Online Communities have been growing with increasing intervention of social media. The digital natives have also gradually started to spend a fairly large time on the internet and their contributions have grown significantly in shaping discussions …
Business agility has been recognized as a core competitive capability in a dynamic business environment. In this context, the organizational IT capability is a co-factor for achieving and keeping business agility. IT capability has been managed …
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Manuel Mora, Paola Y. Reyes-Delgado, Jorge Marx Gómez, Fen Wang
Rapid changes in the business environment have created opportunities and challenges. Businesses need to be more responsive to competitive environments and customers’ requirements. Business agility involves implementing agile practices across …
Telework technologies have been known since the 1970s, yet their adoption levels remained low until Covid-19-related lockdowns and curfews. The known rational and non-rational technology acceptance theory and biases cannot fully explain this …
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Marie-E. Godefroid, Vincent Borghoff, Ralf Plattfaut, Björn Niehaves
Electronic forms, such as order entry or tax declarations, frequently serve as the primary point of contact between users and information systems. Given their significance, it’s crucial that these forms are intuitive and not burdensome for users …
verfasst von:
Marius Breitmayer, Lisa Arnold, Michael Winter, Manfred Reichert
Electronic governance is used to empower citizens and help governments and organizations with strategic decision-making or policy-making. E-democracy and e-participation methods are essential tools used to engage citizens in decision-making. One …
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Sepehr Ghazinoory, Amirhosein Mardani, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Gholam Ali Montazer
There has been a large body of research on strategic alignment between business and information technology, which has also been summarised in several literature reviews. All of these studies describe that business-IT alignment has remained a focal …
Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly being used in the corporate environment. Benefits of using VR have also already been identified in the area of combined workplace and process design. However, whether organizations should invest in VR for this …
In the past years we have observed enormous adoption and use of digital technologies in almost all domains of human life. In this context, researchers and practitioners have been using the term “digital transformation” (DT) to characterize …
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René Riedl, Mark Stieninger, Manuel Muehlburger, Stefan Koch, Thomas Hess
Business analytics is considered in research and practice as a promising approach to support organizations in the increasing complexity and dynamics in the strategic planning and decision making, which arise for example through the integration of …
Climate change and an increasing food demand due to a growing world population pose significant challenges for agriculture. Smallholders play a decisive role in establishing a sustainable and efficient future agricultural system since they already …
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Julia Amend, Patrick Troglauer, Tobias Guggenberger, Nils Urbach, Martin Weibelzahl
The rapid growth in the widespread acceptance and usage of the Internet and the ease of creating online communities have brought advantages in terms of swift access to information alongside ethical problems interrelated with the dark side of the …
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João J. Ferreira, Cristina Fernandes, Pedro Mota Veiga, Hussain G. Rammal
Since the first cases were reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019, the massive SARS virus, known as COVID-19, is spreading at an alarming rate and is endangering the world. The whole world is now affected by this terrible epidemic including …
To provide a comprehensive review of cloud manufacturing (CM) adoption, this study performed a systematic literature review of 111 journal papers on CM adoption that were published from 2012 to 2022. The SCOPUS database was selected for the search …
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Mahesh S. Kavre, Vivek K. Sunnapwar, Bhaskar B. Gardas
Research on negative brand relationships has gained traction over the years. However, most of this research has focussed on the cases involving product or service failure by a firm, leaving conflicts arising as a result of values and ethics …
verfasst von:
Rehan Bhatia, Agam Gupta, M. Vimalkumar, Divya Sharma
This study examines the dark side of online communities, especially barriers to customer engagement in online communities. A total of 301 responses from online community members were collected to examine the proposed hypotheses based on the …
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Aman Kumar, Amit Shankar, Aviral Kumar Tiwari, Hae-Jung Hong
In a digital ecosystem where large amounts of data related to user actions are generated every day, important concerns have emerged about the collection, management, and analysis of these data and, according, about user privacy. In recent years …
verfasst von:
Jose Ramon Saura, Daniel Palacios-Marqués, Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano
The game-based research is growing in popularity, however, the number of game elements available to designers is still limited. As an alternative of incorporating novel design approaches derived from games, researchers and practitioners tend to …
Although consumer brand engagement has been given much attention in marketing literature, negative consumer engagement has received scarce attention. It is important to understand negative consumer brand engagement as it causes anti-brand actions …