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{"title":"The positive effects of green technology investments on growth expectations","authors":"Andras Takacs","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102407","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study presents evidence that investments in green technology and corporate environmental policies, or in other words, a move towards cleaner production, increase investors' growth expectations, resulting in a rise in firms' stock market value. Additionally, the study statistically demonstrates that the positive correlation between cleaner production and growth expectations strengthened during the latter half of the 2010s. The author employs the reverse discounted cash flow method as a novel technique to define the response variable for cleaner production. The study's outcomes carry crucial policy implications since well-targeted measures can amplify the favorable financial effects of green technology investments on regional, industry, or national economy levels.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 102407"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160791X23002129/pdfft?md5=86b306acc77b5848ecc7eb7a22458728&pid=1-s2.0-S0160791X23002129-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92043593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Employees’ reskilling and upskilling for industry 5.0: Selecting the best professional development programmes","authors":"Ramona Diana Leon","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102393","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>The current research aims at developing a multi-criteria decision-making methodology, based on analytic network process (ANP), for selecting the appropriate professional development<span> programmes for enhancing employees' reskilling and upskilling, in the Industry 5.0 context. Thus, a four-stage methodology, which combines the qualitative approach of the </span></span>Delphi study<span> with the quantitative approach of the multi-criteria decision-making technique of ANP, is proposed and tested in the three largest companies from the Romanian manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products industry. The results show that teamwork, online communities of practice<span> and enterprise social networks are among the best options. Furthermore, the most influential factors are employees' psychological profile (namely, interpersonal trust and self-efficacy) and human capital (especially, inclusiveness and job satisfaction). These findings have both theoretical and practical implications. At the theoretical level, they provide a nexus between human resource management and operations management by showing how a methodology based on ANP can be applied for solving a human resource issue. At the practical level, they help managers to decide which professional development programmes to implement for employees' reskilling and upskilling by providing them an easily customizable tool that takes into account employees' characteristics and company's human and structural capital.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 102393"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91987531","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}

{"title":"New Perspectives in Innovation Failure Analysis: A taxonomy of general errors and strategic management for reducing risks","authors":"Mario Coccia","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102384","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In turbulent environments, one of the fundamental problems is the high risk of failure in new innovation projects that affects organizational behaviour and performance of firms and also nations. The study here clarifies the theoretical structure of project-level failure proposing a new definition, based on systems approach (<em>Innovation failure is when organization does not achieve the main goal of project because of a set of errors</em>), and a taxonomy of three general types of error in innovation failures: errors in planning and/or design, in project execution/implementation and in marketization. A case study research clarifies the proposed framework of innovation failures with examples from pharmaceutical sector, aerospace and aircraft industries, and information &amp; communication technology sector. Results suggest that the failure in innovation projects is due to proposed errors associated mainly with bounded rationality of organizations in dealing with goal difficulty, environmental complexity and uncertainty. Different strategies of problem solving to reduce errors and risks leading to innovation failures and improve technological development are proposed, such as learning processes, adaptation perspective, game theory approach, stage-gate method, etc. The proposed systemic concept of innovation failure and related taxonomy of general typologies of error can guide R&amp;D managers, designers, analysts, and policymakers etc. to know main determinants of failure in innovation projects and how appropriate strategies can improve organizational performance and R&amp;D processes of firms for competitive advantage in markets and society.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 102384"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160791X23001896/pdfft?md5=e87144bd26dc19242476e9b944f71c3f&pid=1-s2.0-S0160791X23001896-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92043590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A literature review of smart technology domains with implications for research on smart rural communities","authors":"Kine Jakobsen ,&nbsp;Marius Mikalsen ,&nbsp;Grethe Lilleng","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102397","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This literature review examines empirical research on smart technologies in eight domains and seeks to analyse implications for smart rural communities research. The development and implementation of smart technologies has the potential to improve various aspects of life in rural areas, including healthcare, mobility, and governance. However, the adoption of these technologies also raises important questions about their relation to communities. The existing literature is reviewed to examine the key findings and knowledge gaps. By using a sociotechnical perspective and considering the specific characteristics of rural communities, the discussion is focused on how smart technologies can contribute to rural contexts. Further, policy implications are considered, encompassing the requirement for a holistic and inclusive approach to the implementation of smart technologies in rural areas. Implementation should address the specific needs, challenges, economic and infrastructural conditions, social structures, and cultural contexts of the respective communities. Future research and exploration of smart community concepts in rural contexts are suggested to improve smart technology implementation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 102397"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160791X23002026/pdfft?md5=4b9cf8ed3c521d92e010b8e0599d9d2a&pid=1-s2.0-S0160791X23002026-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92043595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rural transformation and the development of information and communication technologies: Evidence from Indonesia","authors":"Fikri Zul Fahmi ,&nbsp;Martha Jesica S. Mendrofa","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102349","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102349","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper aims to examine the potential interrelationship between the existence of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and rural transformation on the island of Java in Indonesia, a country in the Global South. While the issues of rural digitalization as well as rural transformation have been extensively studied, it remains unclear to what extent the development of ICTs stimulates rural transformation in the Global South. We have employed quantitative methods to test the associations between rural structural transformation and the existence of ICTs by using Potensi Desa (Village Potentials) datasets, which portray development characteristics at the village level. Our findings show that on the one hand, the presence of ICTs increases the likelihood of a village experiencing an economic shift from agriculture to non-agriculture. On the other hand, they show that village structural transformation increases the chance of ICTs being available in the village. Given these results, we see that the presence of ICTs in this context, and possibly in other instances in the Global South, might not yet become a driver of rural structural transformation. As rural areas undergo economic diversification along with improvements in infrastructure and education levels, ICTs develop accordingly.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 102349"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91271502","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}

{"title":"Identifying digital leadership's role in fostering competitive advantage through responsible innovation: A SEM-Neural Network approach","authors":"Khalid Rasheed Memon,&nbsp;Say Keat Ooi","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102399","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Contemporary research suggests that digital leadership (DL) plays a pivotal role in harnessing digital transformation to drive digital development, impacting organisations, society, and the environment. Nonetheless, empirical studies on the role of DL in fostering responsible innovation (RI) for a competitive advantage (CA) remain scarce despite its significance. Drawing on the upper echelons theory, this research examines how DL, operationalised as a reflective-formative higher-order construct, influences CA with RI as the mediator and social orientation (SO) as the moderator. Data were gathered through an online survey from 150 innovative firms, and a dual-stage analysis, combining Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) and Artificial </span>Neural Network (ANN) techniques, was performed. The PLS results indicated that DL positively influences RI, which in turn, positively contributes to CA. Additionally, SO strengthens the link between DL and RI. The subsequent ANN analysis, in alignment with the PLS findings, predicted that the role of “digital innovator” holds the greatest significance, followed by the “digital manager” and “digital enabler” roles within the spectrum of DL. Overall, these findings hold substantial implications for the fields of leadership and RI within digital organisations, shedding light on the crucial relationship between DL, RI, SO and CA.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 102399"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92122517","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}

{"title":"How financial literacy moderates the relationship between qualitative business information and the success of an equity crowdfunding campaign: Evidence from Mediterranean and Gulf Cooperation Council countries","authors":"Carmen Gallucci ,&nbsp;Anastasia Giakoumelou ,&nbsp;Rosalia Santulli ,&nbsp;Riccardo Tipaldi","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102401","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper presents empirical evidence suggesting that financial literacy moderates the inverted U-shaped relationship between the amount of qualitative business information provided and the success of an equity crowdfunding campaign. Drawing on a sample of 807 equity offerings posted on 26 platforms operating in 6 Mediterranean and Gulf Cooperation Council countries (Cyprus, France, Israel, Italy, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates), the findings indicate that higher levels of financial literacy amplify the positive effect of more comprehensive qualitative business information. However, once a qualitative business information threshold is crossed, financial literacy results related to observed negative returns are even more substantial. These results, rooted into the signalling and information overload theoretical frameworks, offer valuable insights for entrepreneurs, platform administrators, investors and policymakers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 102401"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92043591","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}

{"title":"Remote experiments for STEM education and engagement in rural schools: The case of project R3","authors":"Diego Casado-Mansilla ,&nbsp;Javier García-Zubia ,&nbsp;Jordi Cuadros ,&nbsp;Vanessa Serrano ,&nbsp;Daniela Fadda ,&nbsp;y Veronica Canivell","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102404","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rural schools tend not to have enough laboratory and experimentation equipment, which can be an obstacle that hinders student learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) areas. Moreover, this loss of competencies can reduce their employment opportunities while society itself is deprived of that human capital. Remote laboratories have emerged as a way of countering the effects of insufficient investment in equipment or the inability to acquire the latter. By way of example, the goal of Project R3, which is presented in this article, is to reduce the absence or shortage of laboratories in the rural world via the use of remote experimentation. Specifically, this article presents the experience, the results, and the main conclusions of Project R3 during its first year of life. It is worth noting that Project R3 has been deployed not only in rural but also in urban environments, making it possible to compare learning results and satisfaction levels for students in both spheres and identify those experiments that provide the best learning experience and are most popular among pupils and teachers. The main objective is that from the local analysis (the Project has only been conducted in Spain) it might be possible to draw conclusions of a global nature that might be extrapolated to other countries in the European Union with similar socio-demographics. Initial results are in the direction of certifying that student achievement and satisfaction are higher in rural than in urban environments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 102404"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160791X23002099/pdfft?md5=253912f8474d081cb32930f74384be96&pid=1-s2.0-S0160791X23002099-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92043592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Generational cohorts’ social media acceptance as a delivery tool in sub-Sahara Africa motorcycle industry: The role of cohort technical know-how in technology acceptance","authors":"Abdul Karim Armah,&nbsp;Jinfa Li","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102390","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Scholars have explored the applicability of social media technology in diverse fields. However, its significance as a delivery tool in the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) motorcycle industry lacks literature. Motorcycles for product delivery are one of SSA's largest informal employments to generational cohorts. Motorcycles are crucial for product mobility and passenger conveyance in SSA, and it is currently the most outsourced logistics that drive the SSA online commerce ecosystem. With the financial challenges of the SSA motorcycle industry, generational cohorts of this economic sector have adopted social media technology for delivery purposes. Even though this phenomenon is realized among the predominated Generation (Gen) X, Y, and Z, no research has explored the area. However, motorcycle studies are based on actors, organizations, politics, forms of service regulation, safety, health, environmental impacts, and spatial patterns, creating a significant gap in social media adoption, usage, and importance. Therefore, the study aims to assess the effects of the factors influencing the recent adoption of social media technology for delivery operations and the difference in social media acceptance and application between Gen X, Y, and Z in the SSA motorcycle industry using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). The novel findings show the theoretical extension of the adopted theories by introducing cohorts' technical know-how (TKH), which positively influences cohorts' social media adoption and application. It also confirms the differences in generational cohorts' technology intelligence and acceptance. Generally, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and attitude influence generational cohorts to adopt social media for delivery purposes. Cohorts' perceived risk was insignificant, and the predictors of the TAM and TPB model partially mediate the positive relationship between TKH and intention to use social media as a delivery tool. The study's findings have theoretical and business implications, which are discussed in detail in the conclusion. But generally, the findings will service as a guide for logistics companies to integrate a cost-effective technology into their system. It will help policymakers of the various African states to revise the ban on motorcycle usage for commercial purposes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 102390"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92043597","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}

{"title":"Climate change and the political pathways of AI: The technocracy-democracy dilemma in light of artificial intelligence and human agency","authors":"Mark Coeckelbergh ,&nbsp;Henrik Skaug Sætra","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102406","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>It is generally thought that artificial intelligence (AI) has a significant impact on politics and democracy. Meanwhile, the technology is also often hailed a solution to key societal and environmental challenges. It raises questions regarding, for example, how we can and should deal with climate change. This article links and discusses these issues by putting them in the context of a technocracy-democracy dilemma and by using the concept of critical junctures. Then it identifies two political pathways of AI and critically discusses their underlying assumptions. This offers a useful framework for further discussion of the relations between AI, climate change, and democracy, and enables the examination of important issues for the politics of technology, such as the role of human expertise vis-à-vis artificial intelligence, the problems raised by techno-solutionism, and the question at what level of governance AI and climate change should be addressed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 102406"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160791X23002117/pdfft?md5=5c9e0c4cac54dd40acd6693500285211&pid=1-s2.0-S0160791X23002117-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92135765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}