Pub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1108/idd-11-2022-0121
Makutla Mojapelo
Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate a framework for the implementation of freedom of information (FOI) legislation in South Africa, against Article 19’s nine principles of FOI legislation. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to collect data from six experts selected by means of the snowball sampling technique and content analysis. The study used a modified Delphi design consisting of two rounds of interviews. Findings The results showed that little effort is made by government officials to demonstrate commitment to the implementation of FOI legislation. Practical implications The passing of FOI is expected to reduce corruption, increase public participation, reduce the level of secrecy and increase transparency and openness. This is not the case as the implementation of this socioeconomic right in South Africa is faced by numerous challenges, such as a lack of political will, secrecy laws providing for the opposite of what the FOI legislation seeks to achieve, poor legislative interpretation and a lack of clear policies. The study proposes a framework aimed at addressing these challenges. Originality/value The study provides a framework for the implementation of FOI legislation. The framework was developed under the guidance of Article 19 principles of freedom of information legislation.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1108/idd-07-2023-0080
Varun Nayyar, Amit Mittal
Purpose In an effort to position higher education institutions to survive in this fiercely competitive environment, the paper aims to identify the direct and indirect relationships between higher education institutional positioning and exogenous factors (student engagement, employability, technology adaptation, teaching quality, and moral values). Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional data was collected from 1,015 students studying in the pre-final year of graduation or post-graduate course/program from various educational institutions that were shortlisted based on the Indian NAAC and NIRF rankings. Thereafter, robust assessment criteria of PLS-SEM were used for model assessment and computation of results. Findings The findings revealed that to develop the greatest platform for upcoming young talent, higher educational institutional positioning ought to be addressed as a priority, which in turn will result in better living standards for upcoming generations. Research limitations/implications Framing strategies for urban students can never match those living in rural areas, as they are deprived of money due to their level of upbringing from childhood, which creates a high difference in the psychological mindset of students while choosing a career path. Practical implications The higher positioning of educational institutions clearly reflects the authentic learning environment, with professionalism leading to better student engagement with best industry practice. Originality/value Research novelty is highlighted as a more focused and streamlined approach to students’ career development and institution branding by reanalyzing and grouping various concepts of institutional positioning into a single model.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1108/idd-07-2023-0080
Varun Nayyar, Amit Mittal
Purpose In an effort to position higher education institutions to survive in this fiercely competitive environment, the paper aims to identify the direct and indirect relationships between higher education institutional positioning and exogenous factors (student engagement, employability, technology adaptation, teaching quality, and moral values). Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional data was collected from 1,015 students studying in the pre-final year of graduation or post-graduate course/program from various educational institutions that were shortlisted based on the Indian NAAC and NIRF rankings. Thereafter, robust assessment criteria of PLS-SEM were used for model assessment and computation of results. Findings The findings revealed that to develop the greatest platform for upcoming young talent, higher educational institutional positioning ought to be addressed as a priority, which in turn will result in better living standards for upcoming generations. Research limitations/implications Framing strategies for urban students can never match those living in rural areas, as they are deprived of money due to their level of upbringing from childhood, which creates a high difference in the psychological mindset of students while choosing a career path. Practical implications The higher positioning of educational institutions clearly reflects the authentic learning environment, with professionalism leading to better student engagement with best industry practice. Originality/value Research novelty is highlighted as a more focused and streamlined approach to students’ career development and institution branding by reanalyzing and grouping various concepts of institutional positioning into a single model.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-18DOI: 10.1108/idd-11-2022-0113
Mansi Tiwari, Garima Mathur, S. Narula
Purpose The Covid-19 virus badly affected working patterns in almost every sector. The purpose of this paper is to analytically substantiate how work and life integration impacts the exhaustion and work–life balance among employees of academic institutions and IT companies. Design/methodology/approach Current study is empirical in nature based on the survey of 500 respondents taken from academic (250) and IT companies (250) from Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to test the hypothesis with the application of the software Smart-PLS. Two surveys were conducted to collect the data separately for academic institutions and IT organizations. Findings Findings revealed the facts that during Covid-19, the employee’s work and life integration affected the work–life balance and exhaustion in academic institutions highly. The relationship was positively significant. But, for IT employees, it was identified as non-significant. Practical implications The current study highlighted the issues which employees faced during Covid-19 severe spread while managing work and family; how it varied due to the nature of work performed by the employees, for example, academics being more exposed to transformation from offline to complete online mode posed more challenges to teaching staff. This study also disclosed the scenario created and how it was handled in the deadly phase. Social implications This study presents the social contribution in understanding the importance of work and life balance and problems related to it, especially when everyone everywhere is scared of going out. The study provides insight into how it became difficult for employees to maintain their payroll successfully. Originality/value The current study contributes to the existing body of knowledge by testing statistically that the integration between work and life is important for work–life balance and prohibiting emotional exhaustion. The current paper extends the theoretical contribution by offering suggestions to companies on why to synchronize positive balance between work and life while keeping boundaries relatively strict between family and work to gain employee well-being and competitive advantages.
目的 Covid-19 病毒严重影响了几乎所有行业的工作模式。本文旨在分析证实工作与生活的融合如何影响学术机构和 IT 公司员工的疲惫程度以及工作与生活的平衡。设计/方法/途径本研究是一项实证研究，调查对象为来自古吉拉特邦艾哈迈达巴德和甘地纳加尔的学术机构（250 人）和 IT 公司（250 人）的 500 名受访者。应用 Smart-PLS 软件，采用结构方程模型（SEM）对假设进行了检验。研究结果研究结果表明，在 Covid-19 期间，学术机构中员工的工作与生活融合度对工作与生活的平衡和疲惫程度影响很大。两者之间的关系呈正相关。实践意义本研究强调了在 Covid-19 期间，员工在处理工作和家庭问题时所面临的严重问题；员工所从事工作的性质如何导致问题的不同，例如，学术界更容易从线下模式转变为完全的线上模式，这给教学人员带来了更多挑战。本研究还披露了所创造的情景，以及在致命阶段是如何处理的。社会影响本研究在理解工作与生活平衡的重要性以及与之相关的问题方面做出了社会贡献，尤其是在每个人都害怕出门的时候。原创性/价值本研究通过统计方法检验了工作与生活的结合对于工作与生活的平衡以及防止情绪衰竭的重要性，从而为现有知识体系做出了贡献。本文对理论贡献进行了扩展，为企业提供了建议，帮助企业在家庭与工作之间保持相对严格的界限的同时，同步实现工作与生活的积极平衡，从而获得员工福利和竞争优势。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.1108/idd-05-2023-0048
Susan Mathew K., Jovin K. Joy, Sheeja N.K.
Purpose This study aims to present recent trends in touchscreen research through scientometric analysis. Devices with touchscreen are powerful tools for performing specialized operations. The touch screens of tablets, smartphones, laptops and television play an important role in teaching, learning and research. Design/methodology/approach The data was collected from Web of Science database from 2011 to 2021 and analysed using MS-Excel and VOSviewer software. After analysing 389 research papers, the authors identified the high impact journals, collaboration of countries, institutions, authors and growth trend of publications. Analysing the most used keywords, country-wise distribution of publications and research collaboration between institutions will help interpret the research trends in the selected time span. Findings The publications show an increase in number over the years from 2011 to 2021. Among the countries, USA has the highest number of 127 articles published, followed by England (61) and Canada (30). The results showed that the multiple authorship pattern in touchscreen publication is high when compared to single authors. The institutional analysis indicated that the organizations publishing more than five documents in the area were mostly from United Kingdom, Australia, USA and Korea. Timeline visualizations identified prominent keywords like touchscreen, performance, operant platform, Alzheimer’s disease, etc. in the subject. Interdisciplinary research is dominant in the subject, as seen from the most preferred journals and keywords. Research limitations/implications The analysis does not include a comprehensive coverage of the research output, as only Web of Science database from 2011 to 2021 in a 10-year period is included. Practical implications The study would benefit stakeholders, including manufacturers and researchers alike, to know the future of touchscreen research. Social implications This study is pertinent to socio-psychological fields because touchscreen technology encourages social connection among older persons and may help foster early literacy skills. Originality/value This paper will provide an understanding of the global developments in touchscreen research with recommendations for future research.
目的 本研究旨在通过科学计量分析介绍触摸屏研究的最新趋势。带触摸屏的设备是执行专门操作的强大工具。平板电脑、智能手机、笔记本电脑和电视机的触摸屏在教学、学习和研究中发挥着重要作用。设计/方法/手段从 Web of Science 数据库中收集了 2011 年至 2021 年的数据，并使用 MS-Excel 和 VOSviewer 软件进行了分析。在分析了 389 篇研究论文后，作者确定了高影响力期刊、合作国家、机构、作者和出版物的增长趋势。对使用最多的关键词、出版物的国家分布以及机构间的研究合作进行分析，将有助于解读选定时间跨度内的研究趋势。在各国中，美国发表的论文数量最多，达到 127 篇，其次是英国（61 篇）和加拿大（30 篇）。结果表明，与单个作者相比，触摸屏出版物的多作者模式较高。机构分析表明，在该领域发表五篇以上论文的机构主要来自英国、澳大利亚、美国和韩国。时间轴可视化发现了该主题中突出的关键词，如触摸屏、性能、操作平台、老年痴呆症等。研究的局限性/意义该分析并不包括研究成果的全面覆盖，因为只包括 2011 年至 2021 年这 10 年间的 Web of Science 数据库。社会意义本研究与社会心理领域相关，因为触摸屏技术鼓励老年人之间的社会联系，并可能有助于培养早期识字技能。原创性/价值本论文将使人们了解触摸屏研究的全球发展情况，并对未来研究提出建议。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.1108/idd-01-2023-0009
Swagota Saikia, Vinit Kumar, Manoj Kumar Verma
Purpose The purpose of this study was to perform sentiment analysis and analyze the growth and popularity of Drupal, Joomla and WordPress on YouTube over a four-year period. This included identifying the most liked and commented videos for each content management system (CMS), ranking the CMSs based on the number of positive comments they received, and using natural language processing techniques to identify the top ten most frequently appearing words in videos about the CMSs. Design/methodology/approach The data for assessing the features of the videos of Drupal, WordPress and Joomla was extracted using Webometric Analyst version 4.4. with the help of the YouTube application programming interface key for videos on the selected CMSs uploaded from 2019 to 2022. The extraction of comments and sentiment analysis for the relevant videos was done using Mozdeh. Findings This study scrutinized 371, 234 and 313 videos of WordPress, Joomla and Drupal on YouTube. The findings reveal that there is a chronological growth of videos of the three CMSs in four years and till the present time, WordPress has the highest number of videos followed by Drupal and then Joomla. Regarding the ranking of highly liked videos, WordPress again wins the list with the highest number of likes in its videos followed by Drupal and then Joomla. For analyzing sentiments of the total comments extracted 123,409 for WordPress, 1,790 for Joomla and 1,783 for Drupal, respectively, WordPress receives the highest average positive comments followed by Drupal then Joomla. In top word frequency, the word “thank” highly occurs and viewers are asking for more tutorial videos. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first attempt for analyzing the sentiments of WordPress, Drupal and Joomla using Mozdeh software within the concerning period.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-11DOI: 10.1108/idd-01-2023-0007
S. Yesmin, Md. Atikuzzaman
Purpose This study aims to investigate the usability of a public university website for measuring its efficiency, users’ satisfaction or anxiety while searching for and retrieving information through different devices. Design/methodology/approach A task-based approach was adopted for the study. Twenty-eight participants were asked to complete 11 information-searching tasks on the website. The participants were divided into two groups. The tasks were carried out by members of each group, using desktop and mobile devices in a rotating fashion. Volunteers observed the participants' actions and recorded information regarding their productivity, time usage (using a timer), satisfaction or annoyance while performing each task. Finally, based on the use of the devices, a comparison was established between the participants' performance accuracy, efficiency and anxiety. Findings The study provides an overview of a task-based user experience carried out on the university website using a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods. According to the results, participants' satisfaction levels were generally high, and their anxiety levels were low while completing the tasks on a mobile device. In comparison to the desktop, it took less time overall to complete all tasks. On the other hand, using a desktop computer (97.1%) resulted in better task completion success rates for participants than using a mobile device (85.7%). Originality/value No previous task-based evaluation study of this kind has been conducted to assess the usability of any university website in Bangladesh.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1108/idd-06-2023-0060
Hui Shi, Drew Hwang, Dazhi Chong, Gongjun Yan
Purpose Today’s in-demand skills may not be needed tomorrow. As companies are adopting a new group of technologies, they are in huge need of information technology (IT) professionals who can fill various IT positions with a mixture of technical and problem-solving skills. This study aims to adopt a sematic analysis approach to explore how the US Information Systems (IS) programs meet the challenges of emerging IT topics. Design/methodology/approach This study considers the application of a hybrid semantic analysis approach to the analysis of IS higher education programs in the USA. It proposes a semantic analysis framework and a semantic analysis algorithm to analyze and evaluate the context of the IS programs. To be more specific, the study uses digital transformation as a case study to examine the readiness of the IS programs in the USA to meet the challenges of digital transformation. First, this study developed a knowledge pool of 15 principles and 98 keywords from an extensive literature review on digital transformation. Second, this study collects 4,093 IS courses from 315 IS programs in the USA and 493,216 scientific publication records from the Web of Science Core Collection. Findings Using the knowledge pool and two collected data sets, the semantic analysis algorithm was implemented to compute a semantic similarity score (DxScore) between an IS course’s context and digital transformation. To present the credibility of the research results of this paper, the state ranking using the similarity scores and the state employment ranking were compared. The research results can be used by IS educators in the future in the process of updating the IS curricula. Regarding IT professionals in the industry, the results can provide insights into the training of their current/future employees. Originality/value This study explores the status of the IS programs in the USA by proposing a semantic analysis framework, using digital transformation as a case study to illustrate the application of the proposed semantic analysis framework, and developing a knowledge pool, a corpus and a course information collection.
目的 今天的紧缺技能明天可能就不再需要了。由于企业正在采用一批新技术，它们急需信息技术（IT）专业人才，这些人才必须兼具技术和解决问题的技能，才能胜任各种 IT 职位。本研究旨在采用语义分析方法，探讨美国信息系统（IS）课程如何应对新兴信息技术课题的挑战。 设计/方法/途径 本研究考虑采用混合语义分析方法来分析美国的 IS 高等教育课程。它提出了一个语义分析框架和一种语义分析算法，用于分析和评估 IS 课程的背景。更具体地说，本研究以数字化转型为案例，考察美国 IS 课程在应对数字化转型挑战方面的准备情况。首先，本研究从有关数字化转型的大量文献综述中开发了一个由 15 项原则和 98 个关键词组成的知识库。其次，本研究从美国 315 个 IS 课程中收集了 4,093 门 IS 课程，并从 Web of Science Core Collection 中收集了 493,216 条科学出版物记录。 研究结果 利用知识库和两个收集到的数据集，采用语义分析算法计算出 IS 课程背景与数字化转型之间的语义相似性得分（DxScore）。为了展示本文研究成果的可信度，比较了使用相似度得分的国家排名和国家就业排名。研究成果可供 IS 教育工作者今后在更新 IS 课程的过程中使用。至于业内的 IT 专业人士，研究结果可为其现有/未来员工的培训提供启示。 原创性/价值 本研究通过提出语义分析框架，以数字化转型作为案例研究来说明所提出的语义分析框架的应用，并开发知识库、语料库和课程信息收集，从而探索美国 IS 课程的现状。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1108/idd-04-2023-0037
Salameh A. Mjlae
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the value of cloud computing adoption (CCA) as a proxy for information technology (IT) flexibility (ITF) and IT effectiveness (ITE) among Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Jordan. Design/methodology/approach A research framework with five hypotheses has been developed based on the results of previous studies. Partial least squares-structural equation modeling has been used for data analysis. Findings The results revealed that elements of ITF in two domains, IT technical resource (connectivity, modularityand compatibility) and IT human resource (IT personnel skills) specific to CCA, were significantly correlated with ITE. Research limitations/implications The findings have crucial implications: they contribute to the research community, administrators and cloud computing providers (CSPs) concerning the framework-improved procedure for CCA. The proposed model can enhance the awareness of service providers about why some SMEs accept cloud computing services, whereas actually the same ones having the same type of business do not. In addition, the above providers should enhance their interaction with the SMEs that contributed to the cloud computing knowledge to make a well-organized setting for the CCA, specifically, SMEs need that adopt an on-premise private cloud architecture. Moreover, necessary to determine the challenges in deploying solutions from the perspective of CSPs. The sample has been limited to Jordan respondents. Practical implications The research studies about the usage of cloud computing have shown its effects on SMEs today. Also, the different impacts of cloud computing on other sectors are at the center of attention. SMEs could get significant advantages by carefully considering and managing CCA from the ITF and ITE perspective. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first study to develop a framework for CCA based on the standpoint of ITF in two domains, IT technical resources (connectivity, modularity and compatibility) and IT human resources (IT personnel skills) and effectiveness.
目的 本研究旨在调查约旦中小型企业（SMEs）采用云计算（CCA）作为信息技术（IT）灵活性（ITF）和 IT 效能（ITE）替代指标的价值。 设计/方法/途径 在以往研究成果的基础上，制定了一个包含五个假设的研究框架。采用偏最小二乘法-结构方程模型进行数据分析。 研究结果 研究结果表明，IT 技术资源（连通性、模块化和兼容性）和 IT 人力资源（IT 人员技能）这两个领域的 ITF 要素与 ITE 存在显著相关。 研究局限/意义 研究结果具有重要意义：有助于研究界、管理者和云计算提供商（CSP）改进 CCA 的框架程序。建议的模型可以提高服务提供商的认识，让他们了解为什么有些中小企业接受云计算服务，而实际上业务类型相同的中小企业却不接受云计算服务。此外，上述服务提供商应加强与贡献云计算知识的中小企业的互动，为共同国家评估创造良好的组织环境，特别是采用内部私有云架构的中小企业。此外，有必要从 CSP 的角度确定部署解决方案所面临的挑战。样本仅限于约旦受访者。 实际意义 有关云计算使用情况的研究表明，云计算对当今中小企业产生了影响。此外，云计算对其他行业的不同影响也是关注的焦点。从 ITF 和 ITE 的角度仔细考虑和管理 CCA，中小企业可以获得显著优势。 独创性/价值 据笔者所知，这是首次从 ITF 的角度出发，在 IT 技术资源（连接性、模块性和兼容性）和 IT 人力资源（IT 人员技能）及有效性这两个领域建立 CCA 框架的研究。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1108/idd-02-2023-0015
Yung-Ming Cheng
Purpose The purpose of this study is to propose a research model based on the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) model to explore whether media richness and social interaction as environmental feature antecedents to nurses’ learning engagement (LE) can affect their continuance intention of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and task performance. Design/methodology/approach Sample data for this study were collected from nurses at five university-/medical university-affiliated hospitals in Taiwan. A total of 500 questionnaires were distributed, and 303 (60.6%) usable questionnaires were analyzed using structural equation modeling in this study. Findings This study proved that nurses’ perceived media richness and social interaction in MOOCs positively influenced their behavioral LE and psychological LE elicited by MOOCs, which jointly caused their continuance intention of MOOCs and, in turn, enhance their task performance. The results support all proposed hypotheses and the research model, respectively, explains 84.3% and 63.7% of the variance in nurses’ continuance intention of MOOCs and task performance. Originality/value This study uses the S-O-R model as a theoretical base to frame nurses’ continuance intention of MOOCs and task performance as a series of the internal process, which is affected by environmental stimuli (i.e. media richness and social interaction) and organismic states. Noteworthily, while the S-O-R model has been extensively used in prior literature, little research uses this paradigm to expound nurses’ continuance intention of MOOCs in the work settings. Besides, there is a dearth of evidence on the antecedents of nurses’ task performance in the context of MOOCs. Hence, this study’s empirical evidence contributes significantly to the existing literature on bridging the gap of limited evaluation for the research on the impact of nurses’ MOOCs learning on their task performance in the work settings, which is very scarce in the S-O-R view.
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