Article
Management
Grace Gu, Feng Zhu
Summary: Building trust on a platform can enhance transactions but also brings the risk of disintermediation. The research shows that increasing trust can lead to higher chances of hiring high-quality freelancers, but excessive trust may result in disintermediation, offsetting revenue gains. There are differences in tendencies of clients and freelancers towards disintermediation, and strategies can be implemented to mitigate the tension between trust-building and disintermediation.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Arzu Secer, Fikriye Yazar, Mutlu Bulut
Summary: This study aims to reveal consumers' internal and external motivations for preferring online food shopping. A conceptual model including aspirations, capabilities, subjective norms, perceived value, and traditionalism was proposed to examine their effects on consumers' intention to do online food shopping. The results suggest that the conceptual framework can provide better understanding of consumers' motivations for online food shopping.
BRITISH FOOD JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yanhe Li, Yanchen Li, Kunshu Ma, Xiu Zhou
Summary: This study investigates the motivations behind people sharing products or purchasing knowledge through Q&A reviews and the importance of Q&A reviews for e-commerce platforms. The findings show that receiving feedback increases individuals' willingness to share knowledge and their level of loyalty.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Business
Stephan Ludwig, Dennis Herhausen, Dhruv Grewal, Liliana Bove, Sabine Benoit, Ko de Ruyter, Peter Urwin
Summary: This study reveals that in online freelance marketplaces, buyers attract more bids when they provide moderate task information and concreteness, avoid sharing personal information, and limit emotional intensity. Freelancers' bid success and price premiums increase when they mimic the level of task information and emotional intensity shown by buyers. However, mimicking lack of personal information and concreteness reduces freelancers' success, so freelancers should always be more specific and offer more personal information than buyers. These findings suggest that balancing uncertainty in communication can lead to success for both buyers and freelancers in the gig economy.
JOURNAL OF MARKETING
(2022)
Article
Business
Laura Saez-Ortuno, Santiago Forgas-Coll, Ruben Huertas-Garcia, Javier Sanchez-Garcia
Summary: The digital environment, including the Internet and social networks, presents opportunities for digital marketing, but it also poses challenges for collecting and analyzing the vast amount of information on social networks. This research aims to improve the process of filtering personal information provided by users during online registration and identify profiles that are more likely to provide false information. The findings indicate that older men and younger women are more prone to providing incorrect or intentionally forged data. The main motivations for intentionally providing false information are amusement and lack of trust in data privacy and security measures.
JOURNAL OF INNOVATION & KNOWLEDGE
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Leslie S. LeRoy, Renee Kaufmann
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced college and university faculty to quickly adapt to online courses. In response to concerns about educational quality, many faculty members have chosen to offer synchronous and/or hybrid online courses, which has led to the consideration of using webcams to engage students. However, there are conflicting perspectives on whether webcams should be required in these classes due to concerns about student privacy, stress/anxiety, technological access, family responsibilities, and internet connections. This study examines students' motivations for using or not using webcams during online courses, focusing on the self-determination theory (SDT) framework.
INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
(2022)
Article
Management
T. Tony Ke, Yuting Zhu
Summary: We studied the matching between buyers and freelancers on a decentralized freelance platform, and found that buyers can attract higher-quality freelancers by exaggerating their quality preferences, but at the cost of a higher price. When buyers cannot renegotiate prices, they will truthfully report their quality preferences; however, when renegotiation is allowed, low-quality buyers may strategically set high prices by deception.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Shibo Li, Edwin Setiawan Sanusi
Summary: This study examines the relationship between different entrepreneurial motivations and corporate performance of self-employed micro-businesses operated by women in China. Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) on a sample of 160 female entrepreneurs, the findings show that female entrepreneurs driven by pull motivation prioritize non-financial performance, while those driven by push motivation focus more on financial performance. The analysis also reveals that high levels of motivation among necessity-driven female microbusiness entrepreneurs contribute to achieving high financial performance, while high levels of motivation among opportunity-based female microbusiness entrepreneurs do not significantly influence non-financial performance. The implications of these findings for research and policy development related to Chinese female online microbusinesses are discussed.
Article
Computer Science, Cybernetics
Wei-Lun Chang, Li-Ming Chen, Yen-Hao Hsieh
Summary: This research proposed a novel motivation model to examine the social interactions of online game players and analyzed the transitions of motivations using first-order and second-order Markov chain switching model. Different types of online game players were separated into four categories, with each contributing differently to online to offline socialization. The findings may help the gaming industry understand players' motivation journey and improve the quality of online games.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Hosein Rafiemanesh, Rabert Farnam, Arshiya Sangchooli, Jamileh Rahimi, Marziyeh Hamzehzadeh, Kamyar Ghani, Maral Mardaneh Jobehdar, Masoumeh Amin-Esmaeili, Behrang Shadloo, Zsolt Demetrovics, Orsolya Kiraly, Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar
Summary: Pathological patterns of online gaming among Iranian players were investigated in this study, with only 3.7% meeting the threshold for Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD). Male gamers were 9.4 times more likely to have IGD compared to female gamers. Factors such as younger age, longer gaming hours, escapist and fantasy motivations, and psychiatric symptoms were associated with pathological gaming behavior.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Esra Ozturk, Ayse Sahin
Summary: Nowadays, textile waste from clothing production, consumption, and disposal activities is causing environmental, social, and economic sustainability problems. Encouraging sustainable clothing disposal methods, such as social recycling, can help address this issue. This study investigates the motivations behind consumers' social recycling behaviors in Turkey, finding that altruism, the warm glow of giving, and social benefits influence such behavior. The research also reveals that the warm glow of giving acts as a mediator between altruism and social recycling behavior. This study holds important implications for practitioners and researchers interested in sustainable clothing disposal.
JOURNAL OF MATERIAL CYCLES AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Amanda Belarmino, Carola Raab, Jason Tang, Wenjia Han
Summary: The study compared the antecedents of satisfaction for online meal delivery platforms before and during quarantine, identifying differences in factors affecting satisfaction. The findings point to important differences in the factors influencing user satisfaction with these platforms before and during the pandemic.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sandra L. L. Neate, William Bevens, Pia L. L. Jelinek, Kathleen M. M. Gray, T. J. Weiland, Nupur Nag, Steve Simpson-Yap, George A. A. Jelinek, M. Yu, Jeanette C. C. Reece
Summary: This study explores participants' motivations, expectations, and experiences of the MS Online Course (MSOC) through qualitative analysis. The results show that participants are motivated to help others through research, help themselves by improving knowledge, and find ways to better manage their multiple sclerosis (MS). Expectations include obtaining reliable information and further understanding lifestyle modification. Participants' experiences include confirmation of existing knowledge, obtaining new knowledge, and early implementation of lifestyle behavior changes.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
M. Betul Yilmaz, Feza Orhan, S. Gonca Zeren
Summary: The study developed a scale to measure adolescents' emotions in online learning environments, revealing dimensions of enjoyment-pride, boredom-hopelessness, loneliness, and anxiety. The scale was validated among middle and high school students in Istanbul, showing high accuracy and reliability.
EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Meng-Ting Li
Summary: This study investigates the motivations of students' intention to use online dance learning. The results show that perceived autonomy, perceived competence, and perceived relatedness have a positive influence on attitudes, and attitudes have a positive influence on perceived value and the intention to use online dance education.
PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH AND BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Himmet Karadal, A. Mohammed Abubakar
Summary: This study examines the relationship between IoT skills and needs satisfaction for IoT devices among different generational cohorts using survey data from Aksaray, Turkey. The findings highlight the importance of IoT skills in determining satisfaction with IoT devices, and reveal distinct differences among Generation X, Generation Y, and Generation Z in terms of IoT skills and needs satisfaction.
ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Alev Elci, A. Mohammed Abubakar
Summary: The study found that task-technology fit and technology-induced motivation are necessary conditions for high learning performance, while for female students, task-technology fit and technology-induced engagement and motivation are sufficient conditions.
EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
(2021)
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Akile Oday, Ali Ozturen, Mustafa Ilkan, A. Mohammed Abubakar
Summary: This study explores the effects of eReferral, eWOM, familiarity, and cultural distance on enrollment intention in educational tourism. Results show that these factors predict intention to enroll both symmetrically and asymmetrically, with the asymmetric modeling showing greater predictive validity. The study contributes to management literature by validating relationships and using contemporary methods like ANN.
JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Business
A. Mohammed Abubakar, Hamed Rezapouraghdam, Elaheh Behravesh, Huda A. Megeirhi
Summary: Boreout is a psychological state characterized by intense boredom and apathy, while burnout is emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress. Despite the scarcity of boreout-related studies, researchers are eager to explore the potential antecedents and consequences of boreout, as well as mediators and moderators. Through a meta-review, relevant variables associated with burnout have been identified and applied to the boreout domain, highlighting future research directions.
JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY MARKETING & MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Cybernetics
Malek Bakheet Elayan, Jamal Abdelrahman M. Hayajneh, Mamdouh Abdallah Mohamed Abdellatif, A. Mohammed Abubakar
Summary: This study examines the association between knowledge-based HR practices, p-shaped skills, and innovative performance from a knowledge-based perspective. The results suggest that knowledge-based HR practices lead to increased p-shaped skills, which in turn result in improved innovative performance. This highlights the mediating role of p-shaped skills in the relationship between knowledge-based HR practices and innovative performance.
Article
Computer Science, Cybernetics
Tugba Tunc-Abubakar, Adnan Kalkan, A. Mohammed Abubakar
Summary: This study examines the effects of big data usage on product and process innovation, and the moderating role of data diagnosticity. The findings suggest that big data usage is a predictor for higher product and process innovation.
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Alexander Serenko, A. Mohammed Abubakar
Summary: This study aims to investigate the antecedents and consequences of knowledge sabotage. The findings suggest that co-worker knowledge sabotage drives individual knowledge sabotage, while interactional justice suppresses it. Furthermore, co-worker knowledge sabotage reduces job satisfaction and increases turnover intention among other employees.
JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Ibrahim Sani Mert, Cem Sen, A. Mohammed Abubakar
Summary: The study found that social media usage has a significant impact on technostress and cyber incivility among lawyers. Technostress was also found to be a significant predictor of cyber incivility, and it mediates the relationship between social media usage and cyber incivility. Therefore, managers in the legal sector should promote awareness of excessive social media usage to reduce lawyers' susceptibility to technostress and perception of cyber incivility.
INFORMATION DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Milad Dehghani, A. Mohammed Abubakar, Mohsen Pashna
Summary: The purpose of this paper is to identify and describe the drivers of lean approaches and successful management in wearable technology start-ups. Through semi-structured interviews with ten start-up managers, the study finds that start-ups need to consider four key stages for successful market readiness and provides practical strategies and methods for each stage.
APPLIED COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS
(2022)
Article
Management
Cem Sen, Ibrahim Sani Mert, A. Mohammed Abubakar
Summary: The traditional view of an ideal workplace emphasizes justice and a supportive atmosphere. This study examines the relationship among perceived organizational support (POS), organizational justice, and cynicism from a Turkish contextual perspective. Findings show that POS and organizational justice have a negative impact on cynicism, reducing it as they increase.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS
(2022)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
A. Mohammed Abubakar, Mohammad Fahmi Al-zyoud
Summary: This study examined how problematic Internet usage reduces workers' safety behaviors and the moderating role of time autonomy. Results showed that time autonomy enhances safety behaviors, while problematic Internet usage has a negative impact on safety behaviors.
TELEMATICS AND INFORMATICS
(2021)
Article
Economics
Himmet Karadal, Belal Hamed Taher Shneikat, A. Mohammad Abubakar, Omar Khalid Bhatti
Summary: This article explores the entrepreneurial activities of immigrant entrepreneurs with Turkish roots in the US ceramic and marble industry, revealing reasons for migration, key motivators for entrepreneurship, and challenges faced by Turkish immigrant entrepreneurs.
JOURNAL OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
(2021)
Article
Industrial Relations & Labor
Elaheh Behravesh, A. Mohammed Abubakar, Cem Tanova
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
(2020)
Article
Ergonomics
A. Mohammed Abubakar, Himmet Karadal, Steven W. Bayighomog, Ethem Merdan
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS
(2020)
Article
Management
Elaheh Behravesh, Cem Tanova, A. Mohammed Abubakar
SERVICE INDUSTRIES JOURNAL
(2020)
