Information Technology & People: Volume 32 Issue 2

Impact of BYOD on organizational commitment: an empirical investigation

Melina Seedoyal Doargajudhur, Peter Dell

Bring your own device (BYOD) refers to employees utilizing their personal mobile devices to perform work tasks. Drawing on the job demands-resources (JD-R) model and the…

Duality of self-promotion on social networking sites

A.K.M. Najmul Islam, Matti Mäntymäki, Izak Benbasat

Self-promotion on social networking sites (SNSs) is a controversial issue as it has been attributed to various positive and negative consequences. To better understand the reasons…

The influence of big data analytics management capabilities on supply chain preparedness, alertness and agility: An empirical investigation

Santanu Mandal

The importance of big data analytics (BDA) on the development of supply chain (SC) resilience is not clearly understood. To address this, the purpose of this paper is to explore…

What makes you feel attached to smartwatches? The stimulus–organism–response (S–O–R) perspectives

Woo-Chul Cho, Kyung Young Lee, Sung-Byung Yang

The purpose of this paper is to answer the question of whether smartwatches will survive and gain their own niche within the consumer electronics market. Based on the…

Assessing timebanking use and coordination: implications for service exchange tools

Chien Wen Yuan, Benjamin V. Hanrahan, John M. Carroll

Timebanking is a generalized, voluntary service exchange that promotes use of otherwise idle resources in a community and facilitates community building. Participants offer and…

Citizens’ intention to use and recommend e-participation: Drawing upon UTAUT and citizen empowerment

Mijail Naranjo-Zolotov, Tiago Oliveira, Sven Casteleyn

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how citizens’ perception of empowerment can influence the intention to use and intention to recommend e-participation.

Do firms still need to be social? Firm generated content in social media

Athanasios Poulis, Ioannis Rizomyliotis, Kleopatra Konstantoulaki

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how firm-generated content (FGC) impacts consumer brand awareness, brand loyalty and electronic word of mouth (eWOM), and how this, in…

Knowledge sharing by entrepreneurs in a virtual community of practice (VCoP)

Khalid Hafeez, Fathalla M. Alghatas, Pantea Foroudi, Bang Nguyen, Suraksha Gupta

The purpose of this paper is to examine how entrepreneurs engage in a virtual community of practice (VCoP) to share knowledge. Intensity of engagement is taken as a proxy to…

E-mail load, workload stress and desired e-mail load: a cybernetic approach

Jean-Francois Stich, Monideepa Tarafdar, Patrick Stacey, Cary L. Cooper

Using e-mail is a time-consuming activity that can increase workload stress. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the individual’s e-mail load…

Homo prostheticus? Intercorporeality and the emerging adult-smartphone assemblage

Caroline Marchant, Stephanie O’Donohoe

Young people’s attachment to their smartphones is well-documented, with smartphones often described as prostheses. While prior studies typically assume a clear human/machine…