate the problems that public sector…

An exploration of the professional and leader identity of IT professionals transitioning to a permanent hybrid role: a longitudinal investigation

Sally Smith, Thomas N. Garavan, Anne Munro, Elaine Ramsey, Colin F. Smith, Alison Varey

The purpose of this study is to explore the role of professional and leader identity and the maintenance of identity, through identity work as IT professionals transitioned to a…

Understanding uncertainty dimensions and Internet stock trading service in China from a social cognitive perspective

Safeer Ullah Khan, Xiang-dong Liu, Cheng Liu, Ikram Ullah Khan, Zahid Hameed

This paper investigates the effects of different uncertainties on Internet stock trading (IST) adoption intentions of individual investors in China and aims to determine the…

Unlocking the smart home: exploring key factors affecting the smart lock adoption intention

Stanislav Mamonov, Raquel Benbunan-Fich

This study examines the factorial structure of salient user beliefs associated with smart locks. We also examine the predictive value of the identified constructs on the smart…

Exploring “high tech” and “high touch” interaction capabilities: aligning the IT portfolio with customer and supplier relationships

Peter Ekman, Peter Dahlin, Cecilia Erixon, Steven Thompson

To explore the emergent characteristics of IT portfolios in business-to-business (B2B) firms. The goal is to develop a model that clarifies what interaction capabilities B2B firms…