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Unpacking the dynamics of international research collaboration network: Structural effects and dyadic effects 解析国际科研合作网络的动态：结构效应和二元效应

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102954

Qinchang Gui , Wei Xu , Shidan Jiang , Zihao Yu , Weidong Guo

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An exploratory study of the impact of transparent and empathetic cues in emergency responses on the public's liking behavior from the elaboration likelihood model perspective 基于精细似然模型的应急反应中透明和共情提示对公众喜欢行为影响的探索性研究

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102952

Xuefeng Zhang , Yelin Huang , Fenglian Wang , Jiafu Su

{"title":"An exploratory study of the impact of transparent and empathetic cues in emergency responses on the public's liking behavior from the elaboration likelihood model perspective","authors":"Xuefeng Zhang , Yelin Huang , Fenglian Wang , Jiafu Su","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102952","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102952","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Releasing responses on social media is an essential approach for official agencies to communicate with the public during emergencies. Likes given by the public on the responses have potential value in gaining exposure of the message, demonstrating social and emotional support, and relieving negative impacts. This raises the question of what and how information in an emergency response on social media influences the public's liking behavior. Drawing upon the elaboration likelihood model (ELM), this study examines the relationships between the public's liking behavior and the cues in emergency responses from the two important and useful response strategies of ensuring transparency and showing empathy. By conducting negative binomial regressions on the 225 emergency responses collected from social media Sina Weibo, we found that, on the central route, being transparent through providing cues including stakeholder information, causes and developments, and authenticated evidence using easy-to-comprehend expressions is positively related to the public's likes. However, the other two transparency cues, i.e., disclosing negative impacts and concrete data, are negatively associated with the public's preferences. For the empathic cues on the peripheral route, the public's liking behavior is positively related to affective words but negatively related to positive emotional descriptions in the responses. Additionally, the severity level of the emergency has a significant moderation effect on the relationships between the empathetic cues and the public's liking behavior. The findings of this study will contribute to our understanding of emergency communication on social media. In particular, this study provides theoretical implications and practical references for preparing emergency responses, especially their content and linguistic expressions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 102952"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144178761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Determinants of switching intention to adopt electric vehicles: A comparative analysis of China and Malaysia 电动汽车转换意向的决定因素：中国和马来西亚的比较分析

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102949

Teng Yu , Ai Ping Teoh , Junyun Liao , Chengliang Wang

{"title":"Determinants of switching intention to adopt electric vehicles: A comparative analysis of China and Malaysia","authors":"Teng Yu , Ai Ping Teoh , Junyun Liao , Chengliang Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102949","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102949","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the factors influencing the intention to switch to electric vehicles (EVs) in China and Malaysia, highlighting the countries’ different cultural contexts. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey, resulting in valid responses from 696 Chinese and 648 Malaysian participants. The study employs partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and multi-group analysis (MGA) within the framework of the push-pull-mooring model, incorporating key factors such as dissatisfaction with traditional fuel vehicles, cost pressure, perceived value, incentive policies, social influence, switching costs, and inertia. The findings reveal that dissatisfaction with traditional vehicles and cost pressure positively influence switching intention in both countries, with cost pressure having a stronger effect in China. Perceived value and incentive policies are also positively related to switching intention across both countries. Social influence is more prominent in China, while inertia has a stronger negative impact on switching intention in Malaysia. Switching costs significantly hinder EV adoption in both countries, with a greater barrier in China. Furthermore, green self-identity played a stronger moderating role in Malaysia for the effects of dissatisfaction with traditional vehicles and incentive policies on switching intention, reflecting a higher sensitivity among environmentally conscious Malaysian consumers. In contrast, green self-identity positively moderates the impact of social influence on switching intention in China, but not in Malaysia, highlighting the stronger role of social dynamics in shaping environmentally motivated decisions in China. This study contributes to the growing body of literature on EV adoption by providing cross-national insights and offering practical implications for policymakers and industry stakeholders aiming to promote sustainable mobility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 102949"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144124649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reducing cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the supply base: Insights from cyber experts 减少供应基地的网络安全漏洞：来自网络专家的见解

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102947

Robert Handfield, Julie Earp, Amir Hossein Sadeghi

{"title":"Reducing cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the supply base: Insights from cyber experts","authors":"Robert Handfield, Julie Earp, Amir Hossein Sadeghi","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102947","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102947","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cybersecurity has emerged as one of the greatest risks in global supply chains and is of interest to both practitioners and academic researchers. However, current approaches largely assume that data breaches involve external parties directly attacking the organization. Prior research overlooks a critical element, namely that suppliers are often electronically integrated with companies, and represent a critical vulnerability that is often exploited by cybercriminals. This study provides a process-driven approach for addressing this gap for logistics managers to apply. We discover that supplier and distributor cybersecurity protection is a core part of a logistics and procurement managers’ responsibility and is no longer just an IT concern. Our analysis focuses on practical insights developed through targeted subject-matter expert (SME) interviews. We cover the methodologies employed to conduct our qualitative investigation, as well as the results of the study. In this study, we began by noting that most studies in cybersecurity assume that vulnerabilities are largely internal to the organization. We develop a qualitatively derived set of best practices based on subject matter interviews that outlines the key steps for addressing supply base cyber-vulnerabilities. We discuss the results of the interviews and the implications of this research for managers, and how they may ensure that vulnerabilities in the supply base are addressed. This framework requires additional validation but provides a strong basis for supply chain managers to consider.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 102947"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Investigating the responsibilities of digital organizations in facing sustainability challenges: Developing an empirical framework and measurement model for corporate digital responsibility 调查数字化组织在面对可持续性挑战时的责任：开发企业数字化责任的实证框架和测量模型

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102950

Ali Khani , Mohsen Shahriari , Gadaf Rexhepi

{"title":"Investigating the responsibilities of digital organizations in facing sustainability challenges: Developing an empirical framework and measurement model for corporate digital responsibility","authors":"Ali Khani , Mohsen Shahriari , Gadaf Rexhepi","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102950","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102950","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The widespread adoption of digital technologies by organizations has led to the emergence of significant challenges for themselves and society. Hence, Corporate Digital Responsibility has been introduced as a solution for the responsible use of technologies that meet the expectations of stakeholders. This research aims to develop a validated scale for measuring Corporate Digital Responsibility and to examine its impact on digital sustainability in organizations. In the qualitative phase, three key dimensions—ethical, legal, and sustainability-oriented responsibilities—along with 11 indicators were identified through a combination of a literature review and Delphi interviews. In the quantitative phase, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted on survey data from organizational representatives, confirming the robustness of the proposed measurement model. The findings confirm the proposed measurement model for Corporate Digital Responsibility and demonstrate that Corporate Digital Responsibility practices significantly enhance digital sustainability by promoting transparency, accountability, and environmental responsibility. These results provide a structured framework for researchers and actionable recommendations for managers to implement Corporate Digital Responsibility and effectively address the challenges of digital transformation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 102950"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144134971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Doing science an approach to a comprehensive assessment of the business climate for science and technology 做科学是全面评估科技商业环境的一种方法

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102948

Leonid Gokhberg, Dirk Meissner, Mikhail Gershman, Valeriya Vlasova

{"title":"Doing science an approach to a comprehensive assessment of the business climate for science and technology","authors":"Leonid Gokhberg, Dirk Meissner, Mikhail Gershman, Valeriya Vlasova","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102948","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102948","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Assessment of science and technology has become widespread in policy making to measure the impact of public funding, align respective policy portfolios and initiate changes in the national institutional environment. In that respect, evaluations of different scope, shape and size and for different purposes are developed and implemented. Such exercises mainly focus on institutions or projects with some consideration of the surrounding framework conditions. Broader assessments at a country level are mainly build on macro indicators derived from national statistics with the framework conditions for research only fragmentarily covered. The approach described in the paper is a survey-based bottom-up assessment by the managers of research institutions of the framework conditions relevant for undertaking scientific activities. It introduces a composite “Doing Science” indicator which consists of such dimensions as human resources, funding, research equipment, information infrastructure, research cooperation, research results and their commercialization, engagement with society, and institutional conditions. The approach delivers a realistic assessment of the attractiveness and suitability of the country's science base to generate scientific results and achieve impact on economy and society, and may serve as a model feedback-based policy evaluation tool for decision makers worldwide.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 102948"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144107783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Detecting technology opportunities appropriate for enterprise R&D: The synthesis analysis of industrial technical windows and enterprise competition relations 寻找适合企业研发的技术机会：产业技术窗口与企业竞争关系的综合分析

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102951

Bo Xiang , Zhuoya Pan , Dejian Yu , Wenjin Zuo

{"title":"Detecting technology opportunities appropriate for enterprise R&D: The synthesis analysis of industrial technical windows and enterprise competition relations","authors":"Bo Xiang , Zhuoya Pan , Dejian Yu , Wenjin Zuo","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102951","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102951","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Technological opportunities (TOs) are the potential and set of possibilities for technology advances in a given industry. When enterprises are able to catch and adapt to them in a timely manner, they can grab market share from competitors who have failed to adapt to these challenges. However, when there exist large gaps between enterprises and their competitors, it should be carefully evaluated whether enterprise-specific TOs are worth exploring. Moreover, faced with diversified competitive relations, enterprises also need to formulate differentiated research and development (R&D) strategies for different TOs. To address these research gaps, this paper argues for the theoretical concepts of technical windows (TWs), emerging technologies (ETs), and TOs, and proposes a three-stage framework to detect enterprise-specific TOs. This framework is empirically validated in 282,778 patents from the artificial intelligence (AI) industry of China. To begin with, this paper extracts 53 candidate technical knowledge in the AI industry based on topic modeling, which covers various application scenarios such as power, logistics and agriculture. Then, this work identifies 15 industry-specific TWs based on the impact, growth and novelty of technologies, which are calculated with pre-trained language model and aggregated mapping. Moreover, technological competitiveness that combines quality and scale is applied to carve out competitive positions of enterprises across different TWs, which is also utilized to screen out suitable TOs and formulate differentiated R&D strategies. The case of Baidu reveals these results in detail. At last, comparative and extensible fine-grained analyses confirm the robustness and theoretical value of this thesis in the technology innovation management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 102951"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144116009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Contrasting directionalities in responsible innovation, lessons from the salmon farming industry in Chile and Norway 负责任创新方向的对比，智利和挪威鲑鱼养殖业的经验教训

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102946

Joaquin Zenteno Hopp

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Are virtual places perceived as real? Belief in equivalence of virtual and physical spaces and its role in shaping willingness to migrate to virtual worlds 虚拟的地方会被认为是真实的吗？相信虚拟空间和物理空间的等价性，以及它在塑造迁移到虚拟世界的意愿方面的作用

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102943

Tomasz Oleksy, Izabela Lassota

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How does knowledge creation really promote dynamic capabilities? The lens of routine renewal and technological turbulence 知识创造如何真正提升动态能力？常规更新和技术动荡的镜头

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102944

Yujuan Xi , Xiangyang Wang , Yunxia Zhu

{"title":"How does knowledge creation really promote dynamic capabilities? The lens of routine renewal and technological turbulence","authors":"Yujuan Xi , Xiangyang Wang , Yunxia Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102944","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.102944","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Knowledge creation has been widely circulated and is seen as the key to leading to dynamic capabilities for enterprises. However, how newly created knowledge is transformed into dynamic capabilities remains unclear in existing research. Drawing on the routine-based view and knowledge-based view, this study is designed to construct a comprehensive model to explain the intricate process that new knowledge is transformed into dynamic capabilities. In particular, the mediating roles of routine renewal and the moderating roles of technological turbulence were investigated. Using a sample from Chinese high-tech industry covering 370 enterprises, this study examined the model and hypotheses with structural equation modeling (SEM) and bootstrap methods. The findings demonstrate that knowledge creation could not promote dynamic capabilities directly but with the aid of routine modification and routine development. Notably, routine development exhibits a stronger mediating effect compared to routine modification. Furthermore, technological turbulence moderates the mediating impact of routine development but not for routine modification. This study underlines novel viewpoints into how knowledge creation influences dynamic capabilities from the unique perspective of routine renewal and technological turbulence, which advances ongoing literature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 102944"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143946817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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