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The Longitudinal Empirical Study of Organizational Socialization and Knowledge Sharing – From the Perspective of Job Embeddedness 组织社会化与知识共享的纵向实证研究——基于工作嵌入的视角
Q2 Computer Science Pub Date : 2020-01-23 DOI: 10.28945/4492
Chunjiang Yang, Aobo Chen
Aim/Purpose Based on the social exchange theory, this study aimed to explore the underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions between organizational socialization and knowledge sharing. Background With the advent of the era of the knowledge economy, knowledge has been replacing traditional resources such as capital, labor, and land to become the critical resources of enterprises. The competitiveness of an organization depends much on the effectiveness of its knowledge management; the success of its knowledge management largely relies upon employees’ motivation and willingness to engage in knowledge sharing. Methodology This study is a longitudinal analysis of data collected from 281 newcomers in Chinese enterprises at two-time points with a one-month interval. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was conducted to test hypotheses by calculating standardized path coefficients and their significance levels. Contribution The study examined models linking organizational socialization and knowledge sharing that included organizational links and sacrifice as mediators and trust as a moderator. Organizational socialization and knowledge sharing 2 Findings Results show that the influences of organizational socialization on knowledge sharing change regularly over time. In the role management stage, coworker support and prospects for the future impact the practices of knowledge sharing through links and sacrifice. Moreover, the findings show that trust moderates the effect of links and sacrifice on employees’ knowledge sharing. Recommendations for Practitioners This study can help enterprises develop targeted human resource management strategies, improve the degree of job embeddedness within the organization, and thus encourage more knowledge sharing among employees. Recommendations for Researchers First, researchers could pay attention to more underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions in the relationship between organizational socialization and knowledge sharing. Second, focusing on specific cultural context and dimension of concepts may provide a new insight for the future study and help add greater theoretical precision to knowledge sharing. Impact on Society First, this study suggests that coworker support and prospects for the future improve knowledge sharing within the organization. Second, understanding how job embeddedness (organizational links and organizational sacrifice) acts as a mediator enhancing knowledge sharing, managers should consider raising their attachment relationship to organizations from two aspects: links and sacrifice. Third, knowledge sharing takes place in a team-oriented context, where the success of the team requires highquality relationships among individual team members within the team as a whole. Future Research Researchers in the future should employ experimental research design or utilize longitudinal data to ensure that the findings reveal causation. In addition, future research can investigate how the initial level a
本研究以社会交换理论为基础,探讨组织社会化与知识共享的内在机制和边界条件。随着知识经济时代的到来,知识正在取代资本、劳动力、土地等传统资源,成为企业的关键资源。一个组织的竞争力很大程度上取决于其知识管理的有效性;企业知识管理的成功与否,很大程度上取决于员工参与知识共享的积极性和意愿。本研究采用纵向分析的方法,对281名中国企业新员工在两个时间点收集的数据进行分析,每个时间点间隔一个月。结构方程模型(SEM)通过计算标准化路径系数及其显著性水平来检验假设。本研究考察了组织社会化与知识共享的关联模型,包括组织联系和牺牲作为中介,信任作为调节。研究结果表明,组织社会化对知识共享的影响随时间的变化具有规律性。在角色管理阶段,同事支持和对未来的展望影响了通过链接和牺牲来分享知识的实践。此外,研究结果表明,信任调节了链接和牺牲对员工知识共享的影响。本研究可以帮助企业制定有针对性的人力资源管理策略,提高组织内部的工作嵌入度,从而促进员工之间的知识共享。首先,研究人员可以更多地关注组织社会化与知识共享关系的潜在机制和边界条件。其次,关注特定的文化背景和概念维度可以为未来的研究提供新的视角,并有助于提高知识共享的理论精度。首先,这项研究表明,同事的支持和对未来的展望可以改善组织内的知识共享。其次,了解工作嵌入性(组织联系和组织牺牲)对知识共享的中介作用后,管理者应考虑从联系和牺牲两个方面提升其对组织的依恋关系。第三,知识共享发生在以团队为导向的环境中,团队的成功需要团队成员之间的高质量关系。未来的研究未来的研究人员应该采用实验研究设计或利用纵向数据,以确保研究结果揭示因果关系。此外,未来的研究可以超越传统的横断面和滞后研究设计的观察范围,探讨组织社会化的初始水平和后期变化与知识共享的关系。
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引用次数: 4
The Adoption of CRM Initiative among Palestinian Enterprises: A Proposed Framework 巴勒斯坦企业采用客户关系管理倡议:一个建议框架
Q2 Computer Science Pub Date : 2019-11-03 DOI: 10.28945/4447
O. Salah, Prof.Dr. Zawiyah Mohammad Yusof, Dr.Hazura Mohamed
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to examine the relationships among compatibility, relative advantage, complexity, IT Infrastructure, security, top Management Support, financial Support, information Policies, employee engagement, customer pressure, competitive pressure, information integrity, information sharing, attitude toward adopting technology factors, and CRM adoptionBackground: Customer relationship management (CRM) refers to the use of the process, information, technology, and people for the management of the interactions between the organization and its customers. Therefore, there is a need for SMEs to implement CRM practices in their businesses for competitive advantage. However, in developing nations, the adoption rate of such practices remains low. This low rate may be attributed to the lack of important factors that guide CRM adoption, and as such, the present study attempts to investigate the factors affecting CRM adoption in Palestinian SMEs. This paper used the Diffusion of Innovation Theory (DOI), Resource-Based View (RBV), and Technology, Organization, and Environment Framework (TOE) framework to identify the determinant factors from the technological, organizational, environmental, and information culture perspectives.Methodology: This study uses a quantitative approach to investigate the relationships between the variables. A questionnaire was designed to collect data from 420 SMEs in Palestine. 331respondents completed and returned the survey. The Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) approach was used to assess both the measurement and structural models.Contribution: This study contributes to both theory and practitioners by providing insights into factors that affect CRM adoption in Palestinian SMEs, which did not explore before. Future research suggestions are also provided.Findings: The results of the study prove that the adoption of CRM depends on compatibility (CMP), security (SEC), top management support (TMS), information policies (INP), financial resources (FR), employee engagement (EEN), competitive pressure (COP), customers pressure (CUP), attitude toward adopting technology (ATA), information integrity (INI), and information sharing (INS). Surprisingly, complexity (CMX), IT infrastructure (ITI), and relative advantage (RLA) do not play any role in CRM adoption in Palestine.Recommendations for Practitioners: This study provides practitioners with the important factors for CRM adoption upon its successful implementation in the context of Palestinian SMEs.Recommendation for Researchers: Our findings may be used to conduct further studies about compatibility, security, top management support, information policies, financial resources, employee engagement, competitive pressure, customers pressure, attitude toward adopting technology, information integrity, information sharing factors, and CRM adoption by using different countries, procedure, and context.Impact on Society: The proposed fram
目的/目的:本研究旨在探讨兼容性、相对优势、复杂性、IT基础设施、安全性、高层支持、财务支持、信息政策、员工敬业度、客户压力、竞争压力、信息完整性、信息共享、采用技术态度等因素与CRM采用的关系。客户关系管理(CRM)是指利用流程、信息、技术和人员来管理组织与其客户之间的互动。因此,中小企业需要在其业务中实施CRM实践以获得竞争优势。然而,在发展中国家,这种做法的采用率仍然很低。这种低比率可能归因于缺乏指导客户关系管理采用的重要因素,因此,本研究试图调查影响巴勒斯坦中小企业客户关系管理采用的因素。本文运用创新扩散理论(DOI)、资源基础观(RBV)和技术、组织和环境框架(TOE)框架,从技术、组织、环境和信息文化的角度确定了企业创新的决定因素。研究方法:本研究采用定量方法探讨变量之间的关系。设计了一份问卷,收集巴勒斯坦420家中小企业的数据,331名受访者完成并返回了调查。采用偏最小二乘结构方程模型(PLS-SEM)方法对测量模型和结构模型进行评估。贡献:本研究通过提供影响巴勒斯坦中小企业采用客户关系管理的因素的见解,对理论和实践者都有贡献,这是以前没有探索过的。并对今后的研究提出了建议。结果:研究结果证明,企业采用CRM取决于兼容性(CMP)、安全性(SEC)、高层管理支持(TMS)、信息政策(INP)、财务资源(FR)、员工敬业度(EEN)、竞争压力(COP)、客户压力(CUP)、采用技术的态度(ATA)、信息完整性(INI)和信息共享(INS)。令人惊讶的是,复杂性(CMX)、IT基础设施(ITI)和相对优势(RLA)在巴勒斯坦的CRM采用中没有发挥任何作用。对从业人员的建议:本研究为从业人员提供了在巴勒斯坦中小企业成功实施客户关系管理的重要因素。对研究者的建议:我们的研究结果可用于在不同的国家、程序和背景下对兼容性、安全性、高层管理支持、信息政策、财务资源、员工敬业度、竞争压力、客户压力、采用技术的态度、信息完整性、信息共享因素和CRM采用进行进一步的研究。对社会的影响:提出的框架为中小企业提供了见解,这些见解对研究和实践具有重大影响,有助于促进CRM的采用。未来研究:研究结果还可以与在不同背景下进行的其他研究进行比较,并提供更深入的见解,了解所研究的背景对银行和大学员工采用CRM的意愿的影响。检验这些结果在发达国家和发展中国家是否同样适用,将是富有成效的。
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引用次数: 2
Crisis and Disaster Situations on Social Media Streams: An Ontology-Based Knowledge Harvesting Approach 社交媒体流上的危机和灾难:一种基于本体论的知识获取方法
Q2 Computer Science Pub Date : 2019-10-20 DOI: 10.28945/4420
S. Narayanasamy, D. Muruganantham, Atilla Elçi
Aim/Purpose: Vis-à-vis management of crisis and disaster situations, this paper focuses on important use cases of social media functions, such as information collection & dissemination, disaster event identification & monitoring, collaborative problem-solving mechanism, and decision-making process. With the prolific utilization of disaster-based ontological framework, a strong disambiguation system is realized, which further enhances the searching capabilities of the user request and provides a solution of unambiguous in nature. Background: Even though social media is information-rich, it has created a challenge for deriving a decision in critical crisis-related cases. In order to make the whole process effective and avail quality decision making, sufficiently clear semantics of such information is necessary, which can be supplemented through employing semantic web technologies. Methodology: This paper evolves a disaster ontology-based system availing a framework model for monitoring uses of social media during risk and crisis-related events. The proposed system monitors a discussion thread discovering whether it has reached its peak or decline after its root in the social forum like Twitter. The content in social media can be accessed through two typical ways: Search Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and Streaming APIs. These two kinds of API processes can be used interchangeably. News content may be filtered by time, geographical region, keyword occurrence and availability ratio. With the support of disaster ontology, domain knowledge extraction and comparison against all possible concepts are availed. Besides, the proposed method makes use of SPARQL to disambiguate the query and yield the results which produce high precision.Contribution: The model provides for the collection of crisis-related temporal data and decision making through semantic mapping of entities over concepts in a disaster ontology we developed, thereby disambiguating potential named entities. Results of empirical testing and analysis indicate that the proposed model outperforms similar other models.Findings: Crucial findings of this research lie in three aspects: (1) Twitter streams and conventional news media tend to offer almost similar types of news coverage for a specified event, but the rate of distribution among topics/categories differs. (2) On specific events such as disaster, crisis or any emergency situations, the volume of information that has been accumulated between the two news media stands divergent and filtering the most potential information poses a challenging task. (3) Relational mapping/co-occurrence of terms has been well designed for conventional news media, but due to shortness and sparseness of tweets, there remains a bottleneck for researchers.Recommendations for Practitioners: Though metadata avails collaborative details of news content and it has been conventionally used in many areas like information retrieval, natural language proce
目的/目的:针对危机和灾害情况的管理,本文重点介绍了社交媒体功能的重要用例,如信息收集和传播、灾害事件识别和监测、协作解决机制和决策过程。随着基于灾难的本体论框架的大量使用,实现了一个强大的消歧系统,进一步增强了用户请求的搜索能力,提供了一个本质上毫不含糊的解决方案。背景:尽管社交媒体信息丰富,但在与危机相关的重大案件中,它给做出决定带来了挑战。为了使整个过程有效并有助于质量决策,有必要对这些信息进行足够清晰的语义处理,可以通过使用语义web技术来补充这些信息。方法论:本文开发了一个基于灾害本体的系统,该系统利用一个框架模型来监控风险和危机相关事件中社交媒体的使用。拟议中的系统监测讨论线程,发现它在推特等社交论坛上扎根后是达到了顶峰还是衰落。社交媒体中的内容可以通过两种典型的方式访问:搜索应用程序接口(API)和流媒体API。这两种API过程可以互换使用。新闻内容可以根据时间、地理区域、关键词出现和可用率进行过滤。在灾害本体的支持下,可以提取领域知识,并与所有可能的概念进行比较。此外,该方法还利用SPARQL对查询进行了消歧处理,得到了精度较高的结果。贡献:该模型通过我们开发的灾害本体中实体与概念的语义映射,提供了与危机相关的时间数据的收集和决策,从而消除了潜在命名实体的歧义。实证检验和分析结果表明,所提出的模型优于其他类似模型。研究结果:这项研究的关键发现在于三个方面:(1)推特流和传统新闻媒体倾向于为特定事件提供几乎相似类型的新闻报道,但主题/类别之间的分布率不同。(2) 关于灾难、危机或任何紧急情况等具体事件,两家新闻媒体之间积累的信息量存在差异,过滤最潜在的信息是一项具有挑战性的任务。(3) 术语的关系映射/共现已经为传统新闻媒体设计好了,但由于推文的简短和稀疏,研究人员仍然面临瓶颈。对从业者的建议:尽管元数据提供了新闻内容的协作细节,并且已被传统地用于信息检索、自然语言处理和模式识别等许多领域,但在数据的语义方面仍然缺乏实现。因此,强烈建议广泛使用本体来构建面向语义的元数据,用于基于概念的建模、信息流搜索和知识交换。对研究人员的建议:对研究人员强烈的建议是,与其严重依赖传统的信息检索(IR)系统,不如更多地关注本体,以提高准确率,从而减少结果集中持续存在的模糊术语。为了利用潜在的信息来推断隐藏的事实,本研究建议对来自不同来源的信息进行聚类,而不是修剪单个新闻来源。建议使用领域本体来分离与其他候选集相比具有模糊性的实体,从而加强结果。对社会的影响:本研究的目的是对现实世界中发生的危机、灾难、紧急情况和基于浩劫的情况进行信息总结。提出了一个系统,该系统提供了对此类事件的总结观点,并通过相互关联来证实新闻。它的主要任务是监督那些从观众的角度来看非常繁荣和重要的活动。未来研究:在未来,应努力帮助总结和可视化模型排名靠前的潜在信息。
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引用次数: 2
Contextualist Inquiry into E-Commerce Institutionalization in Developing Countries: The Case of Mozambican Women-led SMMES 发展中国家电子商务制度化的语境主义探究:以莫桑比克妇女领导的中小企业为例
Q2 Computer Science Pub Date : 2019-10-18 DOI: 10.28945/4445
S. Kabanda, Fernanda Matsinhe
Aim/Purpose: This study explores how women-led SMMEs in developing countries, specifically in the Mozambican context, institutionalise e-commerce by focusing on the ongoing interaction between the SMME, its context, and process of e-commerce institutionalization. Background: It is believed that institutionalization of e-commerce provides significant benefits of unlimited access to new markets, and access to new, improved, inexpensive and convenient operational methods of transacting. Although prior studies have examined the adoption of e-commerce and the enabling and constraining factors, few have examined e-commerce (i) institutionalization (that is, post-adoption), and (ii) from a gender perspective. This study aims to respond to this paucity in the literature by exploring how women-led SMMEs in developing countries, specifically in the Mozambican context, institutionalise e-commerce. Methodology: The study follows a qualitative inquiry approach for both data collection and analysis. Semi-structured interviews were adopted for data collection and thematic analysis implemented on the data. SMMEs were purposively sampled to allow for the selection of information-rich SMMEs for study and specifically those that have gone through the experience of adoption and in some cases have institutionalized e-commerce. Contribution: The empirical findings explain how the institutionalization process from interactive e-commerce to transactive e-commerce unfolds in the Mozambican context. Findings: Transition from interactive to transactive e-commerce is firstly influenced by (i) the type of business the SMME is engaged in; and (ii) customer and trading partner’s readiness for e-commerce. Secondly, the transition process is influenced by the internal factors of (i) manager’s demographic factors; (ii) mimetic behaviour arising from exposure to (foreign) organizations in the same industry that have mature forms of e-commerce; (iii) the business networks developed with some of these organizations that have mature forms of e-commerce; (iv) access to financial resources; and (v) social media technologies. Thirdly, the process is influenced by external contextual factors of (i) limited government intervention towards e-commerce endeavors; (ii) limited to lack of financial institutions readiness for e-commerce; (iii) lack of local available IT expertise; (iv) consumer’s low purchasing power due to economic recessions; (vi) international competitive pressure; and (vii) sociocultural practices. Recommendations for Practitioners: The study provides SMME managers, practitioners, and other stakeholders concerned with women’s development with a better understanding of the process in order to develop appropriate policies and interventions that are suitable for the reality of women-led SMMEs in Mozambique and other developing countries with similar contextual characteristics. Recommendation for Researchers: The study contributes to the existing debate of e-
目的/目的:本研究探讨了发展中国家,特别是莫桑比克的妇女领导的中小微企业如何通过关注中小微企业、其背景和电子商务制度化过程之间的持续互动,使电子商务制度化。背景:人们认为,电子商务的制度化提供了巨大的好处,可以无限制地进入新的市场,并获得新的、改进的、廉价的、方便的交易操作方法。虽然以前的研究已经审查了电子商务的采用及其促成和制约因素,但很少有研究从性别角度审查电子商务(i)制度化(即采用后)和(ii)。本研究旨在通过探索发展中国家,特别是莫桑比克的女性领导的中小企业如何将电子商务制度化,来回应文献中的这种缺乏。研究方法:本研究采用定性调查方法进行数据收集和分析。采用半结构化访谈进行数据收集,并对数据进行专题分析。有目的地对中小企业进行抽样,以便选择信息丰富的中小企业进行研究,特别是那些经历了采用电子商务的经验并在某些情况下已将电子商务制度化的中小企业。贡献:实证研究结果解释了从互动式电子商务到互动式电子商务的制度化过程如何在莫桑比克的背景下展开。研究发现:从互动式电子商务向互动式电子商务的转变首先受到以下因素的影响:(i)中小微企业从事的业务类型;(ii)客户和贸易伙伴对电子商务的准备情况。其次,转型过程受内部因素的影响:(1)管理者的人口因素;(二)因接触到同行业中具有成熟电子商务形式的(外国)组织而产生的模仿行为;(三)与其中一些电子商务形式成熟的机构建立的商业网络;获得财政资源;(五)社交媒体技术。第三,这一过程受到以下外部背景因素的影响:(1)政府对电子商务活动的有限干预;(ii)仅限于金融机构对电子商务的准备不足;(iii)缺乏本地可用的资讯科技专业知识;(四)经济衰退导致消费者购买力下降;国际竞争压力;(七)社会文化习俗。对从业者的建议:该研究为中小企业管理者、从业者和其他关注妇女发展的利益相关者提供了更好的了解这一过程的机会,以便制定适合莫桑比克和其他具有类似背景特征的发展中国家妇女领导的中小企业现实的适当政策和干预措施。对研究人员的建议:本研究对制度化进程和背景结构如何影响这一进程作出了独特的贡献,有助于促进发展中国家电子商务和利用信息通信技术促进发展的现有辩论。对社会的影响:女性领导的中小企业管理者可以从不同的经验中学习,并将其电子商务工作与能够在组织内制度化并制定改进战略的中小企业进行比较。未来研究:女性领导的中小企业采用电子商务的方式需要进一步调查,以了解与性别、文化背景和不同地区或国家有关的问题如何影响这一过程。
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引用次数: 1
Revealing the Influential Factors Driving Social Commerce Adoption 揭示推动社交商务采用的影响因素
Q2 Computer Science Pub Date : 2019-09-26 DOI: 10.28945/4438
Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan
Aim/Purpose: This study aims to identify the main factors influencing consumers’ adoption of social commerce (s-commerce). Based on the socio-technical theory, the study suggests a research model that investigates the key social and technical factors driving consumers’ decision to purchase from social commerce websites. In addition, the research model explores the interactive relationship among these factors. Background: The phenomenon of social commerce (s-commerce) has emerged due to the increased penetration of social media and the rapid development of Web 2.0 technologies. Electronic commerce (e-commerce) companies have made significant efforts to shift their operations to s-commerce. Therefore, to facilitate their efforts to transform, various research has been conducted to investigate the main factor influencing the adoption of s-commerce. Most of these studies have emphasised the social aspects related to s-commerce design features to understand how the use of advanced web technologies influence how customers interact with each other in s-commerce environments. However, s-commerce is viewed as a socio-technical system that requires the investigation of both social and technical factors to help in the design of effective s-commerce platforms.Methodology: To validate the proposed research model, 418 paper-based and online questionnaires were collected from online shoppers in Jordan. The Structure Equation Modelling (SEM) approach was used to test the proposed hypotheses. Contribution: This study offers a research model that serves as a theoretical framework for investigating customers’ behaviour in s-commerce environment. It represents a strong context-specific model that includes both the technical and social facilitators of s-commerce. The research model participates in gaining an improved understanding of how customers’ intention, actual purchase and post-purchase experience are formed in the s-commerce environment.Findings: The results of Structure Equation Modelling (SEM) reveal that s-commerce constructs, familiarity and user experience have a positive influence on the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of s-commerce. In addition, perceptions of its usefulness and ease of use have a positive influence on trust, which in turn influences the purchase intention and the actual purchase. Finally, the post-purchase experience significantly influences both trust and purchase intention. Recommendations for Practitioners: This study shows that social commerce constructs strengthen customers’ perceptions of usefulness. S-commerce service providers are required to provide their customers with various channels to seek social support. Both familiarity and user experience are key enablers of customers’ perceived ease of use. S-commerce service providers consider the variation in customers’ familiarity and experience with s-commerce websites because this has a significant influence on purchase intentions and behaviour. Consequ
目的:本研究旨在确定影响消费者采用社交商务(s-commerce)的主要因素。基于社会技术理论,本研究提出了一个研究模型,该模型研究了推动消费者从社交商务网站购买决策的关键社会和技术因素。此外,研究模型还探讨了这些因素之间的互动关系。背景:随着社交媒体的普及和Web 2.0技术的快速发展,社交商务(s-commerce)现象应运而生。电子商务(电子商务)公司已经做出了重大努力,将其业务转移到s-commerce。因此,为了促进他们的转型,人们进行了各种研究,以调查影响电子商务采用的主要因素。这些研究大多强调与电子商务设计特征相关的社会方面,以了解先进网络技术的使用如何影响电子商务环境中客户之间的互动方式。然而,电子商务被视为一个社会技术系统,需要对社会和技术因素进行调查,以帮助设计有效的电子商务平台。方法:为了验证提出的研究模型,从约旦的在线购物者中收集了418份纸质和在线问卷。采用结构方程建模(SEM)方法对提出的假设进行检验。贡献:本研究提供了一个研究模型,作为研究电子商务环境下顾客行为的理论框架。它代表了一个强大的特定于上下文的模型,其中包括s-commerce的技术和社会促进者。该研究模型有助于更好地理解在s-commerce环境下顾客的意向、实际购买和购后体验是如何形成的。研究发现:结构方程模型(SEM)结果显示,s-commerce结构、熟悉度和用户体验对s-commerce感知有用性和感知易用性有正向影响。此外,对其有用性和易用性的感知对信任有正向影响,信任反过来影响购买意愿和实际购买。最后,购后体验对信任和购买意愿都有显著影响。对从业者的建议:本研究表明,社交商务结构增强了客户对有用性的感知。要求S-commerce服务提供商为其客户提供各种寻求社会支持的渠道。熟悉度和用户体验都是客户感知易用性的关键因素。S-commerce服务提供商考虑客户对S-commerce网站的熟悉程度和经验的变化,因为这对购买意愿和行为有重大影响。因此,系统设计者应该提供有用的和充分的信息和教程,有效地指导客户在整个购物过程中的搜索、决策和购买活动。电子商务服务提供商应了解提供安全支付系统的重要性,并向客户明确其隐私政策。购后体验对增强顾客信任和购买意愿有影响作用。研究结果证实了购后体验在通过提高顾客信任和再购买意愿来留住顾客方面的重要作用。因此,让顾客的购后体验愉快应该是s-commerce服务提供商的一个关键优先事项,因为它对顾客的信任和再购买意愿有重大影响。对研究人员的建议:本研究提供了s-commerce设计特征的单向度概念化。这些功能包括三种主要形式:推荐和推荐,社区和论坛,以及评论和评级。这种概念化提供了对s-commerce中信息共享活动的额外见解和理解。本文强调了s-commerce技术方面的重要性,并提供了经验证据,证明由社交技术引导的社交互动增强了客户对s-commerce网站的感知有用性,从而增加了他们的信任和购买意愿,从而导致实际购买。这提供了对各种类型的电子商务特征的见解,这些特征有助于促进客户在电子商务网站上的购买行为。对社会的影响:研究结果为研究和实践提供了重要的启示,有助于促进电子商务的采用。未来研究:本研究将电子商务网站视为一个同质的网络环境。 额外的研究可以从不同的在线社区收集数据,比如专业团体,以全面了解更广泛的用户行为是如何受到影响的。其次,这是一项基于问卷收集数据的定量研究。进一步的研究可考虑使用定性或混合方法(即焦点小组和访谈)来探索影响电子商务使用的其他技术和社会因素。
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引用次数: 36
Millennial Experience with Online Food Home Delivery: A Lesson from Indonesia 在线食品送货上门的千禧年体验:来自印度尼西亚的经验
Q2 Computer Science Pub Date : 2019-09-19 DOI: 10.28945/4386
D. Suhartanto, D. Dean, G. Leo, Ni Nyoman Triyuni
Aim/Purpose: To examine millennial satisfaction towards online food delivery services, including e-service quality, food quality, and perceived value as the determinants and behavioral intention as the consequence.Background: Among the generational cohorts, millennials are a demanding target group for many retailers, including restaurants. Despite many studies examining millennial behavior in the restaurant context, almost no research on millennial attitudes and behavior in the context of online food home delivery service can be found. Methodology: For this research, 332 millennials completed a self-administered survey in Indonesia. To assess the associations between satisfaction and its determinants and consequences, this study employs Partial Least Square modeling.Contribution: This research extends existing knowledge of millennial satisfaction toward online food delivery service by highlighting that food quality, e-service quality and perceived value are the main determinants of satisfaction for online food purchasing among millennials. Further, this study offers support for the spillover theory in the online food home delivery service from millennial perspective.Findings: This study uncovers the important direct dual influences of e-service quality and food quality on millennial satisfaction with online food delivery services. Further, this study notes that e-service and food quality also have an indirect influence on satisfaction via perceived value. Moreover, satisfied millennial customers are more likely to re-purchase, recommend to others, and re-purchase at an increased price.Recommendations for Practitioners: For small and medium restaurants, it is suggested that they need to focus solely on their core business of providing food. If they want to offer an e-service, they should develop strategic cooperation with one or more online service providers.Recommendation for Researchers: Millennials tend to repurchase, recommend, and be willing to pay more in the future extends the existing models that look at the associations among quality, satisfaction and behavioral intention. Thus, in online restaurant purchasing services, both e-service quality and food quality should be included in the future research models.Impact on Society: This study could help restaurant industries to increase their business performance and, indirectly, impact on society as a whole by providing high quality food, employment opportunities, and tax revenues.Future Research: Future researchers can reassess the model in different countries and/or with other generation cohorts as well as including other variables such as trust, image, involvement, as well as socio-demographic factors.
目的/目的:研究千禧一代对在线外卖服务的满意度,包括电子服务质量、食品质量和感知价值作为决定因素和行为意愿作为结果。背景:在世代群体中,千禧一代是许多零售商(包括餐馆)要求很高的目标群体。尽管有许多研究调查了千禧一代在餐馆环境下的行为,但几乎没有研究发现千禧一代在在线食品送货上门服务环境下的态度和行为。方法:在这项研究中,332名千禧一代在印度尼西亚完成了一项自我管理的调查。为了评估满意度及其决定因素和后果之间的关系,本研究采用偏最小二乘模型。贡献:本研究通过强调食品质量、电子服务质量和感知价值是千禧一代在线食品购买满意度的主要决定因素,扩展了千禧一代对在线食品配送服务满意度的现有知识。此外,本研究从千禧一代的视角为网络外卖服务的溢出理论提供了支持。研究结果:本研究揭示了电子服务质量和食品质量对千禧一代在线外卖服务满意度的重要直接双重影响。此外,本研究指出,电子服务和食品质量也通过感知价值间接影响满意度。此外,满意的千禧一代客户更有可能再次购买,向他人推荐,并以更高的价格再次购买。对从业者的建议:对于中小型餐厅,建议他们只专注于提供食物这一核心业务。如果他们想提供电子服务,他们应该与一个或多个在线服务提供商发展战略合作。对研究人员的推荐:千禧一代倾向于重复购买,推荐,并愿意在未来支付更多的钱,扩展了现有的模型,研究质量,满意度和行为意图之间的关系。因此,在网上餐饮采购服务中,电子服务质量和食品质量都应该纳入未来的研究模型。对社会的影响:这项研究可以帮助餐饮业提高他们的经营绩效,并间接地通过提供高质量的食物,就业机会和税收对整个社会产生影响。未来的研究:未来的研究人员可以在不同的国家和/或与其他世代的队列重新评估模型,以及包括其他变量,如信任,形象,参与,以及社会人口因素。
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引用次数: 37
Information Technology Capabilities and SMEs Performance: An Understanding of a Multi-Mediation Model for the Manufacturing Sector 信息技术能力与中小企业绩效:对制造业多重中介模型的理解
Q2 Computer Science Pub Date : 2019-09-09 DOI: 10.28945/4429
Rana Nabeel-Rehman, Mohammad Nazri
Aim/Purpose: Despite the fact that the plethora of studies demonstrate the positive impact of information technology (IT) capabilities on SMEs performance, the understanding of underlying mechanisms through which IT capabilities affect the firm performance is not yet clear. This study fills these gaps by explaining the roles of absorptive capacity and corporate entrepreneurship. The study also elaborates the effect of IT capability dimensions (IT integration and IT alignment) upon the SMEs performance outcomes through the mediating sequential process of absorptive capacity and corporate entrepreneurship.Methodology: This study empirically tests a theoretical model based on the Dynamic Capability View (DCV), by using the partial least square (PLS) technique with a sample of 489 manufacturing SMEs in Pakistan. A survey is employed for the data collection by following the cluster sampling approach. Contribution: This research contributes to the literature of IT by bifurcating the IT capability into two dimensions, IT integration and IT alignment, which allows us to distinguish between different sources of IT capabilities. Additionally, our findings shed the light on the dynamic capability view by theoretically and empirically demonstrating how absorptive capacity and corporate entrepreneurship sequentially affect the firms' performance outcomes. At last, this study contributes to the literature of SMEs by measuring the two levels of performance: innovation performance and firm performance.Findings: The results of the analysis show that the absorptive capacity and the corporate entrepreneurship significantly mediate the relationship between both dimensions of IT capability and performance outcomes.
目的/目的:尽管大量的研究证明了信息技术(IT)能力对中小企业绩效的积极影响,但对IT能力影响企业绩效的潜在机制的理解尚不清楚。本研究通过解释吸收能力和企业企业家精神的作用填补了这些空白。研究还通过中介吸收能力和企业企业家精神的顺序过程,阐述了IT能力维度(IT整合和IT对齐)对中小企业绩效结果的影响。方法:本研究通过使用偏最小二乘(PLS)技术,对巴基斯坦489家制造业中小企业的样本进行了基于动态能力观(DCV)的理论模型的实证检验。采用整群抽样方法进行调查收集数据。贡献:本研究通过将IT能力分为IT集成和IT对齐两个维度,从而使我们能够区分不同的IT能力来源,从而对IT文献做出了贡献。此外,我们的研究结果通过理论和实证证明了吸收能力和企业企业家精神是如何依次影响企业绩效结果的,从而阐明了动态能力观点。最后,本研究通过对创新绩效和企业绩效两个层面的测量,对中小企业的文献做出了贡献。结果表明:吸收能力和企业企业家精神在IT能力和绩效结果两个维度之间的关系中起着显著的中介作用。
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引用次数: 10
The Role of Social Network in Family Business Diversification: Evidence from South Eastern Nigeria 社会网络在家族企业多元化中的作用:来自尼日利亚东南部的证据
Q2 Computer Science Pub Date : 2019-06-10 DOI: 10.28945/4340
Kenneth Chukwujioke Agbim, A. Igwe
Aim/Purpose: This study seeks to investigate if participation in business association’s programs through the traditional and new media platforms influences family businesses in South Eastern Nigeria to diversify into similar or different businesses.Background: Before the advances in information and communication technology, businesses were carried on via the traditional media. The application of these advances has changed the way business communications and transactions are conducted globally in both family and non-family businesses. Businesses are adapting to today’s turbulent environment by opening similar or different businesses in the same or different locations that are hinged on the traditional and new media platforms. Nigerians are largely involved in social network through the traditional (face-to-face contact) and new media (e.g., Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram). Moreover, in spite of the commonplaceness of family businesses in Nigeria, these businesses still experience weak diversification, bankruptcy and loss of socio-emotional wealth. Consequent upon the foregoing, this paper specifically investigates if involvement in social network via the traditional media (i.e., participation in business association’s meetings, workshops, seminars) and the new media (i.e., participation in the business association’s interactive sessions on trending business issues through the association’s online social platform like WhatsApp, Twitter), influence family businesses in South Eastern Nigeria to diversify into similar or different businesses.Methodology: The study adopted a qualitative methodology. The qualitative data were generated via interview involving 30 purposively selected businesses from South Eastern Nigeria. This comprises 15 family businesses each that have respectively adopted related and unrelated diversification strategies. Two respondents (i.e., the business owner and a top level manager) each were drawn from the selected businesses. In all, 60 respondents were interviewed. Since the unit of analysis is the family business, the interview transcriptions from all the respondents were subjected to thematic content analysis on the basis of the family businesses. Contribution: Active involvement and participation in all the meetings, discussions, workshops and seminars of the social network via the traditional and new media platforms facilitates the adoption of related or unrelated diversification in family businesses. Moreover, the adoption of similar social network platforms like WhatsApp and Twitter in all the relationships among and between employees and managers, and the transactions of the businesses is one of the key factors for achieving successful related or unrelated diversification in family businesses.Findings: In spite of the risky nature of the business environment, the adoption of related diversification strategies is significantly influenced by resources such as business consultancy services garner
目的/目的:本研究旨在调查通过传统和新媒体平台参与商业协会的计划是否会影响尼日利亚东南部的家族企业向相似或不同的业务多元化。背景:在信息和通信技术进步之前,商业是通过传统媒体进行的。这些进步的应用改变了家族和非家族企业在全球范围内进行商业沟通和交易的方式。企业通过在相同或不同的地点开设类似或不同的业务来适应当今动荡的环境,这些业务依赖于传统和新媒体平台。尼日利亚人主要通过传统(面对面接触)和新媒体(如Facebook、WhatsApp、Twitter、YouTube和Instagram)参与社交网络。此外,尽管家族企业在尼日利亚司空见惯,但这些企业仍然面临着多元化薄弱、破产和社会情感财富流失的问题。综上所述,本文专门研究了通过传统媒体(即参与商业协会的会议,研讨会,研讨会)和新媒体(即通过协会的在线社交平台如WhatsApp, Twitter参与商业协会关于趋势商业问题的互动会议)参与社交网络,是否影响尼日利亚东南部的家族企业向相似或不同的业务多元化。研究方法:本研究采用定性方法。定性数据是通过对尼日利亚东南部30家企业的访谈产生的。这包括15个家族企业,每个家族企业分别采取了相关和不相关的多元化战略。从选定的企业中抽取两名受访者(即企业所有者和一名高层管理人员)。总共有60名受访者接受了采访。由于分析的单位是家族企业,所以对所有受访者的访谈笔录进行了以家族企业为基础的主题内容分析。贡献:通过传统和新媒体平台积极参与和参与社会网络的所有会议、讨论、讲习班和研讨会,促进家族企业采取相关或不相关的多元化。此外,在员工和管理者之间以及企业之间的所有关系和交易中采用类似的社交网络平台,如WhatsApp和Twitter,是家族企业成功实现相关或不相关多元化的关键因素之一。研究发现:尽管商业环境具有风险性,但通过社交网络的传统和新媒体平台获得的商业咨询服务等资源对相关多元化策略的采用有显著影响。此外,积极参与社会网络的家族企业,行动者通过传统媒体和新媒体进行互动,受到所获得资源的影响,考虑采取不相关多元化。这些资源包括:更好地理解商业挑战、环境和经验的本质;以及不同的业务。因此,传统媒体平台和新媒体平台的作用是互补的。对从业者的建议:家族企业的所有者-管理者可以利用研究结果制定相关或不相关的战略,以进入现有或新的市场。这可以通过制造工厂的本地化,产品包装的改进,销售网点更接近消费者,引入更低的产品/服务价格,引入新的和更好的服务提供方式,或制定更引人注目的促销策略。对研究人员的建议:本研究对未来的研究人员在目标的制定、数据收集工具和被调查者的选择、数据分析方法的采用等方面具有真正的指导作用。对社会的影响:成功的多元化意味着建立新的或更多的业务。因此,预计这些新的或更多的家族企业将转化为更多的就业机会,进而减少社会上的失业率和贫困率。未来研究:应进一步开展研究,以促进家族企业的发展,补充现有文献,并确保研究结果的普遍性。
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引用次数: 0
Knowledge Sharing Process and Innovation Success: Evidence from Public Organisations in Southern Nigeria 知识共享过程与创新成功:来自尼日利亚南部公共组织的证据
Q2 Computer Science Pub Date : 2019-06-07 DOI: 10.28945/4358
Uzoma Heman Ononye, A. Igwe
Aim/Purpose: This study investigates the relationship between knowledge sharing process and innovation success with specific emphasis on tacit knowledge. Based on the literature review, we hypothesised that knowledge donating and collecting have a positive relationship with innovation success.Methodology: The hypotheses were empirically tested using the partial least square path modelling with data collected from twelve state-owned public organisations operating in Southern Nigeria.Contribution: The research made distinct empirical contributions to the burgeoning literature on knowledge sharing and innovation from the public sector and developing country context.Findings: Knowledge donating and collecting contribute to innovation success positively and significantly. Knowledge donating effect on innovation success was found to be more significantly positive than the effect of knowledge collecting on innovation success. Recommendations for Practitioners: Public organisations should promote a supportive culture to spur innovation through the frequent share of experiences, information and skills among the various knowledge actors. Public managers should convey the importance of knowledge sharing and its value to knowledge users in clear terms and attend to creating conditions or contexts that encourage people to share knowledge freely and willingly with others. It is apt to improve organisational commitment and support for knowledge sharing activities such as mentorship programs, workshops, conferences, seminars and other related training and development programs in order to provide opportunities for employees to develop innovation competencies from the transfer of tacit knowledge developed over time from experience. To optimise innovation outcomes from knowledge sharing practices, knowledge sharing should be in tandem with the industry or global best practices.Future Research: Future studies should add interviews to provide depth in terms of insights and substance to the questionnaire, and may extend to public organisation with different ownership structure.
目的:本研究以隐性知识为研究对象,探讨知识共享过程与创新成功的关系。在文献综述的基础上,我们假设知识捐赠和知识收集与创新成功之间存在正相关关系。方法:使用偏最小二乘路径模型对假设进行了实证检验,该模型收集了尼日利亚南部12个国有公共组织的数据。贡献:本研究对公共部门和发展中国家背景下关于知识共享和创新的新兴文献做出了显著的实证贡献。研究发现:知识捐赠与知识收集对创新成功有显著的正向影响。知识捐赠对创新成功的正向影响显著高于知识收集对创新成功的正向影响。对从业人员的建议:公共机构应促进一种支持性文化,通过在各种知识参与者之间频繁分享经验、信息和技能来刺激创新。公共管理人员应明确地向知识使用者传达知识分享的重要性及其价值,并注意创造条件或环境,鼓励人们自由和自愿地与他人分享知识。这有利于提高组织对知识共享活动的承诺和支持,如指导计划、讲习班、会议、研讨会和其他相关的培训和发展计划,以便为员工提供机会,通过从经验中积累的隐性知识的转移来发展创新能力。为了优化知识共享实践的创新成果,知识共享应与行业或全球最佳实践相结合。未来的研究:未来的研究应增加访谈,以提供深度的见解和实质的问卷,并可能扩展到不同的所有权结构的公共组织。
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引用次数: 5
Effects of Advocacy Banners after Abandoning Products in Online Shopping Carts 放弃购物车中的产品后宣传横幅的效果
Q2 Computer Science Pub Date : 2019-05-02 DOI: 10.28945/4310
H. Yeh, Fenghung Kuo
Aim/Purpose: This study empirically analyzed and examined the effectiveness of the online advocacy banners on customers’ reactions to make replacements with the similar products in their shopping carts.Background: When a product in a shopping cart is removed, it might be put back into the cart again during the same purchase or it may be bought in the future. Otherwise, it might be abandoned and replaced with a similar item based on the customer’s enquiry list or on the recommendation of banners. There is a lack of understanding of this phenomenon in the existing literature, pointing to the need for this study.Methodology: With a database from a Taiwanese e-retailer, data were the tracks of empirical webpage clickstreams. The used data for analyses were particularly that the products were purchased again or replaced with the similar ones upon the advocacy banners being shown when they were removed from customers’ shopping carts. Few pre-defined Apriori rules as well as similarity algorithm, Jaccard index, were applied to derive the effectiveness.Contribution: This study addressed a measurement challenge by leveraging the information from clickstream data – particularly clickstream data behavior. These data are most useful to observe the real-time behavior of consumers on websites and also are applied to studying click-through behavior, but not click-through rates, for web banners. The study develops a new methodology to aid advertisers in evaluating the effectiveness of their banner campaign.Findings: The recommending/advocating titles of “you probably are interested” and “the most viewed” are not significantly effective on saving back customers’ removed products or repurchasing similar items. For the banners entitled “most buy”, “the most viewed” might only show popularity of the items, but is not enough to convince them to buy. At the current stage on the host website, customers may either not trust in the host e-retailer or in such mechanism. Additionally, the advocating/recommending banners only are effective on the same customer visits and their effects fade over time. As time passes, customers’ impressions of these banners may become vague.Recommendations for Practitioners: One managerial implication is more effective adoption of advocacy/recommendation banners on e-retailing websites. Another managerial implication is the evaluation of the advocacy/recommendation banners. By using a data mining technique to find the association between removed products and restored ones in e-shoppers’ shopping carts, the approach and findings of this study, which are important for e-retailing marketers, reflect the connection between the usage of banners and the personalized purchase changes in an individual customer’s shopping cart.Recommendation for Researchers: This study addressed a new measurement which challenges to leverage the information from clickstream data instead of click-through rates – particularly retailing webpages browsing beha
目的/目的:本研究实证分析和检验了在线宣传横幅对消费者在购物车中更换同类产品的反应的有效性。背景:当购物车中的产品被删除时,它可能会在同一次购买中再次放入购物车,也可能在将来被购买。否则,可能会根据客户的询盘列表或广告条的推荐而放弃该广告,并替换为类似的项目。现有文献对这一现象的认识不足,表明本研究的必要性。方法:利用台湾电子零售商的数据库,数据是经验网页点击流的轨迹。用于分析的数据主要是,当这些产品从顾客的购物车中移除时,这些产品被再次购买或替换为宣传横幅上显示的类似产品。采用少量预定义的Apriori规则和相似度算法Jaccard索引来推导有效性。贡献:本研究通过利用点击流数据中的信息,特别是点击流数据行为,解决了一个测量挑战。这些数据对于观察消费者在网站上的实时行为非常有用,也适用于研究网络横幅广告的点击率,但不是点击率。该研究开发了一种新的方法来帮助广告商评估其横幅广告的有效性。研究发现:“你可能感兴趣”和“浏览次数最多”的推荐/倡导标题对于挽回被下客的商品或再次购买类似商品并没有显著的效果。对于标题为“购买次数最多”的横幅,“观看次数最多”可能只显示商品的受欢迎程度,但不足以说服他们购买。在主机网站的当前阶段,客户可能不信任主机电子零售商,也可能不信任这种机制。此外,倡导/推荐横幅只对相同的客户访问有效,其效果会随着时间的推移而减弱。随着时间的推移,消费者对这些横幅的印象可能会变得模糊。对从业者的建议:一个管理含义是在电子零售网站上更有效地采用宣传/推荐横幅。另一个管理含义是对宣传/建议横幅的评价。通过使用数据挖掘技术来寻找电子购物者购物车中删除的产品和恢复的产品之间的关联,本研究的方法和发现对电子零售营销人员来说很重要,它反映了横幅广告的使用与个人顾客购物车中个性化购买变化之间的联系。给研究人员的建议:这项研究提出了一种新的测量方法,它挑战了利用点击流数据而不是点击率的信息——特别是零售网页的浏览行为。这些数据对于观察消费者在网站上的实时行为非常有用,也可以用于研究点击行为。对社会的影响:个性化已经成为一项重要的技术,使企业能够改善与在线客户的销售和服务关系。这种个性化使电子营销人员能够在使用横幅广告时提供真正有效的效果。未来研究:该方法的有效性具有时效性和个案性。鼓励商业从业者和学术研究人员将挖掘方法应用于长寿研究、特定的广告营销活动和个人推荐,以及任何进一步的推荐算法。
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