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| Variables | Item questions |
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| Economic opportunity; Esfandiar et al. [33]; Kuckertz et al. [46] | I am always alert to business opportunities |
| I research potential markets to identify business opportunities |
| I search systematically for business opportunities |
| I look for information about new ideas for products or services |
| I regularly scan the environment for business opportunities |
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| Intellectual opportunism; Zhang and Qian [80]; Zou and Wang [81]; Sykes and Matza [73]; Vida et al. [38] | I had to play the games to boost others’ scores illegally |
| It is no big deal to enhance users’ levels as no one gets hurt |
| It is online gaming’s fault that they were taken advantage of |
| I was only playing games that others required me to do all the time |
| I would have played to increase the game levels; the legitimate ones, anyway |
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| Efficiency; Al-Eisawi et al., [82]; Wei et al. [30] | Expert-level enhancer service quality |
| Boosting organisation efficiency |
| Boosting supply chain efficiency |
| Seller and reseller reaction speed |
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| Trustworthiness; Gefen et al. [70]; Sirdeshmukh et al. [26] | OMSNs for online games are honest |
| OMSNs care about expert-level demands |
| OMSNs are not opportunistic |
| OMSNs provide good services |
| OMSNs are predictable |
| OMSNs are trustworthy |
| OMSNs know their market |
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| OMSNs; Hsiao [49]; Lafuente et al. [72] | The number of contracted game cooperations and innovation agreements |
| The time spent game networking compared to that established in the agreement |
| The reliance on game users helps for business development |
| The uniqueness of game networking relationships |
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| Intention to broaden; Liñán and Chen [34]; Vuorio et al. [35] | I am ready to promote games to be an entrepreneur |
| My professional goal is to become a game-promoting entrepreneur |
| I will make every effort to start and run my contracted game transactions |
| I am determined to create a new contracted game transaction in the future |
| I have very seriously thought of starting a contracted game transaction |
| I have an intention to start a contracted game transaction someday |
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| Intention to redo; Chen [74]; Venkatesh et al. [44] | I, as a game booster, accept the offer |
| I will always try to use OMSNs to contract game transactions in my daily life |
| I will plan to use OMSNs to contract game transactions frequently |
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