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}
{"title":"How does big data analytics capability affect organizational resilience? The moderating role of data-driven organizational culture and agribusiness environmental dynamism","authors":"Jinyuan Guo , Jiabao Lin , Jose Benitez","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104179","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104179","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Turbulent environments amplify survival pressures on agribusinesses, underscoring the need for organizational resilience. While big data analytics capability (BDAC) is vital in strengthening organizational resilience, their relationship remains insufficiently explored. Grounded in the dynamic capability theory, this study investigates the impact of BDAC on organizational resilience and analyzes the moderating roles of data-driven organizational culture (DDOC) and agribusiness environmental dynamism. By surveying a matched-pair sample from 239 firms, we found that BDAC enables the development of both types of organizational resilience (proactive resilience and reactive resilience). Furthermore, DDOC and agribusiness environmental dynamism both moderate the relationship between BDAC and reactive resilience. This study contributes to the IS literature by theoretically and empirically revealing the impact and boundary conditions of BDAC on organizational resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 6","pages":"Article 104179"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144072113","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":"Impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on operational performance: The role of dynamic capabilities","authors":"David T.W. Wong , Eric W.T. Ngai","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104162","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the role of dynamic capabilities (DCs) in the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in China’s telecommunications industry and their impact on firms’ operational performance. Drawing on DCs theory and the technology–organization–environment (TOE) framework, this study investigates how TOE factors influence DCs for AI system adoption, which subsequently impacts operational performance. It also examines the mediating role of DCs in the relationship between TOE factors and operational performance. Despite numerous studies on AI system adoption, the underlying mechanism of DCs requires further investigation. Survey data were collected from 205 senior executives of telecommunications firms in China. Analysis of the data reveals that TOE factors positively influence DCs for AI system adoption, which in turn have a positive effect on operational performance. Additionally, competitive pressure positively moderates the relationship between technological factors (i.e., technology compatibility and expected benefits) and operational performance. These findings provide managerial and theoretical insights into AI system adoption.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 6","pages":"Article 104162"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143927520","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":"Exploring the discourse on digital transformation in nonprofit organizations","authors":"Michele Cipriano , Stefano Za","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104165","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104165","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores digital transformation (DT) phenomena in nonprofit organizations (NPOs) through a bibliometric analysis of related literature, contributing to the examination of such organizations’ unequal development and digital presence. Unlike research predominantly focused on for-profit-based assumptions, this study inspects nonprofit-based elements linked to DT. The analysis identifies people-centered factors, nonprofit-related themes, and key dynamics of DT within NPOs, highlighting the need for conceptual models that reflect their specificities. By bridging insights from information systems and nonprofit studies disciplines, this research highlights distinct aspects linked to DT outcomes in the NPO context, designing targeted guidance for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 6","pages":"Article 104165"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143941756","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":"An empirical comparison of prominent theories of social media discontinuance: Toward a synthesized model","authors":"Isaac Vaghefi , Ofir Turel , John D'Arcy","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104163","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research on social media (SM) discontinuance draws on a range of theories and constructs to explain this phenomenon, making it difficult to evaluate the relative predictive strengths of these theories or identify common themes across their explanations. In this paper, we address these challenges by conducting an empirical comparison of eight prominent theories used to study SM discontinuance, based on survey data from 344 SM users. Building on these findings, we performed additional empirical comparisons and conceptual analyses and conducted a Delphi study to develop a proposed synthesized model of SM discontinuance. This model uses the theory of planned behavior as its core framework and incorporates six antecedent categories that reflect shared elements among the constructs from the examined theories. The synthesized model was empirically validated using the survey data, providing a cohesive explanation of key factors driving SM discontinuance. Our findings clarify which theories are most effective for predicting and explaining SM discontinuance and offer a streamlined framework that can serve as a foundation for future research on this topic.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 6","pages":"Article 104163"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143918371","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":"Heterogeneity in the interaction between mobile channels: Evidence from a large-sample study","authors":"Ziqing Yuan, Hailiang Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104164","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104164","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examined the impact of mobile app launches on mobile website traffic across firms, addressing the question of whether new apps complement or substitute existing mobile websites. Using a large sample and considering various firm characteristics, we uncovered the general synergistic effect between these two channels. However, this relationship can shift depending on such factors as market share, pre-event user engagement, average user age, app purpose, and app competition. These findings provide valuable insights for firms seeking to optimize their mobile channel strategies and stress the importance of considering potential substitution effects and efficient resource allocation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 6","pages":"Article 104164"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143936428","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":"Checking the facts! exploring social media users' sharing of verified COVID-19 information from the comprehensive action determination model","authors":"Zhenya Tang , Brandon Soltwisch","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104161","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104161","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sharing verified information on social media is critical to preventing the spread of dangerous misinformation, protecting public health, and promoting informed decision-making during health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to shift the focus from the detrimental impact of social media users in disseminating unverified information during crises to the potential for motivating these same users to counteract the COVID-19 infodemic by sharing verified information. Our research model is grounded in the comprehensive action determination model and tested through survey data from 395 social media users. Our findings suggest that users' verified-information-sharing behavior is influenced by various factors, including attitude, personal norms, social norms, habit, self-efficacy, and perceived threat. Our study highlights the role of social media users in combating the spread of unverified information during health crises and offers significant theoretical and practical implications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 6","pages":"Article 104161"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143936425","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":"Does the industrial big data environment matter? An evaluation of its effect on the production performance","authors":"Liwen Hou","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104159","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104159","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The widespread deployment of the Internet of Things has created a brand-new digital environment—an industrial big data environment (IBDE) characterized by a multitude of data resources. This study posits that IBDE, which has been commonly neglected in previous research, not only incubates affordance awareness capability, but also incurs data debt (DD), a new type of technical debt. This study uses affordances of manufacturing, manufacturing agility, and manufacturing excellence, together with DD, to parse the mechanism about how IBDE influences the enterprise production performance. We hypothesize that these three mediators are in charge of transmitting the influence of the munificent IBDE on the production performance. Empirical results confirm that IBDE significantly influences the three mediators, which in turn exert significant effects on the production performance. As such, we validate the existence of the mediating effect, and the significance of IBDE on the actions of affordance actualization. Further, despite the overall positive effect of the mediators on performance, the adverse influence of DD nevertheless cannot be neglected. These findings remind enterprises that a balanced development strategy of digital environment is imperative in terms of actualization of the affordances.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 6","pages":"Article 104159"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143895382","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}
Jiahao Yu , Yuhan Yan , Lu (Monroe) Meng , Rongyi Huang
{"title":"The impact of blockchain technology on competing suppliers on an E-commerce platform","authors":"Jiahao Yu , Yuhan Yan , Lu (Monroe) Meng , Rongyi Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104160","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.im.2025.104160","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We develop a game-theoretic model to explore the impact of blockchain adoption on various players within a platform supply chain, as well as its interaction with selling contract strategies. In our model, the high-class supplier determines the blockchain adoption strategy, and the low-class supplier selects the selling contract. Our analysis shows that the low-class supplier benefits from the high-class supplier’s adoption of blockchain, resulting in higher prices for both products. In the sequential equilibrium, the high-class supplier's blockchain adoption decision is driven by operational costs, whereas the low-class supplier's choice of selling contract depends on its product quality. Additionally, we extend the model to analyze scenarios where the high-class supplier operates through a reselling channel and investigate the impact of endogenous quality decisions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":56291,"journal":{"name":"Information & Management","volume":"62 6","pages":"Article 104160"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143936429","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}