Information Technology & People: Volume 33 Issue 2

Driving the internet and e-business technologies to generate a competitive advantage in emerging markets: Evidence from Egypt

Gamal Mohamed Shehata, Mohammed A. Montash

The purpose of this paper is to develop and empirically examine a comprehensive model that attempts to identify the factors that explain competitive advantage of implementing…

Cultural influences moderating learners’ adoption of serious 3D games for managerial learning

Haytham Siala, Elmar Kutsch, Suzy Jagger

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether learners from different cultures adopt a serious 3D game to facilitate the learning of transferable managerial skills (ethics…

Winning engaged consumers: The rules of brand engagement and intention of co-creation in social commerce

Saleh Bazi, Alireza Hajli, Nick Hajli, Mohana Shanmugam, Xiaolin Lin

Under the sunlight of social commerce, few concepts have blossomed like value co-creation. But when blurred strategies are implemented, the opportunity to wilt a brand is high. To…

Breaking the flow: a study of contradictions in information systems development (ISD)

Denis Dennehy, Kieran Conboy

The purpose of this paper is to examine contradictions (specifically tertiary and quaternary contradictions) that can disrupt the flow of work in contemporary systems development…

Effects of privacy policy visualization on users’ information privacy awareness level: The case of Instagram

Aikaterini Soumelidou, Aggeliki Tsohou

The purpose of this paper is to propose visualization techniques as a new representation for privacy policies instead of traditional textual representation and to examine…

How students’ friendship network affects their GPA ranking: A data-driven approach linking friendship with daily behaviour

Yongli Li, Sihan Li, Chuang Wei, Jiaming Liu

Due to the unintentional or even the intentional mistakes arising from a survey, the purpose of this paper is to present a data-driven method for detecting students’ friendship…

The role of social media in negotiating identity during the process of acculturation

Amy Yau, Ben Marder, Stephanie O’Donohoe

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to an understanding of the role of social media in negotiating and managing identity for transient migrants relating to the home and…

Exploring gender discursive struggles about social inclusion in an online gaming community

Rennie Naidoo, Kalley Coleman, Cordelia Guyo

The purpose of this paper is to adopt a critical relational dialectics framework to identify and explore gender discursive struggles about social inclusion observed in an online…

Ethics of blockchain: A framework of technology, applications, impacts, and research directions

Yong Tang, Jason Xiong, Rafael Becerril-Arreola, Lakshmi Iyer

The purpose of this paper is fourfold: first, to provide the first systematic study on the ethics of blockchain, mapping its main socio-technical challenges in technology and…

Connecting personality traits to social networking site addiction: the mediating role of motives

Adela Chen, Nicholas Roberts

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether four motives – conformity, enhancement, social and coping – mediate relationships between four personality types  

Antecedents and consequences of excessive online social gaming: a social learning perspective

Xiang Gong, Kem Z.K. Zhang, Chongyang Chen, Christy M.K. Cheung, Matthew K.O. Lee

Drawing on the social learning theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine the antecedents and consequences of users’ excessive online social gaming. Specifically, the authors…

Encouraging client’s knowledge sharing in enterprise system post-implementation through psychological contract and entrepreneurial orientation

Zhao Cai, Hefu Liu, Qian Huang, Yue Kang, Liang Liang

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship between psychological contract and knowledge sharing behavior in the enterprise system (ES) post-implementation stage. The…

Stressed decision makers and use of decision aids: a literature review and conceptual model

Monica Adya, Gloria Phillips-Wren

Decision making is inherently stressful since the decision maker must choose between potentially conflicting alternatives with unique hazards and uncertain outcomes. Whereas…

News you can use! Evaluating the effectiveness of newsjacking based content on social media

Rob Angell, Matthew Gorton, Paul Bottomley, Ben Marder, Shikhar Bhaskar, John White

Newsjacking (real-time deployment of news stories in communications) is now ubiquitous for brands using social media. Despite its pervasiveness, little analysis of its…

The impact of positive valence and negative valence on social commerce purchase intention

Nick Hajli

New research emphasizes the importance of social communications in e-commerce purchase decision-making processes but there are many technical and social challenges such as…

Exploring the dynamic influences and interaction effects of signals on backers’ investment in the crowdfunding market

Yang Song, Hong Wu, Jingdong Ma, Naiji Lu

As a standard source of capital for entrepreneurs, crowdfunding has recently gained wide attention in business and academia. With scientific endorsement, some research is…

The communicative processes of attempted political persuasion in social media environments: The mediating roles of cognitive elaboration and political orientations

Bumsoo Kim, Matthew Barnidge, Yonghwan Kim

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the process by which social media news use leads individuals to engage in attempted political persuasion, examining the mediating roles…