Internet Research: Volume 34 Issue 4

The effect of the motion attributes of spokes-characters on app launch pages on brand memory

Ning Zhang, Zhu Liya

The use of brand slogans that represent brand concepts on app launch pages can improve user brand impressions. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of using…

Organizational mission and digital platform evolution: an investigation of entrepreneurial organizations in nascent markets

Nicholas Roberts, Inchan Kim

Although digital platforms have become important to organizations and society, little is known about how platforms evolve over time. This is particularly true for early-stage…

The influence of virtual reality on the experience of religious cultural heritage content

Kyunghwa Hwang, M. Claudia tom Dieck, Timothy Jung, Ohbyung Kwon

The purpose of this study is to expand the experience economy model and to determine if this model provides a better understanding of the process of growing intention to continue…

How does material adaptivity of smart objects shape infusion use? The pivot role of social embeddedness

Qian Hu, Zhao Pan, Yaobin Lu, Sumeet Gupta

Advances in material agency driven by artificial intelligence (AI) have facilitated breakthroughs in material adaptivity enabling smart objects to autonomously provide…

Friend-connecting affordances: playing online games to contact friends

Gen-Yih Liao, Tzu-Ling Huang, Alan R. Dennis, Ching-I Teng

Online games are popular applications of Internet technology, with over 2.8 billion users worldwide. Many players engage in team gameplay, indicating that online games are…

Developing future managers through business simulation gaming in the UK and Hong Kong: exploring the interplay between cognitive realism, decision-making and performance

Jonathan Lean, Robert Newbery, Jonathan Moizer, Mohamed Haddoud, Wai Mun Lim

This paper investigates how individuals' decision-making approach and perceptions of a game's cognitive realism affect the performance of virtual businesses in a web-based…

Loyalty and well-being explain serial crowdfunding backing behavior: an empirical test of complementary theories

Kalanit Efrat, Shaked Gilboa, Andreas Wald, Rotem Shneor

Despite the critical contribution of serial backers in advancing crowdfunding volumes, few studies have addressed the phenomenon of serial backing. Research on the motivations of…

Bringing safety analytics to the online shopper: evaluating designs for augmenting point-of-sale interfaces with safety information

Richard Gruss, David Goldberg, Nohel Zaman, Alan Abrahams

The widespread adoption of online purchasing has prompted increasing concerns about product safety, and regulators are beginning to hold e-commerce sites accountable for dangerous…

Revisiting the social commerce paradigm: the social commerce (SC) framework and a research agenda

Lai-Ying Leong, Teck Soon Hew, Keng-Boon Ooi, Nick Hajli, Garry Wei-Han Tan

Social commerce (SC) is a new genre in electronic commerce (e-commerce) that has great potential. This study proposes a new research framework to address deficiencies in existing…

Why retail firms commonly get only halfway through channel integration with online channels

Philip Tin Yun Lee, Aki Pui Yi Hui, Richard Wing Cheung Lui, Michael Chau

This paper aims to examine why retail firms seldom achieve full integration of online and offline channels as prescribed in omni-channel literature. It examines the intermediate…

Reexamining review variance and movie sales: the inverted-U-shaped relationship and boundary conditions

Jungwon Lee, Cheol Park

This study is based on the heuristic-systematic model (HSM) to dynamically examine the effect of review variance on sales and the boundary conditions that mitigate this effect.

A dual-process model to explain self-disclosure on online social networking sites: examining the moderating effect of enjoyment

Shanshan Zhang, Fengchun Huang, Lingling Yu, Jeremy Fei Wang, Paul Benjamin Lowry

Researchers continue to address the concept of self-disclosure because it is foundational for helping social networking sites (SNS) function and thrive. Nevertheless, the authors'…

How social media fatigue feigning and altering emotion discourage the use of social media

Jack Shih-Chieh Hsu, Chao-Min Chiu, Yu-Ting Chang-Chien, Kingzoo Tang

Social media fatigue (SMF) has been widely recognized; however, previous studies have included various concepts into a single fatigue construct. Fatigue has typically been…