Binge Watching and the Role of Social Media Virality towards promoting Netflix’s Squid Game (2022)
Journal Article
Ahmed, W., Fenton, A., Hardey, M., & Das, R. (2022). Binge Watching and the Role of Social Media Virality towards promoting Netflix’s Squid Game. IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review, 11(2), 222-234. https://doi.org/10.1177/22779752221083351

Management literature has extensively studied viral marketing in the last decade; however, there is a lack of research in understanding network structures and the role of influencers within popular cultural consumption, such as on-demand digital medi... Read More about Binge Watching and the Role of Social Media Virality towards promoting Netflix’s Squid Game.

Government R&D subsidies and firm innovation performance: The moderating role of accounting information quality (2022)
Journal Article
Zuo, Z., & Lin, Z. (2022). Government R&D subsidies and firm innovation performance: The moderating role of accounting information quality. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, 7(2), Article 100176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2022.100176

The effects of government R&D subsidies can vary across recipient firms, depending on the various characteristics of a firm, potentially including the firm’s accounting information quality (AIQ). It has been well recognized that high AIQ helps to red... Read More about Government R&D subsidies and firm innovation performance: The moderating role of accounting information quality.

Primary School Children’s Responses to Food waste at School (2022)
Journal Article
Yen, D., Dovey, T., & Cappellini, B. (2022). Primary School Children’s Responses to Food waste at School. British Food Journal, 124(13), 109-125. https://doi.org/10.1108/bfj-06-2021-0608

Purpose: This paper seeks to understand children’s responses to food waste in school by exploring children’s view on food waste and empowering them to discuss and develop their own solutions. Design/methodology/approach: Using creative problem-solvin... Read More about Primary School Children’s Responses to Food waste at School.

Information disclosure and dynamic climate agreements: Shall the IPCC reveal it all? (2022)
Journal Article
Vosooghi, S., & Caparrós, A. (2022). Information disclosure and dynamic climate agreements: Shall the IPCC reveal it all?. European Economic Review, 143, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104042

This paper examines the role of public information communication in dynamic self-enforcing climate agreements. We consider a framework with implicit contracts but also a dynamic coalition formation context. In a stochastic game, where the social cost... Read More about Information disclosure and dynamic climate agreements: Shall the IPCC reveal it all?.

Household Self-Tracking During a Global Health Crisis (2022)
Book
Hardey, M. (2022). Household Self-Tracking During a Global Health Crisis. Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781800439146

Self-tracking is a rapidly growing area of study and will play an important role in the future of how we understand health change and responsibility. Understanding the personal and social dimensions of tracking within households improves our understa... Read More about Household Self-Tracking During a Global Health Crisis.

Time apart while together: A smart trip design for group travelers (2022)
Journal Article
Liao, Z., Zheng, W., & Lin, Z. (2022). Time apart while together: A smart trip design for group travelers. Annals of Tourism Research, 93, Article 103374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2022.103374

Family or friends traveling in a group often have different preferences and some of which may conflict with each other. Existing smart tourism recommender systems have not adequately addressed this important issue. This study attempts to tackle the p... Read More about Time apart while together: A smart trip design for group travelers.

Digital Seriality and Narrative Branching: Season One, the Podcast Serial (2022)
Journal Article
Hardey, M., & James, S. J. (2022). Digital Seriality and Narrative Branching: Season One, the Podcast Serial. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 19(1), 74-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2029513

This paper explores the characteristics of storytelling in a digital medium through Season One of the podcast Serial. We also analyse how Serial’s digital audience engages with and reacts to the narrative, and the ways in which such an audience influ... Read More about Digital Seriality and Narrative Branching: Season One, the Podcast Serial.

Search well and be wise: A machine learning approach to search for a profitable location (2022)
Journal Article
Han, S., Jia, X., Chen, X., Gupta, S., Kumar, A., & Lin, Z. (2022). Search well and be wise: A machine learning approach to search for a profitable location. Journal of Business Research, 144, 416-427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.01.049

A good location is critical for the sales performance of a hotel or a restaurant. This study proposes a machine learning-based model for location selection that focuses on the estimation of sales potential of a prospective site and helps to overcome... Read More about Search well and be wise: A machine learning approach to search for a profitable location.

Perceiving Control over the Exchange on Peer-to-Peer Platforms: Measurement and Effects in the Second-Hand Market (2022)
Journal Article
Mencarelli, R., Lunardo, R., Lombart, C., Blut, M., & Henon, E. (2022). Perceiving Control over the Exchange on Peer-to-Peer Platforms: Measurement and Effects in the Second-Hand Market. Marketing Letters, 33(3), 523-541. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11002-022-09619-6

While the emergence of peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms has revolutionized the way people exchange goods, these platforms face the need to provide appealing products offered by independent providers. However, those providers have to deal with anonymous b... Read More about Perceiving Control over the Exchange on Peer-to-Peer Platforms: Measurement and Effects in the Second-Hand Market.

Factors Influencing the Acceptance of Healthcare Information Technologies: A Meta-Analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Chong, A., Blut, M., & Zheng, S. (2022). Factors Influencing the Acceptance of Healthcare Information Technologies: A Meta-Analysis. Information and Management, 59(3), Article 103604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2022.103604

Healthcare information technologies (HIT) can address several challenges faced by healthcare systems. To benefit from the advantages HIT offer, users must first accept them. This meta-analysis synthesizes previous research on HIT acceptance. It uses... Read More about Factors Influencing the Acceptance of Healthcare Information Technologies: A Meta-Analysis.

The Role of Regulatory Focus on Consumer Response to Minimum Purchase Requirement Sales Promotion (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Jiang, S., Ghiassaleh, A., & Yan, J. (2022). The Role of Regulatory Focus on Consumer Response to Minimum Purchase Requirement Sales Promotion. In Proceedings of the European Marketing Academy

Meta-Analysis of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT): Challenging its Validity and Charting A Research Agenda in the Red Ocean (2022)
Journal Article
Blut, M., Chong, A., Tsiga, Z., & Venkatesh, V. (2022). Meta-Analysis of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT): Challenging its Validity and Charting A Research Agenda in the Red Ocean. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 23(1), 13-95. https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00719

There are both formal and informal cries that UTAUT and by association the stream of research on technology adoption has reached its limit, with little or no opportunities for new knowledge creation. Such a conclusion is ironic because the theory has... Read More about Meta-Analysis of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT): Challenging its Validity and Charting A Research Agenda in the Red Ocean.

When Identity Threat Does Not Lead to Compensatory Consumption: The Role of Implicit Theory (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Xu, Y., Huang, H., & Lin, Z. (in press). When Identity Threat Does Not Lead to Compensatory Consumption: The Role of Implicit Theory.

Tracking the Trackers: Self-Tracking in Households as Social Practice (2022)
Journal Article
Hardey, M. (2022). Tracking the Trackers: Self-Tracking in Households as Social Practice. Digital Health, 8, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076221093131

The purpose of this article is to examine the effect of different types of self-tracking users (trackers) on the health behaviours of others living in the same household. The study takes an international perspective, examining tracking practises from... Read More about Tracking the Trackers: Self-Tracking in Households as Social Practice.

A Game Model for Medical Service Pricing Based on the Diagnosis Related Groups (2021)
Journal Article
Duan, J., Lin, Z., & Jiao, F. (2021). A Game Model for Medical Service Pricing Based on the Diagnosis Related Groups. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, Article 737788. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.737788

Background: Currently there are various issues that exist in the medical institutions in China as a result of the price-setting in DRGs, which include the fact that medical institutions tend to choose patients and that the payment standard for comple... Read More about A Game Model for Medical Service Pricing Based on the Diagnosis Related Groups.

A Dynamic Tax Model Based on Destination Lifecycle for Sustainable Tourism Development (2021)
Journal Article
Yang, C., Lin, Z., Huang, J., & Cheng, T. (2023). A Dynamic Tax Model Based on Destination Lifecycle for Sustainable Tourism Development. Journal of Travel Research, 62(1), 217-232. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875211057596

This study proposes a dynamic model for identifying the optimal amount of tourism taxes at the different stages of a destination’s lifecycle. Based on the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model of economic growth, we reformulate the Cobb-Douglas function to inco... Read More about A Dynamic Tax Model Based on Destination Lifecycle for Sustainable Tourism Development.

COVID-19, economic impact, mental health and coping behaviors: A conceptual framework and future research directions (2021)
Journal Article
Lu, X., & Lin, Z. (2021). COVID-19, economic impact, mental health and coping behaviors: A conceptual framework and future research directions. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 759974. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.759974

The covid-19 pandemic has caused serious economic and social consequences. Recent research shows that the pandemic has not only caused a physical health crisis, but also caused many psychological and mental crises. Based on the contemporary cognitive... Read More about COVID-19, economic impact, mental health and coping behaviors: A conceptual framework and future research directions.

Explore for a day? Generating personalized itineraries that fit spatial heterogeneity of tourist attractions (2021)
Journal Article
Ji, H., Zheng, W., Zhuang, X., & Lin, Z. (2021). Explore for a day? Generating personalized itineraries that fit spatial heterogeneity of tourist attractions. Information and Management, 58(8), Article 103557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2021.103557

Recommender systems are widely adopted by firms as an innovative personalization tool across various industries. Most of the existing tour recommender systems treat the spatial structure of tourist attractions as a single type, which neglects the spa... Read More about Explore for a day? Generating personalized itineraries that fit spatial heterogeneity of tourist attractions.

Mental health and the role of physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Ai, X., Yang, J., Lin, Z., & Wan, X. (2021). Mental health and the role of physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 759987. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.759987

The COVID-19 pandemic and its related public health restrictions are having an increasingly serious impact on mental health, and measures need to be taken to curb this trend. The positive relationship between physical exercise and mental health has b... Read More about Mental health and the role of physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Leveraging tourist trajectory data for effective destination planning and management: A new heuristic approach (2021)
Journal Article
Zheng, W., Li, M., Lin, Z., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Leveraging tourist trajectory data for effective destination planning and management: A new heuristic approach. Tourism Management, 89, Article 104437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2021.104437

Understanding tourist movements provides insights for destination planning, service design and marketing. The key challenge is to develop a tool that can capture the value in the tourist mobility data. This study presents a new heuristic approach tha... Read More about Leveraging tourist trajectory data for effective destination planning and management: A new heuristic approach.