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Research trends in memes: insights from bibliometric analysis 关于备忘录的研究趋势：文献计量分析的启示

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Information Discovery and Delivery Pub Date : 2024-06-04 DOI: 10.1108/idd-07-2023-0069

C. R., S. Alur

{"title":"Research trends in memes: insights from bibliometric analysis","authors":"C. R., S. Alur","doi":"10.1108/idd-07-2023-0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/idd-07-2023-0069","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The growth of social media globally has led to brands adopting memes as a tool for communication. They have influenced digital culture, politics and marketing. This study aims to highlight the research gap in meme literature by profiling and science mapping.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This study has performed a bibliometric analysis of research papers on memes from the Scopus database. The authors profiled the literature and found the most relevant journal, author and document. Science mapping techniques such as thematic analysis, thematic evolution and co-citation of papers with content analysis were used.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Profiling of literature revealed that the most relevant journal, based on a number of papers and citations, is New Media and Society. The top researcher on memes is Shiffman L (seven papers), and the most cited author is Menczer F (717 citations). The paper titled “Towards A Unified Science of Cultural Evolution” has the highest number of citations (402). Thematic mapping revealed “Social Movements” and “Twitter” are the currently trending themes. The co-citation analysis clustered the literature into two. The first cluster elucidates the theoretical underpinnings of memes, while the second cluster explicates the various contexts in which memes are studied.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000This study will be vital to researchers hoping to study internet memes by providing directions for future research. Furthermore, the insights from this study will enable social media managers to use memes effectively.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study seems to be the first to use bibliometric analysis to profile and map meme literature. This study provides a new perspective for meme researchers to explore memes and suggests marketers implement novel meme-based strategies in their marketing communications.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43488,"journal":{"name":"Information Discovery and Delivery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141267358","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}

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Modeling college faculty users’ potential acceptance of library data services for research and teaching 模拟高校教师用户对图书馆数据服务用于科研和教学的潜在接受程度

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Information Discovery and Delivery Pub Date : 2024-05-21 DOI: 10.1108/idd-10-2023-0115

Qiong Xu

{"title":"Modeling college faculty users’ potential acceptance of library data services for research and teaching","authors":"Qiong Xu","doi":"10.1108/idd-10-2023-0115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/idd-10-2023-0115","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose\u0000The increasingly active data practice in academic environments makes investigating college faculty users’ potential needs for library data services (LDS) essential. Guided by a conceptual framework rooted in the data lifecycle and the extended technology acceptance model, this study aims to investigate the relationship between faculty’s data engagement (DE) and their attitudes toward multiaspect LDS.\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000An online survey at a master’s college was conducted to collect data regarding faculty data practice, potential needs for data services (DS) and attitudes toward multiaspect LDS. Based on 139 complete and valid responses, the study built three conceptual models to demonstrate faculty users’ potential acceptance of LDS for research and teaching.\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Participants’ research and teaching-related DE and background factors directly or indirectly affect their attitudes toward general DS, an institutional data repository if available and repository-based data curation.\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The study contributes to DS and librarianship research by offering three conceptual models to explore LDS’ holistic support for faculty research and teaching. Moreover, the study provides insights into faculty’s job-related DE factors and calls for future research on effective DS in more college communities.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43488,"journal":{"name":"Information Discovery and Delivery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141114439","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}

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How to animate learners to persist in learning massive open online courses? An application of the stimulus-organism-response paradigm 如何激发学习者坚持学习大规模开放在线课程？刺激--有机体--反应范式的应用

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Information Discovery and Delivery Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI: 10.1108/idd-11-2023-0130

Yung-Ming Cheng

{"title":"How to animate learners to persist in learning massive open online courses? An application of the stimulus-organism-response paradigm","authors":"Yung-Ming Cheng","doi":"10.1108/idd-11-2023-0130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/idd-11-2023-0130","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose\u0000The purpose of this study is to propose a research model based on the stimulus–organism–response (S–O–R) model to examine whether network externality, personalization and sociability as environmental feature antecedents to learners’ learning engagement (LE) can influence their learning persistence (LP) in massive open online courses (MOOCs).\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000Sample data for this study were collected from learners who had experience in taking MOOCs provided by the MOOC platform launched by a well-known university in Taiwan, and 371 usable questionnaires were analyzed using structural equation modeling in this study.\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000This study proved that learners’ perceived network externality, personalization and sociability in MOOCs positively affected their cognitive LE, psychological LE and social LE elicited by MOOCs, which jointly led to their LP in MOOCs. The results support all proposed hypotheses, and the research model accounts for 76.2% of the variance in learners’ LP in MOOCs.\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This study uses the S–O–R model as a theoretical base to construct learners’ LP in MOOCs as a series of the inner process, which is affected by network externality, personalization and sociability. It is worth noting that three psychological constructs including cognitive LE, psychological LE and social LE are used to represent learners’ organismic states of MOOCs usage. To date, hedonic/utilitarian concepts are more often adopted as organisms in previous studies using the S–O–R model, and psychological constructs have received lesser attention. Hence, this study’ contribution on the application of capturing psychological constructs for completely expounding three types of environmental features as antecedents to learners’ LP in MOOCs is well documented.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43488,"journal":{"name":"Information Discovery and Delivery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140982918","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}

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Patterns and trends of university-industry research collaboration in Ghana between 2011 and 2020 2011 至 2020 年加纳产学研合作的模式和趋势

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Information Discovery and Delivery Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI: 10.1108/idd-11-2022-0122

Monica Mensah Danquah, O. B. Onyancha, B. K. Avuglah

{"title":"Patterns and trends of university-industry research collaboration in Ghana between 2011 and 2020","authors":"Monica Mensah Danquah, O. B. Onyancha, B. K. Avuglah","doi":"10.1108/idd-11-2022-0122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/idd-11-2022-0122","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose\u0000The ranking of universities and other research-intensive institutions in global ranking systems is based on numerous indicators, including number of articles with external collaboration, number of articles with international collaboration, number of articles with industry collaboration as well as co-patents with industry. The purpose of this paper is to examine university–industry research collaboration in Ghana, with the aim of exploring the relationship between the research output collaborations in the top four universities in Ghana and industry across different geographical scales.\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This study’s data was obtained from the SciVal database, which drawn its data from the Scopus bibliographic and citation database. The bibliographic and citation data were extracted using a search of the publications affiliated to the University of Ghana, for the period 2011–2020.\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Key findings demonstrate a constant rise in the number of research publications by the selected universities over time. Research collaboration intensity in the selected universities in terms of co-authored publications was higher as compared to single-authored publications. University–industry research co-authorships were, however, lower when compared to university–university research co-authorships. The university–industry research co-authorships occurred mostly with Europe, Asia-Pacific and North American-based institutions as opposed to African-based institutions. In Ghana, four industry-based institutions were engaged in intensive research with the selected universities.\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This study demonstrates that, for each selected university, it is possible to measure the performance of individual universities in both intra-regional and international collaboration. Such results may be useful in informing policy as well as merit-based public funding of universities in Ghana.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43488,"journal":{"name":"Information Discovery and Delivery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140996208","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}

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Professional identity and knowledge practices of librarians in critical times of information disorders: a conceptual framework 信息失调关键时期图书馆员的职业认同和知识实践：一个概念框架

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Information Discovery and Delivery Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1108/idd-09-2023-0112

J. M. Yap, Ágnes Barátné Hajdu, P. Kiszl

{"title":"Professional identity and knowledge practices of librarians in critical times of information disorders: a conceptual framework","authors":"J. M. Yap, Ágnes Barátné Hajdu, P. Kiszl","doi":"10.1108/idd-09-2023-0112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/idd-09-2023-0112","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose\u0000The library and information science profession finds itself grappling with substantial difficulties and hurdles when addressing the trustworthiness and accuracy of information disseminated through social media platforms. This study aims to highlight the educational authority of librarians and propose a framework for librarians to establish their identity, understand the meaning behind their practice and integrate their expertise through knowledge practices, ensuring their relevance and effectiveness in the social media environment.\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This study delves into a conceptual framework rooted in philosophical inquiry, seeking to establish a harmonious connection between interrelated concepts of civic roles, professional identity and knowledge practices. It draws upon both original research findings and a review of existing literature in the field.\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Civic responsibilities reflect the professional identities of librarians. Evidence of knowledge practices collected from scientific literature emerged to be the important characterization of how librarians uphold their image as educational authorities. It describes the meaning of civic roles and professional practice.\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000The study sheds light on how librarians maintain their reputation as educators and the knowledge practices that underpin their civic responsibilities amidst the pervasiveness of information disorders.\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The framework presented in the study offers a timely and relevant contribution to the complex realm of social media information disorders, a challenge that librarians grapple with regularly. It highlights the emerging role of librarians in society to assert their identity and recognize their civic responsibility in addressing this pressing issue that society faces.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43488,"journal":{"name":"Information Discovery and Delivery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140674702","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}

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Bio-inspired algorithms for feature engineering: analysis, applications and future research directions 特征工程的生物启发算法：分析、应用和未来研究方向

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Information Discovery and Delivery Pub Date : 2024-04-18 DOI: 10.1108/idd-11-2022-0118

Vaishali Rajput, Preeti Mulay, Chandrashekhar Mahajan

{"title":"Bio-inspired algorithms for feature engineering: analysis, applications and future research directions","authors":"Vaishali Rajput, Preeti Mulay, Chandrashekhar Mahajan","doi":"10.1108/idd-11-2022-0118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/idd-11-2022-0118","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000Nature’s evolution has shaped intelligent behaviors in creatures like insects and birds, inspiring the field of Swarm Intelligence. Researchers have developed bio-inspired algorithms to address complex optimization problems efficiently. These algorithms strike a balance between computational efficiency and solution optimality, attracting significant attention across domains.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000Bio-inspired optimization techniques for feature engineering and its applications are systematically reviewed with chief objective of assessing statistical influence and significance of “Bio-inspired optimization”-based computational models by referring to vast research literature published between year 2015 and 2022.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The Scopus and Web of Science databases were explored for review with focus on parameters such as country-wise publications, keyword occurrences and citations per year. Springer and IEEE emerge as the most creative publishers, with indicative prominent and superior journals, namely, PLoS ONE, Neural Computing and Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science and IEEE Transactions. The “National Natural Science Foundation” of China and the “Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology” of India lead in funding projects in this area. China, India and Germany stand out as leaders in publications related to bio-inspired algorithms for feature engineering research.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The review findings integrate various bio-inspired algorithm selection techniques over a diverse spectrum of optimization techniques. Anti colony optimization contributes to decentralized and cooperative search strategies, bee colony optimization (BCO) improves collaborative decision-making, particle swarm optimization leads to exploration-exploitation balance and bio-inspired algorithms offer a range of nature-inspired heuristics.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43488,"journal":{"name":"Information Discovery and Delivery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140686971","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}

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Resource sharing in Lebanese libraries in times of unprecedented disruptions 空前混乱时期黎巴嫩图书馆的资源共享

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Information Discovery and Delivery Pub Date : 2024-03-21 DOI: 10.1108/idd-10-2022-0107

Carla Chalhoub, Ibrahim Farah

{"title":"Resource sharing in Lebanese libraries in times of unprecedented disruptions","authors":"Carla Chalhoub, Ibrahim Farah","doi":"10.1108/idd-10-2022-0107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/idd-10-2022-0107","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This paper aims to study the after-effects of the crises hit by the Lebanese population and the solutions implemented to alleviate the ensuing problems on resource sharing in Lebanese libraries.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000Questionnaire to academic libraries. Nine libraries in Lebanon offer resource sharing services; all nine are academic. A self-administered questionnaire was sent to these nine libraries; eight responded. A semi-quantitative approach was used to analyze the responses. The questionnaire was administered through Microsoft Forms. The form was designed to include dichotomous questions for the sake of quantitative analysis and a short answer format that allowed responders to provide additional details. American University of Beirut Data. The access services department at the American University of Beirut Jafet Library compiles on a daily basis interlibrary loan statistics. The compiled data were divided into two groups: duration of two fiscal years prior to June 2020; and from June 2020 to June 2022. June 2020 was used as a cutoff date after which the interlibrary loan initiatives in response to COVID-19 were implemented. The services that were analyzed were RSCVD, OCLC WorldShare ILL profiled groups, Emergency Temporary Access Service for HathiTrust members and Open Access Services from vendors.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Libraries in Lebanon were able to continue providing resource-sharing services with a minimal budget due to four major initiatives and through the help of the international resource-sharing community.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000Limited publication about inter library loan in Lebanese Libraries. The pandemic hit economies worldwide; however, Lebanon got hit by three synergetic crises, and the initiatives were instrumental in drastically reducing resource sharing expenditure without affecting the interlibrary loan fill rate.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43488,"journal":{"name":"Information Discovery and Delivery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140220931","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}

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A decade analysis of employees’ well-being and performance while working from home: a bibliometric approach 员工在家工作时的幸福感和绩效十年分析：文献计量学方法

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Information Discovery and Delivery Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.1108/idd-03-2023-0030

Ridhima Goel, Jagdeep Singla, Amit Mittal, Meenal Arora

{"title":"A decade analysis of employees’ well-being and performance while working from home: a bibliometric approach","authors":"Ridhima Goel, Jagdeep Singla, Amit Mittal, Meenal Arora","doi":"10.1108/idd-03-2023-0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/idd-03-2023-0030","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000Work-from-home (WFH) has gained popularity over the past years. This study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis to systematically review and synthesize scholarly literature on the complex interplay between WFH, employee well-being and performance.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The study incorporates analysis of the bibliometric including performance analysis, content analysis and scientific mapping that is applied to 497 Scopus papers. VOSviewer software was used to evaluate the data.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000This study posits an imbalance between the count of documents and the citations earned by each author. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health was regarded as a leading journal with maximum citations and publications. The highest count of publications came from most Asian countries such as India, China, Indonesia and Japan. The investigation indicated that the writers with the maximum citations were predominantly the authors of the majorly cited papers. Further, the text mining through co-occurrence of keyword analysis generated five clusters and cocited references revealed three themes.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000The current research might benefit both research groups as well as human resource professionals since it also reveals the research necessity and gaps in the WFH domain.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This research delves into unexplored facets of WFH beyond traditional studies over the past decade by examining remote work arrangements in today’s economy, revealing previously unnoticed dynamics affecting employee well-being and performance. This innovative viewpoint enhances the literature and provides an empirical foundation for strategic organizational decision-making and future study.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43488,"journal":{"name":"Information Discovery and Delivery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140248574","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}

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Influence of innovation diffusion factors on non-users’ adoption of digital banking services in the banking 4.0 era 创新扩散因素对银行 4.0 时代非用户采用数字银行服务的影响

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Information Discovery and Delivery Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.1108/idd-05-2023-0044

I. Shaikh, H. Amin

{"title":"Influence of innovation diffusion factors on non-users’ adoption of digital banking services in the banking 4.0 era","authors":"I. Shaikh, H. Amin","doi":"10.1108/idd-05-2023-0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/idd-05-2023-0044","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This study aims to study the factors that drive non-users of digital banking services rendered by Islamic banks in Malaysia towards their adoption of digital services in the banking 4.0 era using the innovation diffusion theory (IDT), also known as the diffusion theory of innovation (DOI).\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000IDT theory and literature on intention to adopt digital bank services were reviewed in a bid to contribute to the factors that drive non-users to adopt digital banking.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The review suggests that the adoption of digital banking is determined not only by perceived relative advantage, and perceived compatibility but also by additional factors in IDT theory, which are technology self-efficacy and perceived expected benefits. On the contrary, perceived complexity does not turn out to be a factor of digital banking adoption.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000Considering this paper in terms of the limited scope of the theory rendered and the context, it should be given proper attention when interpreting future outcomes when further investigations are brought into play in terms of population and sampling method.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000This paper serves as a guide to ensure the better planning of non-users’ adoption factors related to Islamic bank customers in both theory and practice.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000DOI is extended in the context of digital banking, as evidenced by empirical results, and literature shows that IDT integrated with the technology self-efficacy model is yet to be proposed in the digital banking adoption by Islamic bank customers. Additionally, variables, namely, perceived expected benefits and technology self-efficacy, are proposed in IDT’s existing model. Current findings will therefore serve as a relevant reference for digital technology specialists, policymakers, Islamic banks’ IT managers, academicians and future researchers.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43488,"journal":{"name":"Information Discovery and Delivery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140249055","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}

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A framework towards the implementation of freedom of information legislation in South Africa 南非信息自由立法实施框架

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Information Discovery and Delivery Pub Date : 2024-02-15 DOI: 10.1108/idd-11-2022-0121

Makutla Mojapelo

{"title":"A framework towards the implementation of freedom of information legislation in South Africa","authors":"Makutla Mojapelo","doi":"10.1108/idd-11-2022-0121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/idd-11-2022-0121","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The purpose of this study was to investigate a framework for the implementation of freedom of information (FOI) legislation in South Africa, against Article 19’s nine principles of FOI legislation.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to collect data from six experts selected by means of the snowball sampling technique and content analysis. The study used a modified Delphi design consisting of two rounds of interviews.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The results showed that little effort is made by government officials to demonstrate commitment to the implementation of FOI legislation.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000The passing of FOI is expected to reduce corruption, increase public participation, reduce the level of secrecy and increase transparency and openness. This is not the case as the implementation of this socioeconomic right in South Africa is faced by numerous challenges, such as a lack of political will, secrecy laws providing for the opposite of what the FOI legislation seeks to achieve, poor legislative interpretation and a lack of clear policies. The study proposes a framework aimed at addressing these challenges.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The study provides a framework for the implementation of FOI legislation. The framework was developed under the guidance of Article 19 principles of freedom of information legislation.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43488,"journal":{"name":"Information Discovery and Delivery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139833919","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}

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