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Rethinking corporate diversification in emerging markets: How digital transformation reshapes strategies in China 对新兴市场企业多元化的反思：数字化转型如何重塑中国企业战略

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103086

Jiayi Tao , Xinhe Zhang , Xiaofei Wu , Qin Zhou

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Leveraging structural and behavioral models to promote green consumer credit practices in non-banking financial companies 利用结构和行为模型促进非银行金融公司的绿色消费信贷实践

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103083

Vikas Sharma , Ramona Rupeika-Apoga

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Towards an integrative model of organizational human-AI collaboration: A semi-systematic review of the current state of the art 迈向组织人类-人工智能协作的综合模型：对当前技术状况的半系统回顾

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103064

Lilian Tai Do Khac , Michael Leyer

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Dual regulatory mechanisms and boundary conditions of digital transformation on open innovation: A supply chain dynamic characteristics perspective 开放式创新数字化转型的双重监管机制与边界条件：供应链动态特征视角

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103085

Qinwei Cao , Yu Qian , LinFeng Zhong , Qiaoyu Meng

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How would prompt completion editing impact user experience scores in academic research with large language models? 在使用大型语言模型的学术研究中，提示完成编辑如何影响用户体验分数？

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103080

Gerald Nderitu Njuguna, Min Qingfei

{"title":"How would prompt completion editing impact user experience scores in academic research with large language models?","authors":"Gerald Nderitu Njuguna, Min Qingfei","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103080","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103080","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Prompt completion editing (PCE), the user-driven revision of large language model (LLM) completions, is a critical behaviour in the academic applications of multimodal LLMs. However, few studies have examined how these edits function as implicit reinforcement signals to improve LLM alignment and enhance user experience (UX). This study investigates how PCE, conceptualised through the dimensions of language stylistics, personalisation, and labelling, affects UX outcomes, including performance, task management, and user satisfaction. The sample consisted of 294 respondents from China and Kenya. Using a user-centred approach, this study applies partial least squares structural equation modelling for empirical analysis. The results show that PCE significantly improves UX (β = 0.304, t = 3.965, p < 0.001) and acts as a proxy for implicit human feedback in LLM optimisation. Mediation analysis confirms that data management and prompting experience significantly explain the relationships (p < 0.001), whereas simple slope analysis supports the moderation effects of perceived usefulness, task fit, and quality. The findings suggest that user edits serve as fine-grained feedback signals that enhance personalisation and usability in academic contexts. These results inform the design of more flexible and feedback-aware LLM systems, thereby advancing the development of human-in-the-loop artificial intelligence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 103080"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145160193","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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A dual-path driving mechanism study of digital transformation on supply chain adaptation from the asymmetric network power perspective 非对称网络权力视角下数字化转型对供应链适应的双路径驱动机制研究

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103081

Chen Peng , Yunsheng Zhang , Liubin Lai

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Reconfiguring Korea’s dual transition: Empirical insights on the role of industry 4.0 technologies 重新配置韩国的双重转型：工业4.0技术作用的实证见解

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103084

Yugang He

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Governance efficiency and upgrade pathways of international generative AI policies and regulations 国际生成性人工智能政策法规的治理效率与升级路径

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103082

Xu Wang, Fang Xie, Binbin Liu

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Deep fakes as a tool of political advertising. Can regulatory framework benefit from the “Ship of Theseus” paradox? 作为政治广告工具的深度造假。监管框架能否从“忒修斯之船”悖论中受益？

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103060

Mateusz Łabuz , Sławomir Soczyński

{"title":"Deep fakes as a tool of political advertising. Can regulatory framework benefit from the “Ship of Theseus” paradox?","authors":"Mateusz Łabuz , Sławomir Soczyński","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103060","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103060","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Deep fakes have been consistently perceived as a threat to social and political processes, particularly elections. A rarely discussed phenomenon, though gaining importance considering the increasing number of real-life use cases, is using deep fakes for political advertising purposes. By manipulating visualizations, artificial intelligence (AI) allows politicians to eliminate or minimize the deficits of their performance and highlight or create features perceived as attractive by the audience. Such manipulations pose a significant epistemic problem, and can severely distort perception of real politicians and their characteristics. These disruptions might correspond to the classic “Ship of Theseus” paradox that addresses the problem of changing identity. The aim of this study is to analyze how this philosophical conundrum could be used for crafting better transparency obligations (disclaimers) for using deep fakes for political advertising purposes. The aim of such disclaimers is to sensitize and protect public opinion against manipulation. However, at the moment the basic labels concentrate on technological dimension of manipulation, overlooking cognitive consequences for human audiences. This paper proposes extensive disclaimers to strengthen their informative and sensitizing potential.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 103060"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145160194","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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Impact of the digital economy on college graduates' return-to-hometown employment: Evidence from China 数字经济对高校毕业生返乡就业的影响：来自中国的证据

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Technology in Society Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103056

Zhidong Feng , Mei Yong

{"title":"Impact of the digital economy on college graduates' return-to-hometown employment: Evidence from China","authors":"Zhidong Feng , Mei Yong","doi":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103056","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103056","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study leverages push–pull theory and social capital theory and data from four waves (2016–2022) of the China Family Panel Studies to systematically investigate how the digital economy influences the return-to-hometown employment decisions of college graduates. The results offer several insights. First, the digital economy significantly increases the probability that graduates will return to their hometowns for employment, and this positive effect shows a consistent upward trend over the study period. Second, mechanism analysis reveals that the digital economy attracts graduates back home by primarily facilitating industrial upgrading in their hometowns, with this mediating pathway accounting for 45.73 % of the total effect. Third, social trust exerts a differentiated moderating effect: while particularized and generalized trust exert negative moderating effects, institutional trust not only directly encourages return decisions but also significantly amplifies the positive influence of the digital economy. Fourth, the promotional effect of the digital economy is more pronounced among students from central and eastern regions, with highly educated parents, and with bachelor’s degrees or below, as well as among female graduates. Fifth, the digital economy is fostering a structural shift toward entrepreneurship in return-to-hometown employment. Sixth, it significantly improves the settlement stability of returning graduates. Accordingly, this study suggests that accelerating industrial upgrading, enhancing the credibility of local governments, and optimizing the entrepreneurial environment are crucial to maximizing the digital economy’s role in supporting the return and retention of talent.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47979,"journal":{"name":"Technology in Society","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 103056"},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145119950","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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