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Navigating meaningful work: Exploring the impact of mobile telepresence robots on healthcare professionals 导航有意义的工作：探索移动远程呈现机器人对医疗保健专业人员的影响

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124156

Alejandra Rojas , Ismail Gölgeci , Gabriele Santoro

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Female parliamentarians and environmental sustainability: Do national culture matter? 女议员与环境可持续性：民族文化重要吗？

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124174

Tuhuo Jia , Vincent Tawiah , Abdulrasheed Zakari , Francis Osei-Tutu

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Unlocking green startup investments: How environmental policy pressures drive Venture Capital funding decisions 解锁绿色创业投资：环境政策压力如何推动风险投资融资决策

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124158

Eleonora Rizzitello , Mariangela Piazza , Giovanni Perrone

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Sales digitization and sales process optimisation for firm performance: Evidence from European firms 销售数字化和销售流程优化对企业绩效的影响：来自欧洲企业的证据

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124172

Fabio Oliveira , Maksim Belitski , Rodrigo Perez-Vega

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Consumer multifaceted trust of central bank digital currency (CBDC) payment in travel and tourism 消费者对中央银行数字货币（CBDC）支付在旅游和旅游中的多方面信任

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124166

Bee-Lia Chua , Zemenu Amare Ayalew , Seongseop Kim (Sam) , Heesup Han , Heekyeong Ha

{"title":"Consumer multifaceted trust of central bank digital currency (CBDC) payment in travel and tourism","authors":"Bee-Lia Chua , Zemenu Amare Ayalew , Seongseop Kim (Sam) , Heesup Han , Heekyeong Ha","doi":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124166","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124166","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examined an integrative, multifaceted trust model that links the role of disposition to trust and institution-based trust in producing trusting beliefs and trusting intention. A survey of Korean consumers who are familiar with central bank digital currency (CBDC) and are regularly involved in purchase decision-making about tourism products was conducted to determine the relationships between disposition to trust, institution-based trust, trusting beliefs, and intention to trust CBDC payment. The findings revealed significant links between faith in technology, structural assurance, and situational normality, highlighting the role of personal disposition to trust and institution-based trust in trust formation. Institution-based trust also acted as a mediator between disposition to trust and trusting beliefs in influencing intentions to adopt CBDC payments. By shedding light on the intricate relationship between personal beliefs and situational influences, this study provides guidance on how to cultivate trust and encourage the widespread embrace of CBDC payment in the travel and tourism sectors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48454,"journal":{"name":"Technological Forecasting and Social Change","volume":"217 ","pages":"Article 124166"},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143886687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Yin and Yang of social media: Employing PLS-SEM, fsQCA, and NCA to assess its effects on employee work performance 社交媒体的阴阳：运用PLS-SEM、fsQCA和NCA评估其对员工工作绩效的影响

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124164

Xinyi Wang , Loo-See Beh

{"title":"The Yin and Yang of social media: Employing PLS-SEM, fsQCA, and NCA to assess its effects on employee work performance","authors":"Xinyi Wang , Loo-See Beh","doi":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124164","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124164","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social media is increasingly becoming essential for professionals, but its workplace influence remains debated, necessitating further examination. This study adopts a Yin-Yang perspective and a mixed-method approach to evaluate the dualistic impact of social media on employee work performance. PLS-SEM assesses the strength and significance of the paths within the hypothesised model. FsQCA determines the configurations of conditions that lead to high performance, and NCA pinpoints necessary conditions and bottlenecks for different performance levels. This mixed methods approach overcomes the limitations inherent in each method and provides a comprehensive understanding of the deeper causal relationships. Specifically, this article verifies that knowledge-sharing behaviours and technostress serve as the Yin and Yang of social media, exerting opposing influences on work performance. <em>Guanxi</em> amplifies the positive effects of social media on knowledge-sharing behaviours. This research also reveals that technostress does not always hinder performance. Like the mutual transformation characteristic of Yin-Yang, it can achieve high performance in some contexts. Moreover, the findings suggest that balancing positive and negative factors is crucial, as both can constrain optimal performance, reflecting duality and balance principles of Yin-Yang.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48454,"journal":{"name":"Technological Forecasting and Social Change","volume":"217 ","pages":"Article 124164"},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143881406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Market-based and non-market-based policies: A quantile approach to environmental technology innovation in G-7 countries 基于市场和非市场的政策：七国集团国家环境技术创新的分位数方法

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124173

Mehmet Akif Destek , Oktay Özkan , Sunil Tiwari

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The relationship between artificial intelligence, geopolitical risk, and green growth: Exploring the moderating role of green finance and energy technology 人工智能、地缘政治风险与绿色增长的关系：探讨绿色金融和能源技术的调节作用

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124135

Xiyue Yang , Hui Chen , Baoxi Li , Danning Jia , Mahmood Ahmad

{"title":"The relationship between artificial intelligence, geopolitical risk, and green growth: Exploring the moderating role of green finance and energy technology","authors":"Xiyue Yang , Hui Chen , Baoxi Li , Danning Jia , Mahmood Ahmad","doi":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124135","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124135","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Artificial intelligence (AI), viewed as a driver of progress in modern societies, is accompanied by uncertainties regarding its impact on green growth within the intricate background of geopolitical risk (GR). This study examines the relationship between AI, geopolitical risk and green growth, further exploring the moderating roles of green finance and energy technology on geopolitical risks affecting green growth. Using panel data from 20 OECD countries spanning from 1993 to 2021 and advanced econometric techniques, we find that the impact of AI on green growth exhibits a “U”-shaped trajectory, initially inhibiting but ultimately fostering growth. Additionally, GR exerts a negative influence on green growth, however, this adverse effect can be mitigated by green finance and energy technology, which drive green development. We also applied a suite of methodologies, including Two Stage Least Squares (2SLS), Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS), quantile regression, and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), to assess the robustness of the results. The findings of this study underscore the critical importance of incorporating artificial intelligence into the green growth agenda of OECD nations. Moreover, OECD countries should proactively address geopolitical risks by expanding green finance initiatives and intensifying investments in energy technology to strengthen their green growth frameworks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48454,"journal":{"name":"Technological Forecasting and Social Change","volume":"217 ","pages":"Article 124135"},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143879305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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FinTech and financial sustainability: A mediating role of financial inclusion 金融科技与金融可持续性：普惠金融的中介作用

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124129

Sabeeh Ullah , Maryam Begum

{"title":"FinTech and financial sustainability: A mediating role of financial inclusion","authors":"Sabeeh Ullah , Maryam Begum","doi":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124129","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124129","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Technological advancements and shifts in the financial landscape have made it imperative to delve into the nexus between FinTech, financial inclusion, and financial sustainability. Surprisingly, contemporary research has largely overlooked this crucial area of investigation. The current study examines the impact of changes primarily driven by FinTech and how they mediated financial inclusion to foster financial sustainability. For this purpose, the study encompassed a dataset of 141 countries from 2011 to 2021 and employed Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). In addition, the Sobel-Goodman test was employed to provide a comprehensive and robust understanding of the nexus. Our results across all specifications demonstrate that financial inclusion mediates the nexus between FinTech and financial sustainability. Furthermore, in some specifications, FinTech adversely affects financial sustainability by posing risk and regulatory challenges. Moreover, these findings remain robust in the whole sample and subsamples of developed and developing countries. These outcomes hold significant implications, as they underscore how FinTech enhances access to financial services, reshapes the financial landscape, and indirectly contributes substantially to financial sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48454,"journal":{"name":"Technological Forecasting and Social Change","volume":"217 ","pages":"Article 124129"},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143879304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Laying the foundation: Value capture in collaborative, digitally-enabled business models for sustainability 奠定基础：在可持续发展的协作、数字化商业模式中获取价值

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Technological Forecasting and Social Change Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124165

Andrea Kerstens , Rick A.M. Gilsing , Christina M. Bidmon , Francesca Ciulli , Frank T.H.M. Berkers

{"title":"Laying the foundation: Value capture in collaborative, digitally-enabled business models for sustainability","authors":"Andrea Kerstens , Rick A.M. Gilsing , Christina M. Bidmon , Francesca Ciulli , Frank T.H.M. Berkers","doi":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124165","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124165","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Firms increasingly adopt digital technologies to generate environmental benefits. To maximize the impact of these technologies, they must be embedded in business models that allow the partners involved to capture economic value by collaboratively generating environmental benefits. This study examines nine cases within a European agri-food project using different value capture models to deploy digital technologies with the goal to make farming practices environmentally sustainable. We analyze and compare these cases to identify the different value capture models, the factors leading to their choice, and which implications the choice of the initial value capture model has for the potential to add more participants to the business model. Based on our findings, we develop a typology of value capture models for digitally-enabled business models for sustainability and discuss the link between value capture models and impact scaling. Our findings advance research on digitally-enabled business models for sustainability and inform practitioners of the implications tied to the choice of different value capture models.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48454,"journal":{"name":"Technological Forecasting and Social Change","volume":"217 ","pages":"Article 124165"},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143873740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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