Factors Influencing Information Sharing in Four SME Networks in Portugal - A Coordination Perspective

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Factors Influencing

scholarly journals Influential Factors and the Realization Mechanism of Sustainable Information-Sharing in Virtual Communities from a Knowledge Fermenting Perspective

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824402097400
Author(s):  
Meng Zhang ◽  
Yang Gao ◽  
Minghe Sun ◽  
Datian Bi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
The Other ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Communication Environment ◽  
Catalytic Role

Little is known about sustainable information-sharing in virtual communities, although it is increasingly recognized as a useful information-sharing tool. The aim of this study is to explore the influential factors and the realization mechanism of sustainable information-sharing in virtual communities. Starting from the similarity between biological fermentation and the information-sharing process in virtual communities, the present study creatively introduces the knowledge fermenting theory used in the analysis. Six factors influencing sustainable information-sharing in virtual communities are first identified based on this theory, which include sharing bodies, interactive topics, communication mechanism, supporting technology, communication environment, and platform scale. The relations among these six factors are then analyzed using the Decision-Making and Trial Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method. The results indicate that the factor of sharing bodies has the strongest influence on other factors and the factor of interactive topics receives the most influences from the other factors. On this basis, the realization mechanism of sustainable information-sharing in virtual communities is elaborated from the following four aspects: the four stages of the information-sharing realization, the guide role of “strain,” the catalytic role of “enzyme,” and the effect of environment. The results indicate that sustainable information-sharing in virtual communities is a process of spiral evolution. Finally, recommendations are given to virtual community managers, users, and business firms.

Factors Influencing Information-Sharing Behaviors in Social Networking Sites

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anupama Sukhu ◽  
Tingting (Christina) Zhang ◽  
Anil Bilgihan
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Factors Influencing

Exploring the factors influencing the adoption of supply chain finance in supply chain effectiveness: evidence from manufacturing firms

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Noël Beka Be Nguema ◽  
Gongbing Bi ◽  
Zulqurnain Ali ◽  
Aqsa Mehreen ◽  
Christophe Rukundo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Manufacturing Firm ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Supply Chain Finance ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
External Collaboration

Purpose Several manufacturing firms are facing various internal concerns such as financial and operational issues, which strongly pushed the firms to search for solutions (e.g. supply chain finance; SCF) to sustain their supply chain operations and supply chain effectiveness (SCE). In this view, this study attempts to explore four key factors influencing the adoption of SCF, which, in turn, impacts SCE in Chinese manufacturing firms. Therefore, this study aims to propose that how information sharing, external collaboration, digitization and financial institutions enable manufacturing firms’ to adopt SCF that subsequently enhances SCE. Moreover, how supply chain risk (SCR) mediates the association between SCF adoption and SCE. Design/methodology/approach The current research recruited 177 Chinese manufacturing firms administrating a questionnaire to supply chain managers and tested the proposed conceptual model and associations using structural equation modeling. Findings The results reveal that all four factors are positively related to the adoption of SCF, which consequently improves the SCE of manufacturing firms. Moreover, the findings show that the effect of SCF significantly and positively impact SCE. Further, the result also confirmed that SCF significantly mitigates SCR, thereby leads to improves SCE. Research limitations/implications The current study mainly focuses on Chinese manufacturing firms, which may generate low generalizability. In addition, this study was based on a cross-sectional research design which may generate common method bias. Therefore, more comparative studies are needed between developed and developing countries to enhance the generalizability of the study findings. Practical implications This study provides significant new insights about how marketing managers and practitioners can adopt SCF in manufacturing firms via information sharing, external collaboration, digitization and financial institutions to mitigate firm risk and enhance SCE. Originality/value The approach used in this research differs from many of the previous studies and investigates the factors of adoption of SCF and their impact on SCE in the manufacturing firm sector within the context of the Chinese economy. Therefore, this research is an important guide for scholars, managers and executives of marketing, while providing them with a new model, significant insights which are significant in their organizations.

The importance of relationships in the process of helping people suffering from schizophrenia

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 67-88
Author(s):  
Maryla Malewicz-Sawicka ◽  
Anna Więcek-Durańska
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Cognitive Deficits ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Mental Health Disorder ◽  
Mental Disability ◽  
Factors Influencing

The article presents issues related to the importance of relationships in the process of helping people suffering from schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is one of the most severe mental-health disorder, in its course it often leads to mental disability. Therefore, the mental disability and initiating the recovery process of people with schizophrenia are the most important and central concepts of the text. Working with a patient suffering from schizophrenia aims at preventing disability and minimizing its consequences, and the success of these actions should be measured by the degree to which a disabled person is able to work independently, fulfil daily family and home duties and manage their free time. Creating a good or sufficiently good therapeutic relationship with a person suffering from schizophrenia is a complex configuration of many factors: from purely behavioural and information-sharing to those related to a sense of genuine closeness. The list of factors influencing creation of a therapeutic relationship can be elaborated based on various assumptions, some may emphasize the factor of patients' disability, others – cognitive deficits, and still others may be created based on existential assumptions. In this article, particular emphasis is placed on the area of psychosocial rehabilitation with its specific goals and the role of empathy and therapeutic relationship in the process of recovery of people with mental disorders.

Establish and Evaluate the Standardization of the Digital Publishing Logistics

2014 ◽  
Vol 644-650 ◽  
pp. 1862-1866
Author(s):  
Xiao Hui Wang ◽  
Yan Ping Du ◽  
Hong Feng Li ◽  
Li Wei
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Digital Publishing ◽  
Network Technology ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Exchange Information ◽  
Standard Information ◽  
New Phase

With the application of the network technology in publishing, the publishing logistics has entered a new phase of globalization, networking, digital. Because there is no uniform standard information in the format code, copyright protection, etc ,it leads to the difficulties in information exchange, information sharing, etc. in the field of digital publishing logistics. In this paper, based on the current results of the digitized standard, it proposes the basis factors of the digital publishing logistics standards . The data - the degree of important of the factors influencing the development of standardization-can be got by using fuzzy hierarchy comprehensive evaluation to evaluate the factors. Under the guidance of the data, the most important standard can be determined to build in the process of the digital publishing logistics which are the basis data theories.

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