Mai-Lun Chiu

• Professor
• Associate Professor at National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism

Open innovation within an organization focuses on the dissemination of new knowledge among employees in different departmental units. When the willingness to share knowledge with colleagues increases, new knowledge dissemination can be achieved. Therefore, it is vital to understand which factors can influence knowledge flow in an organization. Huma...

Organizational chain innovation is a crucial issue for large-scale businesses, and firms that have adopted external knowledge can enhance innovation efficiency. However, to gain external knowledge does not mean to simply copy external information; instead, the firm must effectively use the knowledge it obtains for innovation. Social media provides...

When patients depend on ventilators for a long period of time, it will increase the risk of complexity and the risk of death. Thus, medical professionals try to help patients to wean off from the ventilator as soon as possible to minimize the adverse effects of the respiratory machine. This study analyzed historical clinical data to evaluate and im...

In the supply chain, companies are increasingly relying on the combination of internal knowledge creation and external knowledge resources to form a new “open innovation” approach. How to govern inter-organizational relationships (IOR) is a key determinant of knowledge creation, which involves both formal contracts and relationship behaviors. Forma...

In an effort to help organizations understand consumers, our study deconstructs task–technology fit into two segments: ideal task–technology fit and individual use context–technology fit. Users’ continuous use of cloud-based bookstores is studied through survey methodology to collect consumer experience data related to the use of such cloud-based b...

Since much online shopping is attributed to online impulse buying, it is important to define this particular shopping process. This process has three important issues, perceived risk for virtual stores as well as e-store design and psychological state for online shopping. This is because consumers are both system users and impulse buyers when shopp...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are one of the most promising innovative technologies invented in recent years to promote precision agriculture and smart farming. UAVs can not only reduce labor requirements but also increase production output, reduce the use of pesticides, and protect the environment. However, previous studies on agricultural UAVs...

In order to support teachers preparing their teaching resources, a teaching ecosystem for developing an online service system to acquire teaching materials, the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan, implemented an Integrated Course Service System (ICSS) to assist teachers in searching for instructional resources from distributed Educational Six Le...

Supply chain collaboration is critical to achieving the integration of partners for performance impact. Two major concerns arise, organization's sharing behaviors and technology use behaviors. An organization's sharing behaviors relates to a decision of two perceptions among partners, commitment of network resources and fairness of network resource...

With the proliferation of e-commerce, a large part of online shopping is attributed to impulse buying. Hence, there is a particular necessity to understand impulse buying in the online context. Impulse shoppers incline to feel unable to control their tendencies and behaviors from various stimuli. Specifically, online consumers are both the impulse...

The resource-based view (RBV) argues for IT innovation capabilities as being valuable resources for competitive performance. It is characterized by three types for its applications, IT unit, intra-organization, and inter-organization. The three types are an evolutionary concept across time. Innovation diffusion theory (IDT) is an approach to explai...

Collaboration has become a critical component to fulfill the need for integration in the supply chain. From a discussion of the literature, there are two major underlying concerns arising in the collaboration, organization's sharing behaviors and technology use behaviors. In expectation confirmation theory, an organization's sharing behaviors may i...