Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive research model that can explain potential customers’ behavioral intentions to adopt and use smart home services.
...Design/methodology/approach
This study proposes and validates a new theoretical model that extends the theory of planned behavior. Partial least squares analysis is employed to test the research model and corresponding hypotheses on data collected from 216 survey samples.
Findings
Mobility, security/privacy risk, and trust in the service provider are important factors affecting the adoption of smart home services.
Practical implications
To increase potential users’ adoption rate, service providers should focus on developing mobility-related services that enable people to access smart home services while on the move using mobile devices via control and monitoring functions.
Originality/value
This study is the first empirical attempt to examine user acceptance of smart home services, as most of the prior literature has concerned technical features.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are classes delivered in an online environment with several features that are different from previous approaches to online education. The effectiveness of MOOCs is ...an open question as completion rates are substantially less than traditional online education courses. The objective of this study is to identify factors that enhance an individual' intention to continue using MOOCs, which a limited amount of research has previously explored. A research model based on the information systems continuance expectation-confirmation model is proposed and tested with data collected in a large-scale study. The research model explained a substantial percentage of the variance for the intention to continue using MOOCs, which is significantly influenced by perceived reputation, perceived openness, perceived usefulness, perceived, and user satisfaction. Perceived reputation and perceived openness were the strongest predictors and have not previously been examined in the context of MOOCs.
•This study explores what influences an individual's intention to continue using MOOCs.•This study examines the role of openness and reputation in the context of MOOCs.•Reputation and openness are the strongest predictors of continuance to use MOOCs.
Technological innovation generates products, services, and processes that can disrupt existing industries and lead to the emergence of new fields. Distributed ledger technology, or blockchain, offers ...novel transparency, security, and anonymity characteristics in transaction data that may disrupt existing industries. However, research attention has largely examined its application to finance. Less is known of any broader applications, particularly in Industry 4.0. This study investigates academic research publications on blockchain and predicts emerging industries using academia‐industry dynamics. This study adopts latent Dirichlet allocation and dynamic topic models to analyze large text data with a high capacity for dimensionality reduction. Prior studies confirm that research contributes to technological innovation through spillover, including products, processes, and services. This study predicts emerging industries that will likely incorporate blockchain technology using insights from the knowledge structure of publications.
Firms continuously search for external knowledge that can contribute to product innovation, which may ultimately increase market performance. The relationship between external knowledge sourcing and ...market performance is not well-documented. The extant literature primarily examines the causal relationship between external knowledge sources and product innovation performance or to identify factors which moderates the relationship between external knowledge sourcing and product innovation. Non-technological innovations, such as organization and marketing innovations, intervene in the process of external knowledge sourcing to product innovation to market performance but has not been extensively examined. This study addresses two research questions: does external knowledge sourcing lead to market performance and how does external knowledge sourcing interact with a firm's different innovation activities to enhance market performance. This study proposes a comprehensive model to capture the causal mechanism from external knowledge sourcing to market performance. The research model was tested using survey data from manufacturing firms in South Korea and the results demonstrate a strong statistical relationship in the path of external knowledge sourcing (EKS) to product innovation performance (PIP) to market performance (MP). Organizational innovation is an antecedent to EKS while marketing innovation is a consequence of EKS, which significantly influences PIP and MP. The results imply that any potential EKS effort should also consider organizational innovations which may ultimately enhance market performance. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed as well as concluding remarks.
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DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SIK, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to develop a research model examining users' perceived value of a location-based social networking service (LB-SNS) through hedonic, utilitarian, and social ...values. This study investigates the impact for each type of perceived value on user satisfaction, behavioural intention to use, and word-of-mouth for LB-SNS. Design/methodology/approach - Data were collected from 172 Korean smartphone users with experience using LB-SNS. This study employed PLS to test the proposed model and corresponding hypotheses. Findings - A positive influence exists for each type of perceived value on satisfaction with hedonic value having the strongest relationship. Hedonic value is positively correlated with behavioural intention to use LB-SNS and positive word-of-mouth while social value affects positive word-of-mouth. Utilitarian value did not influence either behavioural intention to use LB-SNS or positive word-of-mouth. User satisfaction has a significant influence on both behavioural intention to use LB-SNS and positive word-of-mouth. Research limitations/implications - This study is at the forefront of research focused on LB-SNS adoption, extending beyond the utilitarian-hedonic value dichotomy to include a social dimension. This study confirmed that perceived value is an antecedent of satisfaction, which leads to behavioural intentions. Practical implications - The advantages and benefits of LB-SNS should be emphasised to increase users' perceived value. LB-SNS providers can improve user satisfaction by increasing the hedonic, utilitarian, and social value of their services. Organisations should seek out and explore the possibilities of marketing campaigns through LB-SNS. Originality/value - This study is the first empirical study examining user acceptance of LB-SNS incorporating users' perceived value satisfaction and behavioural intentions
The increase in data traffic calls for investment in mobile networks; however, the saturating revenue of mobile broadband and increasing capital expenditure are discouraging mobile operators from ...investing in next‐generation mobile networks. Mobile network sharing is a viable solution for operators and regulators to resolve this dilemma. This research uses a difference‐in‐differences analysis of 33 operators (including 11 control operators) to empirically evaluate the cost reduction effect of mobile network sharing. The results indicate a reduction in overall operating expenditure and short‐term capital expenditure by national roaming. This finding implies that future technology and standards development should focus on flexible network operation and maintenance, energy efficiency, and maximizing economies of scale in radio access networks. Furthermore, mobile network sharing will become more viable and relevant in a 5G network deployment as spectrum bands are likely to increase the total cost of ownership of mobile networks and technical enablers will facilitate network sharing.
•We examine the perceived value factors influencing the continuance of mobile healthcare applications.•We employ regulatory focus theory to identify the moderating factor.•Perceived values positively ...influence user satisfaction.•Promotion focus has a stronger moderating effect on utilitarian value.•Prevention focus has a stronger moderating effect on hedonic value.
Although mobile healthcare (mHealth) applications have proliferated and offer new opportunities for personal health management, many users exhibit discontinuance behavior. Various factors in mHealth applications can strongly impact users’ continuance behavior, but it is not yet fully understood how they interact with each other to yield maximized effects. This study highlights the importance of identifying the antecedents and moderators of continuance intention to broaden the demographic reach of mHealth applications and thus contribute to maintaining a sustainable healthcare system.
This research explores three dimensions of perceived values (hedonic, utilitarian, and social) in mHealth platforms that lead to user satisfaction and, ultimately, continuance intention. It further investigates the moderating effects of personal traits defined by regulatory focus on the relationship between perceived value and user satisfaction.
Data was collected from 259 respondents with experience using the Samsung Health application. The research tests the proposed model and hypotheses by implementing PLS-SEM and multi-group analyses.
Each dimension of perceived values positively influences user satisfaction, with hedonic and utilitarian values exhibiting stronger relationships. Regarding moderating effects, promotion (versus prevention) focus has a stronger enhancing effect on the positive relationship between utilitarian value and user satisfaction. In contrast, prevention (versus promotion) focus more strongly enhances the positive relationship between hedonic value and user satisfaction. Regulatory focus does not yield a significant moderating effect on the relationship between social value and user satisfaction. User satisfaction exerts a strong positive influence on continuance intention in mHealth environments.
The moderating effect of individuals’ regulatory focus has been identified. Combined effects of antecedents and moderators on user satisfaction influence their continuance intention in mHealth ecologies. Considering individual users’ characteristics may guide mHealth application developers to design personalized platforms and establish enforced marketing strategies.
A wide range of studies in various disciplines has focused on the Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber‐physical systems (CPS). However, it is necessary to summarize the current status and to establish ...future directions because each study has its own individual goals independent of the completion of all IoT applications. The absence of a comprehensive understanding of IoT and CPS has disrupted an efficient resource allocation. To assess changes in the knowledge structure and emerging technologies, this study explores the dynamic research trends in IoT by analyzing bibliographic data. We retrieved 54,237 keywords in 12,600 IoT studies from the Scopus database, and conducted keyword frequency, co‐occurrence, and growth‐rate analyses. The analysis results reveal how IoT technologies have been developed and how they are connected to each other. We also show that such technologies have diverged and converged simultaneously, and that the emerging keywords of trust, smart home, cloud, authentication, context‐aware, and big data have been extracted. We also unveil that the CPS is directly involved in network, security, management, cloud, big data, system, industry, architecture, and the Internet.
The increase in data traffic calls for investment in mobile networks; however, the saturating revenue of mobile broadband and increasing capital expenditure are discouraging mobile operators from ...investing in next-generation mobile networks. Mobile network sharing is a viable solution for operators and regulators to resolve this dilemma. This research uses a difference-in-differences analysis of 33 operators (including 11 control operators) to empirically evaluate the cost reduction effect of mobile network sharing. The results indicate a reduction in overall operating expenditure and short-term capital expenditure by national roaming. This finding implies that future technology and standards development should focus on flexible network operation and maintenance, energy efficiency, and maximizing economies of scale in radio access networks. Furthermore, mobile network sharing will become more viable and relevant in a 5G network deployment as spectrum bands are likely to increase the total cost of ownership of mobile networks and technical enablers will facilitate network sharing.
The main sources of technological development are from abroad rather than domestic in many countries. The global networks for knowledge and technology flows are becoming sophisticated. This article ...examines how a country's embeddedness in the global knowledge spillover networks, particularly trade and FDI, is related to national innovation performance. Network closure and structural hole, the main arguments in network theory literature, represent the main objectives of our network analysis. The results are subsequently used to assess how these network characteristics are related to national innovation performance via panel negative binomial regression analysis. The findings show an overall tendency of a negative effect of network closure and a positive one of structural holes on a country's innovative outcome. In conclusion, this article not only highlights the significant role of network characteristics in national innovation performance, but also provides implications on how to leverage such network resources to improve national innovation systems.
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