Human Systems Management - Volume 39, issue 2

Authors: Hazarika, Bidyut | Mousavi, Reza | Rea, Alan

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: BACKGROUND: As the growth of the Internet continues to impact the way that individuals and businesses interact, companies are forced to bring new online markets to the forefront of their strategic business decisions. In recent years online innovations in Internet content offerings have produced a myriad of highly interactive fantasy sports sites designed to entice users to wage funds on sports team. Although factors such as accessibility and anonymity encourage people to wager online, many hesitate to wager for reasons that must be examined if online fantasy sports (OFS) sites are to innovate and thrive. OBJECTIVE: Although research …findings suggest that users have questioned the legitimacy and fairness of online fantasy sports sites, issues of trust do not yet appear to be negatively influencing the industry’s growth. Users continue to spend large sums of money without high confidence in OFS sites. To understand why this might be the case, we conducted a preliminary study to examine the nature and role of psychological contract violation (PCV) in OFS sites.Our research examines how OFS users’ past experiences and the perceived reputation of OFS sites influence psychological contract violation (PCV), as well as perceived institutional effectiveness as it pertains to OFS sites’ features and products. We also investigate the effect of institutional effectiveness on users’ concerns and their behavioral intentions. METHODS: We implemented previously validated scales to survey OFS users and test our hypothesized model. The original sample size included 198 individuals. After removing the incomplete and non-fantasy sports site user responses, the final sample dropped to 142. PLS-SEM was used to analyze measurement and structural models. RESULTS: Initial results suggest that OFS users have concerns about transactional information even though they tend to be less risk adverse than non-OFS users. Our study also found that psychological contract violation minimizes users’ protection perceptions concerning overall OFS structures’ effectiveness. CONCLUSIONS: This study creates new knowledge about minimizing risks in online fantasy sports sites, thereby assisting businesses that want to increase user participation and transactions. Show more

Keywords: Psychological contract violation, concern minimization, risk perception, privacy perception

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-190709

Citation: Human Systems Management, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 277-292, 2020

Authors: Yan, Chen | Yanghao, Zhan | Bhatti, Misbah Hayat

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Innovation practice of the enterprise is a complicated dynamic process which shows different environmental characteristics and different degrees of uncertainty and externality in each stage of activity. Therefore, it is important to consider the government involvement in enterprise innovation initiatives and interventions in the different stages of innovation is a question to be explored. PURPOSE: This research study examines staged government interventions, situational characteristics impact in manufacturing innovative enterprises in china. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: This quantitative study used the panel data including 443 manufacturing innovative enterprises in China from 2008 to 2011 to analyze the differential relationship …between the government intervention and enterprises’ innovation performance by building the framework of “government intervention – situational characteristics-innovation performance”. FINDINGS: The empirical results show that single-stage government intervention produces an inhibitory effect on enterprises’ innovation performance, but multi-stage government intervention has a significant role in promoting their performance, especially the combination of the initial stage of innovation and the stage of innovation marketization. The moderation of the situational characteristics on the relationship between the government intervention and enterprises’ innovation performance has a larger difference. CONCLUSION: This paper supplements and extends previous research on institutions and innovations by the analysis of the relationship between government intervention, enterprise innovation, and regulatory mechanisms of enterprise R&D internationalization strategy, industry and regional characteristics. We deeply explore the transmission mechanism and internal process of government support in enterprise innovation, and effectively promote the development of the theory and practice of government support and enterprise innovation. Show more

Keywords: Government intervention, situational characteristics, R&D internationalization, enterprise innovation performance, China

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-190795

Citation: Human Systems Management, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 293-308, 2020