Bias effects, synergistic effects, and information contingency effects: Developing and testing an extended information adoption model in social Q&amp;A

Sun, Yongqiang; Wang, Nan; Shen, Xiao‐Liang; Zhang, Xi

doi:10.1002/asi.24228

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“…In this approach, the obtained data is used for analysing the relationship among the path coefficients to minimize residual variance or error terms of the endogenous variables (Ahmadian & Abdolmaleki, 2018;Hair et al, 2014). According to (Sun et al ,2019), PLS-SEM modelling estimates the theoretical model involved in the research through Smart PLS 3.1.2. For current research, the PLS-SEM was chosen as a statistical technique to analyse the data.…”

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confidence: 99%

The mediating role of operational performance and internal integration of supply chain in the relationship between interplant coordination and external integration

Somjai¹,

Girdwichai²,

Jermsittiparsert³

2019

Journal of Human Sport and Exercise - 2019 - Summer Conferences of Sports Science

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The focus of this research is on networked plant. The study has analysed the relation between supply chain integration, operational performance, and inter-plant coordination. The study has differentiated internal integration and inter-plant coordination. The extension of internal integration is internal-plant coordination as it involves eliminations of the functional silos in the internal integration are extended to span across the networked plants. This is distinct from the external integration as well. The external integration is based on individual firms and it does not deal in the firm's collaboration with external partners. The relation between supply chain integration and inter-plant coordination has been tested, which is the first contribution, as it was not done previously. The positive impact of internal integration created on the inter-plant coordination has been evidenced by this study. This research has tested a novel theoretical model about the role of external integration as a mediator on the relation of interplant coordination and performance. The previous studies have been complimented by this research through analysing the way in which operational performance is influenced by inter-plant coordination in a networked plant. The study has used SEM-PLS and data is collected from the sports manufacturing firms of Thailand. coordination through external integration. Keeping in view the relation of internal integration with the operational performance, external integration mediates the influence of interplant coordination on operational performance.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The mediating role of operational performance and internal integration of supply chain in the relationship between interplant coordination and external integration

Somjai¹,

Girdwichai²,

Jermsittiparsert³

2019

Journal of Human Sport and Exercise - 2019 - Summer Conferences of Sports Science

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“…As predicted, we confirmed that all three types of dependency relations had significant effects on users' attachment to the social Q&A community. For example, the social Q&A community allows users to spend time to search information, read and ask what they want to know (Liu and Jansen, 2017; Sun et al , 2019). Moreover, users continue to stay in the social media because of the goals of understanding, orientation, and play (Chiu and Huang, 2015).…”

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“…The Zhihu community, functioning as a social Q&A community, is one of the most popular online communities in China with more than 100 million registered members. The target social Q&A community owns a huge number of users and content creators, which has constituted a valuable data source for academic studies (Sun et al , 2019). We invited participants by adding the link to the online questionnaire through several online channels, such as the instant message tools (e.g.…”

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“…Social Q&A communities are popular as information concentration centers, involving ever-increasing varieties of topics and knowledge (Zhao et al , 2016; Sun et al , 2019). Through the questioning-and-answering process, users in the social Q&A communities can post questions, provide answers and comments and discuss with peers (Liu and Jansen, 2017).…”

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“…Researchers have studied some specific social Q&A communities, such as Answerbag (Gazan, 2010), Yahoo! Answers (Wu and Korfiatis, 2013) and Quora (Jiang et al , 2018) in the USA, as well as Zhihu (Jin et al , 2015; Sun et al , 2019; Shi et al , 2020) in China. Social Q&A communities integrate the issue-oriented feature of online Q&A communities and the interaction-oriented feature of social communities (Gazan, 2010; Liu and Jansen, 2017).…”

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PurposeThis study aims at exploring users' motives to form attachments within the social Q&A community context and identifying the differences between active users and lurkers when building emotional attachments. By utilizing the media system dependency (MSD) theory, this study investigates into the driving factors of dependency relations (understanding, orientation and play) to user attachments (i.e. attachment to the social Q&A community, attachment to content creators).Design/methodology/approachThe research model is empirically validated by an online questionnaire among users of a social Q&A community. Deriving from the actual behavioral data, the authors divide 262 valid responses into 157 active users and 105 lurkers according to whether they post or not. The partial least squares (PLS) method is exploited to analyze the relationships in the model. In addition, the PLS-based multi-group analysis is conducted for comparing active users and lurkers.FindingsThe empirical results confirm that dependency relations (understanding, orientation and play) significantly influence user attachments. Multi-group analysis suggests that the effect of understanding dependency relations on attachment to content creators is stronger for active users than for lurkers. However, the effect of orientation dependency relations on user attachment is significant for lurkers but not significant for active users.Originality/valueThis study enriches the knowledge of the MSD theory by extending it to the social Q&A community setting. Based on the MSD theory, the relationships between three sides of dependency relations and two types of user attachments are hypothesized in the research model. Besides, the impact of user heterogeneity in building user emotional attachment still lacks consideration. This study is one of the first in the field of comparison studies to compare active users and lurkers in such context, providing a novel contribution in understanding the motivations and emotional responses of different users.

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This study explored users' criteria for citation decisions and investigated the effects on users' intention to cite using a mixed-method approach. A qualitative study was conducted first, where 16 citing criteria were identified based on interviews and inductive analysis. The findings were then used to develop hypotheses and extend the information adoption model. A questionnaire was designed to collect data from users in Chinese universities to test the research model. The findings indicated that pleasure, topicality, and functionality significantly increased users' perceived information usefulness, while familiarity and accessibility significantly enhanced users' perceived ease of use. Information usefulness and information ease of use further contributed to users' intention to cite with adjusted R 2 equaling 44.6%. It is also found that perceived academic quality based on 5 antecedents (i.e., reliability, comprehensiveness, novelty, author credibility, and source reputation) significantly increased users' pleasure. Implications and limitations were provided.

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Bias effects, synergistic effects, and information contingency effects: Developing and testing an extended information adoption model in social Q&A

Cited by 30 publications

References 53 publications

The mediating role of operational performance and internal integration of supply chain in the relationship between interplant coordination and external integration

The mediating role of operational performance and internal integration of supply chain in the relationship between interplant coordination and external integration

Media system dependency and user attachment in social Q&A communities: do active users and lurkers differ?

Citing criteria and its effects on researcher's intention to cite: A mixed‐method study

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