Hearing It Through the Grapevine: Positive and Negative Workplace Gossip (open access)

Hearing It Through the Grapevine: Positive and Negative Workplace Gossip

This article examines the complex issue of workplace gossip with the intention of providing managers with a deeper understanding of the various functions gossip serves within organizations.
Date: June 28, 2011
Creator: Grosser, Travis & Lopez-Kidwell, Virginie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ecological determinants of smart home ecosystems: A coopetition framework (open access)

Ecological determinants of smart home ecosystems: A coopetition framework

Article describing the strategic motivations and critical factors involved in the competition-based evolution of smart home ecosystems from early to growth phases, leading to a decision among the largest competitors to engage in coopetition.
Date: September 8, 2021
Creator: Struckell, Elisabeth; Ojha, Divesh; Patel, Pankaj C. & Dhir, Amandeep
System: The UNT Digital Library
When expectation fails and motivation prevails: the mediating role of awareness in bridging the expectancy-capability gap in mobile identity protection (open access)

When expectation fails and motivation prevails: the mediating role of awareness in bridging the expectancy-capability gap in mobile identity protection

Article describes how identity theft poses a significant threat to mobile users, yet mobile identity protection is often overlooked in cybersecurity literature. This study adopts a mixed-methods approach and draws on expectancy-value theory to address these gaps and explore the impact of expectations, capabilities, motivational values, technical measures, and awareness on individuals' intentions to achieve mobile identity protection.
Date: September 19, 2023
Creator: Alhelaly, Yasser; Dhillon, Gurpreet & Oliveira, Tiago
System: The UNT Digital Library