Yenchun Jim Wu

National Taiwan Normal University | NTNU · Graduate Institute of Global Business and Strategy

Technology-based teaching devices that promote interaction and communication between instructors and learners benefit active learning. Emerging technologies for Classroom Response Systems (CRS) and mobile devices can potentially help instructors create a student-centered interactive classroom. In this study, the authors aim to evaluate students’ ex...

The transportation problems faced by the elderly and people with disabilities have received attention from policymakers and practitioners. Eden Social Welfare Foundation (Eden) has observed the challenges and expectations from the elderly and people with disabilities while operating Rehabuses and long-term care services in Taiwan. This study presen...

The concept of a smart city, based on advanced information and communications technology (ICT), emerged to mitigate the impact of rapid urbanization and was considered feasible. However, the selection of technology and policy for providing better services to citizens and ensuring sustainable development is a multiple-objective decision process that...

In a dynamic marketplace, new product development (NPD) is considered the pivot of an orga-nization's competitive strategy. However, little research has been conducted on the teaching material, pedagogical approach, and learning objective that should be part of a course on NPD. The study introduces a methodology for designing a curriculum with limi...

This study examines the impact of readability and understandability of the narratives on the signal receiver's acceptance of the signal which, in turn, affects a potential funder's decision, and hence the funding outcomes. Lexicon-related indicators and grammar-related indicators are applied to analyze 267,688 crowdfunding projects from the crowdfu...

For over two decades now, the application of Citizen Science to Education has been evolving, and fundamental topics, such as the drivers of motivation to participate in Citizen Science projects, are still under discussion. Some recent developments, though, like the use of Artificial Intelligence to support data collection and validation, seem to po...

To analyze the directions for future research suggested and to project future research plans, we extract relevant text from these publications with respect to COVID-19-related research based on 54,136 relevant academic journals published from the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in January 2020 until December 2020. First, we extract and preprocess the...

Scholarly attention to social innovation has increased rapidly in recent years, but a broad picture to illustrate the structure of the field, tracing its evolution and identifying new research areas has been lacking. Thus, we conduct a three-step method to explore the trajectory of academic research on social innovation and identify potential resea...

With the prevalence of the Internet in society, social media has considerably altered the ways in which consumers conduct their daily lives and has gradually become an important channel for online communication and sharing activities. At the same time, whoever can rapidly and accurately disseminate online data among different companies affects thei...

In Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), learners can post both text comments and overall ratings regarding the courses. There is growing interest in assessing the consistency of online reviews and the determinants of learner satisfaction. This study analyses the disconfirmation effect between textual review topics and the determinants of learner sa...

The identification of the effects of university-based entrepreneurship education has attracted increasing interest in both academic and practical communities. On the basis of integrating passion-and competency-based perspectives, this study attempted to offer a sound understanding of how university-based entrepreneurship education influences the en...

Purpose This study aims to systematically map the state of work on human–machine collaboration in organizations using bibliometric analysis. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a systematic literature review to survey 111 articles on human–machine collaboration published in leading journals to categorize the theories used and to construct...

Entrepreneurial teams are seen as pilots with which to steer growth in new ventures. However, there is currently a lack of studies exploring how they work under conditions of uncertainty. Based on the upper echelons theory and institutional theory, this study aims to reveal the role of entrepreneurial teams in new venture resilience through a quest...

Entrepreneurial risk is an important factor that individuals must consider when starting their own business. The COVID-19 continues to rage, bringing great challenges to China’s economy and entrepreneurial activities. In this study, college students encounter greater entrepreneurial risks. There are two opposing views on the role of entrepreneurial...

Organizational career management (OCM) is believed to be a useful practice to stimulate the potential of employees. However, how this can be achieved is still under investigation. This research aims to explore the mechanisms that explain the effects of OCM by clarifying its impact on employees' psychological states and their capability, based on a...

This study analyzed the influence of rhetoric in the endorsement text on the willingness of the crowd to participate in citizen science projects. Four categories of endorsers were studied: professors, students, industrial researchers, and amateur researchers. Using 1243 endorsement texts from 543 citizen science projects as the corpus, the effects...

Blended learning (BL) combines online and face-to-face teaching and learning and is thought to be an effective means to cultivate learners’ sustainability literacy. The success of BL relies on learners who take the initiative to participate in the learning process. Therefore, this study aims to examine learners’ acceptance of the BL system. The tec...

Past studies have provided important insights into the relationship between science education and information and communication technologies (ICTs). However, few studies have sought to promote learning by integrating science education with indigenous culture via ICTs. Indigenous culture is a treasure of human civilization, but there is a crisis of...

In recent years, interruption or failure events have occurred due to frequent natural disasters, the outbreak of COVID-19, policy environment turbulence, an increasingly complex business en-vironment, and the increasingly fragile global supply chain. This has reduced the efficien-cy of supply chains and customer service quality and increased operat...

Entrepreneurship, as an important tool for technological innovation, economic development, and social progress, has received unprecedented attention. However, blindly focusing on the positive effects ofentrepreneurship will only lead to the failure of entrepreneurship theory construction. As a result, some studies have called on scholars to pay att...

Purpose-Previous studies overemphasize the negative effects of social media usage (SMU) within organizations and underestimate its positive influences on employees' behavior. This study attempts to link employees' social media use at work to their creativity performance. Design/methodology/approach-Based on the bounded generalized reciprocity the...

The purpose of this research is to provide a complete method for measuring the performance of green supply chain management (GSCM) in the steel manufacturing sector using a combined approach. This study is conducted on an integrated system based on four things: the design of the GSCM performance measurement model based on the Seven Sink Performance...

Purpose This study aimed to explore the relationship between job insecurity and unsafe behaviour in human–machine collaboration, as well as investigating the mediating roles of emotional exhaustion and moderating roles of psychological detachment. Design/methodology/approach The authors followed the stressor-detachment model to build our research...

Purpose Although MOOCs have become a pervasive online learning model, the problem of high dropout rates still persists. Gathering the reasons for the high dropout rate can help to improve the platform design and management of the MOOCs. Design/methodology/approach A total of 74 studies was extracted from the Web of Science and Scopus. Following th...

New media technology can effectively support teacher-student rapport. In this study, Chinese students befriended their teachers on social media, and we compared their blended learning (N=455) based on this social media interaction with face-to-face learning (N=450). The results indicate that affective learning and cognitive learning in blended lear...

Learners engaged in large-scale online learning often pose questions in which their peers or instructors can answer using various means of textual interaction topics. This paper assesses the effects of the text interaction strategies in online learning through the lens of the language expectancy theory at three levels: whether to respond to the que...

The demand for emergency medical facilities (EMFs) has witnessed an explosive growth recently due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid spread of the virus. To expedite the location of EMFs and the allocation of patients to these facilities at times of disaster, a location-allocation problem (LAP) model that can help EMFs cope with major public he...

Although consumers generally accept and care about environmental issues, consumers have not adjusted their behavior accordingly. Based on the diamond model theory, this study proposes and tests the direct impact of personal green commitments on low-carbon travel motivation and constraint, and the possibility of subsequent low-carbon travel intentio...

This paper aims to provide an overview of academic research within the field of digital transformation. The authors conduct a bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer, Harzing's Publish or Perish, and SciMAT to evaluate and visualize the bibliographic materials. The analysis focuses on journals, papers, researchers, institutions, and countries, using...

Why are some social entrepreneurial teams able to adapt to challenges and leverage the opportunities that are generated from a crisis, and why can some start-ups achieve sustained growth yet others do not? From the perspective of relational governance, this study unpacked the mechanism of how entrepreneurial teams promote social start-ups’ abilitie...

The support of entrepreneurial partners is key to social entrepreneurship and the continuous creation of social value. However, social entrepreneurship in China does not receive sufficient support from venture partners, contrary to the moral spirit of benevolence advocated by traditional Chinese Confucianism. From the perspective of the legitimacy...

Innovation is believed to be a key driver of societal and economic well-being. In many cases, it has also led to more sustainable lifestyles and a more efficient use of natural resources. But despite the relevance of innovation as a tool to support sustainable development , there is a need for research that analyses current trends in order to guide...

Based on the service encounter perspective, this study combines theoretical foundations for such factors as service quality and the characteristics of the hospital service industry to develop a research model scale to investigate whether the quality of hospital services affects patients' perceptions of health service encounters, trust, and loyalty....

Low-carbon travel has emerged as a topic of interest in tourism and academia. Studies have offered reasons tourists may engage in low-carbon travel; however, these explanations are scattered throughout the literature and have yet to be integrated into low-carbon travel motivation and constraint constructs. This study develops a low-carbon travel mo...

Entrepreneurship has flourished in recent years; however, since education on how to raise funds has received little attention from scholars, obtaining funds remains a difficult task. The development of crowdfunding has provided new opportunities to entrepreneurs, thus solving the funding, marketing, and distribution problems they previously faced....

The identification and supervision of systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) are crucial for regulators to address systemic risks to the financial system. Prevalent identification methods are biased because less attention is paid to the indirect connections among financial institutions. This study proposes a novel method for measurin...

The original innovation talents and their achievements promote the development of natural science and are regarded as a symbol of the national comprehensive power. This study explores the process that causes original innovation talents' personality, uses fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, and explores the linkage between configurations mad...

Given the importance of cross-project learning for continuous improvement in project-based organizations (PBOs), few studies have revealed how recipient employees’ expectations of internal and external knowledge results influence their continuance intention. Thus this study examines the impact of recipients’ internal knowledge expectations—perceive...

Purpose-Information distortion affects the perception of quality, which in turn influences investment decisions and determines the pledge results of fundraising. This study combines signalling theory with persuasion theory to empirically study the effects of linguistic information distortion from fraudulent cues on a crowdfunding campaign's fundrai...

This paper applies text analytics to study how the orientation of an endorsement strategy affects the public's willingness to participate in citizen science projects. Using 850 citizen science projects with 1,243 endorsements from an online citizen science platform Experiment.com as corpus, the orientation of the endorsement strategies is detected...

Entrepreneurship education plays a mediating moderating role in independent entrepreneurship, especially for the fresh graduates where entrepreneurial knowledge charms. Based on the mediating effect model, this study explores the correlation between three factors and independent entrepreneurship. A set of hypotheses was established by investigating...

Will there be a greater sense of solidarity and friendship during public crises? This study aims to determine whether risk perception influences employees’ willingness to assist in times of public crisis, taking COVID-19 as a specific research scenario and based on the theory of “tend and befriend”. This study hypothesized that risk perception will...

The emergent of medical science and technology has risen the minimally invasive surgery. Da Vinci Robotic Surgical Systems (RSS) is the trend at present. Compared with the past surgical methods, many studies related to RSS tend to explore postoperative outcomes and quality of life or compare the advantages and disadvantages than the other surgery....

A multivariate time series is one of the most important objects of research in data mining. Time and variables are two of its distinctive characteristics that add the complication of the algorithms applied to data mining. Reduction in the dimensionality is often regarded as an effective way to address these issues. In this paper, we propose a metho...

Application of artificial intelligence is accelerating the digital transformation of enterprises, and digital content optimization is crucial to take the users' attention in social media usage. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate how social media content reaches and impresses more users. Using a sample of 345 articles released by Chinese sma...

This study focuses on the predictive power of online reviews on fundraising outcomes. Based on when the review is posted, we divide these online reviews into antecedent comments, made at the prelaunch and financing stages, and posterior comments, after the fundraising stage. Then, we conduct a sentiment analysis of these online reviews with a varie...

Innovation is believed to be a key driver of societal and economic well-being. In many cases, it has also led to more sustainable lifestyles and a more efficient use of natural resources. But despite the relevance of innovation as a tool to support sustainable development, there is a need for research that analyses current trends in order to guide...

Business incubators (BIs) have gradually evolved to focus increasingly on the development of networks and network functions. However, existing literature indicates that much ambiguity remains regarding the importance and role of cooperation within the incubator networks. In particular, few studies divide incubator networks into internal and externa...

Venture capital investment has serious conflicts of interest and information asymmetry. Venture capitalists often make investment decisions on the basis of the passion of entrepreneurs, including enthusiasm and preparedness, in the process of interacting with them. Most of the previous research on relational capital have focused on the cooperative...

The aim of this Special Issue is to explore how to manage the tension between social mission and economic value in a sharing economy. Six feature articles emphasize the value creation innovation model and the paradox of social innovation legitimacy, and the motivation for participation in social value creation. Based on the unity of opposites betwe...

Entrepreneurship research generally focuses more on the entrepreneurial outcomes of entrepreneurs and less on their entrepreneurial process. To a certain extent, well-being reflects how tired entrepreneurs are during entrepreneurship. Based on conservation of resources theory, this study proposes a double-edged sword model of the effect of entrepre...

This paper examines the role of social connections and network centrality in attracting fund backers to a crowdfunding campaign. We classify social connections as either external (e.g., Facebook) or internal (e.g., investing on online platforms through resource exchange). Drawing from the 108,463 crowdfunding campaigns on the online platform Kickst...

Presently, new product development is deemed the core activity of an organization's competitive strategy, but there is a surprising dearth of research on what curriculum components should be embedded in the new product development course. This study aims to introduce a methodology that can carry out curriculum design with limited prior knowledge. F...

In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, some cities around the world have adopted smart prevention and control measures based on digital technology, in addition to physical prevention and control means such as local closures, home isolation and wearing protective masks. Based on the context of smart city’s response to public health crisis in China, t...

With the acceleration of urbanization, effective smart city program s need to consider both daily management and crisis management. In this process, to enable health information technology to better contribute to the construction of smart cities, the government and firm s need to pay attention to the public's intention to adopt technology. Based on...

The question of why entrepreneurs undertake business planning activities differently, ranging from planning "in the head" to generating formal written documents, is still impenetrable. Aggregating data on 11,064 observations from 32 independent data set, this study meta-analyzed how business experience and gender influence entrepreneurs' dispositio...

Blockchain technology is the most cutting-edge technology in the field of financial technology, which has attracted extensive attention from governments, financial institutions and investors of various countries. Blockchain and finance, as an interdisciplinary, cross-technology and cross-field topic, has certain limitations in both theory and appli...

According to the social exchange theory, this study analyzed how a bottom-line mentality (BLM) among leaders affects teachers' innovative behavior and how this relationship is mediated by relative deprivation and psychological safety and moderated by person-organization values fit. Using two stages of data collection, 491 responses from teachers we...

In view of the importance of various components and asynchronous shapes of multivariate time series, a clustering method based on dynamic time warping and affinity propagation is proposed. From the two perspectives of the global and local properties information of multivariate time series, the relationship between the data objects is described. It...

Purpose The purpose of this paper was to explore the voicer's own psychological or behavioral reactions to voice. A framework was proposed to predict how and when employee voice is related to innovative behavior in the workplace based on conservation of resources theory. Design/methodology/approach Data was collected from a three-wave survey inclu...

The main goal of this Research Topic is to collect fourteen manuscripts reporting original contributions related to deep neural networks or machine learning methods for building anticipatory systems.

In the face of the sudden outbreak of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), some students showed resilience in coping with difficulties while some did not. While different types of students showed different levels of resilience, are there significant characteristics among students with similar levels of resilience? In this study, 3,454 students (aged 15-25...

Correlation analysis in the retail industry mainly involves market basket analysis. This kind of correlation analysis of retail product sales does not reflect the information regarding the time or quantity of the sales. Product sales datasets contain rich information about the correlations between different products at different times. The co-occur...

The effectiveness of trust has been extensively investigated in entrepreneurship studies. However, compared to the outcomes of trust, we still lack knowledge about the mechanisms underlying venture capitalists' initial trust in entrepreneurs. Drawing from signal theory and impression management theory, this study explores an impression management m...

This study aims to examine the effect of perceived environmental dynamism on entrepreneurial team member’s innovation. Based on the uncertainty reduction theory, this study constructs a multilevel moderated mediation model of the relationship between perceived environmental dynamism and entrepreneurial team member’s innovation. By collecting questi...

Smart manufacturing is an important part in sustainable development of smart cities. The industrial revolution under smart manufacturing evolves the traditional automatic modes with mass production into the efficiency of small, diverse and rapidly customized manufacturing and collaborative manufacturing, and can solve increasingly serious shortage...

An entrepreneurship movement is sweeping the world; new product development (NPD) is the core activity of an organization’s competitive strategy, which includes concept design and the successful development of new products that can be launched in the market. However, a surprising dearth of research has been conducted on what the components and know...

Online financing projects allow users to post comments on projects including various topics in different stages. As a typical user generated content, due to the dynamic generation of comments on online financing projects, user will produce different text topics among various stages. Based on the comment text of online financing projects, this study...

Individuals have a large amount of personal information on social media (SM), which provides companies with new opportunities for talent selection. However, researchers’ understanding of the effectiveness of assessments based on SM is relatively ambiguous, and the conclusions of empirical studies remain controversial. The Realistic Accuracy Model p...

The aim of this special issue is to explore how to manage the tension between social mission and economic value in a sharing economy. Six feature articles center around the value creation innovation model and the paradox of social innovation legitimacy, and the motivation for participation in social value creation. Based on the unity of opposites b...

A crowdfunding narrative often has a title, abstract, detailed description, reward statements, and the creators' bi-ographies, which carry elements of subjectivity and objectivity in their wordings. The subjectivity and objectivity facets of an entrepreneurial narrative influence the signal's observability, thus affecting the fundraising outcomes....