A higher number of socially anxious users were found as more users joined social network sites. Since social commerce has become an important issue, this study investigated the effect of social... Show More

A higher number of socially anxious users were found as more users joined social network sites. Since social commerce has become an important issue, this study investigated the effect of social anxiety on online users’ social commerce intention. Online social interactions are hypothesized to influence social commerce intention directly or indirectly through online social support. 427 effective samples were collected from Facebook users, and the results confirmed most of the causal effects. The study also tested the moderating effect of social anxiety on the causal effects. Of the eight relationships, social anxiety significantly moderates six of them. The relationships between online social interaction and emotional support and between online social interaction and social commerce intention are stronger for users with higher social anxiety. For users with lower social anxiety, the relationship between social support and the receiving of social commerce intention is stronger. The research findings lead to significant theoretical contributions and managerial implications.

In spite the significance of consumer engagement that scholars have recognized, there is a gap in understanding the influencing factors of consumer social networking engagement behaviors. In the... Show More

In spite the significance of consumer engagement that scholars have recognized, there is a gap in understanding the influencing factors of consumer social networking engagement behaviors. In the light of social identity theory, this study considered susceptibility to interpersonal influence (SIPI) and self-expressive brands (SEBs) on consumer social networking engagement behaviors. Data from our research demonstrated that SEBs and SIPI were positively related to brand attachment, which also impacted liking, sharing, and commenting on social networking sites (SNS). In addition, brand attachment played a positive mediating role among SEB, SIPI, and consumer engagement on SNS. The research explores the factors affecting consumer engagement on SNS with a new insight and guides brand managers to seek efficient ways to drive consumers to engage on online social networks.

Green supply chain management means integrating environmental awareness into supply chain management, including product design, raw material acquisition and selection, the manufacturing process, the... Show More

Green supply chain management means integrating environmental awareness into supply chain management, including product design, raw material acquisition and selection, the manufacturing process, the distribution of final products to customers, and the management of end-of-life products. However, there are driving and unfavorable factors for manufacturing enterprises to choose green suppliers. Therefore, this study proposed a new IPA-DEMATEL model by integrating importance-performance analysis (IPA) and decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) to explore green suppliers' selection, evaluation, and management strategies.

Educational institutions face significant challenges in extracting interest from their investments in massive open online courses (MOOCs). This study examined the impact of supportive leadership... Show More

Educational institutions face significant challenges in extracting interest from their investments in massive open online courses (MOOCs). This study examined the impact of supportive leadership style on university employees' continued use of MOOCs and assessed the mediating role of their innovative work behavior. It uses a multi-theory perspective as opposed to the majority of past studies that use singular theoretical perspectives and extends the information system continuance (ISC) model with the leadership concept. Researchers collected multi-source dyadic data for this cross-sectional study from 632 employees and 316 supervisors from 19 Chinese universities. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling with partial least squares through SmartPLS 3.2.9. Results indicate supportive leadership influences employees' innovative behavior, which mediates between supportive leadership and employees' satisfaction, perceived usefulness, and intention to continue using MOOCs.

In recent decades, healthcare organizations around the world have increasingly appreciated the value of information technologies for a variety of applications. Three of the new technological... Show More

In recent decades, healthcare organizations around the world have increasingly appreciated the value of information technologies for a variety of applications. Three of the new technological advancements that are impacting smart health are metaverse, artificial intelligence (AI), and data science. The metaverse is the intersection of three major technologies — AI, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR). Metaverse provides new possibilities and potential that are still emerging. The increased work efficiency enabled by artificial intelligence and data science in hospitals not only improves patient care but also cuts costs and workload for healthcare providers. Artificial intelligence, coupled with machine learning, is transforming the healthcare industry. The availability of big data enables data scientists to use the data for descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. This article reviews multiple case studies and the literature on AI and data science applications in hospital administration. The article also presents unresolved research questions and challenges in the applications of the metaverse, AI, and data science in the smart health context. For researchers, in addition to providing a good synopsis of the development and applications of the metaverse, AI, and data science in the healthcare area, this article identifies possible future research directions and discusses the possibilities of the metaverse, artificial intelligence, and data science in smart health. For practitioners, this article provides both hospital decision-makers and healthcare workers with practical guidelines and a smart health management model.

This study explores factors influencing the sharing behaviour of medical crowdfunding campaigns on mobile social media regarding retweeter and retweeted text features from the social influence... Show More

This study explores factors influencing the sharing behaviour of medical crowdfunding campaigns on mobile social media regarding retweeter and retweeted text features from the social influence perspective and verifies the moderating effect of potential supporter donations. Two scenario-based surveys of medical crowdfunding users are conducted in China. The first (524 samples) and second (510 samples) surveys emphasize scenarios without and with retweeted text, respectively. These surveys are tested by PLS-SEM and suggest that the credibility of retweeters and the strength of their relationship with supporters can positively promote potential supporters' sharing behaviour, regardless of whether retweeters provide retweeted text. Three features of retweeted text significantly influence medical crowdfunding sharing behaviour. Retweeted text can promote sharing behaviour among individuals. With retweeted text available, if potential supporters donate before sharing the campaign, then the influences of retweeter and retweeted text features can be increased.

Mobilization has been an important management issue in business interaction, but the role of technology in the mobilization process is little investigated, particularly with regard to the rising... Show More

Mobilization has been an important management issue in business interaction, but the role of technology in the mobilization process is little investigated, particularly with regard to the rising phenomena of platforms and ecosystems. This research attempts to explore the concept of technology-enabled mobilization by dealing with the question of how technology facilitates a mobilizing process that drives the emergence of a value co-creating ecosystem. This research question is investigated through a single case study that looked at an agricultural enterprise's business development for almost three decades, in which key stakeholders were attracted to engage in collective collaborations, resulting in an interdependency and value co-creating system. The case findings permit us to develop implications, particularly the notions of service-based and technology-enabled mobilizations.

This study proposes using dendrogram clustering as the basis to construct a federated learning system for A.I. model parameter updating. The authors adopted a private blockchain to accelerate... Show More

This study proposes using dendrogram clustering as the basis to construct a federated learning system for A.I. model parameter updating. The authors adopted a private blockchain to accelerate downloads of the latest parameters corresponding to the computation results of an A.I. model. This study reduced the computational complexity of the backend server with the A.I. model to elevate backend server performance. Furthermore, the authors propose a hash function to determine whether the machines added new training data. The experimental results revealed that the proposed method could reduce the computational complexity of federated learning and that private blockchains can be applied to ensure parameter confidentiality and completeness. In summary, this research uses software computing methods to save machine learning data transmission, reduce network load, and provide privacy protection for parameter data without updating existing production equipment so that small-cost enterprises can import Industry 4.0.

Since the beginning of the new century, all manufacturing enterprises have been seeking ways to transform and upgrade the systems to maintain their competitive advantages. In the process of... Show More

Since the beginning of the new century, all manufacturing enterprises have been seeking ways to transform and upgrade the systems to maintain their competitive advantages. In the process of transformation and upgrading, service innovation has become more vital. In the service innovation mode, customers and suppliers are mainly involved in the manufacture of products. In the process of communication, these suppliers and customers need to rely on public key infrastructure (PKI) for data encryption and identity authentication operations, thereby achieving reliable information exchange and identity authentication in an untrusted environment. Therefore, ensuring the security of network communication for various types of users is crucial. The purpose of this paper is to solve the problem that results when a tampered certificate is difficult to trace due to the single point of failure and vulnerability of the current settlement and authentication system. In this scenario, the user's identity information is leaked in the certificate application. Resolving this problem is necessary to ensure the security of the information network.

Corporate innovation is the driver and wellspring of business operation and development. Thus, how entrepreneurs can enhance the innovation capabilities of their enterprises is an important topic in... Show More

Corporate innovation is the driver and wellspring of business operation and development. Thus, how entrepreneurs can enhance the innovation capabilities of their enterprises is an important topic in corporate development. Taking A-shares companies listed on the Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges as its sample, this paper investigated the influence of entrepreneurs' geographic and academic relationships on corporate innovation. This study found that after controlling for other influencing factors, entrepreneurs' geographic and academic relationships have a significant positive effect on corporate innovation. When entrepreneurs have strong ability endowment, the positive effect of their geographic and academic relationships on corporate innovation is especially sizeable. In addition, the more prestigious the entrepreneurs' university education is, the stronger the promoting effect of their academic relationships on corporate innovation.

Currently, the internet is increasingly popular. More people are used to sharing their feelings about various things on the internet. Online product marketing information is also growing. How to... Show More

Currently, the internet is increasingly popular. More people are used to sharing their feelings about various things on the internet. Online product marketing information is also growing. How to mine the required information from the massive information with the support of big data technology has become a big problem. Thereby, based on the text mining of online product marketing information, this work discusses the text preprocessing methods and the temporal convolution network (TCN) based on a convolutional neural network (CNN). Moreover, on this basis, multimodal attention mechanism (AM) and cross-modal transformer structure are added to build a TCN based on AM (AM-TCN) model to analyze the multimodal emotion of online product marketing information. The results show that the accuracy of the AM-TCN model is 2.88% higher than that of the TCN model alone, and F1 is 3.47% higher. Moreover, the accuracy rate of the AM-TCN is 1.22% higher than that of the next highest recurrent multistage fusion network, and the F1 value is 0.95% higher.

In the current environment, rapid innovation has become an essential source of time-based competitive advantage. Based on the theory of organizational information processing, this work explores the... Show More

In the current environment, rapid innovation has become an essential source of time-based competitive advantage. Based on the theory of organizational information processing, this work explores the effects of virtual integration on product innovation speed in a competitive environment. Samples of Chinese manufacturing enterprises provide evidence in this study. The results show that the effects of virtual integration in different degrees vary. Among them, information sharing plays an active role in innovation speed, which is weaker in a highly competitive environment. The effect of knowledge collaboration on innovation speed is positive and becomes stronger in a highly competitive environment. The results also show that the moderating roles of inter-organizational guanxi are different. When inter-organizational guanxi is close in a highly competitive environment, the effects of information sharing and process integration on innovation speed become weaker. Nevertheless, the relationship between knowledge collaboration and innovation speed gets stronger in such a context.