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04.03.2024 | Editorial

Guest editorial overview: “dark side of online communities”

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 …

verfasst von:
Abhishek Behl, Manish Gupta, Justin Zhang

10.02.2024 | Original Article

Exploring the impacts of IT service management on the business agility index: an AHP simulation-based decision-making approach

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 …

verfasst von:
Manuel Mora, Paola Y. Reyes-Delgado, Jorge Marx Gómez, Fen Wang

09.02.2024 | Original Article

Toward revealing concealed risks for agile IT service management practices

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 …

verfasst von:
Kurt J. Engemann, Holmes E. Miller

Open Access 17.01.2024 | Original Article

Teleworking antecedents: an exploration into availability bias as an impediment

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 …

verfasst von:
Marie-E. Godefroid, Vincent Borghoff, Ralf Plattfaut, Björn Niehaves

Open Access 11.01.2024 | Original Article

Exploring user editing preferences in electronic forms: an empirical study

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

11.01.2024 | Original Article

A blockchain-powered e-cognocracy model for democratic decision making

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 …

verfasst von:
Sepehr Ghazinoory, Amirhosein Mardani, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Gholam Ali Montazer

Open Access 11.01.2024 | Original Article

A systematic literature review on business-IT misalignment research

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 …

verfasst von:
Dóra Őri, Zoltán Szabó

Open Access 30.11.2023 | Original Article

Suitability- and utilization-based cost–benefit analysis: a techno-economic feasibility study of virtual reality for workplace and process design

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 …

verfasst von:
Ludger Pöhler, Frank Teuteberg

Open Access 30.11.2023 | Original Article

What is digital transformation? A survey on the perceptions of decision-makers in business

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 …

verfasst von:
René Riedl, Mark Stieninger, Manuel Muehlburger, Stefan Koch, Thomas Hess

Open Access 30.11.2023 | Original Article

Linking business analytics affordances to corporate strategic planning and decision making outcomes

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 …

verfasst von:
Steffen Kurpiela, Frank Teuteberg

Open Access 09.11.2023 | Original Article

Facilitating cooperation of smallholders in developing countries: design principles for a cooperative-oriented decentralized autonomous organization

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 …

verfasst von:
Julia Amend, Patrick Troglauer, Tobias Guggenberger, Nils Urbach, Martin Weibelzahl

Open Access 28.09.2023 | Original Article

Ethics and the dark side of online communities: mapping the field and a research agenda

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 …

verfasst von:
João J. Ferreira, Cristina Fernandes, Pedro Mota Veiga, Hussain G. Rammal

06.07.2023 | Correction

Correction to: A new method for solving the mobile payment scheduling problem using harris hawks optimization algorithm during the COVID-19 pandemic

verfasst von:
Wen Sun, Chen She, Mohammad Khalilzadeh, Hui–Zhen Mao, Yi-Peng Xu

17.06.2023 | Original Article

A multi-prefecture study applying multivariate approaches for predicting and demystifying weather data variations affect COVID-19 spread

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 …

verfasst von:
Naveed Anwer Butt, Huda Gull, Zulfiqar Ali, Ghulam Muhammad, Salman A. AlQahtani

09.06.2023 | Original Article

Cloud manufacturing adoption: a comprehensive review

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 …

verfasst von:
Mahesh S. Kavre, Vivek K. Sunnapwar, Bhaskar B. Gardas

22.03.2023 | Original Article

Factors affecting Consumer Brand Sabotage virality: a study of an Indian brand #boycott

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

17.03.2023 | Original Article

Understanding dark side of online community engagement: an innovation resistance theory perspective

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 …

verfasst von:
Aman Kumar, Amit Shankar, Aviral Kumar Tiwari, Hae-Jung Hong

Open Access 11.03.2023 | Original Article

Privacy concerns in social media UGC communities: Understanding user behavior sentiments in complex networks

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

08.03.2023 | Original Article

Adverse effects of using gamification elements in online communities: a scoping review

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 …

verfasst von:
Nirma Sadamali Jayawardena, Aastha Behl

08.03.2023 | Original Article

Why consumers turn negative about the brand: antecedents and consequences of negative consumer engagement in virtual communities

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 …

verfasst von:
Rambalak Yadav, Deepak Sangroya, Vijay Pereira