The Impact of the COVID-19 on Online Food Delivery Service: Evidence from China

The COVID-19 has had a profound effect on society as a whole. To examine the effect of the COVID-19 on online food delivery services, we collected sales data from a large online food delivery platform in 195 Chinese cities from November 2019 to July 2020. Interrupted time series analysis and time-varying difference-in-difference methods were used to estimate the impact of the COVID-19 and city lockdown policies on online food delivery services. The COVID-19 had a considerable negative effect on the online food delivery services. Lockdown policies caused further disruptions. As the pandemic and lockdown policies ended, the negative impacts dissipated. This finding reflected digital channels’ resilience to the catering industry during the pandemic and helped it withstand its impact. There were significant differences among urban characteristics. The government can formulate relevant policies to deal with potential public health risks in the future based on these findings

Understanding Continuous Citizen Participation on a Green Commuting Platform: The Roles of Public Value and Private Value

Citizen participation in IT-enabled social activity is an exchange between creating public value for others and gaining private value offered by public sectors in the perspective of social exchange theory. Prior literatures mostly focused on offline social activities and examined only the effects of participation antecedents on final participation outcomes, not investigating the potential participation mechanism in particular of the roles of public and private values. Thus, this study develops a theoretical model based on theories and incentives of citizen participation to examine what and how antecedents affect continuous citizen participation through public value creation and private value acquisition. With analyzing the survey data in the case of a Green Commuting platform, we identify the effective antecedents and find that private value acquisition has much greater effect on participation than public value creation and two values significantly mediate the effects of antecedents on participation

Understanding the Role of Language Style of Government Response in E-participation: Evidence from a Citizen Inquiry Forum in China

In response to the “Internet + Public Service” reformation, Chinese government organizations increasingly use e-participation platforms to interact with citizens, making how government respond to citizens\u27 inquiry increasingly critical in citizen participation. This study is one of the few attempts to study the effect of language style of government response on citizen participation. Based on the language expectancy theory, we hypothesize that government response using appropriate formal and emotional language will change citizen e-participation behavior. Using text data from 11,194 users in a Chinese citizen inquiry forum, we found that emotional language has the positive impact on citizens\u27 continuous participation significantly. And both emotional language and formal language can promote citizens’ participation quality. Moreover, we identified the complementary effects of two languages on e-participation. This study has implications for both researchers and practitioners

The Role of Software Service Providers in the Development of E-Government Ecosystems from a Resource Orchestration Perspective

The existing studies on e-government outsourcing pay attention to the factors that influence the service satisfaction of software service providers, and there is currently little research on how software service providers develop during different phases involved, which plays an important role in the e-government outsourcing projects. We apply the literature on business ecosystem and resource orchestration which may be crucial to the development of a software service provider to analyze a typical software service provider in the field of electronic tax outsourcing. In doing so, a process model of how a service provider makes resource orchestration as environments change and develops its focal capabilities is inductively derived that sheds light on the process from a niche player to be a keystone in three distinct phases. The process model reveals that the role of the software service provider within its ecosystem is evolutionary in nature. With above findings, this study provides practitioners a comprehensive and empirically supported framework and shows a successful process model of how to be a keystone within the e-government ecosystem

An Object-oriented Workflow Modeling Schema Using Dataflow Analysis for Collaborative E-governance Platform

In the initial stage of transforming from government to governance for developing countries, collaborative e-governance platforms should be urgently established in different contexts. Though some platforms have been previously applied to various fields, researches on common basic functions analysis and across-organization business process modeling based on a suitable workflow modeling method for the platforms design and development are insufficient. Based on an explorative analysis of platform functions and their patterns, we propose a schema for e-governance platforms modeling according to an extended method of object-oriented workflow modeling using dataflow analysis. It covers a two-step process of top-level platform workflow modeling and function objection workflow modeling. In addition, a citizen appeal processing platform is taken as an example to illustrate the utility of the schema. The schema facilitates the contextualized collaborative e-governance platforms development with an operable method and reusable function workflow models

Impact on Travelers Hedonic and Utilitarian Shopping Behavior by Adoption of Mobile Application: Results from a Quasi-experiment

The continuing development of mobile technology has led to an explosion of mobile applications, which have exposed a broader consumer base to mobile consumption. It is currently unclear how mobile apps using will affect travelers’ shopping behavior, particularly from the perspective of the hedonic and utilitarian shopping behavior of travelers. Using a special quasi-experiment launching by an airline, we collected the datasets of more than 10000 travelers and to investigate the impact of mobile app on the travelers’ shopping behavior. The results suggested that mobile apps adoption improved travelers’ hedonic shopping behavior (e.g., ancillary services purchasing), while the utilitarian shopping conduct (e.g. booking tickets in advance) decreased. It was also found that the mobile app adoption increased hedonic shopping in males but decreased hedonic and utilitarian shopping in frequent flyers and members. This investigation can help with the management of travelers’ purchasing habits and provide guidance for industrial decision makers

Distribution and dynamics of electron transport complexes in cyanobacterial thylakoid membranes

The cyanobacterial thylakoid membrane represents a system that can carry out both oxygenic photosynthesis and respiration simultaneously. The organization, interactions and mobility of components of these two electron transport pathways are indispensable to the biosynthesis of thylakoid membrane modules and the optimization of bioenergetic electron flow in response to environmental changes. These are of fundamental importance to the metabolic robustness and plasticity of cyanobacteria. This review summarizes our current knowledge about the distribution and dynamics of electron transport components in cyanobacterial thylakoid membranes. Global understanding of the principles that govern the dynamic regulation of electron transport pathways in nature will provide a framework for the design and synthetic engineering of new bioenergetic machinery to improve photosynthesis and biofuel production. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Organization and dynamics of bioenergetic systems in bacteria, edited by Conrad Mullineaux

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Due to a technical error, the following article was published on Wiley Online Library on 5 December 2022 before production was fully complete. The article has been temporarily removed. Wiley would like to apologize to the authors and the academic community for this error. Liu, L.-N. (2022), Bacterial metabolosomes: new insights into their structure and bioengineering. Environmental Microbiology Reports. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12920