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
An Investigation of Predictors of Information Diffusion in Social Media: Evidence from Sentiment Mining of Twitter Messages (open access)

An Investigation of Predictors of Information Diffusion in Social Media: Evidence from Sentiment Mining of Twitter Messages

Article is a study examining how emotional arousal influences information diffusion in social media using a sentiment mining approach. The authors propose a research model and test it using data collected from Twitter.
Date: January 7, 2020
Creator: Kim, Dan J. & Salehan, Mohammad
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing Evaluation Frameworks for Business Models in China’s Rural Markets (open access)

Developing Evaluation Frameworks for Business Models in China’s Rural Markets

This article draws on case analysis to present two frameworks for evaluating two types of business models, and, through open coding and axial coding on eight Chinese cases, identifies the main components for the evaluation frameworks and critical factors within each component. Using the coding results as a lens, the article applies a cross-case comparative data analysis to establish the multi-level evaluation systems and provides suggestions for entrepreneurs and other stakeholders to better their business model design in China’s rural markets.
Date: November 8, 2018
Creator: Zhang, Xinxiang; Hu, Lijun; Salimath, Manjula & Kuo, Ching-Chung
System: The UNT Digital Library
Latent Semantic Analysis: Five methodological recommendations (open access)

Latent Semantic Analysis: Five methodological recommendations

Article discussing latent semantic analysis and five methodological recommendations.
Date: 2012
Creator: Evangelopoulos, Nicholas; Zhang, Xiaoni & Prybutok, Victor R.
System: The UNT Digital Library