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Do ethics drive value co-creation behavior in online health communities?
Muhammad Salman Latif, Jian-Jun Wang, Mohsin ShahzadOnline health communities (OHCs) have been recognized as emerging platforms on the Internet used for health purposes. Despite its emergence, developing a successful OHC is still a…
Online flight booking: digital nudging to decrease aviation-related carbon emissions
Christian Meske, Ireti Amojo, Christoph MüllerOnline flight booking websites compare airfares, convenience and other consumer relevant attributes. Environmental concerns are typically not addressed, even though aviation is…
A feminist-affordance lens: examining the power outcomes of the actualization of smartphone affordances
Randa Salamoun, Charlotte M. Karam, Crystel AbdallahThe authors explore the entanglement of smartphone technology and power in this paper. This paper explores the following question: In what ways does the actualization of…
The effects of digital platform expectations, information schema congruity and behavioural factors on mobility as a service (MaaS) adoption
Alemayehu Molla, Sophia Xiaoxia Duan, Hepu Deng, Richard TayMobility as a service (MaaS) is a new model of bundling personal transport options from multiple providers to provide frictionless service. The model integrates information and…
Homogenous or heterogeneous? Demand effect of reviewer similarity in online video website
Jun Yang, Demei Kong, Hongjun HuangNowadays, online platforms which provide products or services try to implement their homegrown communities to facilitate users' social interactions. Reviewers' activities in these…
Elementary and secondary school students' perceptions toward the use of e-learning under the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study
Kaifei Xu, Xin Bao, Lu LuThe lockdown of schools to control the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has adversely affected elementary and secondary school students in China. However, little…
Evaluating the potential impact of online assessment on students' academic performance
Ellis L.C. Osabutey, P.K. Senyo, Bernard F. BempongWith the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, online assessment has become the dominant mode of examination in higher education institutions. However, there are contradictory…
Information confusion as a driver of consumer switching intention on social commerce platforms: a multi-method quantitative approach
Jianming Wang, Tan Vo-Thanh, Yi-Hung Liu, Thac Dang-Van, Ninh NguyenOn the basis of the approach-avoidance motivation theory, this study aims to examine the role of information confusion in influencing consumer switching intention among social…
The impact of virtual interaction on consumers' pro-environmental behaviors: the mediating role of platform intimacy and love for nature
Xuebing Dong, Yaping Chang, Junyun Liao, Xiancheng Hao, Xiaoyu YuCompanies are increasingly designing pro-environmental games to motivate users to implement pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs). However, how different types of virtual…
Contribution to team and community in crowdsourcing contests: a qualitative investigation
Hanieh Javadi Khasraghi, Isaac Vaghefi, Rudy HirschheimThe research study intends to gain a better understanding of members' behaviors in the context of crowdsourcing contests. The authors examined the key factors that can motivate or…
The influences of expressive and instrumental social ties in social commerce: integrating dyadic views from buyers and sellers
Xixi Li, Zhijie Li, Qian Wang, Xunhua GuoEntrepreneurs and individual sellers heavily leverage their social ties embedded in social media, expressive or instrumental, to penetrate the market and achieve business success…
Exploring the consequence of information communication technology-enabled work during non-working hours: a stress perspective
George Yui-Lam Wong, Ron Chi-Wai Kwok, Shanshan Zhang, Gabriel Chun-Hei Lai, Yanyan Li, Jessica Choi-Fung CheungThis study aims to examine the impact of information communication technology-enabled work during non-working hours (ICT-enabled WNWHs), as a source of stress, on employee…
Sociomaterial influence on social media: exploring sexualised practices of influencers on Instagram
Hélène Bussy-Socrate, Karina SokolovaRelying on social influence and sociomateriality theories, this research provides new insights about the social and material drivers relating to the sexualisation of online…
Students' adoption of AI-based teacher-bots (T-bots) for learning in higher education
Rajasshrie Pillai, Brijesh Sivathanu, Bhimaraya Metri, Neeraj KaushikThe purpose of this paper is to investigate students' adoption intention (ADI) and actual usage (ATU) of artificial intelligence (AI)-based teacher bots (T-bots) for learning…
The greening of IT use: the impact of environmental concerns on the use of internet systems
Frank Goethals, Jennifer L. ZiegelmayerInternet use has a high environmental footprint that is often overlooked by end users. This paper contributes to limiting the negative environmental footprint of Information…
Pandemic sociomaterial bricolage: how vulnerable communities used social media to tackle the COVID-19 crisis
Fernando Pinto, Marie Anne Macadar, Gabriela Viale PereiraThis research was conducted to understand how vulnerable communities used social media (SM) tools to face the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Affected by the lack of information…
Exploring satisfaction with social networking sites through the lens of fan page visiting: uncertainty reduction and general systems theory perspective
Soo Il Shin, Dianne Hall, Kyung Young Lee, Sumin HanThe purpose of the current study is to examine a social network site (SNS) users' overall satisfaction with SNS use in conjunction with their fan page visiting activities. We…
Caged, helpless but not bored: consumption values derived from over-the-top platforms during pandemic
Shalini Talwar, Puneet Kaur, Sushant Kumar, Michel Laroche, Amandeep DhirThe use of over-the-top (OTT) platforms grew substantially after the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. With the pandemic receding, there is a concern that users may…
Adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) based employee experience (EEX) chatbots
Rajasshrie Pillai, Yamini Ghanghorkar, Brijesh Sivathanu, Raed Algharabat, Nripendra P. RanaAI-based chatbots are revamping employee communication in organizations. This paper examines the adoption of AI-based employee experience chatbots by employees.
The problematic use of smartphones in public: the development and validation of a measure of smartphone “zombie” behaviour
Andrew Pressey, David Houghton, Dogá IstanbulluogluWe have witnessed an evolution in the use of smartphones in recent years. We have been aware for some time of the potentially deleterious impact of smartphones on users' lives and…
Impacts of normative and hedonic motivations on continuous knowledge contribution in virtual community: the moderating effect of past contribution experience
Lingfeng Dong, Jinghui (Jove) Hou, Liqiang Huang, Yuan Liu, Jie ZhangThis paper aims to explore the effects of normative and hedonic motivations on continuous knowledge contribution, and how past contribution experience moderates the effects of the…
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