Pub Date : 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103024
Mai Nguyen , Yunen Zhang , Yi Bu , Russell Belk
Generative AI (GenAI) is increasingly embedded in academic research activities undertaken by researchers (including research-active educators) and research students. While GenAI can raise efficiency, it may also foster self-detrimental consumption for short-term convenience that erodes long-term research integrity and capability. To map this “hidden side”, we conducted a netnography of discussions on X-platform (formerly Twitter) by self-identified researchers, research-active educators and research students (between October and November 2024; Study 1), alongside semi-structured interviews with 19 Australia-based researchers (aged 19–45; Study 2). Across the data, we identified five key themes: user misuse, environmental facilitators, usage barriers, GenAI limitations, and challenges, along with related sub-themes. Integrating both studies, we propose the GenAI Self-Detrimental Consumption (GAI-SDC) framework, which explicates how these factors interrelate within academic research contexts. The framework offers a focused lens for analyzing GenAI-related behaviors by examining how factors interact in academic research activities. The practical contribution includes actionable strategies from the framework, providing tangible measures for institutions, researchers, and developers to mitigate self-detrimental use and promote responsible GenAI integration in academic research activities.
{"title":"Generative AI in academic research activities: The hidden side of self-detrimental consumption","authors":"Mai Nguyen , Yunen Zhang , Yi Bu , Russell Belk","doi":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103024","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Generative AI (GenAI) is increasingly embedded in academic research activities undertaken by researchers (including research-active educators) and research students. While GenAI can raise efficiency, it may also foster self-detrimental consumption for short-term convenience that erodes long-term research integrity and capability. To map this “hidden side”, we conducted a netnography of discussions on X-platform (formerly Twitter) by self-identified researchers, research-active educators and research students (between October and November 2024; Study 1), alongside semi-structured interviews with 19 Australia-based researchers (aged 19–45; Study 2). Across the data, we identified five key themes: user misuse, environmental facilitators, usage barriers, GenAI limitations, and challenges, along with related sub-themes. Integrating both studies, we propose the GenAI Self-Detrimental Consumption (GAI-SDC) framework, which explicates how these factors interrelate within academic research contexts. The framework offers a focused lens for analyzing GenAI-related behaviors by examining how factors interact in academic research activities. The practical contribution includes actionable strategies from the framework, providing tangible measures for institutions, researchers, and developers to mitigate self-detrimental use and promote responsible GenAI integration in academic research activities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48422,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Management","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 103024"},"PeriodicalIF":27.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145839298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103023
Junbin Wang , Yangyan Shi , Xinyu Jiang , V.G. Venkatesh
Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities are increasingly pivotal for enhancing production system resilience in today's volatile business environments. However, the integration of AI technologies with established organizational information processing and decision-making frameworks remains inadequately understood. Grounded in the Human-Organization-Technology (HOT) fit theory, this study investigates how AI capacity positively influences a firm’s operational performance. Using multi-wave survey data collected from 305 manufacturing firms via a professional online platform during the COVID-19 pandemic, we identify critical factors that reinforce this positive effect and elucidate its underlying mechanisms, with particular emphasis on how AI reconfigures organizational information flows and knowledge practices. Partial least squares-based structural equation modeling was employed to test the hypothesized model. The findings reveal a significant positive impact of AI capacity on production system resilience. Furthermore, production system resilience itself exerts a strong positive influence on operational performance. Crucially, production system resilience serves as a key mediating mechanism, through which AI capacity indirectly enhances operational performance. Finally, the degree of fit, conceptualized across task-tool, human-tool, and data-tool dimensions, moderates the positive effect of AI capacity on production system resilience. This research is contextualized within the Chinese manufacturing sector, a major global production hub, and enriches the theoretical discourse on AI capacity and production system resilience from an information management perspective, highlighting its transformative role in organizational information flows, knowledge creation, and data-driven decision processes.
{"title":"How does artificial intelligence capacity enhance the production system resilience and operational performance? A human-organization-technology fit perspective","authors":"Junbin Wang , Yangyan Shi , Xinyu Jiang , V.G. Venkatesh","doi":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103023","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities are increasingly pivotal for enhancing production system resilience in today's volatile business environments. However, the integration of AI technologies with established organizational information processing and decision-making frameworks remains inadequately understood. Grounded in the Human-Organization-Technology (HOT) fit theory, this study investigates how AI capacity positively influences a firm’s operational performance. Using multi-wave survey data collected from 305 manufacturing firms via a professional online platform during the COVID-19 pandemic, we identify critical factors that reinforce this positive effect and elucidate its underlying mechanisms, with particular emphasis on how AI reconfigures organizational information flows and knowledge practices. Partial least squares-based structural equation modeling was employed to test the hypothesized model. The findings reveal a significant positive impact of AI capacity on production system resilience. Furthermore, production system resilience itself exerts a strong positive influence on operational performance. Crucially, production system resilience serves as a key mediating mechanism, through which AI capacity indirectly enhances operational performance. Finally, the degree of fit, conceptualized across task-tool, human-tool, and data-tool dimensions, moderates the positive effect of AI capacity on production system resilience. This research is contextualized within the Chinese manufacturing sector, a major global production hub, and enriches the theoretical discourse on AI capacity and production system resilience from an information management perspective, highlighting its transformative role in organizational information flows, knowledge creation, and data-driven decision processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48422,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Management","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 103023"},"PeriodicalIF":27.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145839233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103025
Peng Wu , Shansen Wei , Xian Cheng , Runshi Liu
Platform companies must identify their market structure to develop effective growth strategies. This study introduces a method to vector buyers and sellers (B&S2Vec), using network representation learning to automatically extract latent buyer and seller attributes derived from the buyer’s purchase trajectories among thousands of sellers on a two-sided platform. We first construct a large-scale bipartite buyer-seller network by purchase trajectories; and then we compress the network into a low-dimensional representation space to learn complex patterns from the bipartite network by using B&S2Vec; we use t-SNE to obtain market structure visualization by reducing the learned representation vector to obtain the associated 2-dimensional visualization map. Our theoretical and simulation studies show that B&S2Vec effectively identifies market structures. In addition, we demonstrate its efficiency in optimizing marketing campaigns with budget constraints on a real platform. This study contributes to the advancement of research in two-sided platform marketing and market structure analysis.
{"title":"B&S2Vec: Mapping market structure in two-sided platform based on consumers’ purchase trajectories","authors":"Peng Wu , Shansen Wei , Xian Cheng , Runshi Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Platform companies must identify their market structure to develop effective growth strategies. This study introduces a method to vector buyers and sellers (B&S2Vec), using network representation learning to automatically extract latent buyer and seller attributes derived from the buyer’s purchase trajectories among thousands of sellers on a two-sided platform. We first construct a large-scale bipartite buyer-seller network by purchase trajectories; and then we compress the network into a low-dimensional representation space to learn complex patterns from the bipartite network by using B&S2Vec; we use t-SNE to obtain market structure visualization by reducing the learned representation vector to obtain the associated 2-dimensional visualization map. Our theoretical and simulation studies show that B&S2Vec effectively identifies market structures. In addition, we demonstrate its efficiency in optimizing marketing campaigns with budget constraints on a real platform. This study contributes to the advancement of research in two-sided platform marketing and market structure analysis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48422,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Management","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 103025"},"PeriodicalIF":27.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145839234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-22DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103020
Jean Robert Kala Kamdjoug , Serge-Lopez Wamba-Taguimdje , Philippe Jefferson Guessele
Metaverse social media (MSM) is a transformative space for consumers, organizations, and society that fosters creative expression, collaborative value creation, and socio-economic interactions beyond traditional digital platforms. Although the metaverse has garnered increasing attention from scholars and practitioners, few studies have empirically explored how creativity-related beliefs influence youth attitudes and adoption intentions regarding MSM, especially in developing countries, where contextual barriers such as poor internet quality (QIC) exist. Drawing on the technological learning and usage theory and creativity support systems literature, this study conceptualizes attitude toward MSM for creativity (ATMC) as a user’s evaluative belief that metaverse platforms offer rich opportunities for creative exploration, innovation, and self-expression. We focus on three attitudinal dimensions (attitude toward success [ATS], attitude toward failure [ATF], and attitude toward the learning process [ATL]) and find that all three influence ATMC, which is moderated by QIC, which, in turn, drives the intention to adopt MSM (IMSM). Using Cameroon as the context and adopting a cross-sectional field research design, we employ a multi-analytical hybrid technique that combines structural equation modeling and artificial neural networks to evaluate our research model using a sample of 144 users. The results show that ATS and ATL are critical factors influencing ATMC; these can effectively influence consumer IMSM. QIC moderates the relationships between ATF, ATL, and ATMC. We contribute to the theoretical understanding of active youth attitudes and intentions toward metaverse technology in developing countries and offer practical guidance on how to encourage the active adoption of this technology to foster creativity.
{"title":"The impact of creativity on the attitude toward and intention to adopt metaverse social media among youth in developing countries","authors":"Jean Robert Kala Kamdjoug , Serge-Lopez Wamba-Taguimdje , Philippe Jefferson Guessele","doi":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103020","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Metaverse social media (MSM) is a transformative space for consumers, organizations, and society that fosters creative expression, collaborative value creation, and socio-economic interactions beyond traditional digital platforms. Although the metaverse has garnered increasing attention from scholars and practitioners, few studies have empirically explored how creativity-related beliefs influence youth attitudes and adoption intentions regarding MSM, especially in developing countries, where contextual barriers such as poor internet quality (QIC) exist. Drawing on the technological learning and usage theory and creativity support systems literature, this study conceptualizes attitude toward MSM for creativity (ATMC) as a user’s evaluative belief that metaverse platforms offer rich opportunities for creative exploration, innovation, and self-expression. We focus on three attitudinal dimensions (attitude toward success [ATS], attitude toward failure [ATF], and attitude toward the learning process [ATL]) and find that all three influence ATMC, which is moderated by QIC, which, in turn, drives the intention to adopt MSM (IMSM). Using Cameroon as the context and adopting a cross-sectional field research design, we employ a multi-analytical hybrid technique that combines structural equation modeling and artificial neural networks to evaluate our research model using a sample of 144 users. The results show that ATS and ATL are critical factors influencing ATMC; these can effectively influence consumer IMSM. QIC moderates the relationships between ATF, ATL, and ATMC. We contribute to the theoretical understanding of active youth attitudes and intentions toward metaverse technology in developing countries and offer practical guidance on how to encourage the active adoption of this technology to foster creativity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48422,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Management","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 103020"},"PeriodicalIF":27.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145839297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-20DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.102999
Ersin Dincelli
Workforce training is a cornerstone of organizational success, as the value of intellectual capital increasingly rivals that of physical and financial assets in today’s knowledge-driven economy. The emergence of consumer-grade head-mounted display (HMD)-based virtual reality (VR) technology offers organizations innovative opportunities to meet evolving workforce training needs. This study employs a multi-method investigation to systematically examine HMD-based VR training and education, with a focus on presence as a core experiential quality of VR technology and an important determinant of learning effectiveness. First, we synthesize the literature on HMD-based VR in training and education through the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework’s four interdependent components: cognitive, teaching, social, and emotional presence. The findings highlight the dynamic interplay among different dimensions of presence and their collective impact on learning outcomes, providing an integrated framework to inform the design of HMD-based VR training and education programs. To validate the real-world relevance of the CoI components and inform design practices, we conduct semi-structured interviews with a diverse group of stakeholders, including executives and managers from select Fortune 500 companies that have integrated HMDs into their workflows, professionals from companies specializing in VR training, pedagogical experts, VR application developers, and content creators. We identify 80 key design factors linked to different dimensions of presence. By bridging theory with practical insights, this study underscores the central role of presence in shaping immersive learning experiences and provides a foundation for designing impactful HMD-based VR training and education programs.
{"title":"Presence by design: A multi-method examination of design considerations for immersive virtual reality in corporate training","authors":"Ersin Dincelli","doi":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.102999","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.102999","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Workforce training is a cornerstone of organizational success, as the value of intellectual capital increasingly rivals that of physical and financial assets in today’s knowledge-driven economy. The emergence of consumer-grade head-mounted display (HMD)-based virtual reality (VR) technology offers organizations innovative opportunities to meet evolving workforce training needs. This study employs a multi-method investigation to systematically examine HMD-based VR training and education, with a focus on presence as a core experiential quality of VR technology and an important determinant of learning effectiveness. First, we synthesize the literature on HMD-based VR in training and education through the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework’s four interdependent components: cognitive, teaching, social, and emotional presence. The findings highlight the dynamic interplay among different dimensions of presence and their collective impact on learning outcomes, providing an integrated framework to inform the design of HMD-based VR training and education programs. To validate the real-world relevance of the CoI components and inform design practices, we conduct semi-structured interviews with a diverse group of stakeholders, including executives and managers from select Fortune 500 companies that have integrated HMDs into their workflows, professionals from companies specializing in VR training, pedagogical experts, VR application developers, and content creators. We identify 80 key design factors linked to different dimensions of presence. By bridging theory with practical insights, this study underscores the central role of presence in shaping immersive learning experiences and provides a foundation for designing impactful HMD-based VR training and education programs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48422,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Management","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 102999"},"PeriodicalIF":27.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145789834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-19DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103019
Guoyin Jiang, Wanqiang Yang, Xingshun Cai
Data sharing between the public and private sectors, such as ride-hailing platform (RHP) firms and the government, aims to generate value. However, the reasons behind the intentions of RHP firms to share data with public entities remain unclear. In this research, a business-to-government (B2G) information-sharing framework is employed, and a mixed study combining structural equation modeling (SEM), with a sample size of 426 and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), with a sample size of 82 is conducted. The same variables are adopted and assessed through different methods, providing complementary insights into how information and technology, organizational and managerial dynamics, and political and policy considerations affect the intentions of RHP firms to share data with the government. The results of SEM analysis show government-led initiatives related to data infrastructure, data management improvement, robust systems for data security, administrative penalties, and strong government–business political connections collectively decrease the reluctance to share data (RSD) among RHP firms. The platform power (PP) level of RHP firms influences B2G data sharing to varying degrees. The fsQCA analysis identifies four configurations linked to the RSD of RHP firms, and their combinations result in the same outcome. Heterogeneity analysis further yields variations in configurations of reluctance across different PP levels. This research has important implications for governments seeking to address firm reluctance and promote sustainable B2G data-sharing practices.
{"title":"Why ride-hailing platform firms are reluctant to share data with governments: Evidence from China","authors":"Guoyin Jiang, Wanqiang Yang, Xingshun Cai","doi":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103019","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Data sharing between the public and private sectors, such as ride-hailing platform (RHP) firms and the government, aims to generate value. However, the reasons behind the intentions of RHP firms to share data with public entities remain unclear. In this research, a business-to-government (B2G) information-sharing framework is employed, and a mixed study combining structural equation modeling (SEM), with a sample size of 426 and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), with a sample size of 82 is conducted. The same variables are adopted and assessed through different methods, providing complementary insights into how information and technology, organizational and managerial dynamics, and political and policy considerations affect the intentions of RHP firms to share data with the government. The results of SEM analysis show government-led initiatives related to data infrastructure, data management improvement, robust systems for data security, administrative penalties, and strong government–business political connections collectively decrease the reluctance to share data (RSD) among RHP firms. The platform power (PP) level of RHP firms influences B2G data sharing to varying degrees. The fsQCA analysis identifies four configurations linked to the RSD of RHP firms, and their combinations result in the same outcome. Heterogeneity analysis further yields variations in configurations of reluctance across different PP levels. This research has important implications for governments seeking to address firm reluctance and promote sustainable B2G data-sharing practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48422,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Management","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 103019"},"PeriodicalIF":27.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145789835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-17DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103021
Rens Scheepers , Lars Mathiassen , Atif Ahmad , Rachelle Bosua , Richard Baskerville
As a result of the ongoing digitalization of business, Intellectual Property (IP) increasingly manifests in digital forms and as digital footprints, causing escalating exposure to IP leakage. This calls for a paradigm shift from a relatively static view of IP management focused on protection against and recovering from IP leakage to an emerging view focused on dynamically adapting approaches to IP management. Accordingly, we present a model of IP leakage management for the digital era that includes technological innovations to monitor digital forms and footprints of IP, proactive and reactive measures to mitigate escalating IP leakage risks, and adaptive strategizing in response to constantly changing internal and external business landscapes. Ultimately, such adaptive strategizing may include disclosing IP for the benefit of open innovation with external partners. The model offers a generative platform IS researchers can use to engage in interdisciplinary discourse on IP management as an important practical and theoretical concern in the digital era.
{"title":"Managing Intellectual Property leakage in the digital era: An integrated process model","authors":"Rens Scheepers , Lars Mathiassen , Atif Ahmad , Rachelle Bosua , Richard Baskerville","doi":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As a result of the ongoing digitalization of business, Intellectual Property (IP) increasingly manifests in digital forms and as digital footprints, causing escalating exposure to IP leakage. This calls for a paradigm shift from a relatively static view of IP management focused on protection against and recovering from IP leakage to an emerging view focused on dynamically adapting approaches to IP management. Accordingly, we present a model of IP leakage management for the digital era that includes technological innovations to monitor digital forms and footprints of IP, proactive and reactive measures to mitigate escalating IP leakage risks, and adaptive strategizing in response to constantly changing internal and external business landscapes. Ultimately, such adaptive strategizing may include disclosing IP for the benefit of open innovation with external partners. The model offers a generative platform IS researchers can use to engage in interdisciplinary discourse on IP management as an important practical and theoretical concern in the digital era.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48422,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Management","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 103021"},"PeriodicalIF":27.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145789958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-09DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103018
Jiaoyang Li , Dan Ding
Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into service sectors is increasingly prevalent, yet the effects of employee-AI collaboration on service innovation fail to reach a consensus. To bridge this research gap, we conducted two complementary studies by delineating three distinct types of AI in service: mechanical AI for standardization, thinking AI for personalization, and feeling AI for relationalization. The first study, an exploratory experiment with 214 credit card salespeople, examined the impact of employee-AI collaboration on employee innovation. Compared to a no-AI control condition, mechanical AI was found to significantly hinder employee innovation, while thinking AI and feeling AI significantly enhanced innovation. The second study, a confirmatory survey of 246 employees across business and service sectors, integrated role identity theory and social cognitive theory to further uncover the mechanisms and boundary conditions underlying the discovered effects from the first study. Results revealed that mechanical AI undermines innovation through identity deterioration, whereas thinking and feeling AI promote innovation via identity reinforcement. Furthermore, employees’ occupational self-efficacy was shown to significantly strengthen the link between mechanical AI and identity deterioration, and weaken the relationship between thinking AI and identity reinforcement. This study advances research on employee-AI collaboration by elucidating the nuanced effects of distinct types of AI on employee innovation. It also offers practical suggestions for human-centered AI implementation by prioritizing thinking and feeling AI for innovation-driven tasks while limiting mechanical AI to standardized operations, and tailoring AI implementation strategies based on employees’ self-efficacy levels.
{"title":"Reinforcement or deterioration?Unraveling how employee and AI collaboration impacts service innovation","authors":"Jiaoyang Li , Dan Ding","doi":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103018","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into service sectors is increasingly prevalent, yet the effects of employee-AI collaboration on service innovation fail to reach a consensus. To bridge this research gap, we conducted two complementary studies by delineating three distinct types of AI in service: mechanical AI for standardization, thinking AI for personalization, and feeling AI for relationalization. The first study, an exploratory experiment with 214 credit card salespeople, examined the impact of employee-AI collaboration on employee innovation. Compared to a no-AI control condition, mechanical AI was found to significantly hinder employee innovation, while thinking AI and feeling AI significantly enhanced innovation. The second study, a confirmatory survey of 246 employees across business and service sectors, integrated role identity theory and social cognitive theory to further uncover the mechanisms and boundary conditions underlying the discovered effects from the first study. Results revealed that mechanical AI undermines innovation through identity deterioration, whereas thinking and feeling AI promote innovation via identity reinforcement. Furthermore, employees’ occupational self-efficacy was shown to significantly strengthen the link between mechanical AI and identity deterioration, and weaken the relationship between thinking AI and identity reinforcement. This study advances research on employee-AI collaboration by elucidating the nuanced effects of distinct types of AI on employee innovation. It also offers practical suggestions for human-centered AI implementation by prioritizing thinking and feeling AI for innovation-driven tasks while limiting mechanical AI to standardized operations, and tailoring AI implementation strategies based on employees’ self-efficacy levels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48422,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Management","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 103018"},"PeriodicalIF":27.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145737067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-03DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103011
Juan Yu , Weihong Xie , Diwen Zheng , Liang Guo
In the era of Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance operational efficiency, yet heightened data security risks underscore the critical role of employee data security awareness (DSA). This study pioneers a Cellular Automata (CA) model, grounded in Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), to investigate the emergent dynamics of employee AI DSA in smart manufacturing enterprises. By integrating local security climates and dynamic threshold mechanisms, the model simulates collective awareness evolution under three scenarios: no intervention, mild publicity, and mandatory training, using an initial distribution of 30% low, 40% intermediate, and 30% high-awareness employees. Findings reveal that without intervention, awareness fluctuates unstably, with low-awareness employees rising to 50% and high-awareness declining to 20%, driven by intermediate-state volatility. Mild publicity boosts high-awareness to 45% and reduces low-awareness to 25% (13.3% overall increase), while mandatory training elevates high-awareness to nearly 80% and suppresses low-awareness below 5% (37.8% overall increase). Sensitivity analysis validates model robustness, highlighting intermediate-state employees as pivotal drivers of awareness dynamics. This study advances SCT by quantifying triadic interactions in AI-driven contexts and offers actionable insights for optimizing data security through targeted interventions, demonstrating that hybrid strategies combining publicity and training yield superior outcomes.
{"title":"Unveiling AI data security: How employee awareness evolves in smart manufacturing","authors":"Juan Yu , Weihong Xie , Diwen Zheng , Liang Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the era of Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance operational efficiency, yet heightened data security risks underscore the critical role of employee data security awareness (DSA). This study pioneers a Cellular Automata (CA) model, grounded in Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), to investigate the emergent dynamics of employee AI DSA in smart manufacturing enterprises. By integrating local security climates and dynamic threshold mechanisms, the model simulates collective awareness evolution under three scenarios: no intervention, mild publicity, and mandatory training, using an initial distribution of 30% low, 40% intermediate, and 30% high-awareness employees. Findings reveal that without intervention, awareness fluctuates unstably, with low-awareness employees rising to 50% and high-awareness declining to 20%, driven by intermediate-state volatility. Mild publicity boosts high-awareness to 45% and reduces low-awareness to 25% (13.3% overall increase), while mandatory training elevates high-awareness to nearly 80% and suppresses low-awareness below 5% (37.8% overall increase). Sensitivity analysis validates model robustness, highlighting intermediate-state employees as pivotal drivers of awareness dynamics. This study advances SCT by quantifying triadic interactions in AI-driven contexts and offers actionable insights for optimizing data security through targeted interventions, demonstrating that hybrid strategies combining publicity and training yield superior outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48422,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Management","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 103011"},"PeriodicalIF":27.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145684385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.103009
Xiaoqing Wang , Wanle Zhong , Keman Huang , Bin Liang
The rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (aka, LLMs) provides high potential to transform organizational operations, yet a pronounced high interest but low adoption gap persists. Hence, moving beyond individual-level studies to examine organization-wide implementation, we draw on Rogers’ innovation decision process and Engeström’s activity theory, and conduct in-depth interviews with 27 front-line experts, including LLM providers, adopters, and advisors. Our analysis uncovers ten key contradictions and corresponding practice-driven solutions that emerge across five implementation stages (agenda-setting, matching, redefining and restructuring, clarifying, and routinizing). These insights illuminate not only the multi-stage, socio-technical complexity of LLM deployment but also shifting priorities among activity subsystems and the collaborative mechanisms essential for success. Building on these findings, we offer actionable recommendations for practitioners: a tiered rollout strategy; the technical capability building including decision-support and trial platforms, agile modular architectures and multi-layer update pipelines; as well as an accountable governance framework that integrates internal controls with external accountability. By synthesizing theoretical and practical perspectives, our study intends to guide researchers and business leaders navigate the challenges of organizational LLM implementation and realize their transformative potential at scale.
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