Purpose/significance Online review is an important carrier of knowledge exchange for users in reading community. In order to help the reading community improve the review system and raise the ...usefulness of book reviews, exploring the intermediary role of online interaction in the usefulness of book reviews will help to further tap the value of online review. Method/process Based on IAM model, this paper constructed IAM-I online reading community review usefulness influencing factor model, and used OLS regression and Bootstrap mediation test to explore the effect mechanism of comment information characteristics and reviewer characteristics on review usefulness and the mediating effect of online interaction. Result /conclusion The results show that the characteristics of comment information and commentators can affect online interaction, online interaction plays a full mediating role in the relationship between the characteristic of text length and comment usefulness, and a partial mediating role in the r
This study proposes an e-government adoption model to determine the factors which lead to citizens' adoption of e-government services in the Togolese context while investigating the mediating roles ...of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. The proposed model was tested using valid and reliable data gathered from a sample of 482 respondents. Findings indicate that behavioral intention to use e-government services is significantly influenced by perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. More importantly, the analysis revealed that, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use play a mediating role, either full or partial between the antecedent variables, social influence, trustworthiness and facilitating conditions and the outcome variable, behavioral intention to use. The implementation of e-government services with a focus on these fundamental factors will eventually increase the acceptance and adoption of such services by citizens.
Smart Farming Technologies (SFTs) can improve production output while minimising costs and preserving resources; however, they are scarcely adopted by farmers. In the present study, the factors ...affecting farmers' intentions to adopt two types of SFTs (Type 1: drones, sensors for data acquisition and automatic download, and agricultural apps; Type 2: agricultural robots and autonomous machines) were investigated within the framework of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), considering the role played by different sources of information, Perceived Ease of Use (PEU), and Perceived Usefulness (PU). A questionnaire assessing the PEU and PU of the two types of SFTs, farmers' previous exposure to different impersonal and personal (formal and informal) sources of information, and farmers' intentions to adopt SFTs was administered to a sample of Italian farmers (n = 314). A mediated model, built on the TAM, showed that the PU affected farmers’ intention to adopt a technology and that personal sources of information, both formal and informal, affected the PU; however, while formal sources increased the PU, informal sources decreased the PU. The model was invariant across the two types of SFTs considered. The implications for the proposal of new technologies are discussed.
•Factors driving the intention to adopt Smart Farming Technologies were assessed in a group of Italian farmers.•The role of sources of information, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use was considered.•Formal personal sources of information were the most effective lever for change in the SFTs domain.•This effect was mediated by perceived usefulness.•Advisory systems providing knowledge and access to innovation resources for different types of farmers are needed.
This paper is a tribute to researchers who have significantly contributed to improving and advancing structural equation modeling (SEM). It is, therefore, a brief overview of SEM and presents its ...beginnings, historical development, its usefulness in the social sciences and the statistical and philosophical (theoretical) controversies which have often appeared in the literature pertaining to SEM. Having described the essence of SEM in the context of causal analysis, the author discusses the years of the development of structural modeling as the consequence of many researchers’ systematically growing needs (in particular in the social sciences) who strove to effectively understand the structure and interactions of latent phenomena. The early beginnings of SEM models were related to the work of Spearman and Wright, and to that of other prominent researchers who contributed to SEM development. The importance and predominance of theoretical assumptions over technical issues for the successful construction of SEM models are also described. Then, controversies regarding the use of SEM in the social sciences are presented. Finally, the opportunities and threats of this type of analytical strategy as well as selected areas of SEM applications in the social sciences are discussed.
Creativity has long been defined in terms of novelty and usefulness. Surprisingly, however, there is relatively little agreement about the precise meaning of either dimension, the relationship ...between them, or the process through which they are produced. In this paper, we explore how novelty and usefulness have been used explicitly and implicitly in the creativity literature to reveal three ways to understand the definitional constructs. We propose that these three understandings give rise to distinct but interrelated forms of creativity: creativity as maximization, creativity as balance, and creativity as integration. Each form provides a different way of answering the question: What is creativity? We further theorize that the forms are shaped by the distal relations between novelty and usefulness, context, and process. Fundamentally, our theory suggests that developing a creative outcome for a distant alternative reality is a different form of creativity than developing an idea grounded in the present, so that as creators move through space and time, they also move through different forms of creativity. Our meta-theory furthers our understanding of creativity by revealing the centrality of usefulness in defining creativity, opening up the dynamics of the creative process, and highlighting interdependencies between ideas and context.
THE PIVOT GRIMES, MATTHEW G.
Academy of Management journal,
10/2018, Volume:
61, Issue:
5
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Efforts to incorporate external feedback are central to the process of entrepreneurship and to that of creative work more broadly, yet, because individuals may view aspects of their creative ideas as ...linked to their self-concepts, this can trigger resistance toward revision. Thus, feedback-induced change, while likely intended to increase the viability of creative ideas, might paradoxically undermine that viability by compromising creative workers’ associated identity-based relationships with their creative endeavors. While existing scholarship has established the importance of creative revision, research has largely overlooked how this vital process intersects with creative workers’ identities. Through a field study of 59 founders and their entrepreneurial ideas, I present an identity-based process model of creative revision that highlights differences in founders’ psychological ownership of their ideas and how those differences affect subsequent revision efforts. The emerging findings contribute to existing theory by revealing that the capacity to extend the novelty and usefulness of one’s ideas is not merely subject to informational constraints but also to identity-based constraints.
Technological development has drastically changed customers' daily lives by offering them new ways to shop. It also creates more opportunities for business to achieve sustainable success; however, ...both scholars and managers are still having relative difficulty in fully grasping customer behavior in terms of technology acceptance during the Industry 4.0. This study aims to investigate the possible factors that drive Chinese customers' willingness to utilize facial recognition payment. The findings showed that factors such as perceived enjoyment, facilitating conditions, personal innovativeness, coupon availability, perceived ease of use (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PU), and users' attitude are main drivers of customers' decisions to use facial recognition payment. Also, we found that gender differences exist in the adoption of facial recognition payment. Facilitating conditions have stronger effects on men's attitude towards usage, while coupon availability shapes female users' perception of usefulness more powerfully. By testing the extended technology acceptance model (TAM), this study seeks to gain more insight into technological change within society. Overall, investigation of the drivers of customer intention to use facial recognition payment, and exploration of their internal relationships will fulfil theoretical requirements and lead to a better understanding of customers' technology acceptance behavior, which in turn will provide greater theoretical and practical guidance for scholars and managers.
•Facial-recognition payment enables customers to execute payment in a few seconds, which increases service efficiency.•This study leads to a better understanding of customers’ decisions regarding facial-recognition-payment adoption.•Financial incentives can encourage individuals to adopt facial-recognition- payment.•An enjoyable user experience motivates facial-recognition-payment usage.•Providing proper technical support and resources facilitates facial-recognition-payment usage.
The availability and quality of instrumental variables (IV) are frequent concerns in empirical management research when trying to overcome endogeneity problems. For endogeneity that does not arise ...from sample selection, management scholars have recently started to apply the Gaussian Copula (GC) approach as an alternative to IV regression. Although the GC approach has various promising features, its limitations and usefulness in a management context are still not fully understood. We discuss the GC approach as a flexible, instrument-free approach to correct for endogeneity and examine its suitability for applied management research. We use simulations to explore the limitations and practical usefulness of the GC approach relative to ordinary least squares (OLS), IV regression, and a Higher Moments (HM) estimator by simulating the impact of different degrees of violation of the key underlying assumptions of the GC approach. We show that the GC approach can recover the true parameters remarkably well if all of its assumptions are met but that its absolute and relative performance in terms of parameter recovery and estimation precision can deteriorate quickly if these assumptions are violated. This is of particular concern as some of these assumptions are not testable and violations of them are likely in many empirical management contexts. Based on our results, we provide a series of recommendations and practical guidelines for scholars who consider using the GC approach when dealing with endogeneity.
The importance of psychological factors is increasingly being recognized in driving the green building (GB) movement. However, few empirical studies have gone deeper to explore specific psychological ...factors and their impacts on residents' acceptance of green labeled residential buildings (GLRBs). This study develops an extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to explain residents' intention to adopt GLRBs, and examine it in a survey (N = 342) conducted in Tianjin City, China. The results show that subjective knowledge about GLRBs, social trust in organizations responsible for GLRBs, perceived usefulness from GLRBs, attitude towards GLRBs, and general environmental attitude measured by the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale, are the significant psychological determinants of intention to adopt GLRBs. It is also found that lacking subjective knowledge and social trust among our surveyed residents could be the psychological barriers to their acceptance of GLRBs. The psychological factors we identified provide references for policymakers to effectively develop residents' behavioral intervention strategies and allocate resources in GB promoting schemes. It is highly necessary to equip residents with more knowledge about GLRBs and improve their social trust in organizations responsible for delivering GLRBs.
•Residents' acceptance of green labeled residential buildings (GLRBs) are studied.•Subjective knowledge, social trust, environmental attitude are significant predictors.•Lack of relevant knowledge and social trust are potential barriers to GLRB acceptance.•General environmental attitude affects residents' attitude towards GLRBs.
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