Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Wangyue Zhou, Jincai Dong, Wenyu Zhang
Summary: This study aims to identify the factors of interpersonal interaction and the mediating effect of relationship quality on consumers' purchase intention in s-commerce. The results show that interpersonal interaction factors of both online vendors and online recommenders positively influence swift guanxi and initial trust between consumers and online vendors. Initial trust partially mediates between interpersonal interaction factors and purchase intention, while swift guanxi does not mediate the relationship between perceived similarity of online recommenders and purchase intention.
INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT & DATA SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Business
Lingyun Guo, Xiayu Hu, Jinxuan Lu, Ling Ma
Summary: This study examines the relationships between customer trust and engagement in live streaming commerce, as well as the mediating role of swift guanxi. The findings suggest that trust in broadcasters positively influences trust in products and community members, and swift guanxi fully mediates the relationship between customer trust in broadcasters and engagement.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Chao Su, Qingfei Min, Eusebio Scornavacca, Zilong Liu
Summary: This study explores a dual-role trust model and Guanxi perspective in friend-to-friend social commerce transactions, as well as the moderating effects of Guanxi on role-based trust. A survey of 317 WeChat users was conducted to discuss the theoretical and practical implications.
INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Isaac Kofi Mensah, Guohua Zeng, Chuanyong Luo
Summary: This study examined the factors influencing social commerce purchase and recommendation intentions in the context of swift guanxi. Data analysis using Smart PLS 3.0 and structural equation modeling technique revealed that both perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use significantly determined the recommendation and social commerce purchase intentions. Additionally, eWOM also emerged as a significant predictor for both social commerce purchase and recommendation intentions. Interestingly, trust in social network sites was not found to have a significant influence on social commerce purchase and recommendation intentions. Furthermore, mutual understanding and relationship harmony were identified as predictors for social commerce purchase and recommendation intentions.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Xiayu Chen, Jiawen Wang, Shaobo Wei
Summary: This study investigates the impact of three uncertainty reduction strategies, namely situational normality, perceived effectiveness of social commerce institutional mechanisms (PESIM), and swift guanxi, on perceived uncertainty in social commerce. The findings suggest that these strategies significantly reduce perceived uncertainty, and PESIM moderates the relationships between situational normality and perceived uncertainty, as well as swift guanxi and perceived uncertainty. Furthermore, perceived uncertainty is found to have a negative effect on purchase intention, which in turn positively affects purchase behavior.
INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT & DATA SYSTEMS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Mina Tajvidi, Yichuan Wang, Nick Hajli, Peter E. D. Love
Summary: This study proposes a model of brand value co-creation by integrating interactivity, social support, and relationship quality, and validates it using empirical data. The results demonstrate that consumer-consumer interaction positively affects social support on social networking websites, enhancing consumers' intention to co-create brand value.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Wilson K. S. Leung, Man Kit Chang, Man Lai Cheung, Si Shi
Summary: Time banking is seen as a sustainable solution for meeting social service needs in local communities, especially for elderly care services. However, the lack of trust has resulted in low participation rates, reducing the effectiveness of service exchange.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Bingyu Niu, Ye Li, Xianfeng Ding, Zhao Fan, Bingping Zhou, Xiaorong Cheng
Summary: Bribery, an illegal conspiracy between two transactional parties, has a wide range of destructive effects on society. This study investigates the role of Guanxi (interpersonal relationships) in influencing individuals, particularly government officials, in accepting bribes. The findings reveal that both direct and indirect Guanxi contribute to individuals' acceptance of bribes, but the mechanisms behind them differ. Direct Guanxi encourages acceptance of bribes due to trust, responsibility, and obligation, while indirect Guanxi is driven solely by trust. This study provides new insights into the lubricant role of relationships in corruption, expanding the understanding of bribery and offering recommendations to combat corruption.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Xue Yang
Summary: This study investigates the social support exchange process in social commerce, specifically examining the influence of receiving online social support on giving social support mediated by peer relations. The findings suggest that receiving social support has a partial effect on the intention to offer support in social commerce, mediated by trust in peers and the norm of reciprocity. This study contributes to the understanding of social commerce research by exploring the dynamics of social support exchange among peers and extending the peer relations perspective to the context of social commerce.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Lai-Ying Leong, Teck-Soon Hew, Keng-Boon Ooi, Alain Yee Loong Chong, Voon-Hsien Lee
Summary: This study examined the factors influencing trust in mobile social commerce, with a focus on the trust-based acceptance model and online review features. The results indicated that profile photo, reported experience, cognitive trust, and emotional trust significantly influence trust in mobile social commerce. This work contributes to the literature by highlighting the roles of previous trust in mobile payments and online reviews on trust in mobile social commerce.
INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Business
Wen-Kuei Wu
Summary: This study explores the impact of traditional guanxi facets (i.e., ganqing, renqing, and mianzi) between buyers and sellers on trust, recommendation, and purchase intention in social commerce. The results show that trust in seller and recommendation intention play significant mediating roles in transferring traditional guanxi facets into purchase intention, highlighting the importance of these factors in influencing consumer behavior in online environments.
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ELECTRONIC COMMERCE RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Business
Min Zhang, Lin Sun, Fang Qin, G. Alan Wang
Summary: This study investigates the impact of information quality and interaction quality on swift guanxi and customers' purchase intention on live streaming platforms. The results show that both information quality and interaction quality positively influence swift guanxi, which may affect customers' online purchase intention on LSP. This highlights the importance of service quality in influencing customer behavior in an online marketplace environment.
JOURNAL OF SERVICES MARKETING
(2021)
Article
Business
Wen-Kuei Wu, Hsiao-Chung Wu, Chih-Sung Lai
Summary: This study explores how a buyer's perceived buyer-seller guanxi facets and positions influence the seller's influence effectiveness and purchase intention in social commerce. The results show that each guanxi facet has a different impact on SIE, with only renqing improving PI, and these effects vary across different guanxi positions. The study highlights the importance and complexity of guanxi mechanisms in social commerce.
ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MARKETING AND LOGISTICS
(2022)
Article
Business
Li Qin, Maria D. De-Juan-Vigaray
Summary: In social commerce, interpersonal trust plays a crucial role among individuals. This study investigates how trust-building and cultural dimensions impact interpersonal trust and users' intention in social commerce, based on data collected in the U.S.A. and Spain. Cultural differences were found between the two countries, suggesting implications for global marketing managers and information officers.
JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Ruilin Zhu, Xuan Hu
Summary: Public communication is crucial for disaster response, but previous research has mainly focused on informational support, neglecting the importance of emotional support. This study investigates their separate impacts and introduces public engagement as a benchmark for measuring the effect of public communication. The research analyzes the dynamic impacts of emotional support and informational support throughout different stages of the COVID-19 crisis. The findings confirm the empirical significance of emotional support on public engagement and suggest the incorporation of both social supports for more effective crisis communication strategies.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Xing Liu, Ofir Turel, Zhibing Xiao, Jinbo He, Qinghua He
Summary: People with excess weight exhibit higher impulsivity and lower probability of choosing delayed rewards, with higher BMI associated with even lower probability. They also score higher in impulsivity measures and show less activation in executive function areas during decision-making.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yawei Qi, Yuting Liu, Ziyou Yan, Shiqi Hu, Xinhe Zhang, Jia Zhao, Ofir Turel, Qinghua He
Summary: The present study found that individuals with Internet addiction disorder (IAD) have decreased slow-wave activity, particularly in the frontal areas, as indicated by the analysis of resting-state electroencephalography (EEG). Furthermore, the slow-wave activities in the frontal areas were correlated with the commission error rate in the Go/NoGo task in the IAD group. These findings suggest that the frontal slow-wave EEG activity may serve as a neurophysiological marker of IAD, providing insights into the underlying neural mechanisms of inhibitory control deficits and potential interventions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ya-Nan Fu, Ruodan Feng, Qun Liu, Yumei He, Ofir Turel, Shuyue Zhang, Qinghua He
Summary: This study examines the relationship between awe and prosocial behavior in Chinese college students. The findings show that awe is positively associated with prosocial behavior, and this relationship is mediated by the presence of meaning in life. Additionally, perceived social support moderates these associations.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Business
Matti Mantymaki, A. K. M. Najmul Islam, Ofir Turel, Amandeep Dhir
Summary: This paper proposes and demonstrates that information technology (IT) can be an effective means of coping with life stressors, including those induced by pandemics. The study examines the use of social network sites (SNSs) as a coping mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic and finds that psychological detachment through SNS use increases psychological well-being. However, the effect of stressors on psychological detachment varies, with work-family conflict motivating detachment and perceived isolation not influencing it.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Qi Chen, Ofir Turel, Yufei Yuan
Summary: This paper examines the impact of positive and negative social influences on user adoption intention towards online dating services (ODS). The findings indicate that positive social influence has a stronger impact on perceived benefits and adoption intention, while negative social influence has a greater impact on perceived risks. Additionally, ambivalence negatively moderates the effects of social influences on adoption.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & PEOPLE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Dandan Li, Ofir Turel, Shuyue Zhang, Qinghua He
Summary: Fairness is crucial for social interactions, as its violation can lead to non-cooperation and dishonesty. This study explores how fair or unfair treatment affects cooperation and honesty, and how dishonesty weakens the impact of fairness on cooperation.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Samira Farivar, Fang Wang, Ofir Turel
Summary: This study examines the potential negative consequences of social media influencing on followers' wellbeing, and explores the factors that contribute to problematic engagement with influencers. The research findings suggest that influencer characteristics and followers' participation comprehensiveness play a role in fostering problematic engagement through attachment-based mechanisms. Additionally, following more influencers weakens the effect of followers' sense of belonging on problematic engagement.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Business
Joana Neves, Ofir Turel, Tiago Oliveira
Summary: This study examines how institutional and peer privacy concerns work together to influence users' decisions to change their behaviors on SNS platforms.
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Ofir Turel, Hamed Qahri-Saremi
Summary: Previous research has often assumed that users' attitudes towards social networking site (SNS) use can be positioned on a bipolar continuum from negative to positive orientation. However, recent findings suggest that this linear approach is too simplistic to capture the intricacies of SNS use patterns. This paper draws on ambivalence literature to propose that users can have both positive and negative orientations towards SNS use. The authors develop typologies of attitudinal and behavioral responses to ambivalence and test their hypotheses using data from ambivalent SNS users. The findings validate the typologies and offer insights into the possible outcomes of users' attitudinal responses to ambivalence in terms of SNS use patterns.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Hamed Qahri-Saremi, Ofir Turel
Summary: User susceptibility to phishing messages on social media is an increasingly concerning issue in information security. This study presents a temptation and restraint model that explains users' engagement with social media phishing messages and their susceptibility to such attacks based on situational contingency factors. The findings offer insights into the genesis of social media phishing victimization and provide directions for future research in this area.
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Chenyu Lv, Zhibing Xiao, Yachen Sun, Rong Zhang, Tingyong Feng, Ofir Turel, Qinghua He
Summary: This study used rsFC to explore the gender-specific neural basis of intertemporal choice and found significant gender differences in both behavior and brain connectivity.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Maryam Ghasemaghaei, Ofir Turel
Summary: The study aims to understand why employees take IT-mediated shortcuts, finding that IT complexity drives ego depletion and, subsequently, the shortcuts. Moral integrity and setting goals play important roles in moderating the effects of ego depletion on shortcut-taking behavior. Ultimately, the integrated perspective explains the relationship between IT complexity and IT-mediated shortcuts.
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
(2022)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Hao Chen, Ofir Turel, Yufei Yuan
Summary: This study applies the Protection Motivation Theory to understand individuals' intentions to protect their discarded electronic assets, finding that optimism bias plays a key role in reducing the perceived threat of untreated e-waste and influencing protection intentions. The research highlights the importance of addressing information security risk behavior in the context of e-waste, and emphasizes potential interventions to mitigate these risks.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & PEOPLE
(2022)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Amr Soror, Zachary R. Steelman, Ofir Turel
Summary: This study empirically investigated the mechanisms through which social media use habit influences continued social media use intentions in the context of problematic social media use. The findings suggest that habituation and sensitization simultaneously shape two opposing forces driving continued use decisions, providing a basis for developing effective interventions to address the increase in problematic uses of information systems.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & PEOPLE
(2022)
Article
Management
Dmitry Khanin, Ofir Turel, Chris Bart, William C. McDowell, Marianne Hock-Doepgen
Summary: Scholars supporting the embeddedness outlook advocate for directors' increased involvement in the strategic management process, while those endorsing the control outlook believe directors should focus on their supervisory duties. This paper, based on behavioral-agency theory, introduces a conduct outlook on boards. Findings from structural equations modeling analysis of data from a survey of 367 Canadian directors suggest that directors' participation in strategic management processes may have positive effects on their satisfaction with company performance, strategic planning, and strategies.
REVIEW OF MANAGERIAL SCIENCE
(2021)
