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Showing papers in "Technological Forecasting and Social Change in 2019"


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied a qualitative case study design involving 26 semi-structured interviews with leading members of firms, including chief digital officers and chief executive officers, and found that management desire to increase control and enable real-time performance measurement is a significant driving force behind Industry 4.0, alongside production factors.

542 citations


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TL;DR: This work develops a conceptual framework that connects Servitization and Industry 4.0 concepts from a business model innovation (BMI) perspective and discusses different levels of complexity for the implementation of these configurations.

490 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on income inequality through financial development dynamics of depth (money supply and liquid liabilities), efficiency (at banking and financial system levels), activity (from banking and finance system perspectives) and size, in 48 African countries for the period 1996 to 2014.

447 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of green technology innovations on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions based on a data panel covering 71 economies from 1996 to 2012, and found that green technology innovation does not significantly contribute to reducing CO2 emissions for the economies whose income levels are below the threshold while the mitigation effect becomes significant for those whose incomes levels surpass the threshold.

385 citations


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TL;DR: A systematic review of the smart home literature and survey the current state of play from the users' perspective, which presents a comprehensive view of smart home definitions and characteristics.

376 citations


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TL;DR: This study proposed a blockchain-based framework along with the use of an affiliated technology, i.e., smart contracts, to derive the feasible benefits of the supply chain process design and provides an achievable use case of the disintermediation of business processes via a conceptual, shared information ledger.

350 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a special issue on "Understanding Smart Cities: Innovation Ecosystems, Technological Advancements, and Societal Challenges" is presented, where the authors take stock of past work and provide new insights through the lenses of a hybrid framework.

294 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at the urban innovation impact of smart city policies and find that cities engaging in Smart City policies above the EU average also tend to patent more intensively.

267 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a series of game models were developed to address the effects of green loans and government subsidies on green innovation activities of enterprises, and they derived a threshold value for loaning interest rate.

232 citations


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TL;DR: The results and novelty of this research lies in the formulation of a different behavior according to the use given by users to each of the proposed payment tools.

232 citations


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TL;DR: It is shown that most of the fundamental research of KM is in business and management areas, and that the USA is the most influential country in all aspects in this field.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a model highlighting the facilitating role of big data analytics for achieving shared sustainability goals is proposed, based on integrating thematic categories coming out of 10 semi-structured interviews with key position holders in industry.

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TL;DR: In this article, a special issue focusing on the management, development, and implementation of universities seeking to become more entrepreneurial has been published, with the authors solicited original research on the strategic challenges that these universities currently encounter.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on finding effective ways to achieve sustainable development, taking into account the seriousness of environmental pollution, sustainable development papers based on big data are clearly the most important contributions of this special volume.

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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of social media marketing activities on continuance intention, participation intention and purchase intention via the mediation of social identification, perceived value, and satisfaction were investigated.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed structural equation modeling (SEM) on 364 valid responses from managers to examine hypotheses derived from extant literature on the linkages amongst environmental ethics, environmental training, environmental performance and competitive advantage.

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TL;DR: The results of this best practice analysis offer a series of critical insights into what strategic principles drive smart city development in Europe and generate scientific knowledge which helps to overcome the dichotomous nature of smart city research.

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TL;DR: It is found that organizational BDA capabilities affect a firm's ambidexterity and agility, which, in turn, affect its performance.

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TL;DR: In this article, a systematic literature review was conducted to identify research trends and gaps in the field, conceptualize current paradigmatic views and therein provide clear propositions to guide future research.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether the nature of social media discussions have an impact on voting behavior during an election, through acculturation of ideologies and polarization of voter preferences, and found that discussions on Twitter could have polarized users significantly, and the reasons behind such polarization were explored using Newman and Sheth's model of voter's choice behavior.

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TL;DR: In this paper, an application of the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method for selecting those sustainability issues that are most relevant for creating shared value for both business and society, and that should be the focus of strategic planning and management is presented.

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TL;DR: A practical, systematic approach to the design and delivery of a Delphi survey, where the Delphi administrator has a range of choice options and discussion of the pros and cons of each option is provided in order that the overall design and Delivery of a particularDelphi survey is both well-founded and defensible.

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TL;DR: In this paper, an interpretative framework for digital academic entrepreneurship is proposed that is composed of the following components: the rationale for the adoption of digital technologies for academic entrepreneurship, the emerging forms of digital academic entrepreneurs, the stakeholders involved through the digital technologies to achieve the academic entrepreneurship goal, and the processes of academic entrepreneurship supported by digital technologies.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an inductive case study of a particular regional ecosystem and focus on the inter-organizational collaboration between SMEs and other stakeholders in the ecosystem, exploring how SMEs perceive, organize, and manage open innovation through strong collaborative ties with other ecosystem members.

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TL;DR: Aizuwakamatsu smart city in Fukushima, Japan is examined in this paper to demonstrate how a smart city can be framed and implemented as a tool for tackling endogenous social challenges.

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TL;DR: This study integrates the substantial literature on Technology Acceptance Modelling into the smart city discourse to begin to address this need and further develops the understanding of technology acceptance using the Structural Equation Modelling Method.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a structured literature review of digital entrepreneurship to generate insights into recent developments in the field, critique the research to date, and identify opportunities for future research.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether AMT can modify the patterns of upgrading in manufacturing subsidiaries operating in FDI hosting factory economies, and they find that AMT has spectacularly improved all components of production capability.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore opinions regarding the perceived benefits and challenges of AVs among vulnerable road users, in particular pedestrians and bicyclists, and evaluate whether interaction experiences with AVs influence perceptions among vulnerable pedestrians and cyclists.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a sample of 345 initial equity offerings in United Kingdom platforms Crowdcube and Seedrs in the period 2014-2015 to study the relationship between sustainability and crowdfunding and found that sustainability orientation does not increase the chances of success or of engaging professional investors.