Iulian Adrian Sorcaru , Adrian Micu , Gianita Bleoju , Angela-Eliza Micu , George Bogdan Dragan , Mihaela-Carmen Muntean , Mark Anthony Camilleri
{"title":"Augmented reality marketing in family ecotourism: Cognitive and behavioral drivers of destination branding","authors":"Iulian Adrian Sorcaru , Adrian Micu , Gianita Bleoju , Angela-Eliza Micu , George Bogdan Dragan , Mihaela-Carmen Muntean , Mark Anthony Camilleri","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100742","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100742","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Most ecotourism destinations have not yet fully explored the benefits of augmented reality (AR) marketing in relation to family vacations. Although AR improves travel experiences and destination branding, there is limited research on parents’ perceptions of AR when traveling with children. This study combines the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) with the concept of sustainability education to investigate how parents’ perceptions of AR technology shape visit behavior and destination branding, improve family vacations, and strengthen ecotourism sustainability. A mixed methods approach was applied, combining partial least structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) with fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). An online survey questionnaire (distributed via the Prolific platform) was completed by 181 parents who visited Romanian ecotourism destinations with their children and had previous AR experience. The PLS-SEM results indicate that facilitating conditions, performance expectancy, social influence, and sustainability education have significant effects on parents’ intentions to use AR technology. Furthermore, these intentions significantly influence destination visit behavior and AR branding. The fsQCA results show that sustainability education is the sole necessary condition for AR technology to influence families’ ecotourism experiences, possibly enhancing destination branding. The findings provide new theoretical and practical implications for ecotourism stakeholders interested in using AR to enhance their branding for families traveling with children.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 4","pages":"Article 100742"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrés Felipe García-Londoño , Blanca Roldán-Clarà
{"title":"Impacts of wildlife tourism based on felids: A systematic review","authors":"Andrés Felipe García-Londoño , Blanca Roldán-Clarà","doi":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100902","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100902","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This systematic review examines the multifaceted impacts of felid-based tourism across ecological, social, and economic domains. Analysis reveals complex patterns of interaction between tourism operations and felid populations, with behavioral modifications, human-wildlife conflicts, and cultural-emblematic significance emerging as dominant themes. Research demonstrates pronounced geographical concentration in African and Asian contexts, with substantial taxonomic bias toward lions, leopards, and tigers. Evidence indicates predominantly negative ecological consequences from inadequate management frameworks, though some populations demonstrate remarkable resilience through adaptive behavioral strategies. While tourism generates substantial economic value and potentially catalyzes conservation initiatives, risks of overdependence and inequitable benefit distribution necessitate careful consideration. Human-felid conflict dynamics reveal intricate relationships with tourism development, where proper management can foster coexistence through economic alternatives and attitudinal changes. Tourism's contribution to scientific research and environmental education shows promise, particularly through citizen science initiatives, though systematic biases in research coverage warrant attention. Implementation of sustainable tourism frameworks requires comprehensive management protocols incorporating standardized monitoring systems, evidence-based viewing guidelines, and robust community engagement mechanisms. This synthesis provides foundation for evidence-based tourism management while illuminating critical pathways toward optimizing conservation outcomes through carefully balanced development approaches.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100902"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Large Language Models in external audits: Implications and ethical considerations","authors":"Lazarus Elad Fotoh , Tatenda Mugwira","doi":"10.1016/j.accinf.2025.100748","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.accinf.2025.100748","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores the impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) on external audits and their associated ethical implications. A small-scale survey was conducted with auditors from non-Big Four firms to assess their general perceptions of LLMs, followed by a qualitative evaluation of external LLMs in audit-specific tasks. In the latter, ChatGPT’s responses to audit-related scenarios were assessed by experienced audit partners, who rated and commented on the outputs without knowing their source. The findings indicate that while LLMs efficiently perform routine and mundane tasks such as generating human-like responses and preparing basic audit working papers and reports, external LLMs struggle to produce comprehensive, audit-specific reports. Non-Big Four auditors recognise LLMs’ time-saving potential and relevance in audit planning; however, concerns persist regarding the comprehensiveness and contextual relevance of external LLM-generated risk assessments and interpretations of auditing standards. Moreover, limitations inherent in external LLMs, such as outdated information and hallucinations, necessitate auditor oversight. Ethical concerns identified include threats to auditor objectivity, confidentiality, privacy, accountability, and intellectual property rights. The study reinforces that while LLMs can enhance audit efficiency, they should complement rather than replace auditors. Their successful integration in external audits requires prompt engineering, regulatory guidance, and auditor oversight. These findings contribute to the growing research on LLMs in auditing and provide insights for audit firms considering their adoption.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47170,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Accounting Information Systems","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 100748"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144222963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Deterrence: Experimental Study of Factors Influencing Perceived Legitimacy and Compliance With Mandatory Vaccination","authors":"David Lacko, Filip Horák, Jakub Dienstbier","doi":"10.1111/rego.70039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70039","url":null,"abstract":"For the law to function effectively in society, it must not only be enforced but also promote compliance, particularly in emotionally charged, polarized, or uncertain situations. This study explores the impact of legal sanction stringency and perceived sanction risk on the perceived legitimacy of and willingness to comply with mandatory vaccination laws in Czechia post-COVID-19. Using a 4 × 2 experimental design, we examined the effects of four sanction stringency levels and two levels of perceived sanction risk, alongside variables like trust in institutions, fear of disease, vaccination attitudes, and conspiracy beliefs, on a representative general sample. The findings provided no support for deterrence; neither sanction stringency nor perceived risk affected perceived legitimacy or compliance willingness, except for a small negative effect of the most stringent sanction. Perceived legitimacy, however, had a strong link to compliance willingness, and vaccine attitudes influenced both. Trust in institutions, fear of disease, and conspiracy beliefs were associated with perceived legitimacy but not compliance. These results challenge traditional views on legal creation and enforcement.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"402 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144228745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is Enterprise-Union Coupling Relationship a Promising Way to Improve Platform Workers' Flexibility? A Sensemaking Perspective","authors":"Enhua Hu, Zhiqiang Zhang, Mingyan Han, Hongmei Shan","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Flexibility is an important ability of platform workers to adapt to the ever-changing job requirements and the environment in which they work. It is beneficial for enhancing platform workers' work efficiency and promoting the development of platform enterprises. Grounded in sensemaking theory, a theoretical model based on the Chinese industrial relationship context was constructed to reveal the influence of the enterprise-union coupling relationship (EUCR) on platform workers' flexibility. Data from 322 platform workers were analyzed to test the theoretical model. The results indicate the following: (1) Relative to the management practices of platform enterprises (i.e., human resource management practices), EUCR can generate incremental effects on platform workers' flexibility; (2) EUCR promotes career calling, which in turn, improves platform workers' flexibility; and (3) Customer gratitude expression strengthens the relationship between EUCR and career calling, leading to a higher level of flexibility. This study identified new factors affecting platform workers' flexibility from the perspective of interactions between platform enterprises and trade unions. It offers practical guidance for platform enterprises and trade unions in China to provide spiritual support and value transmission to platform workers to boost their flexibility.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144219969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relationships between green technological innovation, renewable energy, circular economy, and green growth","authors":"Afef BOUATTOUR , Sarra GHARBI , Maha KALAI , Kamel HELALI","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100748","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100748","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study employs the panel smooth threshold autoregression model to data spanning 27 European Union (EU) member states from 2000 to 2022 to investigate the nonlinear relationships between green growth and green technological innovation. This approach enables our examination of the dynamics of economies’ rise from weakness to strength. This investigation introduces a comprehensive framework that combines green technological innovation, renewable energy sources, and the circular economy into a single green growth model. The results confirm two optimal thresholds that impact how green technological innovation affects green growth, distinguishing between the three regimes. Additionally, the results demonstrate the positive influence of green technological innovation on green growth. In contrast, the study reveals a weaker effect with increasing levels of green technological innovation transitions from intermediate (Regime 2) to high (Regime 3) green growth. Furthermore, insufficient green technological innovation has not developed effective renewable energy technologies that can foster green growth. Conversely, renewable energy begins to positively affect green growth when EU countries increase green technological innovation investment. Finally, a robust regime of green technological innovation facilitates circularity and promotes EU economies’ green growth, indicating that the influence of the circular economy on green growth depends on increased green technological innovation. Practically, policymakers in EU economies should focus on sustainable innovation to promote green growth and advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 4","pages":"Article 100748"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144223622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards an estimate of the impact of censorship on biomedical literature.","authors":"Clair Kronk, Os Keyes, Megh Marathe","doi":"10.1093/jamia/ocaf089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaf089","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To determine how much of the current biomedical literature would be flagged or require modification in relation to the presence of terms from leaked lists prepared by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Security Administration (NSA) in early 2025.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>We searched PubMed (from 1996 to 2024) for all records that match at least one of the given terms, combined the terms and analyzed yearly and total frequency.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>At least 36.3% of all biomedical literature analyzed, representing more than 10 million records, would be flagged for review or modification with the given term lists. It is conservatively estimated that such term lists could impact more than 2.7 million biomedical publications over the next four years.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Censorship of scientific findings and the use of term lists to judge the content of scientific materials could significantly impede scientific progress.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Future research should investigate the long-term implications of, and interim strategies used to navigate, the imposition of censorship on the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":50016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144227401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Heiko Gebauer , Besma Glaa , Lars Witell , Helen Perks
{"title":"Key adjustments to service offerings to accommodate product innovations: The Case of electric vehicles","authors":"Heiko Gebauer , Besma Glaa , Lars Witell , Helen Perks","doi":"10.1016/j.indmarman.2025.05.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.indmarman.2025.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper is positioned at the intersection of servitization and product innovation, addressing an important research gap regarding the key adjustments required in service offerings when introducing product innovations. We focus on electric vehicles as an eco-friendly product innovation often associated with high technological turbulence. Through a single case study of a truck manufacturer and eight confirmatory cases of other commercial vehicle manufacturers, this study examines how these companies adjusted their service offerings (e.g., financial services, parts and repair services, fleet management services, and connectivity services) in response to the launch of new product innovations. When introducing product innovations, these manufacturers adjust the scope and sophistication of their service offerings—for instance, by advancing financial services, parts and repair services, fleet management services, connectivity services, and by adding charging infrastructure services. Meanwhile, services for existing products also evolve in terms of scope and sophistication (e.g., adding product life extension and fuel optimization services). Surprisingly, these adjustments mostly occur within existing organizational structures. At the same time, they contribute to a potential increase in the share of service revenue, reflecting the growing share of electric vehicles in commercial vehicle sales. These insights offer important theoretical and managerial implications for integrating servitization with product innovation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51345,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Marketing Management","volume":"128 ","pages":"Pages 71-87"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Research PolicyPub Date : 2025-06-05DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105270
Stefan Köppl , Monika Köppl-Turyna , Dimitris Christopoulos
{"title":"The performance of government-backed venture capital investments","authors":"Stefan Köppl , Monika Köppl-Turyna , Dimitris Christopoulos","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105270","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105270","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this research, we analyzed how different types of venture capital investments—private, public, and indirect public—affected the performance of portfolio companies. We used data of >20,000 VC deals in Europe between 2000 and 2018 from different institutional settings (public/indirect/private) that included almost 5000 investors. We found that public VC investors performed consistently worse than purely private ones, while indirect public investments (such as the “Juncker Plan” or InvestEU investments) performed consistently better. We associate these findings with the access of public funds to specific cliques of investors. In contrast, indirect funds invested in funds with comparatively better network profiles. This means that indirect public investors were capable of picking the best-performing funds but did not add any value above this. We confirmed the main conclusions using instrumental variable specifications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 8","pages":"Article 105270"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chenggang Li , Cong Luo , Hongye Jia , Mu Yue , Liang Wu
{"title":"Advancing agricultural economic growth through technology innovation and structural transformation: A multilevel analysis","authors":"Chenggang Li , Cong Luo , Hongye Jia , Mu Yue , Liang Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100743","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100743","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The agricultural economy plays an irreplaceable and crucial role in ensuring national food security, promoting stable economic growth, and fostering harmonious social development. Agricultural technology innovation (ATI) and rural industrial structure transformation (RIST) are key drivers of agricultural economic growth (AEG). Although previous studies have largely focused on the individual impacts of ATI and RIST on AEG, research on the specific pathways linking these factors is limited. This study utilizes panel data from 30 Chinese provinces from 2009 to 2022 and employs a multilayer structural equation model to systematically examine the relationships among ATI, RIST, and AEG at both national and regional levels. In addition, it provides an in-depth analysis of the internal connections among specific variables. The findings indicate that, at the national level, ATI plays a crucial role in significantly advancing both the transformation and upgrading of rural industrial structures and AEG. However, the direct impact of RIST and upgrading on AEG is not clearly evident. The regional-level analysis reveals that ATI has a significant positive effect on AEG and promotes the optimization of rural industrial structures. In addition, upgrading rural industrial structures significantly enhance AEG. This study’s methodology offers both theoretical and empirical support for promoting agricultural economic development through ATI and RIST upgrading. The findings provide valuable insights for policymakers, enabling them to better align agricultural policies with key innovation directions and structural improvements, ultimately fostering sustainable agricultural development. Furthermore, the conclusions serve as a decision-making reference for agricultural enterprises and practitioners, guiding them to adapt to industrial structural adjustments, leverage technological advancements, and enhance agricultural production efficiency and economic benefits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 4","pages":"Article 100743"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}