User-driven business model innovation: an ethnographic inquiry into Toutiao in the Chinese context

Network-driven Context in User-driven Innovation

As new networks such as sensor and grid computing are developed, service providers, intermediaries, and users are exposed to an increasing number of contexts, which is a set of information that affects users’ behavior and value system in accordance with a network they belongs to. This paper proposes that citizens’ contextual data should be collected based on service quality, satisfaction, and t...

Bending the Gaze: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Contemporary Contortion

An investigation Into Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospitals in China: Development Trend and Medical Service Innovation

Background This paper aims to investigate the development trend of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) hospitals in China and explore their medical service innovations, with special reference to the changing co-existence with western medicine (WM) at TCM hospitals.   Methods Quantitative data at macro level was collected from official databases of China Health Statistical Yearbook and Extracts o...

Proposing an Ethnographic Approach to Teaching Business Chinese

Based on a discussion of current issues in teaching business Chinese, this article proposes an ethnographic approach for the teaching of business Chinese. Specifically, it highlights the imperative for the ethnographic approach and details the components of this approach. In the discussion, reference is made to the research findings in contrastive rhetoric, ethnographic research and genre analy...

Ethnographic Inquiry in Psychology

tive method is rapidly growing in psychology where human experiences are to be studied as situated in their socio-cultural and historical context. In this new tradition, subjectivity of both—the researcher and the researched— is given a meaningful space. The researcher is able to delineate his/her personal and academic inclinations influencing the research process and findings. In this chapter,...