Pub Date : 2021-05-14DOI: 10.1504/ijmc.2022.10033863
Xuan Li, Yuan Liu
This paper investigates the influence mechanisms of platform on supply-side behaviour. Specifically, we examine taxi drivers' adoption of Didi Chuxing, a dominating ride-hailing app in the taxi industry in China. We address the influence mechanisms of the platform through reducing information asymmetry, reducing information search cost and matching the supply side with the demand side. By using a panel regression model, we find that the app exerts its influence on taxi drivers' offline operational behaviour mainly through the mechanisms of reducing information search cost on drivers' best driving route, and matching drivers with passengers in non-rush-hour periods and urban areas. Although we do not find a statistical support of the app's mechanism of reducing information asymmetry on passengers' trips, we believe that the mechanism is still worthwhile exploring further in other research settings in the future. The findings in this paper are essential to understand what the platform itself plays a role in influencing platform players' behaviour. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-19DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2020.10022263
Meuel Jeong, Kyeongjin Park, Kyungdoh Kim
This research explores how smartwatch brand apps can be used to advertise companies and brands. A survey was conducted to analyse the utilisation of the brand app in smartwatch, and a total of 134 data were collected. Study 1 discovered the external factors that influence intention to use and tracked the relationship between factors using technology acceptance model. The results of the structural equation model analysis showed that the ease of use had a significant positive impact on the intention to use and the complexity and financial risk had a statistically negative impact on the intention to use. Study 2 investigated what types of smartwatch brand apps users would use. As a result of analysis of variance, music, weather information, basic telephone function, SNS, navigation, basic SMS, productivity, and health showed higher use intention. Types with low intentions were e-books, games, sports, entertainment, QR code/barcode recognition, finance, photography and video.
{"title":"A survey of what customers want in smartwatch brand applications","authors":"Meuel Jeong, Kyeongjin Park, Kyungdoh Kim","doi":"10.1504/IJMC.2020.10022263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2020.10022263","url":null,"abstract":"This research explores how smartwatch brand apps can be used to advertise companies and brands. A survey was conducted to analyse the utilisation of the brand app in smartwatch, and a total of 134 data were collected. Study 1 discovered the external factors that influence intention to use and tracked the relationship between factors using technology acceptance model. The results of the structural equation model analysis showed that the ease of use had a significant positive impact on the intention to use and the complexity and financial risk had a statistically negative impact on the intention to use. Study 2 investigated what types of smartwatch brand apps users would use. As a result of analysis of variance, music, weather information, basic telephone function, SNS, navigation, basic SMS, productivity, and health showed higher use intention. Types with low intentions were e-books, games, sports, entertainment, QR code/barcode recognition, finance, photography and video.","PeriodicalId":433337,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Mob. Commun.","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132905440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-19DOI: 10.1504/ijmc.2020.10024621
Yoori Hwang, Se-Hoon Jeong
Based on cultivation theory, this study examined whether Instagram use is positively related to: 1) greater affluence estimates (i.e., estimates regarding the prevalence of affluence); 2) greater materialistic values, and ultimately; 3) lower self-esteem. Based on an online survey of 530 adults in Korea, this study found that Instagram use was positively related to affluence estimates and materialistic values. In addition, the results showed that Instagram use was indirectly related to lower self-esteem mediated by greater materialistic beliefs. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.
{"title":"The glamorous world: how Instagram use is related to affluence estimates, materialism, and self-esteem","authors":"Yoori Hwang, Se-Hoon Jeong","doi":"10.1504/ijmc.2020.10024621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmc.2020.10024621","url":null,"abstract":"Based on cultivation theory, this study examined whether Instagram use is positively related to: 1) greater affluence estimates (i.e., estimates regarding the prevalence of affluence); 2) greater materialistic values, and ultimately; 3) lower self-esteem. Based on an online survey of 530 adults in Korea, this study found that Instagram use was positively related to affluence estimates and materialistic values. In addition, the results showed that Instagram use was indirectly related to lower self-esteem mediated by greater materialistic beliefs. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":433337,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Mob. Commun.","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123329187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-06-19DOI: 10.1504/ijmc.2020.10023760
Martin Brodin, J. Rose
Information security management researchers are often focused on the information security policy, its implementation and evaluation as the primary means of ensuring that organisations protect their valuable data. However, information security is usually nested with a variety of other concerns (for instance technology upgrades, information access, efficiency and sustainability issues, employee satisfaction), so this policy-driven approach is seldom operated in isolation. We investigate the approach as implied in the mobile information security literature, provide a literature-inspired characterisation and use it to analyse an iPad implementation for politicians in a Swedish municipality. The analysis provides only a partial explanation for security work in this kind of small organisation technology upgrade, so we develop a complementary approach: the evolving implementation approach. A suggestion is made for how the two approaches can be reconciled, and implications for both practitioners and researchers derived.
{"title":"Mobile information security management for small organisation technology upgrades: the policy-driven approach and the evolving implementation approach","authors":"Martin Brodin, J. Rose","doi":"10.1504/ijmc.2020.10023760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmc.2020.10023760","url":null,"abstract":"Information security management researchers are often focused on the information security policy, its implementation and evaluation as the primary means of ensuring that organisations protect their valuable data. However, information security is usually nested with a variety of other concerns (for instance technology upgrades, information access, efficiency and sustainability issues, employee satisfaction), so this policy-driven approach is seldom operated in isolation. We investigate the approach as implied in the mobile information security literature, provide a literature-inspired characterisation and use it to analyse an iPad implementation for politicians in a Swedish municipality. The analysis provides only a partial explanation for security work in this kind of small organisation technology upgrade, so we develop a complementary approach: the evolving implementation approach. A suggestion is made for how the two approaches can be reconciled, and implications for both practitioners and researchers derived.","PeriodicalId":433337,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Mob. Commun.","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115844315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-20DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2020.10020883
Tung-Hsien Wu, S. Huang, Ching-Wen Lin
Research has primarily focused on the security aspect of mobile communication for computer auditing research in the mobile industry. Few studies have examined the role of computer auditing on the mobile industry. Therefore, the current study investigated the mediating effect of computer audit on the correlation between relationship quality and information security by conducting a survey using the partial least-squares method. Computer audit directly influenced internal auditing performance, and relationship quality indirectly influenced information security through computer audit. Therefore, determining how sound computer auditing can be conducted is crucial for the internal audit department.
{"title":"Relationship quality, computer auditing and information security for mobile industry","authors":"Tung-Hsien Wu, S. Huang, Ching-Wen Lin","doi":"10.1504/IJMC.2020.10020883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2020.10020883","url":null,"abstract":"Research has primarily focused on the security aspect of mobile communication for computer auditing research in the mobile industry. Few studies have examined the role of computer auditing on the mobile industry. Therefore, the current study investigated the mediating effect of computer audit on the correlation between relationship quality and information security by conducting a survey using the partial least-squares method. Computer audit directly influenced internal auditing performance, and relationship quality indirectly influenced information security through computer audit. Therefore, determining how sound computer auditing can be conducted is crucial for the internal audit department.","PeriodicalId":433337,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Mob. Commun.","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127898921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-20DOI: 10.1504/ijmc.2020.10028671
Yixiao Li, Houcai Wang, Xianwu Zeng, Shuiqing Yang, June Wei
Government microblogging services (GMS) have become increasingly popular among the public, yet retaining current users and facilitating their continuance intention remain a great challenge. This study examines how citizens' perceived interactivity of GMS, including control, playfulness, connectedness, and responsiveness, influences their satisfaction and trust, which in turn jointly affect their continuance intention. Drawing upon data from an online survey of 303 respondents who had used GMS, the structural equation modelling analysis results show that perceived control, playfulness, and connectedness positively influence citizens' satisfaction and trust, which further positively affect GMS continuance intention. Moreover, in terms of the path coefficient and the significance level, playfulness exerts the strongest effect on satisfaction, while control exerts the strongest impact on trust. Compared with satisfaction, trust is a more salient determinant of GMS continuance usage. We derive both theoretical and practical implications of the findings with a focus on mobile social media.
{"title":"Effects of interactivity on continuance intention of government microblogging services: an implication on mobile social media","authors":"Yixiao Li, Houcai Wang, Xianwu Zeng, Shuiqing Yang, June Wei","doi":"10.1504/ijmc.2020.10028671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmc.2020.10028671","url":null,"abstract":"Government microblogging services (GMS) have become increasingly popular among the public, yet retaining current users and facilitating their continuance intention remain a great challenge. This study examines how citizens' perceived interactivity of GMS, including control, playfulness, connectedness, and responsiveness, influences their satisfaction and trust, which in turn jointly affect their continuance intention. Drawing upon data from an online survey of 303 respondents who had used GMS, the structural equation modelling analysis results show that perceived control, playfulness, and connectedness positively influence citizens' satisfaction and trust, which further positively affect GMS continuance intention. Moreover, in terms of the path coefficient and the significance level, playfulness exerts the strongest effect on satisfaction, while control exerts the strongest impact on trust. Compared with satisfaction, trust is a more salient determinant of GMS continuance usage. We derive both theoretical and practical implications of the findings with a focus on mobile social media.","PeriodicalId":433337,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Mob. Commun.","volume":"135 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128686137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-20DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2020.10023016
Sehee Han, Kyung-Gook Park
The purpose of this study is to examine the association between social network services and network social capital while adopting an instrumental variables approach. This study includes a simple random sample of 491 respondents gathered through a cross-sectional survey in South Korea. The results show that users of social network services were higher in their network social capital in comparison with non-users of social network services. The results further suggest that it is high intensity users rather than low intensity users who are higher in network social capital than non-users of social network services. The current study contributes to the literature as it empirically investigates the association between social network services and network social capital, while including non-users of social network and tackling the possible endogeneity problem of the usage of social network services.
{"title":"Social network services and their effects on network social capital: an instrumental variables approach","authors":"Sehee Han, Kyung-Gook Park","doi":"10.1504/IJMC.2020.10023016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2020.10023016","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to examine the association between social network services and network social capital while adopting an instrumental variables approach. This study includes a simple random sample of 491 respondents gathered through a cross-sectional survey in South Korea. The results show that users of social network services were higher in their network social capital in comparison with non-users of social network services. The results further suggest that it is high intensity users rather than low intensity users who are higher in network social capital than non-users of social network services. The current study contributes to the literature as it empirically investigates the association between social network services and network social capital, while including non-users of social network and tackling the possible endogeneity problem of the usage of social network services.","PeriodicalId":433337,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Mob. Commun.","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124834411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-20DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2020.10023330
Cynthia Jayapal, S. Jayavel, V. Vanitha
In a wireless sensor network, aggregation is either done to avoid the redundant transmissions. In service provisioning, the control packets sent for service advertisement and discovery contribute significantly to the network traffic. In this paper, it is proposed to aggregate the similar control packets sent from different sources to a common destination along with minimum spanning tree, which is constructed for service provisioning. The mobile agent migration schemes used in the literature have got overhead in finding the migration path. Therefore, the proposed approach uses the spanning tree constructed for service discovery, as the migration path for the mobile agents. It is found from the investigation that the aggregation scheme has reduced average energy spent by 33%, control overhead by 12% and average discovery delay by 25%. Use of mobile agents has reduced the average discovery delay by 22%, control overhead by 19% and service discovery success ratio by 4%.
{"title":"Enhancing the performance of service discovery protocol using minimum spanning tree","authors":"Cynthia Jayapal, S. Jayavel, V. Vanitha","doi":"10.1504/IJMC.2020.10023330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2020.10023330","url":null,"abstract":"In a wireless sensor network, aggregation is either done to avoid the redundant transmissions. In service provisioning, the control packets sent for service advertisement and discovery contribute significantly to the network traffic. In this paper, it is proposed to aggregate the similar control packets sent from different sources to a common destination along with minimum spanning tree, which is constructed for service provisioning. The mobile agent migration schemes used in the literature have got overhead in finding the migration path. Therefore, the proposed approach uses the spanning tree constructed for service discovery, as the migration path for the mobile agents. It is found from the investigation that the aggregation scheme has reduced average energy spent by 33%, control overhead by 12% and average discovery delay by 25%. Use of mobile agents has reduced the average discovery delay by 22%, control overhead by 19% and service discovery success ratio by 4%.","PeriodicalId":433337,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Mob. Commun.","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116732634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2020.10019957
Tony Cheng-Kui Huang, Shin-Horng Chen, Ya-Wen Lee
Previous studies exploring adoption in the field of management information systems have focused on the objects of information systems or information technologies. However, since the popularity of smart phones has led to the usage of apps, limited investigations have attempted to understand the usage intention of apps. In this study, a research model is proposed to comprehend how users perceive and adopt a gamification app in the initial adoption phase of the information system life cycle. Since there are various topics within gamification services, we only pinpoint one popular type of service, exercise, as the research subject. The investigation involving 173 usable subjects was conducted to evaluate the model by using structural equation modelling. The result demonstrates that our proposed model explains 56.7% of the variance. The findings have interesting implications with respect to the initial usage of exercise gamification apps, both for researchers and practitioners.
{"title":"Investigating the adoption intention of gamification apps on mobile services","authors":"Tony Cheng-Kui Huang, Shin-Horng Chen, Ya-Wen Lee","doi":"10.1504/IJMC.2020.10019957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2020.10019957","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies exploring adoption in the field of management information systems have focused on the objects of information systems or information technologies. However, since the popularity of smart phones has led to the usage of apps, limited investigations have attempted to understand the usage intention of apps. In this study, a research model is proposed to comprehend how users perceive and adopt a gamification app in the initial adoption phase of the information system life cycle. Since there are various topics within gamification services, we only pinpoint one popular type of service, exercise, as the research subject. The investigation involving 173 usable subjects was conducted to evaluate the model by using structural equation modelling. The result demonstrates that our proposed model explains 56.7% of the variance. The findings have interesting implications with respect to the initial usage of exercise gamification apps, both for researchers and practitioners.","PeriodicalId":433337,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Mob. Commun.","volume":"394 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121716646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-03-30DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2020.107103
Ji won Kim, Sunyoung Park, Yoonmo Sang
Based on four-wave panel data, this study explored the relationships between different uses of motivational mobile applications and online news engagement. Three motivational mobile application uses - informational, recreational, and relational - were identified and rank-ordered according to respondents' everyday mobile application preferences. Results showed that only relational mobile application use had positive relationships with online news engagement. Results further indicate that over the four-year period examined (2013-2016) only the use of relational mobile application led to continuous growth of online news engagement. This study advances the literature on mobile communication not only by introducing results of a longitudinal study that challenge and support conflicting previous findings but that also provide support for the possibility of the mobile facilitation hypothesis.
{"title":"A longitudinal study on the effects of motivational mobile application uses on online news engagement","authors":"Ji won Kim, Sunyoung Park, Yoonmo Sang","doi":"10.1504/IJMC.2020.107103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2020.107103","url":null,"abstract":"Based on four-wave panel data, this study explored the relationships between different uses of motivational mobile applications and online news engagement. Three motivational mobile application uses - informational, recreational, and relational - were identified and rank-ordered according to respondents' everyday mobile application preferences. Results showed that only relational mobile application use had positive relationships with online news engagement. Results further indicate that over the four-year period examined (2013-2016) only the use of relational mobile application led to continuous growth of online news engagement. This study advances the literature on mobile communication not only by introducing results of a longitudinal study that challenge and support conflicting previous findings but that also provide support for the possibility of the mobile facilitation hypothesis.","PeriodicalId":433337,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Mob. Commun.","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134205433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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