Purpose - Based on the premise that young adults, as knowledge workers, are overstimulated by a constant bombardment of information from digital channels like social media, this paper aims to explore how the information overload, largely redundant and noisy, extracts cognitive resources from the...

This research seeks to clarify the uncertainty in crowdfunding literature regarding the relationship between the number of updates and campaign success. By integrating signal theory and the notion of information overload, this study posits a curved, inverted U-shaped relationship between the...

Employee burnout is considered a serious problem in today's organizations, having severe repercussions both on individual and operational levels. A large number of studies have been conducted to identify antecedents and consequences of burnout but were mostly carried out in medical and other...

This paper reviews literature in the domain of information overload in accounting. The underlying psychological concepts of information load (as applied in accounting research) are summarized, and a framework to discuss findings in a structured way is proposed. This framework serves to make...

This paper sheds light on the question of whether a rules-based or general principles-based decision aid is preferable in the context of increased information load by experimentally investigating how different types of decision aids interact with increases in information load in a structured...

Agents undertaking economic decisions are exposed to an ever-increasing amount of information sources. This paper investigates how the number of available information sources impacts agents' ability to (i) select reliable sources and (ii) use their content effectively to update their beliefs. To...

When faced with a large number of reviews, customers can easily be overwhelmed by information overload. To address this problem, review systems have introduced design features aimed at improving the scanning, reading, and processing of online reviews. Though previous research has examined the...

Die vorliegende Studie stellt eine Laboruntersuchung an acht Versuchspersonen dar, die mit Hilfe einer Postkorbübung drei unterschiedlichen Belastungsstufen aufgrund von steigender Informationsmenge ausgesetzt werden. Es wird untersucht, ob Informationsmenge ein psychischer Belastungsfaktor ist...