Purpose
This article aims to reveal the factors influencing the sustainable development of mobile e-commerce from both user and operational perspectives. It fills the gap in qualitative research on ...the sustainable development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in mobile e-commerce based on the grounded theory. This study provides valuable insights and inspiration for sustainable development in this field and lays the theoretical foundation and research reference for future studies.
Design/methodology/approach
Based on the grounded theory (GT), interview method was used to conduct the study.
Findings
The impact of AI applications on mobile e-commerce is mainly reflected in three stages of the customer shopping process. They are pre-shopping, mid-shopping and after-shopping AI services and each of the three stages has its own separate dimensions that need attention. The study and its persistence aspects are discussed.
Practical implications
The results of this study can provide forward-looking suggestions and paths for the construction and optimization of future e-commerce platforms, contribute to the sustainable development of e-commerce and contribute to the sustainable and healthy growth of the social economy.
Originality/value
This study proposes sustainable development measures for the application of AI in mobile e-commerce, from operation to supervision, which is an important reference for promoting coordinated and rapid socio-economic development.
Organizational publicness is a foundational construct for public administration. It has largely been conceptualized deductively and focuses mostly on the macro‐ and meso‐levels of analysis, leaving ...under‐explored how public employees perceive it at the micro‐level. Through a grounded theory analysis of state government employees' interview data, this study aims to uncover public officials' perceptions about organizational publicness. We find that participants' perception of organizational publicness is a composite of five themes: four represent the core meanings of felt organizational publicness, essentially reflecting a cultural/ethical perspective (purpose, value, behavior, and outcome), and one represents the context of the meanings (external environment). Linking the dimensions with the literature and publicness at other analytical levels, we discuss the findings' implications. We emphasize that employee perceptions of organizational publicness play an important role in achieving realized publicness.
Ghosting has become commonplace beyond romantic relationships. Therefore, we aimed to broadly understand ghosters' (i.e., people who ghost others) experiences including the process of ghosting, ...reasons and attributions for ghosting, feelings and behaviors associated with ghosting, and attitudes toward ghosting. Thirty‐four undergraduates (65% Latinx, 15% Asian, 12% Black, 8% Other ethnicity) who had ghosted another person were interviewed in‐person about their ghosting attitudes, ghosting behaviors, and a memorable ghosting experience. Inductive thematic analyses informed by grounded theory yielded eight themes: A Clear Cause, Avoidance of Confrontation, Short‐term Orientation, Ghostees as Socially Inferior, Ignoring then Blocking, Attempts by Ghostee to Reach Out, Mixed and Evolving Feelings, and Recognition of Harm. Our findings indicate that psychological consequences for ghosters should be further examined.
•We use Grounded-Theory Literature Review method to review the online banking literature.•We identify factors affecting pre-adoption and post-adoption of the online banking.•We use two-stage ...random-effects MASEM to assess our theoretical models.•We show that ten factors affect consumers’ adoption of the online banking.•The relative importance of ten factors depends on the stage of adoption.
Despite the potential benefits that online banking offers consumers, it has low adoption rate. We systematically review online banking adoption literature to propose two research models of factors affecting pre-adoption and post-adoption of the online banking. To test our proposed models, we applied a two-stage random-effects meta-analytic structural equation modeling method to data collected from 25,265 cases from primary empirical studies of online banking adoption. Our findings show that ten factors affect consumers’ adoption of the online banking. Furthermore, we show that the relative importance of these factors differs depending on consumers’ pre-adoption and post-adoption of the online banking.
Foodborne illness is a prominent public health problem in most countries. A pivotal point in the prevention of foodborne illness is the adoption of safe food handling behaviors by consumers.
Based on ...interviews with Chinese consumers with food handling experience, this study constructed a determinants model of Chinese consumers' safe food handling behavior by using grounded theory.
The results reveal that self-protection consciousness and food safety knowledge are two core determinants that influence food handling behavior. Personality, frugal culture, physical environment, social environment and pursuing quality of life also play important roles. Consciousness superiority trap and knowledge superiority trap are found in the self-protection behavior. Meanwhile, five types of behavioral paradigms are put forward.
The research findings contribute to understanding the motivation of consumers to adopt safe food handling behaviors and providing a theoretical basis for the government to formulate effective intervention policies.
•The first qualitative research using grounded theory studies food handling behaviors.•A determinants' model of food safety self-protection behavior has been established.•Behavior paradigms are proposed based on Yin-Yang Theory.•Consciousness superiority trap and knowledge superiority trap are found.•The results provide an insight into consumers' food safety education.
La actividad turística está transformando la vida económica de una comunidad con características sui géneris. A partir de tres eventos: el resurgimiento de nuevas demandas del turismo, la ...construcción de la carretera y la incursión del programa federal de Pueblos Mágicos. El objetivo del presente documento se centra en rescatar las voces de los actores locales en torno al tema, para ello se recurrió a la metodología de la teoría fundamentada para construir desde el mismo lugar un nuevo objeto de estudio, que ponía en cuestionamiento el desarrollo local en San Sebastián del Oeste. La técnica usada es el programa Atlas ti. Dentro de los principales resultados se encontró que: los beneficios económicos generados por la afluencia de turistas a la zona se refleja en las inversiones de emprendimientos externos al lugar. Los lugareños obtienen ingresos marginales. El sector económico con mayores ventajas es la gastronomía local.
We aimed to understand how nonbinary individuals cope with gender identity threats in different contexts at work. We used a grounded theory approach through semi-structured interviews with 28 ...nonbinary Brazilian individuals from 25 organizations. In environments that are threatening to their gender identity, nonbinary individuals adopt a trial-and-error process of gender identity expression that makes them realize that restructuring their identity leads to a high sense of inauthenticity, while preserving it incurs high social costs. As both are unsatisfactory, some of them adopt ambiguous responses that allow them to find ways to make identity claims through performative processes of gender identity expression. Such a process, although not fully reflecting their desire for authenticity, provides satisfactory validation. This mechanism is possible when they interact in other environments where their identity claims are validated. Thus, the gender identity expression validated in more receptive contexts allows these individuals to experience what we named as cross-context identity enactment. It is a process by which the social validation that individuals obtain by enacting an identity in a less-threatening context allows them to rely less on validation in a more threatening context to retain such identity in their self-concept.
The family meal has been recognised as an integral part of family life. With the positive health outcomes associated with the family meal, it has been proposed as a strategy for encouraging ...health-promoting behaviours. However, a detailed understanding of the physical and mental work required to execute the family meal is lacking. The aim of this research was to conduct a grounded theory study to understand the components required to successfully execute the family meal. Two temporal data sets (1993–4/2020) in which diverse participants were sampled were used for this study. Methods used to conduct qualitative interviews with parents in the 1990s were mirrored in the conduct of qualitative interviews with parents in 2020. The interview data was analysed drawing on grounded theory methodology and methods. The entire sample included 54 parents from 28 families. A conceptual framework, ‘The Family Meal Framework’, was developed from the analyses. The five main components of The Framework are the cognitions (invisible work considering the needs of the family), actions (physical tasks required for the family meal), outcomes (the event of the family meal), the beliefs and feelings (expectations and attitudes toward the family meal), and the person(s) responsible (who undertakes the work). This framework provides a novel theory describing the reactive, cyclical nature of the work required to execute the family meal. This new understanding provides discrete opportunities for intervention in family meal research, practice, policy and promotion.
This paper explores whether hedges and boosters are used differently in discussion sections of research articles adopting one of the two qualitative approaches: narrative inquiry and grounded theory. ...Based on 30 SSCI-indexed journal articles in the field of education, both similarities and variations between the two paradigms were identified regarding the ways propositions are modified. Generally, narrative inquiry researchers relied more on boosters than grounded theorists in their statements, while researchers following grounded approach were more tentative in building a theory or concept. Furthermore, while narrative and grounded-theory studies both used hedging and boosting, certain nuanced variations were observed, e.g., the former being more likely to boost their contributions to their research communities. Such similarities and differences can be rooted in and explained by the respective philosophical assumptions behind each paradigm, suggesting a paradigmatic influence on hedging and boosting in academic writing. This study contributes to the current understanding of metadiscourse by documenting paradigmatic variation and proposing four continua sensitive to hedge–booster interactions and to aspects of knowledge representation, thereby providing pedagogical implications for teaching and learning of metadiscourse in papers using one of the two qualitative approaches in particular and different qualitative approaches in general.
•Hedges and boosters in research articles (RAs) connect to research paradigms.•Grounded theory RAs use more hedges than narrative inquiry RAs.•Narrative inquiry RAs use more boosters than grounded theory RAs.•Four functional continua of hedging and boosting are proposed.•Suggestions regarding the teaching and learning of hedges and boosters are given.
