Purpose – Open source software (OSS) products have rapidly acquired a notable importance in the last years among consumers and firms all over the world. They are mostly developed and distributed through online social networks thanks to the voluntary and collaborative actions of their members....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate how personality variables related to technology (innovativeness, compatibility and affinity) can modify the influence of classical technology acceptance model (TAM) variables on behavioural adoption intention of mobile shopping....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of privacy concern on user adoption of location‐based services (LBS). Design/methodology/approach – Based on the data collected from a survey, structural equation modeling was employed to examine the research model. Findings...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel and flexible recommender system based on usage patterns and keyword preferences using collaborative filtering (CF) and content‐based filtering (CBF). Design/methodology/approach – The proposed system analyzes data captured from the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose and test a model concerning broadband adoption in a rural setting. Design/methodology/approach – A computer‐aided telephone survey was conducted to collect data to validate the proposed model in rural Australia. Findings – It was found...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of consumption values and the moderating role of consumer innovativeness for intentions to purchase convergence home robots. Design/methodology/approach – The data were collected from 506 participants in South Korea, where...

Purpose – This study aims to identify factors that determine the smart TV buying decisions of users and analyze the relationships among the factors by using Bayesian network approach. Design/methodology/approach – This study investigates smart TV users' perception based on innovation...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the scale of illegal file‐sharing activity across ten countries and to correlate this activity with country revenues. The work aims to elucidate an under‐explored business model challenge which exists in parallel with a music piracy...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the role that a relational variable (trust) and three personal variables (impulsiveness, involvement and innovativeness), may play as antecedents of satisfaction of mobile shoppers. Design/methodology/approach – Quantitative information was...

Historically, a product was perceived as a “static manifestation of image with fixed attributes”. Today, advanced product design thinking is more likely to see it as a “company representative delivering service over time”. Explores this shift and demonstrates how contemporary practice is...