IT Law (Books and Journals)

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: This study aims to develop analytical models that consider product quality and production volume as essential drivers for profitability in the marketplace. It also considers product demand and price dynamics to understand related nuances backed by empirical validation. Design/methodology/approach: The pricing mechanism is influenced by production quality, while product demand is...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: This paper considers an e-tailer planning to distribute a product under one direct sales channel and multiple asymmetric agency platforms. Based on the multinomial logit (MNL) choice model, this study optimizes the pricing strategy and channel selection strategy to maximize the e-tailer’s profit. Design/methodology/approach: A two-stage channel selection and pricing problem is...

• Information and Learning Science

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: Robotic process automation (RPA) is an automation technology that replaces front-end information technology (IT) human workers with software that handles simple and repetitive tasks. Despite its importance, RPA research remains limited to topics related to the introduction of the technology itself due to its novelty. This study examines users’ resistance attitudes to understand their...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the convergence of linguistic features between physicians and patients with chronic diseases facilitates the effectiveness of physician–patient communication in online health communities (OHCs). Drawing on communication accommodation theory (CAT), the authors develop a research model that illustrates how the convergence of semantic...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can potentially improve supply chain management (SCM) processes across levels and verticals. However, despite its promise, the implementation of GenAI for SCM remains challenging, mainly due to the lack of knowledge regarding its key drivers. To address this gap, this study examines the factors driving GenAI implementation in an SCM environment...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: Characterised by simultaneous food waste and shortages, our current food system is far from sustainable. Industry 4.0 has responded with technology-enabled innovations, including digital food-sharing platforms aimed at facilitating the efficient redistribution of surplus food. However, potential users often express reluctance to adopt such platforms, prompting this study to explore the...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: Research on decision rights partitioning and its impact on platform performance has predominantly focused on single rights, leading to inconclusive results. This study is driven by a more nuanced objective of exploring diverse governance models that can enhance the performance of sharing platforms across different contexts. Rather than delegating single decision right to users, this...

• Online Information Review

Purpose: Automated social media messaging tactics can undermine trust in health institutions and public health advice. As such, we examine automated software programs (ASPs) and social bots in the Twitter anti-vaccine discourse before and after the release of COVID-19 vaccines. Design/methodology/approach: We compare two Twitter datasets comprising user accounts and associated English-language...

• Digital Library Perspectives

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: Tacit knowledge in frontline operations is primarily reflected in the holders’ intuition about dynamic systems. Despite the implicit nature of tacit knowledge, the understanding of complex systems it encapsulates can be displayed through formalization methods. This study seeks to develop a methodology for formalizing tacit knowledge in a dynamic delivery system. Design/methodology/approa

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: Live streaming e-commerce, which integrates real-time video interaction with online shopping, has quickly become a popular sales channel. It not only allows for immediate feedback but also builds a sense of trust and connection between streamers and consumers. Drawing on the elaboration likelihood model (ELM), we investigate how central and peripheral route factors affect consumers’...

• Digital Library Perspectives

• Journal of Intellectual Capital

Purpose: Entrepreneurial universities, through their intellectual capital (IC), can promote the development of a third mission, which involves collaborating with business and societal organizations to create value. Joint research projects are undertaken within entrepreneurial universities leveraging their IC. These generate value for both the academic community and the territory as they generate...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: In the practice of live streaming e-commerce, the consumer demand is usually uncertain, and the inventory and prices can be decided by brand owners or streamers. To this end, this study examines the inventory and pricing decisions of the brand owner and streamer in a live streaming e-commerce supply chain under demand uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach: In this study, four...

• Journal of Documentation

Purpose: Data quality assurance (DQA) is essential for enabling the sharing and reuse of research data, especially given the increasing focus on data transparency, reproducibility, credibility and validity in research. Although the literature on research data curation is vast, there remains a lack of theory-guided exploration of DQA modeling in research data repositories (RDRs). Design/methodolog

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: This research aims to investigate the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption on the innovation dynamics of Chinese manufacturing enterprises, with a specific focus on the intricate interplay with the labor structure. Design/methodology/approach: Leveraging panel data of listed companies from 2010 to 2022, this study employs the two-way fixed effects (TWFE) model to examine the...

• Information and Learning Science

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate user voice-switching behavior in voice assistants (VAs), embodiments and perceived trust in information accuracy, usefulness and intelligence. The authors addressed four research questions: RQ1. What is the nature of users’ voice-switching behavior in VAs? RQ2: What are user preferences for embodied voice interfaces (EVIs), and do their preferred EVIs...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the relationship between digital transformation, international competition and productivity progress by examining the dual margins of export, thereby identifying the digital development pathway for key industrial chains within the context of regional medical and health cooperation. Design/methodology/approach: By constructing models incorporating both the...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: Achieving sustainability and sustainable performance has emerged as a critical area of focus for both academic research and practice. However, this pursuit faces challenges, particularly concerning the inadequacy of supply chain information. To address this issue, our study employs the organizational information processing theory to explore how adopting blockchain technology enables...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: Enhancing total factor productivity through digital transformation is a crucial pathway for the high-quality development of manufacturing enterprises. This research aims to investigate the impact mechanisms of manufacturing enterprises’ total factor productivity in the context of digital transformation. Design/methodology/approach: Using the data from 536 Chinese listed manufacturing...

• Digital Library Perspectives

Purpose: Effective knowledge management in large academic institutions is crucial for fostering innovation and improving educational practices. However, these institutions often face challenges, such as data fragmentation, siloed information systems and the complexity of integrating different data sources from various departments with complex hierarchical structures. To address these problems,...

• Journal of Intellectual Capital

Purpose: This article aims to explore the concept of green campus (GC) being implemented in Pakistan’s universities in order to attain green intellectual capital (GIC). Design/methodology/approach: Primary data were collected from the 20 public sector universities in the Punjab province, Pakistan. Data analysis was conducted by using SPSS and MPLUS software. Findings: Results confirm that green

• Journal of Intellectual Capital

Purpose: This paper aims to analyze the role of intellectual capital in the underexplored relationship between sustainable performance and credit access among private firms in Italy, where over 90% of businesses are small and medium enterprises. While D’Apolito et al. (2024) have investigated sustainability-linked bank financing among Italian listed small and medium-sized enterprises, this study...

• Industrial Management & Data Systems

Purpose: In the face of frequent supply chain disruptions, this study aims to identify the relationships between human capital (HC), digital supply chain practice (DSCP) and supply chain robustness and resilience (i.e. SCRO and SCRE). Design/methodology/approach: To examine the proposed conceptual model based on the resource-based view and organizational information processing theory, an...

• Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society

Purpose: The aim of this research is to conduct a systematic review of the literature on responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) practices within the domain of AI-based Credit Scoring (AICS) in banking. This review endeavours to map the existing landscape by identifying the work done so far, delineating the key themes and identifying the focal points of research within this field. Design/method

• Journal of Intellectual Capital

Purpose: Drawing upon an integrative perspective from intellectual capital theory with upper echelon theory, we examined how intellectual capital affects resource integration capability and subsequent strategic decision-making under weak versus strong top management team (TMT) involvement behavior. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between intellectual capital and...

• Digital Library Perspectives

Purpose: This paper critically evaluates Shodhganga, India’s centralized digital repository for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). It explores the repository’s impact, open access policy and the roles of participating universities and the implementing agency. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses a comprehensive analysis of Shodhganga’s features, including advancements in its user

• Information and Learning Science

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how a clinical interview protocol with failure artifact scenarios can capture changes in high school students’ explanations of troubleshooting processes in physical computing activities. The authors focus on physical computing, as finding and fixing hardware and software bugs is a highly contextual practice that involves multiple interconnected...

• Journal of Intellectual Capital

Purpose: This research explores human factors practices in the context of Industry 4.0, Industry 5.0 and the multigenerational workforce, promoting the evolution of Human Capital 4.0. With the emergence of generations Y and Z, organizations are more volatile, heightening the risk of tacit knowledge loss. Conditions conducive to retaining employees must be created, particularly by prioritizing...