{"title":"What makes video gaming productive or addictive? Differential effect of self-determined motivation and need frustration on adolescents’ video gaming","authors":"Hoon S. Choi , Eui Jun Jeong , Dan J. Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104186","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104186","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aims to clarify an ongoing controversy among stakeholders in the video game domain by examining the differential effect of self-determined motivation and need frustration on adaptive game use and game addiction. The findings reveal that the factors related to self-determined motivation are more closely linked to adaptive game use. Conversely, those about need frustration are more tightly associated with game addiction. The results suggest that adolescents’ game addiction mainly stems from need frustration arising from an unsatisfactory reality. Academic stress emerges as the primary driver of the transition from adaptive game use to game addiction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 7","pages":"Article 104186"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144195779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of the realism degree of avatars in social virtual worlds: The perspective of self-presentation","authors":"Jiahui Huang , Minxue Huang , Mengmeng Zhan , Dawei Guan","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104185","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104185","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Avatars, serving as a medium for users’ self-presentation, play a significant role in bridging the real and virtual worlds. Limited research has considered users’ desire to present their “hoped-for possible selves” when examining the effect of avatar design. This study addresses this gap by conducting four empirical investigations of the impact of avatar appearance design, particularly realism, on users’ continuing intention to use virtual products. It was found that low-realism avatars, as opposed to high-realism ones, increased users’ continuing use intention. Wishful identification and immersive experience serially mediated the avatar realism effect. The moderating role of users’ familiarity with other avatars was also examined, suggesting that when users were familiar with other avatars, the impact of avatar realism diminished. These findings provide significant contributions to the existing literature and offer actionable guidance for the design of avatars within social virtual environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 7","pages":"Article 104185"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144189872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Does the industrial big data environment matter? An evaluation of its effect on the production performance” [Information & Management 62 (2025) 104159]","authors":"Liwen Hou","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104180","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104180","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 6","pages":"Article 104180"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144203739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Trang Nguyen , Jengchung Victor Chen , Julius Wonodihardjo
{"title":"Two faces of freemium strategy in social games: The interplay between perceived enjoyment, envy, and in-app purchase intention","authors":"Trang Nguyen , Jengchung Victor Chen , Julius Wonodihardjo","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104184","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104184","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In freemium social games, disparities between paid and free players could evoke negative experiences, particularly when paid players gain significant advantages by purchasing in-game items. Drawing on affordance theory and social comparison theory, this experimental study reveals that both positive (e.g., perceived enjoyment) and negative (e.g., benign envy) experiences strengthen players’ willingness to make in-app purchases. Perceived enjoyment is positively associated with skill–challenge balance, social interaction, and control, while both benign and malicious envy are induced by fairness. Notably, a state of skill–challenge imbalance is also found to drive perceived enjoyment, providing a critical extension to the existing literature on enjoyment experiences in gaming contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 7","pages":"Article 104184"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144131738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lawrence Kryzanowski , Mingyang Li , Sheng Xu , Jie Zhang
{"title":"Investor-initiated online communications and corporate misconduct","authors":"Lawrence Kryzanowski , Mingyang Li , Sheng Xu , Jie Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104183","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104183","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>China’s stock exchanges launched regulated, interactive investor platforms in 2010 and 2013 to empower retail investors. Investor-initiated interactive communications on these platforms are negatively associated with the propensity of corporate misconduct. The identified effect is associated with the information asymmetry channel, but not with various potential confounding factors. The interactive investor platforms serve as important monitors of corporate misconduct, which could be adopted by other regulatory jurisdictions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 7","pages":"Article 104183"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unraveling the psychological links between organizational security climate and extra-role security behaviors","authors":"Ali Vedadi , Akmal Mirsadikov , Merrill Warkentin","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104181","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104181","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Facing constant cyberattacks, organizations should use IT security tools, train employees, and motivate them to comply with security policies. Accordingly, employees’ extra-role security behaviors can benefit organizations as an additional line of defense. Drawing on organizational climate theory, we examined the psychological mechanisms through which organizational security climate could shape extra-role security behaviors. These mechanisms, such as employees' increased organizational security concern and a broader definition of their perceived security-related responsibilities, were found to have a full mediating effect between organizational security climate and extra-role security behaviors. This research contributes to the information security literature by presenting an empirically validated model that provides nuanced insights into the role of organizational climate in shaping extra-role security behaviors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 7","pages":"Article 104181"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144089753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alan R. Dennis , Sanjay Goel , Jenny Huang , Kevin J. Williams
{"title":"Who cares if we get hacked? The development and testing of a measure of information security apathy","authors":"Alan R. Dennis , Sanjay Goel , Jenny Huang , Kevin J. Williams","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104166","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104166","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We develop a construct called information security apathy, which we define as the extent to which individuals lack interest in information security. In Study 1, we develop and refine a scale to measure information security apathy, assess its content and its convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity, and show that it is distinct from and more stable over time than seven security motivation and attitude constructs used in prior research. In Study 2, we examine the relative effects of security apathy and security knowledge on security decisions by presenting users with a series of security situations and asking what security actions they would be likely to take. We also investigate the personality factors that influence security apathy. In Study 3, we again examine the relative effects of security apathy (and security knowledge) and its personality correlates, but this time when job responsibilities pose strong competing priorities to security compliance, a situation in which apathy should be particularly important. Studies 2 and 3 show that security apathy has a medium to large effect on security decisions—a noticeably larger effect than security knowledge. Our measure of security apathy offers researchers a better ability to predict security compliance and organizations a better way of assessing where to focus their security efforts (reducing apathy versus providing training).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 7","pages":"Article 104166"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144107065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bei Jin , Tan Cheng , Yunjie Calvin Xu , Wenqiang Jin
{"title":"Click-through rate prediction with multi-behavior sequences and shared interest learning","authors":"Bei Jin , Tan Cheng , Yunjie Calvin Xu , Wenqiang Jin","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104177","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104177","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a vital technique for assessing the effectiveness of online advertising. CTR prediction hinges on effectively modeling consumers’ product interests based on their historical behavior. However, extant CTR studies have not fully integrated consumer purchase history with other behavior histories such as browsing, adding to cart, and adding to favorites. How should we fully leverage the rich behavior history to extract personal interest and that of similar others? When extracting similar others’ interests, how should we maintain the relevance to personal interests while enjoying the novelty of others’ interests? To address these issues, we conceptualize two types of consumer interest: manifested interests and potentially shared interests when building their interest profile. We propose the Augmented Deep Multi-Behavior Interest Network (ADMBIN) to extract, integrate, and balance the two types of interest from the multi-behavior sequences. Experimental results demonstrate that the ADMBIN outperforms benchmark models in CTR prediction and the contribution of our design components. The proposed model can boost advertising revenue and improve consumer experience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 6","pages":"Article 104177"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144072114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aida Sanatizadeh , Yingda Lu , Keran Zhao , Yuheng Hu
{"title":"Engagement or entanglement? The dual impact of generative artificial intelligence in online knowledge exchange platforms","authors":"Aida Sanatizadeh , Yingda Lu , Keran Zhao , Yuheng Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104178","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104178","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT and Gemini, have the potential to substantially transform various domains, particularly platforms centered on information exchange. This study investigates the impact of generative AI on content contribution and knowledge-seeking behavior within online knowledge exchange platforms by leveraging a comprehensive dataset from a leading Q&A community. The results indicate a decrease in engagement levels, as evidenced by fewer posts and users, especially within the technology sector. However, this decline is accompanied by a notable benefit: an enhancement in the quality and complexity of questions, leading to an increased number of visits to these types of posts. Furthermore, our findings show a reduction in the number of questions and answers contributed by users with lower expertise, making communities more efficient. Our research highlights the importance of generative AI tools in the dynamics of knowledge exchange and offers suggestions for platform designers to revitalize their ecosystems to enhance user engagement.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 6","pages":"Article 104178"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144068213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhuo Sun , Kaiyang Wang , Yan Jin , Zongshui Wang , Ruixian Yang
{"title":"Why are you? Exploring patients’ behavior in selecting physicians in online health communities","authors":"Zhuo Sun , Kaiyang Wang , Yan Jin , Zongshui Wang , Ruixian Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104176","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104176","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the factors influencing patients' choice of physicians in OHCs (online health communities), using the ELM (elaboration likelihood model), a classic model of user information processing, as its foundation. We assess physicians' expertise and medical outcomes through the central routes, which includes platform quality and medical quality, and the peripheral routes, which refers to electronic word of mouth (eWOM). We introduce list price, gamification, and high-privacy disease as moderating variables to explore the dynamic decision making scenarios regarding patients' healthcare selection behavior. To validate our hypotheses, data were collected in two phases (November 2022 and August 2024) from 15 major departments of China's largest online health community, HaoDaifu Online, yielding 9123 physician profiles and 18,246 matched patient-physician pairs. Using the panel data, the majority of our hypotheses received support, providing deeper insights into the decision making process behind patients' physician selection and its implications for online medical services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 6","pages":"Article 104176"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144072112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}