Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 117 Issue 1

The strategic nature of corporate social responsibility in SMEs: a multiple mediator analysis

Domingo Martínez-Martínez, Jesús Herrera Madueño, Manuel Larrán Jorge, María Paula Lechuga Sancho

The purpose of this paper is to analyse empirically the corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategic effects on the competitive performance of small- and medium-sized…

Why not be “smarter”? Examining the factors that influence the behavioral intentions of non-smartphone users

Chen-Yu Lin, Yu-Chuang Chao, Tzy-Wen Tang

Despite the evident and dramatic increase in smartphone usage worldwide, some consumers continue to use traditional mobile phones. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the…

Effects of institutional support on innovation and performance: roles of dysfunctional competition

Shanshan Zhang, Zhiqiang Wang, Xiande Zhao, Min Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the effects of institutional support on product and process innovation and firm performance and describe how dysfunctional…

User acceptance of smart home services: an extension of the theory of planned behavior

Heetae Yang, Hwansoo Lee, Hangjung Zo

The purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive research model that can explain potential customers’ behavioral intentions to adopt and use smart home services.

Predicting customer churn in mobile industry using data mining technology

Eui-Bang Lee, Jinwha Kim, Sang-Gun Lee

The purpose of this paper is to identify the influence of the frequency of word exposure on online news based on the availability heuristic concept. So that this is different from…

Measuring the systemic importance of interconnected industries in the world economic system

Xian Cheng, Liao Stephen Shaoyi, Zhongsheng Hua

The purpose of this paper is to measure the systemic importance of industry in the world economic system under the system-wide event – the crisis of 2008-2009, by viewing this…

Evaluation of personal cloud storage products in China

Debao Dai, Wenfang Zheng, Tijun Fan

The purpose of this paper is to compare and evaluate the personal cloud storage products (PCSPs) in China and find the gap among them for promoting their service level. There are…

Leanness and agility: a comparative theoretical view

Nesrine Eltawy, David Gallear

The purpose of this paper is to compare and distinguish between two salient means for improving the management of, and leveraging the effectiveness of, supply chains. Leanness and…

Web-application development projects by online communities: Which practices favour innovation?

Alessandro Annarelli, Cinzia Battistella, Fabio Nonino

The purpose of this paper is to propose an in-depth analysis of online communities of practice that support the innovative development of web applications. The analysis is aimed…

Elastic and plastic innovation capability in firms

Bo Zou, Feng Guo, Michael Song

Although the extant innovation literature has extensively explored the attributes of different types of innovation capability, little is known yet about the common phenomenon of…

Understanding mobile shopping consumers’ continuance intention

Dawei Shang, Weiwei Wu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate and examine the factors contributing to consumers’ mobile shopping continuance intention (CI) of food and non-food items via…

Environment determinants in business adoption of Cloud Computing

Juan Manuel Maqueira-Marín, Sebastián Bruque-Cámara, Beatriz Minguela-Rata

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of Technology Providers, Public Administrations and R&D Institutions on Cloud Computing adoption. This research also…