{"title":"Fostering product quality and Brand Trust by QR code traceability and customer reviews: The moderating role of brand reputation in Blockchain","authors":"Minh T.H. Le","doi":"10.1016/j.hitech.2024.100492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hitech.2024.100492","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This research highlights the critical role of blockchain technology in bolstering consumer trust for merchants through its application in traceability labels. The dual-method approach contributes a comprehensive understanding of the subject. Qualitative research through in-depth interviews aims to explore consumer expectations when scanning QR codes on product labels. Investigating factors such as evaluation of previous buyer, traceability labels, perceived product quality, and trust in products, the study employs a quantitative approach, collecting 300 valid data points via an online survey. The data undergoes reliability analysis using SmartPLS software, leading to the construction of a model assessing the impact of blockchain on brand trust in traceability labels. Findings serve as a reference for future investigations into various traceability labels and their effects on customer trust. The study underscores the practical implications of integrating blockchain technology into traceability systems to enhance consumer trust, providing valuable insights for both scholars and practitioners in the field.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38944,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Technology Management Research","volume":"35 1","pages":"Article 100492"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141156362","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}
{"title":"Empowering small businesses with the force of big data analytics and AI: A technological integration for enhanced business management","authors":"Archana Mantri , Rahul Mishra","doi":"10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100476","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in developing economies still face a number of obstacles that prevent them from adopting digital technologies. In contrast, SMEs have achieved greater success in emerging markets. Due to its potential benefits for numerous businesses, machine learning (ML) has become a hot topic in recent years. Particularly a few major organizations, for example, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have shown a few effective cases on coordinating simulated intelligence capacity in their own organizations. This research suggests a fresh method for bettering private companies by combining large-scale data analysis with artificial intelligence and enhanced safety measures. Here, cloud edge administration with task planning using a dynamic joined real channel Kubernetes obstruction task scheduler improves business for the executives. Then, the organization's security is bolstered by a form of differential encryption on the blockchain that takes into account the need for security. We also propose assigning new jobs to the load node with the lightest workload. Experiments show that our strategy shortens job completion times and distributes work evenly across edge nodes. The experimental investigation is conducted in terms of latency, quality of service, energy efficiency, data integrity, and scalability. The proposed technique attained latency of 0.8354, QoS of 0.9395, energy efficiency of 0.9879, data integrity of 0.1189, scalability of 0.8400.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38944,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Technology Management Research","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100476"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50181869","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}
{"title":"Cloud computing enabled business model innovation","authors":"Bhavana Godavarthi , Nirmalajyothi Narisetty , Kalpana Gudikandhula , R. Muthukumaran , Dhiraj Kapila , J.V.N. Ramesh","doi":"10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100469","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cloud computing's primary layer of security is its widespread adoption by businesses due to its ability to provide easy, on-demand network access to a large pool of configurable processing resources. Pressure from developed-world governments to keep up with the latest IT trends makes it challenging for colleges around the world to adopt cloud computing in engineering education. Although cloud computing as a concept has become more popular in recent times and quite a few studies have been conducted, the adoption and application level is still very low, particularly in developing countries. This study provides a realistic framework for gauging the sustainability of a company model. While digitalization is widely acknowledged to be crucial, the study's results reveal that the perceived available options for business model innovation depend not only on the value proposition itself but also on the position in the value network. The primary goal of this research is to create a cloud computing service provider business model that is built on circular economy principles and can guarantee the sustainable usage of cloud computing resources.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38944,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Technology Management Research","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100469"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50181918","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}
{"title":"Ownership property, it investment and firm performance","authors":"Meiyi Song","doi":"10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100481","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the effects of ownership property on the relationship between IT investment and corporate performance of Chinese listed companies. Previous studies focused on the relationship between IT investment and firm performance. Few studies focused on the factors that affect the relationship. Based on the resource-based view and information asymmetry theory, this paper takes all listed companies in China from 2012 to 2018 as the research sample. We find that IT investment has a significant positive correlation with corporate performance and the ownership property has a negative moderating effect on the positive correlation between IT investment and company performance. We address endogeneity concerns with model regressions and fixed effect model. Finally, using the company performance data with a lag of one period for robustness testing, the results are robust.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38944,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Technology Management Research","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100481"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50181855","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}
{"title":"Salient research topics on boards of directors of family firms in the Latin American context – An institutional perspective","authors":"Miguel Méndez , Pedro Vázquez","doi":"10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100483","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Family firms (FFs) have unique governance characteristics regarding their Boards of Directors (BoDs) and have been found to behave differently than other organizations due to the involvement of the controlling families. While cultural and institutional contexts have been suggested to influence the way companies are governed, most research on governance and BoDs in FFs (that results in theory development and prescription of practices) has been conducted in the institutional context of developed economies. Consequently, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the governance and BoDs of FFs in developing regions such as Latin America.</p><p>In order to close this gap, this study reviews the literature regarding business governance and BoDs of FFs in Latin America and compares it with the knowledge coming from developed economies. It also detects the most salient topics that attracts the undivided attention of researchers in Latin America: rights expropriation, business groups and interlocking of directors. Furthermore, this paper proposes a model that explains the salience of these topics based on the institutional domains and cultural context shaping corporate governance and characterizes each of its key elements (capital, management/labor, and State) in the context of Latin America. Finally, fruitful directions for further research are suggested.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38944,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Technology Management Research","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100483"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50181871","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}
D. Srinivasa Kumar , Akuthota Sankar Rao , Nellore Manoj Kumar , N. Jeebaratnam , M. Kalyan Chakravarthi , S. Bhargavi Latha
{"title":"A stochastic process of software fault detection and correction for business operations","authors":"D. Srinivasa Kumar , Akuthota Sankar Rao , Nellore Manoj Kumar , N. Jeebaratnam , M. Kalyan Chakravarthi , S. Bhargavi Latha","doi":"10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100463","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Automatic software fault detection and repair is made possible by autonomic software recovery. By incorporating this function, the software will run more efficiently and aggressively while requiring much less time and resources for maintenance. The focus of this article is on a suggested automated approach to Software Fault Detection and Recovery. The Software Fault Detection and Recovery (SFDR) procedure identifies when a software component has been damaged due to a fault and then restores the damaged component so that the software can continue functioning normally. During the design process, the SFDR is examined and created independently from the intended program. The proposed technique was implemented into an application that demonstrates the SFDR's performance and effectiveness to guarantee its practicality in real-world scenarios. The results of this experiment were encouraging. Results from experiments and comparisons to prior works show that the proposed methodology is successful.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38944,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Technology Management Research","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100463"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50181912","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}
Ibrahim A. Shaikh , Zhonghui Hugo Wang , Mohamed Drira
{"title":"How retaining different inside directors on the board influences R&D-intensity: An extension of agency-theory applied to the high-tech sectors","authors":"Ibrahim A. Shaikh , Zhonghui Hugo Wang , Mohamed Drira","doi":"10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100479","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Agency theory views board independence, retaining a high fraction of outside directors, as a hallmark of effective corporate governance. Consequently, many boards have become so “independent” that over 50% of S&P 1500 firms only have one inside director, the ‘lone-CEO’. A small but quickly growing body of ‘pro-insider’ research in agency theory stresses the value of retaining a few additional inside directors to ensure that outside directors are better informed about R&D investments, and to help guide the CEO's long-term technology strategy. We extend agency theory by showing how and why different executive roles, namely the CEO, CTO, and CFO result in contradictory motivations towards R&D investments, due to each inside director's unique resource dependency with key stakeholders. Specifically, we argue that a conflict exists between the CTO's strategic control role and the CFO's financial control role and that the conflict has contrasting consequences for R&D investments. We use panel data analysis to test our theory on a sample of 390 S&P 1500 firms from the high-tech industries, over the period 2002–2015. We find that R&D-intensity increases significantly when a CEO is accompanied by a CTO inside director. Conversely, we find that R&D-intensity substantially decreases when a CEO is joined with a CFO inside director. In fact, a lone-CEO only board is associated with a higher R&D-intensity than a board with both the CEO and CFO. Therefore, whether the CTO or CFO accompanies the CEO on the board matters for preserving R&D expenditure.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38944,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Technology Management Research","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100479"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50181870","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}
{"title":"Editorial note: Heterogeneity in management and governance in family firms","authors":"Lucía Garcés-Galdeano","doi":"10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100484","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Heterogeneity within family firms has emerged as a pivotal area of research interest. This special edition of <em>The Journal of High Technology Management Research</em> makes a significant contribution to the existing body of knowledge on the diversity found within family-run enterprises, with a specific emphasis on the variances in governance and management structures.</p><p>In this introductory piece, the proposition is put forth that family governance, encompassing both ownership and management, alongside the decisions guiding governance practices, plays a pivotal role in driving diversity within family businesses. This exploration delves into multiple facets of heterogeneity within family firms. The subsequent content of this issue comprises four studies that illuminate the impact of governance on diverse aspects, including the intergenerational transmission of knowledge, innovation in products and processes, strategic maneuvers, and the distinctive governance structures prevalent in Latin American family businesses.</p><p>Furthermore, this discourse extends beyond the findings presented in these studies by delving into uncharted realms of research, focusing on the disparities evident in the contextual settings and governance mechanisms adopted by different family firms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38944,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Technology Management Research","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100484"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50181872","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}
{"title":"Building a cross-border e-commerce talent training platform based on logistic regression model","authors":"Minjiang Fang , Dinh Tran Ngoc Huy","doi":"10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100473","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Student success is crucial to the process of building a Cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) talent development platform. Analysis of the important aspects impacting performance and performance prediction are carried out with the goal of enhancing students' academic outcomes. To better forecast student outcomes, a logistic regression model is used for factor analysis, and a penalty function is implemented. Parameters are reconciled using K-fold cross-validation, and then estimated using the coordinate descent technique. Model performance validation findings indicated that the Area Under the curve (AUC) for the minimax concave penalty (MCP) and smoothlyclippedabsolutedeviation(SCAD) penalized logistic regression models were 0.772 and 0.771, respectively. Both the MCP and SCAD penalized logistic regression models have overall accuracies of 0.738 and 0.739, respectively. Researchers found that for MCP, the correlation coefficient was 0.99949, and for SCAD, it was 0.99958, between the projected value and the anticipated value of students' performance. Due to their superior prediction accuracy, the MCP and SCAD penalized logistic regression models may be used as analytical tools in the development of the CBEC talent training platform.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38944,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Technology Management Research","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100473"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50181850","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}
{"title":"Review article: The emerging drone technology and the advancement of the Indian drone business industry","authors":"Srinivas Reddy Edulakanti , Sanjeev Ganguly","doi":"10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hitech.2023.100464","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Undoubtedly, the drone industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world today. There is unlimited potential for Drone technology with continued growth and investment which are essential to categorize drones as an emerging technology. So, the drone industry is the strongest case for an emerging business industry. The number of industries benefiting from drone technology continues to grow. The emerging drone technology and the advancement of the Indian drone business industry are cause and effect relation which are growing and making positive impact across the global drone business industry. We provide an overview and interrelationship of the emerging drone technology and advancement of Indian drone business industry as there is no review to date, has offered a wholistic retrospection of this kind of research review and address this gap. So, this manuscript aims to provide readers with a high-level overview and review of business developments in widely available unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as well as a short summary of the global drone industry and studies that have been covered on drone business industry growth in India over the past decade. This review paper provides a guide that can be used to make sense of the emerging drone business industry and its effect on ever growing drone business in India. The purpose of this review report is to provide a comprehensive market study for the drone business industry that covers a variety of topics, such as relevant facts, relevant historical data, industry-validated market statistics, and predictions based on a systematic literature review (SLR) methodology and set of assumptions that are acceptable. This literature review is longitudinal, and qualitative in nature.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38944,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Technology Management Research","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100464"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50181913","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}