As education evolves from traditional lecture-style teaching to more interactive and collaborative methods using information and communication technologies, student response systems (SRS) have become increasingly popular in both offline and online classes. However, despite the attention given to SRS’s potential to enhance active learning, it remains unclear whether their implementation leads to improved learning. Therefore, the objective of this study is to conduct a systematic literature review using the mixed methods methodology to identify and confirm relevant learning outcomes associated with SRS, such as classroom dynamics, understanding, classroom performance, remembering, and likeness. In addition, bibliometric analysis enables us to uncover the trend and intellectual dynamics in the SRS literature. The study aims to investigate the impact of SRS on different learning outcomes and discuss the implications of the findings.

As adversarial hacker exploits proliferate the media, researchers call for more studies examining their culture, behaviours, and defence mechanisms. This study aims to understand the nature of hackers through their knowledge-sharing behaviours in a coopetitive environment. This understanding may expose emerging threats and cybercriminal activities, which are beneficial to building information security defences. Also, extracting knowledge from darknet sources can help organisations anticipate, defend, and respond to cyber-attacks. Hence, we incorporate hacker forum data and perform a detailed analysis informed by foundational social capital theory. We explore hacker knowledge-sharing patterns with respect to the malicious knowledge shared. Further, we use nonlinear approaches to understand the dynamic relationships in an environment that is both cooperative and competitive. The findings seek to clarify how forms of social capital and coopetitive factors function differently to facilitate or impede knowledge sharing in a darknet context. Specifically, the findings indicate that the sharing of malicious knowledge is non-linear, and that knowledge control (i.e., reduced knowledge sharing) occurs with malicious knowledge as it relates to status and structural positioning.

Although active participation of members is a critical success factor for virtual communities, few members actively participate in activities in virtual communities (e.g., posting, commenting, sharing, etc.). This study explores the differences between passive and active community participation from community cohesiveness and community attachment perspectives. Drawing upon a context-specific cohesiveness-attachment-participation framework based on cognition-affection-conation traits of human psychology, we propose a research model and empirically test the roles of community cohesiveness and attachment in virtual community participation. The results suggest that community members’ active participation is positively influenced by both community cohesiveness and community attachment. Visitation, as the passive mode of participation, is influenced by community attachment only. The findings not only inspire future IS research to consider community cohesiveness, attachment, and participation as vital research constructs in other social contexts, but it also helps managers build managerial actions, such as prioritising their limited business resources to increase community members’ active participation, for the success of virtual communities.

Trust is considered as a critical enabler in reducing consumer concerns regarding e-commerce transactions. Another enabler that helps reduce consumers’ concerns is Web Assurance Seal Services (WASS). We suggest that both factors help in the reduction of a critical hindrance to e-commerce, namely consumer concerns, and foster e-commerce transactions. Prior research has focused on trust in e-commerce, and separately, on the effectiveness of WASS within certain nations or cultures. However, given that e-commerce is now a global phenomenon we contend that the national or cultural characteristics of consumers are important to understand. This comparative national research attempts to fill this gap. This study makes the following contributions: It identifies a hindrance (i.e., consumers’ concerns), and two enablers (i.e., effectiveness of WASS and trust) in e-commerce technologies as a shopping channel (i.e., trust in e-Channel). It proposes consumers’ concerns for e-commerce as a second-order three-dimensional construct (i.e., security, privacy, and business integrity concern) and compares the effects of trust in e-Channel and WASS on consumers’ e-commerce transaction intention in two different national/cultural contexts (i.e., the U.S.A. and South Korea). The results of the study indicate that the perceived effectiveness of WASS of the U.S. consumers has a strong positive impact on their transaction intention and has a strong negative influence on their concerns for e-commerce. In contrast, Korean consumers’ perceived effectiveness of WASS does not significantly influence their transaction intention and their concerns for e-commerce. The results of group comparison analysis confirm that the strength of perceived effectiveness of WASS of the U.S. consumers is significantly stronger than that of Korean consumers. Interpretations from a cross-national perspective, theoretical and practical implications as well as limitations are discussed.

This study relies on a customer demand-based view to examine how mobile number portability affects competition in the Korean mobile telecommunications market. Using a contingent valuation method, we investigate 1,161 subscribers’ willingness to pay for mobile number portability. The findings show that there is a difference in demand for number portability among the subscribers to service providers. Unlike previous studies on number portability, the introduction of number portability to the market in which the brand effect of a dominant player exists would have an adverse effect on competition in the mobile telecommunications market. The study also shows that if the market structure is asymmetric with a strong, dominant player, some additional regulatory mechanisms are needed for the facilitation and the implementation of number portability in order to reduce the side effect of it. Implications and avenues for future research are discussed in the conclusion section of the article.