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The efficiency of urban public transport and its impact on environmental sustainability 城市公共交通效率及其对环境可持续性的影响

Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.stae.2025.100097

Joaquín Sánchez Toledano , Beatriz Duarte Monedero , Sandra Flores - Ureba , Clara Simón de Blas

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Digital technologies, sustainable lifestyle, and tourism: How digital nomads navigate global mobility? 数字技术、可持续生活方式和旅游：数字游民如何驾驭全球流动性？

Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.stae.2025.100096

Francisco Javier S. Lacárcel

{"title":"Digital technologies, sustainable lifestyle, and tourism: How digital nomads navigate global mobility?","authors":"Francisco Javier S. Lacárcel","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2025.100096","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2025.100096","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores how digital platforms facilitate entrepreneurship and enable global mobility for digital nomads, i.e., individuals who work remotely while residing in various locations worldwide. The specific focus is on how these platforms influence digital nomads’ decision making related to destination choices and entrepreneurial ventures, while also highlighting opportunities for the adoption of sustainable technology to enhance flexibility and efficiency of remote work. To this end, a total of 25 in-depth interviews were conducted with digital nomads, platform representatives, and academics. Interview questions focused on the impact of digital tools on professional practices and the nomadic lifestyle. The data were analyzed using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling, combined with Computer-Aided Text Analysis (CATA), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Based on the results, 20 key topics related to the challenges, motivations, and future trends of this community were identified, including, among others, digital comfort, sustainable mobility, technology, digital environment, work-life balance, and workspace issues or employment. Taken together, the findings provide valuable insights into the intersection of digital nomadism and digital platforms and technologies, contributing to theories such as work-life balance, sustainable technology use, and boundary work.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"4 2","pages":"Article 100096"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143100716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Decoding sustainable growth: The role of digital technology and entrepreneurship in carbon reduction 解读可持续增长：数字技术和创业在碳减排中的作用

Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.stae.2024.100094

Zeeshan Arshad , Mara Madaleno , Ana I Lillebø , Helena Vieira

{"title":"Decoding sustainable growth: The role of digital technology and entrepreneurship in carbon reduction","authors":"Zeeshan Arshad , Mara Madaleno , Ana I Lillebø , Helena Vieira","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2024.100094","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2024.100094","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Entrepreneurship is instrumental in promoting innovation towards sustainable economic growth. Through information and communication technology (ICT) access and development, digitalization enhances entrepreneurship, fostering the path to sustainable economic growth. However, the literature results evidenced thus far are mixed and do not consider simultaneously the exploration of these cumulative relationships, a gap the present article tries to fill in. Herein is explored the relationship between entrepreneurial activities, ICT, energy consumption, economic growth, and environmental degradation, examining the impact of digitalization and entrepreneurial activities on carbon degradation, with the corresponding effect on the environment, considering a panel of 16 EU countries between 2001 and 2020, using cross-sectional and causality models to account for short and long-run effects. This study also validates these economies' Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) while finding critical cross-sectional dependencies. Despite finding that ICT and entrepreneurial activities improved environmental quality, our work points out that ICT and entrepreneurial activities deteriorated the environment. All the macroeconomic variables evidence long-run relationships with carbon degradation or environmental quality. However, no causality is found between ICT and economic growth, nor between entrepreneurship and economic growth, therefore challenging the idea that growth boosts ICT or entrepreneurship activities in EU countries. Important policy directions are presented considering the results that may foster better routes to sustainable growth and development for EU countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"4 1","pages":"Article 100094"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143098847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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E-commerce among grain traders and its impact on marketing 粮食贸易商的电子商务及其对营销的影响

Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.stae.2024.100090

John Baptist Walier Kabo-Bah, Richard Kwasi Bannor

{"title":"E-commerce among grain traders and its impact on marketing","authors":"John Baptist Walier Kabo-Bah, Richard Kwasi Bannor","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2024.100090","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2024.100090","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The study investigated the determinants of adopting E-commerce among maize traders, focusing on the Savings Grains App. E-commerce implications on marketing effectiveness and the value co-creation opportunities were also analyzed. Primary data was sourced from 130 maize traders. Descriptive statistics, probit regression, and inverse probability weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA) were applied to analyze the data. Perceived usefulness, perceived cost, perceived ease of use, perceived innovativeness, perceived complexity, and household size were identified as factors that significantly influence traders’ adoption of E-commerce. These findings reinforce and expand existing theories on adoption intentions within agripreneurship. Moreover, traders using the e-commerce platform reported an increase of 4702 kg in sales volume and GH¢ 239.1 (US$ 26.8) in sales revenue compared to non-adopters. The study further highlighted value co-creation as a catalyst for enhanced sales volume, revenue, and user satisfaction, underscoring its potential as a sustainable strategy within e-commerce frameworks. The insights gained contribute to understanding the transformative role of sustainable technology in boosting growth and resilience in agricultural trade.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"4 1","pages":"Article 100090"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143148822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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RETRACTED: The economic case for blend fuels: A cost-benefit analysis in the European context 撤回：混合燃料的经济案例：欧洲背景下的成本效益分析

Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.stae.2024.100093

Cemil Koyunoğlu

{"title":"RETRACTED: The economic case for blend fuels: A cost-benefit analysis in the European context","authors":"Cemil Koyunoğlu","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2024.100093","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2024.100093","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (<span><span>https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy</span><svg><path></path></svg></span>).</div><div>This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief.</div><div>The journal was alerted to issues within this article including the presence of the phrase \"As of my knowledge cutoff in 2021,\" indicative of ChatGPT output, the unknown provenance of fourteen case studies, and a nonsensical Figure 1, as detailed here: <span><span>https://pubpeer.com/publications/80DA33E23C3638EC6CDB6E0389C3B2</span><svg><path></path></svg></span>.</div><div>As per journal policy, the author was contacted and asked to provide an explanation to these concerns. The author failed to satisfactorily fulfil this request. It should be noted that upon submission, the author declared that Generative AI tools were used to write the manuscript. However, in the view of the journal their usage appears to have extended beyond improving language and readability and therefore represents a breach of journal policy.</div><div>The Editor-in-Chief has lost confidence in the reliability of this article and has decided to retract it. The corresponding author, Dr Cemil Koyunoğlu, does not agree to the retraction. The journal sincerely regrets that these issues were not detected during the manuscript screening and evaluation process and apologies are offered to readers of the journal.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"4 1","pages":"Article 100093"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143148823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Driving SME performance through technological absorptive capacity and e-business innovation 通过技术吸收能力和电子商务创新推动中小企业绩效

Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.stae.2024.100089

Ismail Abdi Changalima, Ismail Juma Ismail, David Amani

{"title":"Driving SME performance through technological absorptive capacity and e-business innovation","authors":"Ismail Abdi Changalima, Ismail Juma Ismail, David Amani","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2024.100089","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2024.100089","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examined the relationship between technological absorptive capacity and the business performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as the mediating effect of e-business innovation. Based on data obtained from 179 sunflower oil-processing SMEs in Tanzania and analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling, the study established that technological absorptive capacity influences business performance. Further, e-business innovation partially mediates the relationship between technological absorptive capacity and business performance. These findings suggest that technological absorptive capacity indirectly influences SME business performance through e-business innovation. On the other hand, findings from the multigroup analysis revealed insignificant differences in the hypothesized relationships between samples from Dodoma and Singida regions, with greater effects observed in Dodoma than in Singida for most of the relationships. The mediating effect of e-business innovation is more profound in the Dodoma sample than in the Singida sample. This study provides important empirical evidence of the role of technological absorptive capacity and e-business innovation in enhancing SME business performance. Additionally, evidence from cross-regional comparisons is crucial for examining differences in business performance among SMEs operating in the country. This study has some implications for business managers, governments, policymakers, and academics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"4 1","pages":"Article 100089"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143098846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The digital divide in social entrepreneurship: A bibliometric analysis 社会创业中的数字鸿沟：文献计量学分析

Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.stae.2024.100095

Francisco Carmona Solaz , Virginia Simón Moya , Samuel Ribeiro Navarrete

{"title":"The digital divide in social entrepreneurship: A bibliometric analysis","authors":"Francisco Carmona Solaz , Virginia Simón Moya , Samuel Ribeiro Navarrete","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2024.100095","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2024.100095","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global economy has undergone a digital transformation that is now essential for sustainable business success, with COVID-19 significantly accelerating this trend. Organizations have been compelled to adopt digital technologies to remain competitive in an increasingly demanding market. In Spain, the social economy sector has also embraced digitalization, supported by specific funding; however, social economy enterprises often struggle due to limited resources, hindering their ability to fully leverage digital advancements.</div><div>The social economy includes organizations focused on social rather than financial objectives, characterized by democratic governance and efforts to address local social and economic challenges. This sector has seen the rise of social entrepreneurship initiatives aimed at tackling societal issues through sustainable and responsible business practices. Social entrepreneurship thus combines social and economic value creation, supporting social inclusion and sustainable development.</div><div>This paper aims to assess the current literature on sustainable digitalization, the social economy, and social entrepreneurship through a bibliometric study, identifying key trends and areas of interest. Furthermore, it examines how digitalization is integrated within the business models of social economy enterprises. The study finds that while digitalization promotes innovation and sustainability in the social economy, organizations face challenges like limited resources and digital skills gaps. This hinders competitiveness. The research calls for tailored policies to address sector-specific needs and suggests further exploration of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and big data, insocial enterprises.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"4 1","pages":"Article 100095"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143148821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Market-oriented entrepreneurship and the impact of social media and crowdsourcing on continuous organizational learning. An empirical study 以市场为导向的创业精神以及社交媒体和众包对组织持续学习的影响。实证研究

Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.stae.2024.100088

David Juárez-Varón, Elsa Guaita Monreal

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AI technology for developing Bitcoin investment strategies based on altcoin trends 根据替代币趋势制定比特币投资策略的人工智能技术

Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2024-10-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.stae.2024.100087

Raúl Gómez-Martínez, Mara Luisa Medrano-Garcia

{"title":"AI technology for developing Bitcoin investment strategies based on altcoin trends","authors":"Raúl Gómez-Martínez, Mara Luisa Medrano-Garcia","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2024.100087","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2024.100087","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The objective of this study is to analyse the correlation between Bitcoin and altcoins in the post-covid world and take advantage of this possible relationship to design investment strategies on Bitcoin based on the evolution of altcoins using Artificial Intelligence (AI) models.</div><div>The sample of daily observations covers from January 2020 to February 2023, and the regressions performed between altcoins and Bitcoin are positive and 99 % significant, except for Dogecoin, which has a correlation with Bitcoin.</div><div>If we add a lag, the estimated parameters are still 95 % significant, except for Dogecoin, so we can assume that the return of altcoins anticipates the evolution of Bitcoin.</div><div>We train an artificial intelligence model in which the predictors are the observed daily return in altcoins and the target to predict is next day trend of Bitcoin (up or down). We use decision tree algorithms (J48), random forest and naive bayes, but in a retrospective cross-sectional validation with 10 sample partitions we obtain a poor predictive capacity of only a 51 % success rate in the best of cases.</div><div>Therefore, despite the evident correlation between predictors and the objective variable, we should not implement this investment strategy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"4 1","pages":"Article 100087"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142551537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Technological Progress as a Catalyst for Energy Efficiency: A Sustainable Technology Perspective 技术进步是提高能效的催化剂：可持续技术视角

Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2024-10-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.stae.2024.100084

Oussama Zaghdoud

{"title":"Technological Progress as a Catalyst for Energy Efficiency: A Sustainable Technology Perspective","authors":"Oussama Zaghdoud","doi":"10.1016/j.stae.2024.100084","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.stae.2024.100084","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Enhancing energy efficiency through sustainable technological progress is imperative for pursuing sustainable development, particularly in developing countries where economic growth is strongly linked to higher energy consumption. In Tunisia, an open and developing economy, fossil energy consumption can be reduced without compromising economic growth by focusing on diminishing energy intensity. This study investigates the effects of technological progress on the overall energy intensity in Tunisia from 1980 to 2019, examining the role that technological advancements may play in attaining sustainable development goals. This study is based on a growth accounting model that uses time-series analysis and a cointegration estimation approach. Our empirical results suggest the presence of a long-term connection between the variables. The attainment of enhanced energy efficiency is contingent on the growth rate of technological progress, which should exceed capital and labor productivity. The results reveal that the net impact of technological advancements is estimated at -0.0163, which signifies that aggregate energy intensity tends to decrease by an annual average of 1.63% in the long term. These findings underscore the need for developing economies to restructure their energy policies and support sustainable technological initiatives and green entrepreneurship. Developing countries can reduce their energy intensity while boosting their economic growth by fostering technological innovation. This study demonstrates how technological progress and green entrepreneurship can be leveraged to enhance energy efficiency and drive sustainable development in developing nations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101202,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship","volume":"4 1","pages":"Article 100084"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142422451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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