Pub Date : 2019-03-28DOI: 10.1504/IJEB.2019.10020275
P. Kosalge, S. Crampton, Ashok Kumar
Many businesses today utilise blogs to expand opportunities to communicate, collaborate, and network. However, some believe it may be on a downward path as users today may prefer micro-blogging with Twitter and Facebook. Since the adoption of web services is typically bottom-up, it is important to understand perceptions toward workplace blogs, especially among the younger generation. A study of over four hundred users finds statistically significant evidence for reduced user perceptions of blogging over the years. The study also identifies four business areas that users find important for blogs, including employee networking and online sales. This research is one of the few recent works that show a relationship between importance and performance, previously assumed to be independent. For blogs, the relationship is found to be continuously increasing. The importance-performance analysis framework can now be used as a tool for decision-making by businesses as well providers of the blogging technology.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-07DOI: 10.1504/IJEB.2018.10017167
Guopeng Yu
Not all modern tourists are enthusiastic about sharing their feelings and experiences regarding destinations online after their travels. This creates barriers for tourism service providers, as their service is more likely to be known by the public after the information concerning it is more transmitted. Our previous studies found that using rewards could motivate tourists to share on social media. By carrying out two experiments, this study further examined whom we should reward, and what we should reward in the referral reward systems (RRSs). Our findings indicated that both reward types (social mechanisms and direct rewards) should be provided to online sharers who perceived a large social distance from their peers. However, the outcomes of social mechanisms were more effective than those of direct rewards. This study provides scholars and practitioners insights on how to design efficient and cost-effective RRSs.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-04DOI: 10.1504/IJEB.2017.083294
Trianggoro Wiradinata
Nascent entrepreneurs have more alternatives nowadays to start or expand their business since the growing years of e-marketplace. Determinants of the use of e-marketplaces by nascent entrepreneurs for the purpose of business start-up were constructed as hypothetical model. Factors concerned with self-efficacy, personality traits and intention to adopt technology were included and the model was verified and modified using survey from a sample of 378 Indonesian nascent entrepreneurs. The results from the final model confirmed some relationships that previously been published in previous studies such as entrepreneurial self-efficacy, openness to experience and conscientiousness. Furthermore, there were several new findings of causal effects on intention to adopt due to self-efficacy and personality traits. Despite the theoretical contribution of the findings, practical interpretations are offered as norms of increasing the adoption level of e-marketplaces by nascent entrepreneurs for the purpose of business start-up.
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