Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 114 Issue 8

Innovation with IS usage: individual absorptive capacity as a mediator

Weiwei Wang, Luning Liu, Yuqiang Feng, Tienan Wang

After information systems (IS) implementation, many organizations report that system underutilization causes the failure to meet expected IS investment returns. It is imperative…

Brand relationship, consumption values and branded app adoption

Kuo-Fang Peng, Yan Chen, Kuang-Wei Wen

The purpose of this paper is to examine influential factors on branded app adoption from the perspectives of brand relationship and consumption values. Thus a research model…

Paper mill's distribution efficiency to emerging East European markets

Olli-Pekka Hilmola, Esa Hämäläinen, Maija Hujala

European paper industry has been struggling with margins and profitability for more than decade time period. At typical in markets of west, paper product demand is at long-term…

Push-pull factors of E-Learning in the hotel industry

Ray Wang, Yuanhsu Lin

– The purpose of this paper is to adopt the Multi-Theme Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory to explore the push and pull factors for the usage of E-learning.

Relationships between intra-organizational resources, supply chain integration and business performance : An extended resource-based view

Dehui Xu, Baofeng Huo, Linyan Sun

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of intra-organizational resources, including top management support (TMS) and information technology (IT), on…

Managing information for collaborative networks

Christopher Durugbo

The purpose of this paper is to explore the orientations of collaborative networks (CNs) for managing integrated information flow. It seeks to analyse and shed light into the main…

Optimization model for transportation planning with demand uncertainties

Dilupa Nakandala, Henry Lau, Jingjing Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the total cost function of an inventory system with a reorder point/order quantity policy where the lead time is controllable based on…

Integration and consistency between web and mobile services

Shuiqing Yang, Yan Wang, June Wei

Attracted by tremendous market opportunities of mobile business, many web services providers have started to expand their web services from traditional PC-based environment into…

Transformational leadership and innovative work behavior

Bilal Afsar, Yuosre F. Badir, Bilal Bin Saeed

The purpose of this paper is to explore the mediating role of psychological empowerment and the moderating role of self-construal (independent and interdependent) on the…

Product weakness finder: an opinion-aware system through sentiment analysis

Hongwei Wang, Wei Wang

Extant methods of product weakness detection usually depend on time-consuming questionnaire with high artificial involvement, so the efficiency and accuracy are not satisfied. The…