Table of Contents for Volume 21, 2026, of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management

Aim/Purpose: This study addresses the challenge of understanding and predicting tourist decision-making in the AI era by integrating sentiment, credibility, and contextual signals from social media into a unified and actionable framework. It seeks to move beyond raw user-generated content toward trustworthy, decision-ready insights that can guide destinations, platforms, and travelers. Background ...

Aim/Purpose: This study aims to analyze and predict the employability outcomes of higher education students in the Philippines using data-driven predictive modeling. It aims to identify the student attributes that most strongly influence employability, thereby supporting evidence-based curriculum development and workforce alignment initiatives. Background: Graduate employability remains a challen ...

Aim/Purpose: This study aims to address the issue of partial preference, which causes incomplete criteria-level ratings and limits the accuracy of recommendations in multi-criteria recommender systems (MCRS). The primary focus of this study is to develop an imputation method that treats the imputation process as a sequential prediction task in which each missing criterion is predicted based not on ...

Aim/Purpose: The research aimed to design, develop, and test a system that enabled reciprocal knowledge flows between government, academia, business, media, and community stakeholders. Background: The research problem addressed in this study concerned the absence of an integrated, digital knowledge management (KM) system that could operationalize the Pentahelix framework to strengthen the managem ...

Aim/Purpose: This study examines how digital technologies are used to support communication between families and educational centers, understood as formal primary and secondary schooling institutions, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The research explores parents’ perceptions of these communication practices, their perceived influence on family involvement, and the challenges and opportunit ...

Aim/Purpose: This study develops a theory-informed, data-driven framework for identifying student learning modalities using Deep Embedded Clustering (DEC), with the goal of improving scalable and interpretable learner profiling in secondary education. Background: Traditional learning-style identification relies on qualitative or rule-based categorization that may not adequately capture complex l ...

Aim/Purpose: The present paper focuses on the necessity of systematically incorporating knowledge produced within e-Communities of Practice (eCoPs) into formal organizational decision-making mechanisms, especially in environments of complexity, uncertainty, and accelerated digital evolution. Background: Even though eCoPs have been acknowledged as formidable tools for collaborative learning and kn ...

Aim/Purpose: This study examines how students perceive the impact of Learning Management Systems (LMS) on teachers’ performance at Kuwait’s higher education institutions. Background: Learning institutions integrate LMS into their teaching methods to unlock numerous benefits. A performance-based approach is crucial for understanding the complex, multidisciplinary nature of teaching performance in ...

Aim/Purpose: This paper investigates how to enhance Gen Z’s purchase intention on e-commerce platforms via gamification. Background: Most studies focus on user perceptions, which capture surface-level impressions but fail to uncover the underlying psychological needs that drive user engagement. This study addresses that gap by examining how users’ psychological needs (competence, autonomy, relate ...

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop an adaptive real-time flower classification framework that maximizes accuracy, speed, and resource efficiency by integrating Transfer Learning, Extreme Learning Machines, and Reinforcement Learning. Background: Accurate and efficient flower species identification is essential for applications in smart city planning, agriculture, and floricultur ...

Aim/Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the trend in the adoption and implementation of integrated reporting (IR) by selected Indian companies in line with the Integrated Reporting Framework ( Framework) over the past five years, from 2019-20 to 2023-24. Background: Although the growing movement towards voluntary adoption of integrated reporting by Indian firms is evident through the expanding f ...