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This study explores the effect of general disposition to trust on the perceived trustworthiness of an online vendor in high-and low-context cultures. A total sample of 616 responses from users of online bookstores was collected from China and Finland. The results show that the disposition to trust has a highly significant effect on the three dimensions of trustworthiness namely ability, integrity,...
For organizations undergoing agile and lean transformation, it can be difficult to get meaningful, actionable insights into progress and impediments. Teams and organizations are best understood as complex adaptive human systems. Understanding what is happening in such systems requires approaches grounded in the complexity sciences and social sciences. This paper describes an approach using complexity...
In recent years, there has been significant attention paid to the application of Lean thinking to software-centric organizations. However, there is noticeable challenges accompanying the use of it. Even when applied properly, sustaining the realized benefits becomes challenging. There is a need to have a sustainable and continuous improvement method that is embedded into the daily operations of the...
New digital technology has opened a broad range of ways in which individuals can engage with social movement organizations (SMOs). Although extant research has highlighted the role of digital action repertoires in political movements, the effects on SMOs' processes and structures still need to be elucidated. This study takes a deeper look into the organizational implications of broadening the set...
Crowdfunding has thus far been run by stand-alone crowdfunding platforms, many of them formed by for-profit companies. However, a number of universities have begun to start their own platforms. These "corporate crowdfunding" platforms are likely to have more resources at their disposal than stand-alone platforms but less flexibility as the overarching organization exerts control and decision-making...
This paper advances the concept of pre-theory design frameworks as a notable means of justifying early design experiences that form preliminaries to design theories. Design work situated in complex design problem settings can field artifacts that shift the entropy in the setting (i.e., relocate work and noise). Such shifts can trigger a progressive transformation from a problem setting to a solution...
Large-scale interconnected information systems frequently conceptualized as information infrastructures are very difficult to govern. In particular, healthcare contexts involving different collaborative institutions and departments that have diverging goals and policies make the situation even more complex. Based on information infrastructure theory and governance literature from the IS field, this...
The Internet of Things (IoT) creates a myriad of new business opportunities that focus on collecting, transmitting, and analyzing product data. IoT collaborations bring together diverse firms with separate skill-sets that both produce and utilize digitized data to co-create value. While previous research has explored the technical implications of IoT in great detail, it has largely ignored the business...
In the assimilation stage of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, a major challenge for employees and managers is to overcome knowledge barriers and learn ERP knowledge efficiently. Social learning refers to informal learning-from-others in daily works. Prior literature has shown benefits of social networks on individual learning. However, several studies suggested that the value of social...
The dynamics of the actual global context create a growing need for creation of better knowledge management in organizations. More than ever global markets exercise a bottom-up pressure (market dynamics and daily practices) and a top-down pressure (standardization) on employees who must constantly create, acquire and disseminate new knowledge. Due to this, employees engage sometimes in workarounds...
Studies looking at e-learning adoption from a multi-dimensional perspective have remained below expectation especially in developing countries. This study explores the technological, organizational and environmental (TOE) determinants of e-learning adoption in universities in developing countries, with the 'nature of the course' added to the constructs to underpin the study. Using survey research,...
The affordance concept has penetrated the Information Systems (IS) scholarship as a lens for theorizing the relationship between technology and its users. However, what exactly is it that the researchers are trying to capture when they use this concept? For this essay, we carefully read IS literature to reveal underlying assumptions behind this lens and how it has been adopted. This article reveals...
In recent years, Web 2.0 applications have found their way into organizational practice with increasing demand for corporate social software to support in-ternal (e.g. networking, knowledge transfer) and ex-ternal (e.g. user-interaction, collaboration) processes. Already organizational changes are starting to be-come visible, so our goal is to conduct an exploratory study in order to shed light on...
Value co-creation enabled by consumers' use of information systems is a challenging topic which requires more explicit definitions for use of academics and managers. Systemic features are digital services enabling co-creation of value, not being products or services to be paid for, but assisting as consumer-supporting capabilities between different contexts. In order to gain better insight for systemic...
Virtual teams play an important role in the modern economy, and many organizations struggle to overcome the weaknesses inherent in technology-mediated work. Drawing from a strong empirical foundation for identity-related outcomes in non-mediated settings, we propose that perceived virtual identity communication accuracy positively impacts virtual team trust and performance. We further propose that...
A fundamental objective of IS research is the investigation of the dynamic interplay between the social and the material. As a consequence, the concept of sociomateriality has evolved to depict the interaction of the social and material in different environments, such as organizations. Although various definitions have emerged, sociomateriality remains a buzzword, however, its application in real...
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