{"title":"Does Your Company Engage Efficiently on Social Media? Improving Performance Using DEA Model and Visualization","authors":"Atul Agarwal, Neetu Singh, Hasan B. Kartal","doi":"10.2979/esj.2023.a905238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/esj.2023.a905238","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: Despite an implosion in the use of social media, quantifying the efficiency of customer engagement continues to be a major challenge for most companies. In this study, we propose a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to measure the relative operational efficiency of companies' customer engagement on social media based on non-financial inputs and outputs. We collected data from the Facebook and Twitter pages of 56 fast-food companies over 12 months in 2020, and used DEA, cluster analysis, and visualization techniques to perform a comparative efficiency analysis. Our study identified four distinct clusters of companies and mapped them to the corresponding stages of the social media maturity (SMM) model. By integrating the DEA model with the SMM, we provide a novel mechanism for assessing social media engagement efficiency. Furthermore, based on the results of our analysis, we offer strategic and tactical level recommendations to inefficient companies for improving their social media engagement performance.","PeriodicalId":133558,"journal":{"name":"e-Service Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolving Towards Mobility-as-a-Service: Drivers and Consequences of Car Subscription Services","authors":"Taimaz Larimian, Kate Elise Taylor, Arash Sadeghi","doi":"10.2979/esj.2023.a905237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/esj.2023.a905237","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: This study investigates the emergence of car subscription services as a new development in the area of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS). Our aim is to explore the drivers of the emergence of car subscription services, analyse its impact on the incumbent manufacturers, and investigate the impact of COVID-19. We adopt a qualitative approach based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with managers of three car subscription service providers: a leading car manufacturer and two car subscription start-ups. We found three key behavioural and technological trends that drive the emergence and growth of car subscription services and highlighted the various opportunities and risks for the incumbent manufacturers.","PeriodicalId":133558,"journal":{"name":"e-Service Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
e-Service JournalPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.2979/eservicej.14.3.01
Taimaz Larimian, Kate Elise Taylor, Arash Sadeghi
{"title":"Evolving Towards Mobility-as-a-Service: Drivers and Consequences of Car Subscription Services","authors":"Taimaz Larimian, Kate Elise Taylor, Arash Sadeghi","doi":"10.2979/eservicej.14.3.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/eservicej.14.3.01","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: This study investigates the emergence of car subscription services as a new development in the area of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS). Our aim is to explore the drivers of the emergence of car subscription services, analyse its impact on the incumbent manufacturers, and investigate the impact of COVID-19. We adopt a qualitative approach based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with managers of three car subscription service providers: a leading car manufacturer and two car subscription start-ups. We found three key behavioural and technological trends that drive the emergence and growth of car subscription services and highlighted the various opportunities and risks for the incumbent manufacturers.","PeriodicalId":133558,"journal":{"name":"e-Service Journal","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135145438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
e-Service JournalPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.2979/eservicej.14.3.02
Atul Agarwal, Neetu Singh, Hasan B. Kartal
{"title":"Does Your Company Engage Efficiently on Social Media? Improving Performance Using DEA Model and Visualization","authors":"Atul Agarwal, Neetu Singh, Hasan B. Kartal","doi":"10.2979/eservicej.14.3.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/eservicej.14.3.02","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: Despite an implosion in the use of social media, quantifying the efficiency of customer engagement continues to be a major challenge for most companies. In this study, we propose a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to measure the relative operational efficiency of companies' customer engagement on social media based on non-financial inputs and outputs. We collected data from the Facebook and Twitter pages of 56 fast-food companies over 12 months in 2020, and used DEA, cluster analysis, and visualization techniques to perform a comparative efficiency analysis. Our study identified four distinct clusters of companies and mapped them to the corresponding stages of the social media maturity (SMM) model. By integrating the DEA model with the SMM, we provide a novel mechanism for assessing social media engagement efficiency. Furthermore, based on the results of our analysis, we offer strategic and tactical level recommendations to inefficient companies for improving their social media engagement performance.","PeriodicalId":133558,"journal":{"name":"e-Service Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135145434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
e-Service JournalPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.2979/eservicej.14.1.02
Jithesh Arayankalam, S. Krishnan, Aelita Skaržauskiene˙, Vipin Saini, M. Tanniru, Ting-Peng Liang, Ernest Yoder, Yu-Chen Yang
{"title":"The Spread and Impact of Fake News on Social Media: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda","authors":"Jithesh Arayankalam, S. Krishnan, Aelita Skaržauskiene˙, Vipin Saini, M. Tanniru, Ting-Peng Liang, Ernest Yoder, Yu-Chen Yang","doi":"10.2979/eservicej.14.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/eservicej.14.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In this post-truth era, fake news on social media has emerged as a societal problem, where objective facts have increasingly become less influential. Although there is a recent spike in fake news research, it has progressed without a proper agenda or a theoretical framework and has been fragmented. This systematic literature review (SLR) aims to organize the fragmented literature on fake news, focusing on the psychosocial antecedents of its spread on social media and the impact due to such spread. Accordingly, we systematically analyzed fifty-six empirical studies using standard protocols to delineate the current research profile and future research areas. The research themes emerging from the SLR are (a) the need for a theoretical and methodological grounding for understanding the fake news problem on social media; (b) the person, behavior, and environmental factors for the fake news spread on social media; and (c) social, economic, and psychological impacts due to fake news on social media. This study also argues for expanding the current research horizon by relying on new research methods and focusing on under-investigated psychosocial factors. The study may help policymakers plan and execute human-centric policy measures for combating fake news on social media by focusing on an individual's psychosocial factors.","PeriodicalId":133558,"journal":{"name":"e-Service Journal","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131566833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
e-Service JournalPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.2979/eservicej.14.1.01
Vipin Saini, M. Tanniru, Ting-Peng Liang, Ernest Yoder, Yu-Chen Yang
{"title":"E-Relationship Through a Value Lens—Implications for Organizational Capability","authors":"Vipin Saini, M. Tanniru, Ting-Peng Liang, Ernest Yoder, Yu-Chen Yang","doi":"10.2979/eservicej.14.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/eservicej.14.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Firms that extend their e-commerce platforms into customer decision-making to build relationships need to understand the customer journey or build e-relationships through a lens that the customer uses to assess the value created and fulfilled. By contrasting the value cycles that customers and firms use, four different activities are identified for firms with shorter and longer value cycles. By enabling customers to support value creation, fulfilling the value created by enlisting partners and expanding services, and engaging the customers during value-in-use, three organizations discussed in the published literature appear to have developed e-relationship strategies to create and sustain value both before and during COVID-19. This analysis led us to develop three different insights: customer empowerment, collaborative competency, and intelligent digital platform for organizational capability. These insights were used to analyze two different organizations interviewed during the 2020 period, as they faced many COVID-19 challenges, and assess the generalizability of these capabilities. We provide three recommendations for IS leaders for building e-relationships through a customer lens, by drawing on five case studies of companies to remain agile.","PeriodicalId":133558,"journal":{"name":"e-Service Journal","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129207517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
e-Service JournalPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.2979/eservicej.13.3.02
T. Stumpf, Christopher B. Califf, Jaime Lancaster
{"title":"Becoming a Digital Nomad Entrepreneur: A Process Theory","authors":"T. Stumpf, Christopher B. Califf, Jaime Lancaster","doi":"10.2979/eservicej.13.3.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/eservicej.13.3.02","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:There is an opportunity to expand the travel and technology literature by integrating additional provision for the entrepreneurial side of digital nomadism. Digital nomad entrepreneurship (DNE) is a distinctive approach to life, travel, and entrepreneurship, and is a growing phenomenon. Previous research has tended to focus on either the philosophical/lifestyle or the entrepreneurial-level aspects of DNE. This study uses grounded theory method to investigate the merger of philosophical/ lifestyle and business factors that merge to form the process for how an individual becomes a digital nomad entrepreneur. The findings reveal a model termed the \"Digital Nomad Entrepreneurship & Lifestyle Design Process,\" which is comprised of four conceptual sub-categories: Pre-Day Zero-Lamentation & Discovery; Plugging In-Transition & Acculturation; Just Get Started-1,000 Messy Days; and The Other Side-Mentality Shifts and Scale Lessons. With the increasing focus on remote work, intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, this process theory uses insights from digital nomad entrepreneurs to inductively generate a practical guide for aligning income generation with a lifestyle characterized by geographic flexibility.","PeriodicalId":133558,"journal":{"name":"e-Service Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130256834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
e-Service JournalPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.2979/eservicej.13.3.01
Y. Wang
{"title":"Engaging Individuals in CSR Activities: The Role of Person-Community Fit and Social Capital in Corporate Online CSR Communities","authors":"Y. Wang","doi":"10.2979/eservicej.13.3.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/eservicej.13.3.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":133558,"journal":{"name":"e-Service Journal","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121607368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
e-Service JournalPub Date : 2021-11-02DOI: 10.2979/eservicej.13.1.01
Gary Hackbarth, Teuta Cata
{"title":"E-Therapy Critical Success Factors: The Immediate Impact of COVID-19","authors":"Gary Hackbarth, Teuta Cata","doi":"10.2979/eservicej.13.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/eservicej.13.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The overall impact of COVID-19 removed the traditional barriers to e-therapy, creating a seismic shift in attitudes and incentives that allowed therapists to apply virtual meeting technologies in service to their patients’ mental health needs. A post-COVID-19 Delphi study, using the same study design conducted in 2011, found that Internet communication technologies used by patients and therapists, the implementation of secure applications and procedures, and the removal of legal obstacles allowed e-therapy to become an effective treatment option and opened doors to treat more patients. Therapists utilized information technology to enhance patient interactions in remote settings, allowing for more empathy and improved service quality than reported in past studies. A comparison of the findings between the studies conducted in 2020 and 2011 indicates a decline of information system management oversight and suggests that organizational leadership was in tune with common issues facing therapists delivering services under trying circumstances. E-therapy works, but a return to pre-COVID-19 legal restrictions, institutional hurdles, organizational impediments, and technological costs may limit future opportunities to implement and use mobile technologies to provide better treatment for patients.","PeriodicalId":133558,"journal":{"name":"e-Service Journal","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117222964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}