Mitigating Information Asymmetry to Achieve Crowdfunding Success: Signaling and Online Communication

This paper examines how signals and the herding factor originating from multiple sources complement or substitute for each other’s effects in the crowdfunding context. Drawing on the elaboration likelihood model, we propose that signals from campaigns (videos) and creators (experience) can mitigate information asymmetry concerns about project quality and creator credibility and that creator-originating signals offset the effect of campaign-originating signals on crowdfunding success. Further, we posit that online communication between creators and backers (backer comments and creator replies) complements or substitutes for the effects of signals originating from the campaign or creator. We collected and analyzed objective data on 9,884 crowdfunding projects from a major reward-based crowdfunding platform in China and were able to confirm most of our hypotheses

A Review on Cognitive Neuroscience in Information Security Behavior

NeuroIS is a hot topic of research in recent years, and cognitive neuroscience has found a new way to explain the underlying causes of human behavior in the field of information security research. By searching the research status of cognitive neuroscience in information security behavior research, we found that the number is gradually increasing, and the most frequently used neurocognitive tools are fMRI, EEG and eye tracking. Then a brief description of the application of each tool. Through combing the existing literature, it is found that cognitive neuroscience has become an important research subdomains in the information security behavior, and the research context has been clarified, which has provided guidance for subsequent research

How to Crowdfund More: A Signaling Perspective

Although crowdfunding has received a great deal of attention, few studies utilize a theory-oriented approach to understand what lead to crowdfunding success. In this paper, we employ signaling theory to explore the secret of the fundraising success. We propose that signals from creators and project descriptions influence the fundraising success, and these effects are moderated by backers’ comments and creators’ replies. To test our hypotheses, we collected objective data of 400 successful crowdfunding projects from the largest crowdfunding platform in China. The results indicate that creators’ previous creator experience, backers’ comments, and creators’ replies positively affect fundraising success. We also find partial support for the proposed moderation effects

The Impact of Cloud Computing on Manufacturing Value Chain

Cloud computing enables collaborative innovation and service manufacturing possible which has brought new opportunities and challenges to the development of manufacturing enterprises. On the basis of the present situation of manufacturing value chain and characteristics of cloud computing, this paper tries to analyze the impact of cloud computing on the manufacturing value chain, in order to make a discussion on the application of cloud computing in manufacturing industry. The results show that on the one hand, cloud computing enables manufacturing value chain to implement the dynamic reconfiguration of low cost, high efficiency and excellent quality, on the other hand, to realize highly coordination among enterprises through the cloud platform, manufacturing value chain manifests stronger demand orientation, greater degree of network and flexibility, as well as highly dynamism and instability. In addition, cloud computing has changed the value-added links to a certain extent, thus deepening the degree of servicisation of manufacturing value chain

Influence of Platform Authentication on Payment Behavior on Online Knowledge Platforms

Paid knowledge products have rapidly risen in prevalence and popularity in recent years. Online knowledge platforms have adopted many governance measures to attract more users and protect their needs. We explore the influence of such governance measures on the payment behaviors of knowledge acquirers by constructing a research model based on signal theory. The results show that the characteristic signals of both knowledge products and knowledge providers are positively associated with the number of participants. Authentication marks from the platform do not directly influence knowledge acquirers. The platform authentication marks have a moderating effect by partly replacing the effect of the knowledge providers’ characteristic signals. The results suggest that such authentication measures can help knowledge acquirers identifying high-quality knowledge products and enable them to participate more actively in buying knowledge. Our work has academic as well as practical implications for the operation and management of online knowledge platforms

The Road to Business-IT Alignment: A Case Study of Two Chinese Companies

Business information technology alignment (BITA) has been found to improve firm performance. Yet little is known about the process through which firms achieve BITA. Less is known about this process in China, the fastest-growing economy in the world. We conducted case studies with two Chinese firms. We first used the Strategic Alignment Maturity assessment model to evaluate these two firms’ BITA degree. Then we applied punctuated equilibrium Theory to study the firms’ dynamic BITA changing process. The results reveal BITA revolutions and identify their external and internal antecedents. Consistent with prior research, we find that the competitive environment, macro environment, performance deterioration, leadership change, and perception transformation contribute to revolutionary changes of BITA. More important, we find some unique impetuses of revolutionary changes of BITA in China, which include government support, organizational inertia, and social culture preferences. Theoretical and managerial implications of these findings are discussed

TEXT Analysis on Ocean Engineering Equipment Industry Policies in China between 2010 and 2020

The ocean engineering equipment industry is the foundation for the implementation of maritime strategy. China’s national departments at all levels have developed relevant ocean engineering equipment industry policies to promote the rapid development of the industry. By using 56 industrial policies issued between 2010 and 2020 as the research sample, we conducted an in-depth assessment of the external structural characteristics and structure of the main cooperation network for such policies using descriptive statistics and social network analysis. Based on a symmetric analysis method, the two-dimensional matrix of cooperation breadth and cooperation depth, together with the measurement of the issuing subject’s centrality, was used to analyze the evolution of the subject’s role in the network. The research shows that the development of China’s ocean engineering equipment industry policies can be divided into three stages, and there are the following problems during the development of policies: (1) some policies and regulations are imperfect; (2) the network of cooperation among joint issuers is limited; and (3) some policies are issued by multiple government departments, but there is a lack of specialized and unified management from an absolute core department. Based on the above problems, we present some suggestions for policy optimization at the end of this paper

TEXT Analysis on Ocean Engineering Equipment Industry Policies in China between 2010 and 2020

The ocean engineering equipment industry is the foundation for the implementation of maritime strategy. China’s national departments at all levels have developed relevant ocean engineering equipment industry policies to promote the rapid development of the industry. By using 56 industrial policies issued between 2010 and 2020 as the research sample, we conducted an in-depth assessment of the external structural characteristics and structure of the main cooperation network for such policies using descriptive statistics and social network analysis. Based on a symmetric analysis method, the two-dimensional matrix of cooperation breadth and cooperation depth, together with the measurement of the issuing subject’s centrality, was used to analyze the evolution of the subject’s role in the network. The research shows that the development of China’s ocean engineering equipment industry policies can be divided into three stages, and there are the following problems during the development of policies: (1) some policies and regulations are imperfect; (2) the network of cooperation among joint issuers is limited; and (3) some policies are issued by multiple government departments, but there is a lack of specialized and unified management from an absolute core department. Based on the above problems, we present some suggestions for policy optimization at the end of this paper

Research on the Mechanism of Influence of Game Competition Mode on Online Learning Performance

With the rapid development of information technology and the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, online learning has become an important supplement to the teaching organization form of basic education and higher education. In order to increase user stickiness and improve learning performance, gamification elements are widely introduced into online learning situations. However, scholars have drawn different conclusions on the impact of game-based competition on online learning performance. This study is based on field theory and constructivist learning theory. Taking the online interaction of the curriculum platform as the situation, psychological capital as the intermediary variable and connected classroom atmosphere as the adjustment variable, this paper constructs an interaction model between game competition and online learning performance and discusses in depth the intermediary effect of psychological capital and the adjustment effect of a connected classroom atmosphere. The results show that game-based competition has a significant positive effect on learning performance, and the effect of direct competition is better than that of indirect competition; the self-efficacy dimension of psychological capital plays an intermediary role between direct competition and learning performance, and the resilience dimension plays an intermediary role between competition and learning performance; and a connected classroom atmosphere plays a regulating role in the dimensions of game competition, knowledge mastery and knowledge innovation