<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal">The contents of the latest
issue of:<br>
<b>Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM)</b><br>
Impact Factor: <strong><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">0.483</span></strong><br>
Volume 22, Issue 4, October - December 2014<br>
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically<br>
ISSN: 1062-7375; EISSN: 1533-7995; <br>
Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA<br>
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<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Editor(s)-in-Chief: Choon
Ling Sia (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Note: There are no submission
or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Global
Information Management (JGIM). All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind
peer review editorial process.</i></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ARTICLE 1</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Bridging Women Rights
Networks: Analyzing Interconnected Online Collective Actions</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Serpil T. Yuce (Department
of Information Science, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, USA), Nitin
Agarwal (Department of Information Science, University of Arkansas, Little
Rock, AR, USA), Rolf T. Wigand (Department of Information Science, University
of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, USA), Merlyna Lim (School of Journalism and
Communication, Carleton University, Ontario, Canada), Rebecca S. Robinson
(School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In recent mass protests
such as the Arab Spring and Occupy movements, protesters used social media to
spread awareness, coordinate, and mobilize support. Social media-assisted
collective action has attracted much attention from journalists, political
observers, and researchers of various disciplines. In this article, the authors
study transnational online collective action through the lens of inter-network
cooperation. The authors analyze interaction and support between the women's
rights networks of two online collective actions: ‘Women to Drive' (primarily
Saudi Arabia) and ‘Sexual Harassment' (global). Methodologies used include:
extracting each collective action's social network from blogs authored by
female Muslim bloggers (23 countries), mapping interactions among network
actors, and conducting sentiment analysis on observed interactions to provide a
better understanding of inter-network support. The authors examine these two
distinct but overlapped networks of collective actions and discover that
brokering and bridging processes can facilitate the diffusion of information,
coalition formation, and the expansion of the networks. The broader goal of the
study is to examine the dynamics between interconnected collective actions.
This research contributes to understanding the mobilization of social movements
in digital activism and the role of cooperative networks in online collective
action.</span></p>
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entire article, click on the link below.<br>
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<p><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ARTICLE 2</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Korean Online Game's
Platform Competition under Two-Sided Market Characteristic</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">SeonJun Kang (School of
Business, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea), Sang-Yong Tom Lee (School of
Business, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">While the growth of total
game market size slowed down and the arcade game industry started to shrink,
the online game market keeps increasing, attaining 26.5% annual growth rate for
the early 2010's. Korea's online game business is especially popular, so that
the size is about US$ 4 billion, which is 64.2% of Korea's total game industry.
In 2013, Game market size and online game market size were estimated to be
about US$ 9 billion and US$ 7 billion, respectively. From a standpoint of
sales, the game market in Korea (US$ 4.95 billion) accounts for 5.8% of the
world game market and almost one third of the world online game market. Its
growth rate is higher than that of the world game market. The online game
markets in Korea and China have common characteristics that can be
distinguished from other countries: two-sided market with very low switching
costs. This paper is to study the important factors that affect Korean online
game's platform competition. The authors empirically investigate network
externalities by using various variables in online game industry in Korea. The
authors found the number of games available in a platform positively affects
its market share, while the diversity of games and generality of game rating
had no significant impacts. The authors also found that multi-homing (or
overlap of games) increases an online platform's market share when the platform
is relatively new. However, multi-homing decreases market share when it becomes
mature. Having done our empirical and academic analyses, the authors draw
practical implications that may help decision makers in Korea's online game
businesses.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To obtain a copy of the entire
article, click on the link below.<br>
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<p><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ARTICLE 3</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Moderating Role of
Ownership Type in the Relationship between Market Orientation and Supply Chain
Integration in E-Business in China</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hefu Liu (School of
Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China),
Weiling Ke (School of Business, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA), Kwok
Kee Wei (College of Business, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong,
China), Zhongsheng Hua (School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou,
China)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Integrating supply chain
processes in e-business in emerging and transitional economies has attracted
considerable attention from practitioners and researchers. Based on the theory
of market orientation (MO) and the institution-based perspective, this paper
investigates the effect of MO on supply chain integration (SCI) in e-business
and examines the moderating role of ownership type in the relationship between
MO and SCI in China. The results of a survey of 229 firms suggest that the MO
dimensions have different effects on the supply and the demand process integration
in e-business. Moreover, ownership type moderates the relationship between MO
and SCI. Implications and suggestions for future research are likewise
discussed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To obtain a copy of the
entire article, click on the link below.<br>
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<p><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ARTICLE 4</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Longitudinal Study of
Highly-Impact-Technology Enterprises in the ICT Industry: A Social Network
Perspective</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hsi-Yin Yeh (Science and
Technology Policy Research and Information Center, National Applied Research
Laboratories, Taipei, Taiwan), Mu-Hsuan Huang (Department of Library and
Information Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan), Dar-Zen Chen
(Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute of Industrial Engineering,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Patent citation can be
viewed as an indicator for technical impact and technical invention. Highly
cited patents represent the “prior art” of many issued patents and are likely
to contain significant technological advances. Enterprises that produced these
highly cited patents may influence industrial technological development.
Because the technologically intensive industries require technology innovation
to constantly adapt to the changing environment, any enterprises can disrupt the
market and produce high impact technologies. This study aims to explore highly
cited technologies in the ICT industry and uses social network analysis and
knowledge-based characteristics to investigate the transitions of
highly-impact-technology enterprises. The longitudinal analysis of
technological leaders examines competitive tendency in specific fields to
anchor the positions of the enterprises. This study proposes a different
viewpoint to analyze highly-impact-technology enterprises based on social network
perspective and knowledge-based characteristics.</span></p>
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entire article, click on the link below.<br>
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