International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals

The goal of this article is to introduce the 6As model of social content management.The model consists of 6 components: activity sources, abridgements, activities context, affordances, ascertained boundaries, and actors.The conceptual framework can act ...

Cloud computing for high performance computing (HPC) is gaining momentum.Organizations engaged in life science R & D could benefit from the cloud.The cloud could prove to be key in the search for cures to serious illnesses. Derided, when it emerged in ...

We explore digital marketing skills gaps in the communication industry.We find digital marketing skills gaps across the communication industry.The industry needs best practice guidance.Blending digital skills with current marketing approaches is a key ...

We examine information literacy standards from the Association of College and Research Libraries.We survey students enrolled in an information literacy course on how they encounter and manage information.Current information literacy standards do not ...

We evaluate the nature of factors that influence the relation between perceived credibility and trust towards institutional information sources and their effects on this relation.Two major categories have been considered here based on Wilsons' Macro ...

This study examines the role of inconsistent reviews in online shopping decision.We examine its moderating effect and gender differences in a trust-based model.Cognitive trust affects emotional trust, which further leads to purchase intention.Emotional ...

What to invest in, and how much to invest, are critical decisions for any enterprise considering e business solutions.Need for greater understanding of e-business investment decisions in SMEs.Need to examine whether the number of years of using e-...

The article articulates the existence of brand communities on social media.It delineates five unique dimensions of brand communities based in social media.They are: social context, structure, scale, content and storytelling, and affiliated brand ...

Designs an information delivery model for banking.Develops multi criteria reporting with respect to criteria.Finds best user to receive information using fuzzy analytical hierarchy process.Classifies most preferred user to least preferred using fuzzy ...

The objective of this research is the user acceptance analysis based on the moderating effect of experience on VSN.This paper is a pioneer study of the intention to use the SMS mobile payment on VSN.External influences, attitude, usefulness and risk are ...

Lack of an integrated framework to tackle the research problem.Literature review revealed potential for integrating different methods.An integrated framework is created and proposed to tackle the research problem. Although a number of methodologies ...

Cloud computing has opened many possibilities for organizations that did not exist before.Among the new sectors that are embracing and/or exploring the cloud are healthcare providers.The cloud has the potential to offer huge benefits for healthcare ...

Competitive intelligence is a strategic management tool to enhance competitiveness.Questionnaires were sent to competitive intelligence professionals in South Africa.The majority of organisations indicated that competition in the South African business ...

Improved economic and financial information management for academic departments.Adaptation of the Task-Technology Fit model.Consideration of this model from a dynamic perspective, with feedback flows.Applied in practice at a University of Granada ...

We study the adoption of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems by interviewing thirty-eight primary care physicians.Some physicians only use basic features while others customize features to enhance the way they work.All physicians state that there ...

Digital natives are under-investigated in the virtual world and Information Systems research.Teenagers' continuous social virtual world use is predominantly hedonically motivated.Virtual world both extends existing social interactions and helps to form ...

We study KM software-organisation misalignment in a professional service firm.Providing insights into the sources of misalignment in KM implementation.Demonstrating the institutional forces' impact on IT implementation and design.Providing some lessons ...

Economic analysis of personal information has been qualitatively conducted, linked to privacy issues.This is not acceptable as prime online business models are dependent on personal information use.Company-level financial data can be used for ...

Bibliographic databases lack uniformity and accuracy due to duplications, misspellings, name variants, etc.Dataset pre-processing is very important to obtain more accurate, realistic and valid bibliometric analysis.STICCI.eu is a software tool for ...

A "BI factor" is qualitative evidence that influences market reactions on a company.We developed an intelligent system to extract and categorize BI factors from news.We examined the system's capability in profiling four IT companies' BI factors.The ...

IOS visibility is adopted as an operation definition of SC visibility.IOS visibility is modeled to influence supply chain performance.Relational view (RV) and resource dependence theory (RDT) are used for cause variables.RV variables are more important ...

Use of actor network theory to explain why successful implementation and adoption can lead to a low level of later use.Defined the difference between the "declarative" and "de-facto" interest of actors and networks.A new way of modelling actor networks ...

HIV/AIDS is a dangerous disease.It has killed many people in Nigeria.Libraries and information centres in the country have a role to play in its prevention.Librarians should make use of print and audio-visual resources to provide relevant information to ...

Twenty-first century's advancement in information technologies and the emergence of online communities have considerably influenced the online communication channels between patients and health service providers. Online health communities are now ...