Qingfei Min

• Professor at Dalian University of Technology

Purpose This study explores how records and information management (RIM) practitioners perceive threats from artificial intelligence (AI) to their professional identity, and how these perceptions impact their willingness to collaborate with AI-based systems. Design/methodology/approach The research utilized the “AI identity threat framework” to an...

The increasing adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the workplace raises concerns about its impact on professionals’ sense of identity and their willingness to use this technology. This study investigates the relationship between AI-induced professional identity threat (PIT) and AI use intention in the workplace. We explore how factors like...

As companies come to appreciate social media’s economic advantages, it has transformed into a dichotomous social-commercial landscape. In this specific situation, followers evaluate social media influencers that play both the friend and marketer roles in the decision-making process. This study creates a dual-role trust model based on the role theor...

The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into various industries has significantly reshaped professional roles, leading to concerns about job security and the potential erosion of traditional professional identities. As AI systems increasingly automate tasks, professionals face evolving challenges in maintaining their unique value and...

Artificial intelligence (AI)‐based job interviews are increasingly adopted in organizations' recruitment activities. Despite their standardization and flexibility, concerns about fairness for applicants remain a critical challenge. Taking a perspective on interface design, this research examines the role of avatar characteristics in shaping percept...

This study explorers whether the relative impacts of brand identification and identification with other users of brand pages on brand loyalty vary according to consumers’ regulatory focus. By integrating social identification theory with regulatory focus theory, this study adopts a dual identification framework to compare the differential impacts o...

The rise of blockchain technology has brought innovations in various business domains and spawned a new form of organization—the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Steemit is recognized as one of the earliest blockchain-based online communities, and a typical example of DAO. By endowing community members with new roles, the decentralizati...

Purpose As social commerce migrates to the mobile platform, mobile social commerce (ms–commerce), an emerging way of conducting social commerce in the mobile environment, is gaining popularity among mobile users. Although impulse buying in social commerce has been the focus of scholars in recent years, individuals' impulse-buying behavior in ms–com...

Different from traditional e-commerce platforms, friend-to-friend (Fr2Fr) social commerce transactions occur among friends within a private network on social media. In this particular context, users assess their friend with dual roles in the decision-making process: friend role and seller role. Based on role theory, this study develops a dual-role...

Nowadays agile and practical methods for lean manufacturing and production process reengineering are in urgent need for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). However, due to the limitations in obtaining accurate performance evaluations of the production line, traditional value stream mapping (VSM) methods are insufficient or unpractical in undertaki...

Purpose Research on social media advertising reactance (SMAR) is in the early stages. This paper intends to present a full picture of SMAR studies, introduce a comprehensive theoretical model (the social media advertising reactance model, SMARM) and provide insights into research and practice. Design/methodology/approach This review adopts the con...

The ability of digital influencers to convert their followers into paying customers relies heavily on the followers’ “stickiness”, a topic that has not been adequately investigated in the existing literature. From a psychological perspective, this study develops a theoretical model of followers’ stickiness. Two forms of followers’ psychological res...

With the increase of users’ social connections on social network services, their social circles become more diverse, which make it difficult to maintain their ideal images and thus lead to their lurking behaviors. Based on the self-discrepancy theory, an integrated model was proposed to link role-related constructs to lurking intention. Results bas...

Information and communication technology (ICT) plays a vital role in disseminating agricultural information. In this backdrop, to make use of ICT for a prolific agriculture information dissemination, it is vitally important to gain a comprehensive understanding of the farmers’ information seeking behaviour. Despite the vitality, very few informatio...

The existence and persistence of financial statement fraud (FSF) are detrimental to the financial health of global capital markets. A number of detective and predictive methods have been used to prevent, detect, and correct FSF, but their practicability has always been a big challenge for researchers and auditors, as they do not address real-world...

Digital twins, along with the internet of things (IoT), data mining, and machine learning technologies, offer great potential in the transformation of today’s manufacturing paradigm toward intelligent manufacturing. Production control in petrochemical industry involves complex circumstances and a high demand for timeliness; therefore, agile and sma...

Microblogs are revolutionising the way users produce, consume and distribute short content. The continuous content contributions of users are crucial for the sustainable development of microblogs. Knowledge regarding this user behaviour is scarce. Based on the uses and gratifications theory (U&G) and the social influence theory (SIT), this paper pr...

Engine re-manufacturing factory runs comparatively smaller but more changeable business than normal engine manufacturing factory. Therefore, it needs a simple, quick, effective, but less costly approach for process planning. This paper proposes a novel rapid simulation approach, named as Efficiency Validate Analysis, which can serve as process plan...

Information plays a pivotal role in today's agriculture whilst the ICTs have largely influenced the agriculture information and communication systems. In this context, gaining an in-depth knowledge of farmers' information needs and seeking patterns is central to designing and executing prolific agriculture information systems. With respect to the v...

Purpose Generating an in-depth understanding of information needs and seeking behaviour is important both for restructuring existing agricultural information systems (ISs) and for creating new ISs. Many information seeking models have been developed over the years, most are narrowly focused on a specific role or discipline. However, no such specif...

As people increasingly integrate social network sites (SNSs) into their daily lives, their social connections on SNSs become more diverse, including their friends, co‐workers, and relatives. In such a context, users may receive different role expectations from their various social circles and experience role conflict in their usage of SNSs. Further...

Researchers have for years emphasized the value of multi-level studies. This research attempts to develop a framework for analyzing IT adoption studies from a multi-level perspective. Specifically, it examines research involving Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT), using a framework devised on the multi-level analysis guidelines proposed by two studi...

Recently, many researchers have examined the factors affecting fraud and introduced the elements required for fraud to exist. In this paper, we define these variables in two broad groups of economic and non-economic variables. We examine the combined effect of economic variables on fraud. We used 7 variables namely; fraud, the size of government, d...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors affecting users’ continuous microblog usage intention. In recent years, the number of microblog users has gradually declined. This research can reveal microblog users’ needs and provide the improvement direction of microblog services. Design/methodology/approach By integrating Wixom and...

Trust and risk have been theorized and empirically approved as the most influential factors affecting individual behavior toward social media platforms (SMPs). However, the evidence is scattered and the understanding of the effects is ambiguous. To address this problem, a rigorous and quantitative meta-analysis was conducted to investigate the empi...

Intensive poultry production is heavily reliant on electricity for maintaining shed environments as well as in the supply of feed, lighting, the shed environment and water. During the last three decades, the demand and supply gap for electricity has plagued Pakistan. The energy crisis became even worse from 2006-07, with 18 hours rotational load sh...

During the past two decades, food safety issues in China not only posed serious threats to Chinese consumers but also damaged the image of Chinese products internationally. In China, food safety is not only about scientific discoveries, advanced laboratories, and sanitation equipment; it is more about the role of different players in the food suppl...

Based on our eight findings, we developed two tools intended to help companies considering the use of social media for collaborative innovation within their firms.

This Brief advances research in the disciplines of Information Systems, Organizational Behaviour and related fields by promoting understanding of the steps needed for expanding the use of online social media tools for innovative collaboration. Beyond understanding how a new process of innovation can be supported in an enterprise setting, this study...

Our field research consisted interviews with 12 companies known for their innovativeness and four case studies.

We describe the findings from our four case studies and the interviews with twelve innovative companies.

Wikis are defined as “collaboratively created and iteratively improved set of web pages” (Wagner 2004). Wiki technology allows multiple people to work on the same document without overwriting each other’s changes, and has the advantage of keeping track of each person’s contributions.

The competition in fashion and textiles (FTs) industry is strong. Enterprises have to compete at all levels and need to adapt to the mobile commerce (MC) context. Mobile TradeManager (MTM) is a typical MC application and good use of it will facilitate the sales of FTs products. Plenty of prior studies on MC were developed to discuss the subjective...

Media have always been an important factor affecting communication. However, what kind of media can best improve communication performance is still to be answered. Based on Media Synchronicity Theory and Structural Holes Theory, a communication performance model, simultaneously considering people, media and task factors, is proposed. Besides tradit...

This paper examines how national culture values influence technology adoption at individual level, within-culture, in case of Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) adoption. Four cultural dimensions were examined: uncertainty avoidance, collectivism, high/low context and time perception. On the basis of 837 samples, data analysis shows that uncertainty av...

As global virtual team (GVT) is staffed by members from different countries working at different sites, its success relies heavily on effective communication. The purpose of this study is to explore factors affecting GVT communication effectiveness and how they work. After a review of prior studies, two aspects were identified, namely critical succ...

The purpose of this study is to explore factors affecting individuals' usage of Mobile Securities Management System (MSMS). On the basis of an extensive review of literature in Task Technology Fit (TTF) theory and Mobile Commerce (MC) adoption, a revised TTF model is proposed and tested using data collected from an online survey of 440 respondents....

Mobile banking is an emerging service that not only facilitates our life, but also creates great opportunities for mobile operators, device manufactures, and especially for banks. To better understand individual's intention to adopt mobile banking, this paper integrates trust into technology acceptance model (TAM), and examined the role of trust ba...

Mobile Stock System (MSS) is one of the favorite applications of mobile commerce in China. Taking Task-Technology Fit (TTF) theory as the foundation, this paper is to explore factors affecting the usage of MSS. After reviewing papers on TTF and mobile commerce adoption, this study proposed a modified model of TTF. Results from a survey of 440 respo...

This paper tries to explore the adoption of m-commerce from the perspective of system usability. The definition and measurement of m-commerce system usability are discussed. Three categories of factors that will affect m-commerce system usability are clarified and analyzed, namely mobile devices, WAP web and mobile communication networks. This stud...

As mobile commerce spreads across the globe, the effect of culture on user’ adoption has become an important issue. To date, however, little research has been conducted on the role of cultural factors play in the adoption of m-commerce services. This study defines culture on individual level and attains three roles (network members, technology user...

This paper tries to explore the adoption of m-commerce from the perspective of system usability. The definition and measurement of m-commerce system usability are discussed. Four categories of factors that will affect m-commerce system usability are clarified and analyzed, namely mobile device, WAP, mobile communication networks and context factors...

Technology adoption has been an important research topic in information systems (IS) field. Many theories were developed and tested since 1980s. Tremendous efforts have been made to modify, integrate, and extend these theories to explore IT adoption issues in various contexts. The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the cu...

Mobile communication and wireless technology continues to grow at a substantial rate in China as well as in world. Despite this growth, mobile-commerce (m-commerce) still experiences challenges on many fronts. Several studies have identified trust as a major concern for consumers to adopt m-commerce. But, gaining customer trust in m-commerce is a p...

The mobile communication and wireless technology continues to grow at a substantial rate in China as well as in world, with estimates for mobile phone users in china reaching 539.37 million by the end of November 2007 (Ministry of Information Industry, PRC, 2007). Despite this growth, mobile-commerce (m-commerce) still experiences challenges on man...

User acceptance is one of the key fundamentals for development and success of mobile commerce (m-commerce). Based on the revised unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model, we described a theoretical framework that incorporates the unique characteristics of m-commerce to enhance our understanding of m-commerce acceptance and u...

Manufacturing organizations must know how to deal with uncertainty, manage environmental impact, effectively coordinate with suppliers, and use information technology (IT) to support coordination. Applying cybernetics and information processing theories, this study explores the relationship between organizational environment, inter-organizational c...

China has the largest number of mobile phone users in the world, a fascinating phenomenon that has in recent years generated an increasing interest in Mobile Commerce Research (MCR) among Chinese scholars, who providentially have a variety of avenues available to them in conducting MCR due to its beginning stage. The present study, which was undert...

With changing of environmental uncertainty, inter-organizational coordination and IT support is becoming a trend. Basing on information processing theory (IPT) and empirical studies in 2 large-scale shipbuilding and 4 large-scale automobile companies, this paper explored relationship of environmental uncertainty, inter-organizational coordination,...

The incidences of identity theft have increased substantially in the Internet age. Increasing news reports of bank/credit cards theft, assumed identity for economical and criminal activities has created a growing concern for individuals, businesses, and governments. As a result, it's become an important and urgent task for organizations to find man...

The purpose of this study is to review the research activities in information systems (IS) in the mainland of China. We reviewed and analyzed a total of 859 research papers in information systems published in 18 leading academic journals in business and management in the mainland from 1999 to 2005. Applying the content analysis method, we first cat...

The purpose of this study is to review current research activities concerning information systems (IS) in mainland China. We thus examined Chinese IS research with reference to discipline, research topic, research method, and units of analysis, identifying and reviewing a total of 604 research papers, published in 18 leading Chinese academic journa...

The purpose of this study is to review current research activities concerning information systems (IS) in mainland China. We thus examined Chinese IS research with reference to discipline, research topic, research method, and units of analysis, identifying and reviewing a total of 604 research papers, published in 18 leading Chinese academic journa...