Information Technology & People: Volume 36 Issue 6

Submitting tentative solutions for platform feedback in crowdsourcing contests: breaking network closure with boundary spanning for team performance

Hanieh Javadi Khasraghi, Xuan Wang, Jun Sun, Bahar Javadi Khasraghi

To obtain optimal deliverables, more and more crowdsourcing platforms allow contest teams to submit tentative solutions and update scores/rankings on public leaderboards. Such…

Understanding customer satisfaction of augmented reality in retail: a human value orientation and consumption value perspective

Weisha Wang, Dongmei Cao, Nisreen Ameen

While customer perceived augmented reality (AR) values have generally enhanced customer experience, AR value would be appreciated the most by a consumer segment that remains…

Consumer data vulnerability, peer privacy concerns and continued usage intention of sharing accommodation platforms: the moderating roles of perceived benefits

Tingting Liu, Wenqian Li, Xingping Jia

This study aims to explore the relationships between consumer data vulnerability, peer privacy concerns and consumers' continued usage intention of sharing accommodation…

Work-related use of information and communication technologies after-hours (W_ICTs) and employee innovation behavior: a dual-path model

Weiwei Huo, Xinyi Xu, Xianmiao Li, Julan Xie, Le Sun

The current study aims to identify work-related use of information and communication technologies after-hours (W_ICTs) from passive and active perspectives and examine mechanisms…

The role of blogs in restoring the self-integrity of women victims of intimate partner sexual violence

Carolina Yukari Veludo Watanabe, Eduardo Henrique Diniz, Eusebio Scornavacca

This paper aims to identify the role of blogs in helping women victims of intimate partner sexual violence to restore their self-integrity.

Would you share that? How the intensity of violent and sexual humor, gender and audience diversity affect sharing intentions for online advertisements

Richard Freeman, Ben Marder, Matthew Gorton, Rob Angell

The purpose of this study is to understand the effect of increasing the intensity of sexual or violent content on consumer responses to online video advertisements, with a…

Facilitating or inhibiting? The role of enterprise social media use in job performance

Yufan Shang, Yan Pan, Malika Richards

Organizations use enterprise social media (ESM) platforms to operate, function, and develop. However, the effectiveness of the use of ESM is inconclusive. This study aims to…

Is Guanxi critical to the job burnout of ITP and IS/IT users in Chinese society?

Christina Ling-hsing Chang, Sheng Wu

The speedy development of information technology (IT) is indeed a significant issue to support the enterprises to spread their products and services to their customers. Although…

Connecting perceived effectiveness of app evolution to app engagement: a technology identity perspective

Yi Liu, Xinlin Tang, Peigong Li, Xuan Wang

This paper extends the current literature on app engagement to identify dynamic factors that affect app engagement and the value-creation pathway that connect these factors with…

Mind the queue: understanding challenges of introducing e-government policies for entrepreneurs during Covid-19 in a Latin American country

Allan Discua Cruz, Jose Mario Reyes Hernandez, Carlos Roberto Arias Arévalo

This study aims to focus on understanding the tensions experienced by government officials in introducing electronic government (e-government) policies to support entrepreneurs in…

What keeps me engaging? A study of consumers' continuous social media brand engagement practices

Kofi Osei-Frimpong, Brigid A. Appiah Otoo, Graeme McLean, Nazrul Islam, Lebene Richmond Soga

This study examines some pertinent individual-level factors and consequences of consumers' continuous social media brand engagement (SMBE) practices. Further, this study examines…

Individual Information Technology (IT) creativity: a conceptual and operational definition

Colleen Carraher Wolverton, Tracey Rizzuto, Jason B. Thatcher, Wynne Chin

An organization’s competitive advantage can be strengthened if they are able to identify highly creative individuals. In fact, organizational success in the 21st century may…

Substance use and sentiment and topical tendencies: a study using social media conversations of youth experiencing homelessness

Tianjie Deng, Anamika Barman-Adhikari, Young Jin Lee, Rinku Dewri, Kimberly Bender

This study investigates associations between Facebook (FB) conversations and self-reports of substance use among youth experiencing homelessness (YEH). YEH engage in high rates of…

Severity assessment and the early warning mechanism of public events based on the comparison of microblogging characteristics

Miaomiao Chen, Lu An, Gang Li, Chuanming Yu

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the severity of public events in real time from the perspective of social media and to construct the early warning mechanism of public…

Promoting collaborative learning in virtual worlds: the power of “we”

Yang-Jun Li, Christy M.K. Cheung, Xiao-Liang Shen, Matthew K.O. Lee

As digital spaces for team collaboration, virtual worlds bring considerable verisimilitude to technology-mediated social interaction and change the process of traditional team…

The use of social media for a better world: roles of social experience, empathy and personal impulsiveness in charitable crowdfunding

Boying Li, Fangfang Hou, Zhengzhi Guan, Alain Yee Loong Chong

Charitable crowdfunding features are embedded in social media platforms to encourage pro-social behaviors. Although such new practice allows practitioners to leverage the power of…

The impact of social presence and facilitation factors on online consumers' impulse buying in live shopping – celebrity endorsement as a moderating factor

Lifu Li, Kyeong Kang, Anqi Zhao, Yafei Feng

Although prior studies have studied the relationship between online consumers' attitudes and buying behaviour, the research focussing on online consumers' impulse buying…