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INFORMATION SYSTEMS JOURNAL
卷 33, 期 3, 页码 437-466出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/isj.12408
关键词
digital platforms; effort expectancy; intention to join; perceived input control; performance expectancy; signalling
This study explores the signaling role of perceived input control in shaping prospective complementors' decision to join a digital platform. The results suggest that perceived input control has distinct and complex signaling effects, with both performance expectancy and effort expectancy being influenced by it. Additionally, the study finds that intention to join the platform is linearly influenced by performance expectancy and inversely influenced by effort expectancy. Overall, the study provides novel insights into the role of perceived input control in the decision-making process of joining a digital platform.
Existing information systems (IS) research on platform control has largely focused on examining how input control (i.e., the mechanisms used to control platform access) affects complementors' intentions and behaviours after their decision to join a digital platform. Yet, our understanding of how input control is perceived before this decision and how such perceptions influence prospective complementors' intention to join a platform is still nascent. In this regard, our study views input control as a salient signal that shapes prospective complementors' expected benefits and costs (i.e., their performance and effort expectancy), and ultimately their decision to join a digital platform. Drawing on signalling theory and the antecedent-benefit-cost (ABC) framework, we conducted a randomized online experiment in the context of donation-based crowdfunding. The experiment results offer empirical support for this view by showing that input control has distinct and complex signalling effects for prospective complementors. In particular, our findings reveal curvilinear and competing signalling effects, with perceived input control increasing both performance expectancy (at a decreasing rate) and effort expectancy (at an increasing rate). Also, we find that performance expectancy linearly increases prospective complementors' intention to join a platform, whereas effort expectancy linearly decreases their intention to do so. These findings imply that the overall relationship between perceived input control and intention to join follows an inverted U-shape curve, which means that neither a low nor a high, but a moderate degree of perceived input control maximizes prospective complementors' intention to join. In sum, the results of our study provide novel and important insights into the signalling role that perceived input control plays in shaping prospective complementors' decision to join a digital platform.
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