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

Description: 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
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Error and optimism bias regularization

Description: Article describes how in Machine Learning, prediction quality is usually measured using different techniques and evaluation methods. This paper will introduce a simple regularization term to manage the number of over-predicted/under-predicted instances in a regression model.
Date: January 28, 2023
Creator: Sohaee, Nassim
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Seizing the moment—Strategy, social entrepreneurship, and the pursuit of impact

Description: Article asserts that social entrepreneurship continues to grow as an impactful phenomenon in the world and as a rich stream of research. This special issue thus offers insights for researchers, policymakers, educators, and entrepreneurs about how to sustain impactful social/environmental activities over time.
Date: January 30, 2023
Creator: Williams, Trenton Alma; Nason, Robert; Wolfe, Marcus T. & Short, Jeremy C.
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Using representational and abstract imagery to createregulatory fit effects

Description: Article asserts that visual imagery is one of the most important methods of communicating with consumers, but scholars have generally neglected the role of different forms of visual imagery (representational and abstract). The authors demonstrate that prevention-focused versus promotion-focused mindsets guide the interpretation of meanings conveyed by representational versus abstract visual imagery as a nonverbal means to achieve regulatory fit.
Date: October 19, 2023
Creator: Naletelich, Kelly; Ketron, Seth; Spears, Nancy & Gelves, J. Alejandro
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Role of Electronic Healthcare Record Adoption in Enhancing the Relationship between Quality Measures and Hospital Financial Performance

Description: Article asserts that the most significant government-mandated technology is the implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). The present research examines EHR through the lens of Resource Advantage Theory –– to empirically assess how partial and comprehensive implementation levels of EHR adoption influence quality management and financial performance of hospitals.
Date: November 16, 2022
Creator: Malhan, Amit; Pavur, Robert J.; Pelton, Lou E. & Manuj, Ila
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Strategic choice in times of stagnant growth and uncertainty: An institutional theory and organizational change perspective

Description: Article provides insight into the strategic behaviors of firms facing slow growth in times of economic stagnation. Using the pertinent literature from institutional theory and organizational change, the authors posit that the appropriate firm-level response (strategic choice) during periods of slow growth is to maintain legitimacy and membership in the field by adopting a proactive approach that focuses on improving top-line growth.
Date: July 4, 2022
Creator: Struckell, Elisabeth; Ojha, Divesh; Patel, Pankaj C. & Dhir, Amandeep
Partner: UNT College of Business
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An empirical Bayes approach to incorporating demand intermittency and irregularity into inventory control

Description: Article asserts that spare parts inventory management is complex due to the combined impact of intermittent and variable demand patterns. This study proposes a novel nonparametric Bayesian forecasting approach with its roots in the empirical Bayes paradigm.
Date: June 8, 2022
Creator: Ye, Yuan; Lu, Yonggang; Robinson, Powell & Narayanan, Arunachalam
Partner: UNT College of Business
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AI Agency Risks and Their Mitigation Through Business Process Management: A Conceptual Framework

Description: This article builds on agency theory and identify factors that increase the risk of an agency problem between a principal (a human or an organization) and an AI agent and propose a framework for AI agency problem analysis. The framework is illustrated through AI use cases and industry examples. Implications for AI governance research and practice are discussed. It was presented at the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Date: January 8, 2019
Creator: Sidorova, Anna & Rafiee, Dana
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Continued Usage and Location Disclosure of Location-Based Applications: A Necessity for Location Intelligence

Description: This article's research builds a continuance usage and location disclosure model from the expectation-confirmation perspective. The effect of benefit expectations on usefulness and satisfaction is hypothesized. In addition, the positive effect of usefulness on satisfaction and continuance intention is postulated. Findings contribute to the current literature in business intelligence by focusing on location disclosure behavior in the context of LBAs and the necessity of this type of information… more
Date: January 8, 2019
Creator: Peak, Daniel; Mousavizadeh, Mohammadreza & Koohikamali, Mehrdad
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Vice or Virtue? Exploring the Dichotomy of an Offensive Security Engineer and Government “Hack Back” Policies

Description: This article uses the virtue (ethics) theory and cyber attribution to argue that there exists a dichotomy among offensive security engineers, one that appreciates organizational security practices, but at the same time violates ethics in how to retaliate against a malicious attacker.
Date: January 7, 2020
Creator: Parrish, James L.; Withers, Kim L.; Smith, James N. & Ellis, Timothy J.
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Introduction to the Minitrack on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics Management, Governance, and Compliance

Description: This article is an introduction to the Minitrack on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics Management, Governance, and Compliance at the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Date: January 7, 2020
Creator: Sidorova, Anna; Saltz, Jeffrey & Goul, Michael
Partner: UNT College of Business
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An Investigation of Predictors of Information Diffusion in Social Media: Evidence from Sentiment Mining of Twitter Messages

Description: 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
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Confirmatory Influence of Trust in E-commerce: A Data Collection Bias and Suggestion

Description: Article explores the importance of investigating the impact of trust on intention to purchase from both successful and unsuccessful purchase cases in order to provide a more balanced view of the critical role of trust in e-commerce transaction decisions.
Date: January 7, 2020
Creator: Kim, Dan J. & Ogbanufe, Obi
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Theory-Based Failure Modes and Effect Analysis for Medication Errors

Description: This article presents a hybrid decision-making approach to assigning different weights to risk factors and considering the uncertainty in the ranking process in the Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA) technique. Findings highlight improper medication administration as the main failure mode, which can result in a fatality or patient injury and the utilization of multiple-criteria decision-making methods in combination with Z-number as a useful tool in the healthcare management field.
Date: April 1, 2021
Creator: Ghoushchi, Saeid Jafarzadeh; Dorosti, Shadi; Ab Rahman, Mohd Nizam; Khakifirooz, Marzieh & Fathi, Mahdi
Partner: UNT College of Business
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The Importance of Theorizing Social Change in Sport for Development: A Case Study of Magic Bus in London

Description: Article using the case of an award-winning sport for development (SFD) charity that expanded their operations from India to London to illustrate the pejorative implications resulting from failing to create a theory of change. A discussion of the results, implications, and recommendations for establishing and implementing a theory of change are provided.
Date: 2021
Creator: Hills, Stephen; Walker, Matthew & Dixon, Marlene
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Ecological determinants of smart home ecosystems: A coopetition framework

Description: 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
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Dynamic Interactive Visualizations: Implications of Seeing, Doing, and Playing for Quantitative Analysis Pedagogy

Description: Article presents a sample of dynamic interactive visualizations of relatively complex quantitative topics in statistics, operations management, and management science and discuss their implications for pedagogy for undergraduate and graduate students.
Date: May 16, 2019
Creator: Kulkarni, Shailesh S.; Mai, Bin; Amirkiaee, S. Yasaman & Tarakci, Hakan
Partner: UNT College of Business
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STEM or Humanities? Toward a Balance of Interest Fit

Description: Article analyses the relationship between interest fit and career/income outlooks for college students as opposed to the relationship between such outcomes and the nature of the domain.
Date: December 17, 2019
Creator: Bozorg, Hoda Vaziri; Tay, Louis; Parrigon, Scott; Bradburn, Norman M. & Pawelski, James O.
Partner: UNT College of Business
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