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Knowledge dynamics and structural balance in sociotechnical transitions: A signed network perspective for sustainable integration of emerging technologies 社会技术转型中的知识动态和结构平衡：新兴技术可持续整合的签名网络视角

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Digital Business Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.digbus.2026.100165

Maryam Nooraei Abadeh

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Predicting entrepreneurial and crowdfunding intentions among music conservatory and university students 预测音乐学院和大学生的创业和众筹意愿

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Digital Business Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.digbus.2026.100164

Paula Montero-Benavides, Gema Albort-Morant, María-José Palacín-Sánchez, María-Dolores Oliver-Alfonso

{"title":"Predicting entrepreneurial and crowdfunding intentions among music conservatory and university students","authors":"Paula Montero-Benavides, Gema Albort-Morant, María-José Palacín-Sánchez, María-Dolores Oliver-Alfonso","doi":"10.1016/j.digbus.2026.100164","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.digbus.2026.100164","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how psychological, educational, and financial factors shape students' entrepreneurial intention and their willingness to use digital crowdfunding platforms. The study develops an integrated framework grounded in the Theory of Needs, Self-Determination Theory, and Human Capital Theory. Moreover, it underscores the role of digital platforms as entrepreneurial ecosystems that foster opportunity recognition and value creation. The empirical research draws on a sample of 719 students from diverse academic fields, including music conservatory students, a group rarely examined in entrepreneurship research, and university students. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) is employed to test the model and conduct multi-group analysis. Our results suggest that entrepreneurial motivation, experience, and competences significantly predict entrepreneurial intention, whereas financial knowledge influences only crowdfunding intention. Entrepreneurial intention is strongly associated with crowdfunding intention. Most direct effects are consistent across disciplines, although the relationship between financial knowledge and crowdfunding intention differs among groups. This study advances theory by connecting motivational and human capital perspectives to explain crowdfunding adoption in both traditional and creative business contexts. Practical implications highlight the importance of reinforcing entrepreneurship education alongside financial and digital literacy. Crowdfunding platforms and policy design should promote inclusive, adaptive, and mentoring-oriented support for potential entrepreneurs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100376,"journal":{"name":"Digital Business","volume":"6 1","pages":"Article 100164"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146173661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring the effects of FinTech adoption on traditional banking: A systematic literature review on opportunities and challenges 探索金融科技对传统银行业的影响：关于机遇与挑战的系统文献综述

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Digital Business Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.digbus.2026.100163

Prosenjeet Ghosh, Uttam Golder

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AI transformation in working life: A systematic review of usage and attitudes towards AI among workers 工作生活中的人工智能转型：对工人对人工智能的使用和态度的系统回顾

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Digital Business Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.digbus.2025.100162

Iina Savolainen , Lotta Ylinen , Roope Grönroos , Atte Oksanen

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Exploring auditor adaptability in the digital era through levels of expertise: The role of IT literacy 通过专业水平探索审计师在数字时代的适应性：IT素养的作用

Digital Business Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.digbus.2025.100126

Joelle Matta , Elie Chamoun

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Cognitive and affective factors in AI virtual influencer marketing: A stimulus–organism–response and pleasure–arousal–dominance model approach 人工智能虚拟网红营销中的认知和情感因素：刺激-有机体-反应和愉悦-唤醒-支配模型方法

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Digital Business Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.digbus.2025.100150

Chin Lay Gan , Yi Yong Lee , Tze Wei Liew , Su-Mae Tan , Faizan Ahmad , Adhi Prasetio

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From reality to virtuality: Unveiling Gen Z's purchasing behavior through virtual influencers in the metaverse 从现实到虚拟：通过虚拟影响者揭示Z世代的购买行为

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Digital Business Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.digbus.2025.100141

Tri-Quan Dang , Tan-Minh Nguyen , Phuc-Thien Tran , Tien-Thao Cong Phan , Thach-Bao Huynh , Luan-Thanh Nguyen

{"title":"From reality to virtuality: Unveiling Gen Z's purchasing behavior through virtual influencers in the metaverse","authors":"Tri-Quan Dang , Tan-Minh Nguyen , Phuc-Thien Tran , Tien-Thao Cong Phan , Thach-Bao Huynh , Luan-Thanh Nguyen","doi":"10.1016/j.digbus.2025.100141","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.digbus.2025.100141","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The primary aim of this study is to examine the factors influencing Generation Z's(GenZ) purchase intentions through their interactions with virtual influencers (VIs). Utilizing judgmental sampling, a sample of 352 individuals with prior experience as VIs was selected to address the research objectives. The data were analyzed using a mixed-method approach, incorporating fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN techniques). The findings highlight the pivotal roles of virtual influencer quality and social presence in shaping purchase intentions, mediated by customer satisfaction. These results underscore the necessity for practitioners to consider the influence of VIs on purchase behavior via customer satisfaction. The study offers valuable insights to firms, aiding in the development of strategies to enhance the effectiveness of VIs in capturing customer attention. By investigating the interplay between virtual influencer quality, social presence, customer satisfaction, and purchase intentions, the research contributes to a deeper understanding of consumer behavior in the context of virtual influencers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100376,"journal":{"name":"Digital Business","volume":"5 2","pages":"Article 100141"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144772456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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GenAI and employee innovativeness: How employees' sensing capabilities and the capabilities to use and evaluate GenAI shape their innovative work behavior 基因人工智能与员工创新：员工的感知能力以及使用和评估基因人工智能的能力如何塑造他们的创新工作行为

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Digital Business Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.digbus.2025.100149

Patrick Held, Tim Heubeck

{"title":"GenAI and employee innovativeness: How employees' sensing capabilities and the capabilities to use and evaluate GenAI shape their innovative work behavior","authors":"Patrick Held, Tim Heubeck","doi":"10.1016/j.digbus.2025.100149","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.digbus.2025.100149","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Innovation is critical for organizational success, with employees' innovative work behavior (IWB) forming a key microfoundation of firm-level innovation. While prior research has identified various antecedents of IWB, the role of generative AI (GenAI) remains underexplored. We address this gap by investigating how employees' capabilities to use and evaluate GenAI influence their IWB. Building on the dynamic capabilities view, we further explore how employees' capabilities to sense technological shifts shape the development of these GenAI capabilities and ultimately foster IWB. We test our model using survey data from 439 business consultants in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, analyzed via partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Our results show that employees' sensing capabilities promote both GenAI capabilities and directly enhance IWB. While employees' capability to evaluate GenAI promotes IWB, GenAI usage capability does not. Moreover, we identify a significant mediation pathway: employees' sensing capabilities enhance GenAI usage capability, which in turn enables GenAI evaluation capability and thereby fosters IWB. This study contributes to the IWB literature by exploring relevant yet understudied antecedents: employees' sensing capabilities and their capabilities to use and evaluate GenAI. Moreover, it extends emerging research on GenAI in innovation management by adopting a differentiated capability perspective and uncovering the distinct roles and interplay of employees' GenAI usage and evaluation capabilities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100376,"journal":{"name":"Digital Business","volume":"5 2","pages":"Article 100149"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144925614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Self-service business intelligence systems in production domains: Introducing data democratization and mass customizable mashups 生产领域中的自助服务业务智能系统：引入数据民主化和大规模可定制的mashup

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Digital Business Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.digbus.2025.100156

Johan Bjerre Bach Clausen , Charles Møller , Claus Boye Asmussen , Steffen Lundgaard Jørgensen

{"title":"Self-service business intelligence systems in production domains: Introducing data democratization and mass customizable mashups","authors":"Johan Bjerre Bach Clausen , Charles Møller , Claus Boye Asmussen , Steffen Lundgaard Jørgensen","doi":"10.1016/j.digbus.2025.100156","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.digbus.2025.100156","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the observation that making business intelligence available through self-service business intelligence (SSBI) systems has only to a lesser degree been successful in organizations. In this paper, we specifically explore SSBI in the production domain, where Internet-of-Things and production data are core data sources in production companies. This paper takes a design science approach, where a structured literature review is used to establish the current research frontier. From our analysis of the problem situation, and close empirical collaboration with a company experiencing problems with implementing SSBI systems, we propose and design two digital artifacts. The two artifacts are partly evaluated based on empirical data from the case company. In this paper, we find that data should not only be made available in SSBI systems, but must also be presented in accordance with domain knowledge of the users. This finding implies that the SSBI literature should to a larger degree draw upon insights from relevant IS literature on contextualized data. Practitioners should design IS systems with contextualized data at their core, as the digital twin discussed in this paper. The second main finding of the paper is that analytics in SSBI systems should be prescriptive analytics, which directly supports the users’ decision-making. A novel contribution of this paper is integrating the concept of prescriptive analytics SSBI systems, and in this paper we discuss and partly validate how integrating prescriptive analytics and SSBI systems can improve decision-making in a production context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100376,"journal":{"name":"Digital Business","volume":"5 2","pages":"Article 100156"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145360993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring IoT integration challenges: Causal relationships and strategic implications for business models 探索物联网整合挑战：商业模式的因果关系和战略影响

Digital Business Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.digbus.2025.100125

Parveen Siwach , Disha Gulia , Dhiraj Kumar Yadav , Mohit Malik , Vijay Kumar Gahlawat

{"title":"Exploring IoT integration challenges: Causal relationships and strategic implications for business models","authors":"Parveen Siwach , Disha Gulia , Dhiraj Kumar Yadav , Mohit Malik , Vijay Kumar Gahlawat","doi":"10.1016/j.digbus.2025.100125","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.digbus.2025.100125","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Implementing the Internet of Things (IoT) into business models has become an influential catalyst, supporting novel revenue generation, improved operational efficiencies, and competitive dominance. Still, its implementation has been challenged by barriers to technological, organizational, and societal dimensions. The current study utilizes the Fuzzy Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (Fuzzy DEMATEL) technique to comprehensively identify and assess the interconnections among fundamental IoT integration challenges. Thirteen crucial components were analysed, influencing interoperability challenges, data security and privacy issues, standardized issues, high initial investment, scaling obstacles, and adverse environmental effects. The results indicate a clear differentiation between seven cause variables such as lack of skilled workforce, interoperability issues, standardization gaps, high initial investment, regulatory issues, resistance to change, and data security and privacy issues were the most influential challenges and six effects (dependent) factors including vendor dependency risks were the most impacted effect factors. These findings highlight the necessity to tackle fundamental problems, including standardization, workforce development, and regulatory clarity. This research strengthens theoretical aspects in IoT using Fuzzy DEMATEL by delivering a robust decision-making roadmap. The results highlights actionable practical recommendations for regulators and businesses for effective resource utilization to improve their IoT adoption in compliance with sustainable development. Businesses can utilize the full potential of IoT by addressing such problems and promote innovative environment to ensure a sustainable and resilient future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100376,"journal":{"name":"Digital Business","volume":"5 2","pages":"Article 100125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143838638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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