E-Life: Web-Enabled Convergence of Commerce, Work, and Social Life

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Users Over Time: The Case of the Boston Bombing Tragedy

   • Jaeung Lee, Basma Abdul Rehman, Manish Agrawal, H. Raghav Rao

   Pages 1-14

3. Discovering the Voice from Travelers: A Sentiment Analysis for Online Reviews

   • Wei-Lun Chang

   Pages 15-26

4. Design of Intelligent Agents for Supply Chain Management

   • YoonSang Lee, Riyaz Sikora

   Pages 27-39

5. Investigating IT Standardization Process Through the Lens of Theory of Communicative Action

   • Karthikeyan Umapathy, Sandeep Purao, John W. Bagby

   Pages 40-53

6. Acquiring High Quality Customer Data with Low Cost

   • Xiaoping Liu, Xiao-Bai Li

   Pages 54-65

7. The Mobile Internet as Antecedent for Down-Scoping Corporate Service Portfolios

   • Claudia Loebbecke, Virpi K. Tuunainen, Stefan Cremer

   Pages 66-77

8. Who Is My Audience? Investigating Stakeholder Collapse in Online Social Platforms

   • Utku Pamuksuz, Sung Won Kim, Ramanath Subramanyam

   Pages 78-82

9. Does Self-promotion on Social Media Boost Career? Evidence from the Market for Executives

   • Yanzhen Chen, Huaxia Rui, Andrew B. Whinston

   Pages 83-96

10. The Ethics of Online Social Network Forensics

    • Jongwoo Kim, Richard Baskerville, Yi Ding

    Pages 97-111

11. Digital Leadership Through Service Computing: Agility Driven by Interconnected System and Business Architectures

    • Mohan Tanniru, Jiban Khuntia

    Pages 112-125

12. Are Online Reviewers Leaving? Heterogeneity in Reviewing Behavior

    • Parastoo Samiei, Arvind Tripathi

    Pages 126-142

13. The Role of Web and E-Commerce in Poverty Reduction: A Framework Based on Ecological Systems Theory

    • Dong-Heon Kwak, Hemant Jain

    Pages 143-154

14. Using Text Mining Analytics to Understand IT Internal Control Weaknesses

    • Peiqin Zhang, Lucian L. Visinescu, Kexin Zhao, Ram L. Kumar

    Pages 155-160

15. Creating Realistic Synthetic Incident Data

    • Nico Roedder, Paul Karaenke, Christof Weinhardt

    Pages 161-165

16. Rumor and Truth Spreading Patterns on Social Network Sites During Social Crisis: Big Data Analytics Approach

    • Mehrdad Koohikamali, Dan J. Kim

    Pages 166-170

17. The Big Data Analysis of the Next Generation Video Surveillance System for Public Security

    • Zheng Xu, Zhiguo Yan, Lin Mei, Hui Zhang

    Pages 171-175

18. Wish Lists and Shopping Carts: A Study of Visual Metaphors on Arab E-Commerce Websites

    • Divakaran Liginlal, Maryam Al-Fehani, Preetha Gopinath, Alex Cheek

    Pages 176-180

19. Creditworthiness Analysis in E-Financing Businesses - A Cross-Business Approach

    • Kun Liang, Zhangxi Lin, Zelin Jia, Cuiqing Jiang, Jiangtao Qiu

    Pages 181-185

20. Empirical Investigation of Partnership and Mediating Effect of Mode of Partnership on Innovation Outcome of IT Firms

    • Ashish Kumar Jha, Indranil Bose

    Pages 186-190

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Workshop on E-Business (WeB 2015), held in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, on December 12, 2015. The theme of WeB 2015 was “Leveraging Service Computing and Big Data Analytics for E-Commerce”, and thus the workshop provided an interactive forum by bringing together researchers and practitioners from all over the world to explore the latest challenges of next-generation e-Business systems and the potential of service computing and big data analytics.

The 11 full and 17 short papers, which were selected from 45 submissions to the workshop, addressed a broad coverage of technical, managerial, economic, and strategic issues related to e-business, with emphasis on service computing and big data analytics. They employed various IS research methods such as case study, survey, analytical modeling, experiments, computational models, and design science.

• Big Data Analytics
• e-Commerce
• Information Systems
• Social Media Analysis
• Service Computing
• Sentiment Analysis

• Department of Decision and Information Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, USA

  Vijayan Sugumaran

• Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

  Victoria Yoon

• Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, USA

  Michael J. Shaw

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