Lixin Zhou, Zhenyu Zhang, Laijun Zhao and Pingle Yang
Online open innovation platforms provide opportunities for product users to participate in the innovation process and contribute their ideas to the platform. Nonetheless, they…
Abstract
Purpose
Online open innovation platforms provide opportunities for product users to participate in the innovation process and contribute their ideas to the platform. Nonetheless, they also present a significant challenge for platform managers, who select high-quality innovations from a massive collection of information with diverse quality.
Design/methodology/approach
In this study, the authors employed a machine learning method to automatically collect a real dataset of 2,276 innovations and 30,004 detailed comments from the online platform of IdeaExchange and then conducted empirical experiments to verify the study hypothesis.
Findings
Results show that extraversion, conscientiousness and openness to experience positively and directly influenced the quality of their innovation. Furthermore, an individual's social network position mediated among extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness and openness to experience and the quality of an innovation.
Research limitations/implications
Results showed that extraversion, conscientiousness and openness to experience positively and directly influenced the quality of their innovation. Furthermore, an individual's social network position mediated among extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, openness to experience and the quality of innovations.
Originality/value
This study combined the Big Five personality traits theory and social network theory to examine the association between user intrinsic personality traits, social network position and the quality of their innovative ideas in the context of online innovation platforms. Additionally, the findings provide new insights for platform managers on how to select high-quality innovation information by considering user personality traits and their social network position.
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Laijun Zhao, Xiaoxia Su, Lixin Zhou, Huiyong Li, Pingle Yang and Ying Qian
During the COVID-19 pandemic, an infodemic erupted on social media, leading to a surge in negative disclosure behaviors such as expressing dissatisfaction and releasing negative…
Abstract
Purpose
During the COVID-19 pandemic, an infodemic erupted on social media, leading to a surge in negative disclosure behaviors such as expressing dissatisfaction and releasing negative emotions. By extending the elaboration likelihood model and the Big Five personality theory to the domain of online self-disclosure, we aimed to identify the factors that influence negative disclosure behavior.
Design/methodology/approach
We investigated how the features of negative information content, information sources and recipients’ social perceptions influence how social media users disclose negative information. We also examined the moderating roles of personality traits in this process. To validate the model and test our hypotheses, we collected cross-sectional data from 456 social media users.
Findings
Empirical results reveal that (1) information overload, topic relevance, attractiveness of information sources, peer approval of negative disclosure and social influence on negative information strengthen the intention to disclose negative information. (2) The perception of social risk weakens the intention to disclose negative information. (3) Openness to experience, extraversion and neuroticism strengthen the relationship between the intention to disclose negative information and actual disclosure behavior.
Originality/value
Our results not only provide new perspectives on the decision-making mechanisms behind negative disclosure behavior but also extend personality research within the context of the dissemination of negative information. Furthermore, it offers insights into negative information dissemination on social media platforms, with significant implications for various stakeholders.
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Lixin Zhou, Zhenyu Zhang, Laijun Zhao and Pingle Yang
Large volumes of users' creative information have rapidly become vital resources in the open innovation platforms, so it is crucial to identify high-quality information from…
Abstract
Purpose
Large volumes of users' creative information have rapidly become vital resources in the open innovation platforms, so it is crucial to identify high-quality information from massive creative information. However, the existing literature on the quality of creative information only focuses on the information characteristics or publishers' features.
Design/methodology/approach
In this paper, the authors used the elaboration likelihood model to examine the joint effect of central route factors (information characteristics: timeliness, readability and sentiment) and peripheral route factors (source characteristics: personality traits, past successful experiences and social network location) on the quality of creative information. Furthermore, the author explored the moderating roles of companies' support between central and peripheral route factors on the quality of creative information. Finally, binary logistic regression was adopted to test the research hypotheses on the empirical data from Salesforce.
Findings
The results indicated that users with high extroversion, conscientiousness, social centrality and prior success rate tended to propose high-quality information. Meanwhile, information timeliness, readability and sentiment also negatively influence the quality of creative information.
Originality/value
Different from previous studies, the study findings not only provide insights on identifying the quality of creative information from an information perspective, but also promotes the awareness of the intrinsic personality traits of information users and innovative support efforts by platforms and their managers.
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Abdul Basit, Laijun Wang, Asma Javed, Muhammad Shoaib and Muhammad Umer Aslam
The emergence of the COVID-19 epidemic has considerably increased the intricacy of information, exacerbating the difficulties firms encounter in efficiently processing and…
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Purpose
The emergence of the COVID-19 epidemic has considerably increased the intricacy of information, exacerbating the difficulties firms encounter in efficiently processing and understanding accurate data and knowledge. Consequently, the COVID-19 epidemic has profoundly exacerbated production ambiguity for firms, thereby disrupting their regular business operations and supply chain activities. Digital technologies (DTs) are essential tools for firms to process and interpret information and knowledge, thereby improving their resilience against supply chain interruptions.
Design/methodology/approach
This research investigates the effect of digital technologies on firm resilience throughout COVID-19, utilizing PLS-SEM and artificial neural networks (ANN) derived from a comprehensive survey of Pakistani manufacturing firms.
Findings
Our research assesses the mediating role of supply chain integration, memory, and absorptive capacity, as well as the moderating influence of information complexity. The outcomes demonstrate that supply chain integration (SCI), memory (SCM), and absorptive capacity (SCAC) mediate digital technologies’ influence on firm resilience. Moreover, in situations where information is highly complex, DTs have a greater effect on a firm’s resilience.
Originality/value
The results enhance our comprehension and awareness of the resilience-related effects of DTs and offer significant management insights for strengthening firm resilience in the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Xiuyuan Fang, Marshall S. Jiang and Yugang Li
Intangible resources (IRs) play an important role in enterprise innovation; previous studies find inconsistent results (positive and negative). The authors develop and test a…
Abstract
Purpose
Intangible resources (IRs) play an important role in enterprise innovation; previous studies find inconsistent results (positive and negative). The authors develop and test a framework to analyze IRs to see whether and how to impact firm innovation performance to reconcile the conflicting results.
Design/methodology/approach
This study empirically examined the curvilinear effect of IRs and innovation performance (IP) based on data from the Annual Census of Chinese Industrial Enterprises. The moderating effect of institutional development (ID) and state ownership (SO) in the relationship between firms' IRs and IP was also examined.
Findings
It was found that there is a U-shaped relationship between IRs and IP. Moreover, the institutional development weakens the U-shaped relationship.
Originality/value
The U-shaped relationship explains the inconsistent results in previous studies. It offers some important implications for managers and policymakers, who must understand the role of IRs.