农民工人力资本、社会资本与城市生活满意度

城市生活满意度是反映农民工社会融合的重要指标之一。采用实地调研数据和Ordinal回归模型,本文分析了农民工人力资本和社会资本对其城市生活满意度的影响。结果显示,人力资本中身体健康有利于提高城市生活满意度,而文化程度越高生活满意度却越低;社会资本中亲戚担任公职人员者生活满意度更高;与家人进行社会支持相比,与同学（老乡）交流情感和与同事进行社会交往者生活满意度更低。在研究结果的基础上,本文提出了改善农民工生活满意度,进而促进其社会融合的政策建议。     

Intention in information systems adoption and use: Current state and research directions

Intention has been a key dependent variable in information system (IS) research for the last several decades. It features in various IS acceptance models including the technology acceptance model (TAM), the elaboration likelihood model, the IS success model, and the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT). In the context of IS adoption and use, intention has been portrayed in different forms including intention to adopt, intention to use, intention to continue use, intention to discontinue, and intention to switch. It has been modeled as an antecedent to behavior, a consequent of behavior, and a proxy for behavior. Prior studies of intention have been contextualized in a various settings involving use contexts (i.e., voluntary vs. mandatory use), populations (i.e., non-adopters, adopters, users), respondents (i.e., students, employees), and duration of use (i.e., limited vs. indefinite time), have used cross-sectional and longitudinal empirical designs, and employed different measurement instruments. This editorial provides a brief review of extant IS literature on intention, highlights underlying issues, and proposes directions for future research.     

The impact of the pandemic-enforced lockdown on the scholarly productivity of women academics in South Africa

The underrepresentation of women in research is well-documented, in everything from participation and leadership to peer review and publication. Even so, in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, early reports indicated a precipitous decline in women's scholarly productivity (both in time devoted to research and in journal publications) compared to pre-pandemic times. None of these studies, mainly from the Global North, could provide detailed explanations for the scale of this decline in research outcomes. Using a mixed methods research design, we offer the first comprehensive study to shed light on the complex reasons for the decline in research during the pandemic-enforced lockdown among 2,029 women academics drawn from 26 public universities in South Africa. Our study finds that a dramatic increase in teaching and administrative workloads, and the traditional family roles assumed by women while “working from home,” were among the key factors behind the reported decline in research activity among female academics in public universities. In short, teaching and administration effectively displaced research and publication—with serious implications for an already elusive gender equality in research. Finally, the paper offers recommendations that leaders and policy makers can draw on to support women academics and families in higher education during and beyond pandemic times.     

Chatbot as an emergency exist: Mediated empathy for resilience via human-AI interaction during the COVID-19 pandemic

As a global health crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic has also made heavy mental and emotional tolls become shared experiences of global communities, especially among females who were affected more by the pandemic than males for anxiety and depression. By connecting multiple facets of empathy as key mechanisms of information processing with the communication theory of resilience, the present study examines human-AI interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to understand digitally mediated empathy and how the intertwining of empathic and communicative processes of resilience works as coping strategies for COVID-19 disruption. Mixed methods were adopted to explore the using experiences and effects of Replika, a chatbot companion powered by AI, with ethnographic research, in-depth interviews, and grounded theory-based analysis. Findings of this research extend empathy theories from interpersonal communication to human-AI interactions and show five types of digitally mediated empathy among Chinese female Replika users with varying degrees of cognitive empathy, affective empathy, and empathic response involved in the information processing processes, i.e., companion buddy, responsive diary, emotion-handling program, electronic pet, and tool for venting. When processing information obtained from AI and collaborative interactions with the AI chatbot, multiple facets of mediated empathy become unexpected pathways to resilience and enhance users’ well-being. This study fills the research gap by exploring empathy and resilience processes in human-AI interactions. Practical implications, especially for increasing individuals’ psychological resilience as an important component of global recovery from the pandemic, suggestions for future chatbot design, and future research directions are also discussed.     

Making sense of global warming: Norwegians appropriating knowledge of anthropogenic climate change

This paper studies how people reason about and make sense of human-made global warming, based on ten focus group interviews with Norwegian citizens. It shows that the domestication of climate science knowledge was shaped through five sense-making devices: news media coverage of changes in nature, particularly the weather, the coverage of presumed experts' disagreement about global warming, critical attitudes towards media, observations of political inaction, and considerations with respect to everyday life. These sense-making devices allowed for ambiguous outcomes, and the paper argues four main outcomes with respect to the domestication processes: the acceptors, the tempered acceptors, the uncertain and the sceptics.     

国外关于临时性工作的研究及启示——基于企业人力资源管理的视角

本文的目的是介绍临时性工作情景下,企业的HRM遇到的一系列问题和挑战.本文提出了五个关键的研究问题:用人单位使用临时性工人的动因、临时性工人选择这种就业方式的原因、临时性工人代理机构和用人单位间的关系、临时性工人与永久性雇员之间的关系以及组织的人力资源管理面临的挑战.临时性工作在过去的十几年中在全球范围内都有了急剧的增长,本文试图对临时性工作和HRM进行研究,为企业的HRM和进一步的研究提供参考.     

Technostress causes cognitive overload in high-stress people: Eye tracking analysis in a virtual kiosk test

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of non-face-to-face information and communication technology (ICT) such as kiosks has increased. While kiosks are useful overall, those who do not adapt well to these technologies experience technostress. The two most serious technostressors are inclusion and overload issues, which indicate a sense of inferiority due to a perceived inability to use ICT well and a sense of being overwhelmed by too much information, respectively. This study investigated the different effects of hybrid technostress—induced by both inclusion and overload issues—on the cognitive load among low-stress and high-stress people when using kiosks to complete daily life tasks. We developed a ‘virtual kiosk test’ to evaluate participants’ cognitive load with eye tracking features and performance features when ordering burgers, sides, and drinks using the kiosk. Twelve low-stress participants and 13 high-stress participants performed the virtual kiosk test. As a result, regarding eye tracking features, high-stress participants generated a larger number of blinks, a longer scanpath length, a more distracted heatmap, and a more complex gaze plot than low-stress participants. Regarding performance features, high-stress participants took significantly longer to order and made more errors than low-stress participants. A support-vector machine (SVM) using both eye tracking features (i.e., number of blinks, scanpath length) and a performance feature (i.e., time to completion) best differentiated between low-stress and high-stress participants (89% accuracy, 100% sensitivity, 83.3% specificity, 75% precision, 85.7% F1 score). Overall, under technostress, high-stress participants experienced cognitive overload and consequently decreased performance; whereas, low-stress participants felt moderate arousal and improved performance. These varying effects of technostress can be interpreted through the Yerkes-Dodson law. Based on our findings, we proposed an adaptive interface, multimodal interaction, and virtual reality training as three implications for technostress relief in non-face-to-face ICT.     

Work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic: An observational study based on a large geo-tagged COVID-19 Twitter dataset (UsaGeoCov19)

As COVID-19 swept over the world, people discussed facts, expressed opinions, and shared sentiments about the pandemic on social media. Since policies such as travel restriction and lockdown in reaction to COVID-19 were made at different levels of the society (e.g., schools and employers) and the government, we build a large geo-tagged Twitter dataset titled UsaGeoCov19 and perform an exploratory analysis by geographic location. Specifically, we collect 650,563 unique geo-tagged tweets across the United States covering the date range from January 25 to May 10, 2020. Tweet locations enable us to conduct region-specific studies such as tweeting volumes and sentiment, sometimes in response to local regulations and reported COVID-19 cases. During this period, many people started working from home. The gap between workdays and weekends in hourly tweet volumes inspire us to propose algorithms to estimate work engagement during the COVID-19 crisis. This paper also summarizes themes and topics of tweets in our dataset using both social media exclusive tools (i.e., #hashtags, @mentions) and the latent Dirichlet allocation model. We welcome requests for data sharing and conversations for more insights.UsaGeoCov19 link: http://yunhefeng.me/geo-tagged_twitter_datasets/.     

WHO led the digital transformation of your company? A reflection of IT related challenges during the pandemic

In this paper we reflect on a number of IT related challenges during the COVID19 pandemic, primarily from a CIO and IT professionals perspective. We consider three time periods, namely the period before the pandemic, the response to the pandemic and the period after it. For each period we discuss the key challenges that practitioners faced and outline important areas to consider for the future. Hopefully, the lessons learnt and the experiences gained will positively inform future academic research and practice.     

企业持续成长的内在机理——基于成长动因理论的研究

以解决现代企业短寿这一普遍现象为研究出发点,通过对国内外有关成长动因理论的核心思想和最新成果进行归纳梳理,推导得出企业成长的真正动因是企业能力。以此结论为基础,从企业持续成长的显性表现(产品演化)和企业持续成长的核心支撑(能力演化)两个维度剖析了企业持续成长的内在机理。最后给出了培养企业核心能力和实现企业持续成长的一些建议。     

知识型员工的工作不安全感:影响及控制手段

建立和证实组织应对工作不安全感及其消极后果的因果链,探究组织如何有效应对和控制工作不安全感及其消极后果。通过Lisrel和SPSS等软件对来自不同行业的219份有效问卷的实证分析表明,工作不安全感显著影响知识型员工的离职倾向和幸福感;工作不确定性会引发工作不安全感;组织发展性支持作为一项压力干预策略,能有效降低知识型员工的工作不安全感和工作不确定性;同时,工作不确定性和工作不安全感在组织发展性支持与知识型员工离职倾向和幸福感之间起连续中介作用。丰富了国内关于工作不安全感的研究,同时从组织关注和个体关注两方面分析工作不安全感的后果,为当前变化情境下的企业如何有效应对和管理知识型员工的工作不安全感提供管理借鉴。     

外来务工人员子女和本地小学生的心理现状比较及相关因素分析

本研究采用家庭社会经济地位问卷、学业成就问卷、青少年学生生活满意度问卷、社会支持问卷、大五人格问卷对56名外来务工人员子女和112名本地小学生进行测量,目的在于了解外来务工人员子女和本地小学生的心理现状及相关影响因素。     

浅谈民办养老机构老年社会工作职能缺失困境——以天津市民办养老机构服务现状为例

随着民办养老机构在解决当前城市老年人口养老问题中发挥越来越重要的力量同时,民办养老机构的服务品质也成为人们关注的焦点。本文指出,民办养老机构服务中普遍存在的老年社会工作职能缺失的问题,使民办养老机构在老人的“入住评估”、“生活质量干预”和护工的“工作压力与负面情绪疏导”方面不能有效提供服务,从而导致不能提供个性需求有效照护,使老人生活质量满意度不高,造成护工人员的频繁流失。本文认为民办养老机构的这一普遍问题成因一是护工紧缺,投资者与管理者暂时以身体护理效果为唯一的效益追求;二是投资者和管理者以节约成本为出发点,节省雇佣专业社会工作者的开支;三是管理人员对社会工作知识与理念的“文盲化”,使老年社会工作职能缺失。笔者认为老年社会工作职能缺失将成为制约民办养老机构服务品质提升的关键性因素。     

Effects of members’ response styles in an online depression community based on text mining and empirical analysis

The online depression community (ODC) has become a popular resource for people with depression to manage their mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study proposed a novel perspective based on response style theory to investigate whether depression individuals’ distractive and ruminative behaviors in ODC were related to social support received and co-rumination. Furthermore, we explored the influences of social support and co-rumination on suicidal behaviors using panel data set. We collected text data from 22,286 depressed users of a large ODC in China from March 2020 to July 2021, and conducted text mining and econometrics analyses to test our research questions. The results showed that depression users’ online ruminative behaviors had a positive relationship with the co-rumination and had a negative relationship with social support received. Besides, constructive distractive behaviors (i.e., providing social support to others) increased the support users received from others but had a negative relationship with co-rumination. Depression users' future suicidal behaviors are influenced by past received social support and co-rumination. The received social supports and co-rumination have a negative and positive influence on depression users' future suicidal behaviors, respectively. Our results enrich the application of response style theory in online medicine. They provide meaningful insights into behaviors that influence the acquisition of online social support and the incidence of online co-rumination in ODCs. This study helps relevant institutions to conduct more targeted online suicide interventions for depression patients.     

Societal trust and open innovation

While open innovation provides a new paradigm to sustain a firm’s competitive advantage, opening up to external knowledge also entails substantial risks of appropriation and opportunism. Building on this “open paradox” framework, this study investigates whether societal trust—a key aspect of informal cultural norms—serves as an effective mechanism in improving relational governance among partners, thereby leading to better collaborative outcomes. Using a novel panel data on co-owned patents across 29 countries, we show that firms in high trust countries are able to produce a higher level of joint output (i.e., co-owned patents). This effect is more pronounced when perceived opportunism is higher (i.e., firms in high-tech industries, or in countries with less disclosure transparency), and when formal contracts are less enforceable (i.e., in countries with relatively weak legal systems). We further show that open innovation is the channel through which societal trust promotes innovative efficiency. Overall, our study establishes societal trust as a key factor in influencing the efficiency of open innovation.     

“Silent Hypoxemia” Leads to Vicious Cycle of Infection,Coagulopathy and Cytokine Storm in COVID-19: Can Prophylactic Oxygen Therapy Prevent It?

Humankind is facing its worst pandemic of the twenty-first century, due to infection of a novel coronavirus named as SARS-CoV2, started from Wuhan in China. Till now, 15 million people are infected, causing more than 600,000 deaths. The disease, commonly known as, COVID-19, was initially thought to be associated with ARDS only, but later on revealed to have many unexplained and atypical clinical features like coagulopathy and cytokinemia, leading to multi-organ involvements. The patients also suffer from ‘Silent Hypoxemia’, where there is no immediate respiratory signs and symptoms even though alarmingly low SpO₂ level. We hypothesize that this covert hypoxemia may lead to molecular changes exacerbating coagulopathy and cytokine storm in COVID19 patients, which again, in turn, causes a vicious cycle of more hypoxemia/hypoxia and progression of the infection to more severe stages through HIF-1α dependent pathway. Although molecular mechanisms are yet to be substantiated by scientific evidence, hypoxemia remains an independent worsening factor in serious COVID 19 patients. Keeping all in mind, we propose that even in the early and asymptomatic cases, prophylactic oxygen therapy to be initiated to break the vicious cycle and to reduce the mortality in COVID 19 to save precious human lives.     

电信服务业员工的情绪劳动与生活满意度——心理解脱的调节作用

通过对332名电信营业厅服务岗位员工进行问卷调查,探讨员工工作中的心理解脱在情绪劳动与倦怠、情绪劳动与生活满意度的关系,以及在他们关系中的调节作用。结果发现,心理解脱不仅调节表层动作对生活满意度的负作用,而且调节倦怠对生活满意度的预测作用。当员工在下班之后,经历高的心理解脱时,表层动作和倦怠对生活满意度的负面影响作用将会降低。研究结果有助于解释努力-恢复理论中,工作压力可以通过远离工作任务的方式,重新获得心理资源,促进这些因素在家庭界面的积极作用,提高个人幸福感和心理健康水平。     

Mobilizing for change: A study of research units in emerging scientific fields

Local research units, this article argues, play a very important role for the scientific field they belong to, for example by mobilizing financial support, offering job opportunities, attracting talented recruits, and providing adequate training. Little is known, however, about such units, at least in the fields under study here, i.e., studies of innovation, entrepreneurship and related phenomena. This article focuses - with the help of a survey of 136 research units worldwide supplemented by a number of case-studies - on the factors that influence the extent to which local mobilization efforts succeed. The research shows that universities provide the most fertile grounds for such research units, and that external support and support from the leadership of the university are important factors behind their establishment. In the longer term, however, attracting core (basic) finance is essential for the unit's ability to maintain cognitive control of its research program. Units that develop their own Master and PhD programs appear more likely than others to achieve these aims.     

Drivers of information technology choice by individuals

Technology acceptance has spawned considerable research in technology adoption, technology use, and technology switching. However, technology choice—i.e., an individual’s selection of a technology from a set of technologies that support similar tasks—has received limited attention in information systems research. This research was aimed at identifying the drivers of technology choice through a series of activities in two universities, in which students chose an information technology tool from various alternatives to complete the given tasks. A thematic analysis was conducted on the reasons for technology choice reported by 249 students, which yielded 18 technology, user, and environmental drivers that influenced individuals’ technology choice. This study provides insights into the drivers generally applicable for technology choice and drivers applicable in specific contexts. Implications for research and practice are discussed.     

伦理型领导对知识员工公正感和满意度的影响

伦理型领导对员工影响的以往研究注重组织内部变量,相对忽视其社会效应。本研究通过对高新技术企业310名知识型员工的调查,分析了伦理型领导对知识型员工社会公正感和生活满意度等社会性变量的影响。层次回归分析和结构方程建模结果发现:伦理型领导对知识型员工社会公正感和生活满意度有显著的正向影响,组织公正感和工作满意度在其中起到了中介作用。结论支持了伦理型领导对社会结果变量的效应。