Information Technology & People: Volume 28 Issue 3

Information disclosure of social media users: Does control over personal information, user awareness and security notices matter?

Vladlena Benson, George Saridakis, Hemamaali Tennakoon

The purpose of this paper is to bridge the gap in the existing literature by exploring the antecedents of information disclosure of social media users. In particular, the paper…

Enacting technology: Accounting for the interplay between mHealth solutions and existing paper-based data reporting practices

Tiwonge Davis Manda, Jo Herstad

The purpose of this paper is to discuss implications of human-technology interaction in organizational change, especially where mobile phones are introduced to replace paper-based…

Relationship or contract? Exploring the key factor leading to IT outsourcing success in China

Cong Qi, Patrick Y.K. Chau

Effective management of IT outsourcing continues to be a challenge to organizations today. Organizations in China suffer from even bigger problems than other regions of the world…

Knowledge management implementation, business process, and market relationship outcomes: An empirical study

Shin-Yuan Hung, Jacob Chia-An Tsai, Wen-Ting Lee, Patrick Y.K. Chau

Prior studies examine the relationship between knowledge management (KM) enablers and KM effectiveness. However, the critical role of business process outcome is neglected. The…

The creativity passdown effect: applying design theory in creating instance design

Jong Seok Lee, Richard Baskerville, Jan Pries-Heje

The purpose of this paper is to suggest that translating a design theory (DT) into practice (e.g. creating an instance design artifact (IDA)) is hardly straight-forward and…

Sending mobile messages to different social ties in modern urban life: How do anxiety and time-shortage matter?

Vincent Cho, Humphry Hung

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of mobile messaging for the purposes of information sharing and social networking based on the types of social ties…

Impact of ERP systems usage on organizational agility: An empirical investigation in the banking sector

Faisal Aburub

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can be considered as cornerstone that allows most organizations to achieve their business goals. The purpose of this paper is to…

Evolution of technology perceptions over time

Mika Immonen, Sanna Sintonen

As the information society further develops, electronic services are created and physical distribution networks become sparse, it is important to analyse the determinants that…

Exposure to online hate material and social trust among Finnish youth

Matti Näsi, Pekka Räsänen, James Hawdon, Emma Holkeri, Atte Oksanen

Trust is one of the key elements in social interaction; however, few studies have analyzed how the proliferation of new information and communication technologies influences…

More than meets the eye: working around technology in cross-boundary work contexts

Roland K. Yeo, Jeff Gold

The purpose of this paper is to explore how organizational actors interpret and enact technology in cross-boundary work contexts during e-government implementation in a public…

Dissidents with an innovation cause? Non-institutionalized actors’ online social knowledge sharing, solution-finding tensions and technology management innovation

Ronan de Kervenoael, Christophe Bisson, Mark Palmer

Traditionally, most studies focus on institutionalized management-driven actors to understand technology management innovation. The purpose of this paper is to argue that there is…

Does altruism matter on online group buying? Perspectives from egotistic and altruistic motivation

Wen-Lung Shiau, Patrick Y.K. Chau

The purpose of this paper is to identify whether altruistic motivation is a significant factor in online group buying and to examine the effects of altruistic and egotistic…

Are all signals equal? Investigating the differential effects of online signals on the sales performance of e-marketplace sellers

Huifang Li, Yulin Fang, Youwei Wang, Kai H. Lim, Liang Liang

In the competitive e-marketplace today, sellers are using an increasing number of signals to entice customers to make online purchases. However, how differential these signals are…