Showing papers in "Technology in Society in 2017"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a systematic literature review of articles on innovation in green products and processes, with the aim of enhancing conceptual clarity and consistency, thus, advancing theory and research.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of organizational culture, particularly an inclusive culture, in the innovation performance of the software industry in Pakistan is explored, and the authors propose that organizational innovation performance is backed and affected by organizational culture.

TL;DR: In this paper, a first attempt to investigate innovation importance for SMEs in emerging market was made, where the authors investigated the importance of SMEs' innovation importance in the emerging market.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of life satisfaction in reducing both generalized Internet addiction and social media addiction was explored, and happiness and stress affect these addictions through life satisfaction, and the results showed that life satisfaction has significant effects on both generalized internet addiction and specific addiction to social media.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extended the capabilities of TAM to predict the acceptance levels of the people-to-people (P2P) services of the WeChat wallet in South Africa.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested how attitudes toward the German energy transition, the perceived fairness of decision-making processes and their outcomes, perceived risks and benefits of wind energy, and the trust in key actors (federal government, local government, large energy companies, and municipal utilities) affect both the general acceptance and local acceptance of wind farms in Germany.

TL;DR: Four ethical theories are briefly reviewed in this paper: Kantianism, Utilitarianism, Social Contract Theory, and Virtue Theory are examined to show how it might be employed to examine Big Data issues.

TL;DR: In this article, a study aims at mapping the frugal innovation phenomenon and reveals that scholars affiliated with Indian institutes and originated from India have played a key role in this research discipline.

TL;DR: In this paper, the slow diffusion of wind energy in Colombia is analyzed, by evaluating the functions of the Technological Innovation System (TIS) along with the influence of the wider context (Landscape Factors).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the institutional sources contrasting success and failure in Uber's global expansion, and found that the contrast could be attributed to a bi-polarization nature of ICT-driven logistic growth, and the success can be due to a co-evolutionary acclimatization that harnesses the vigor of counterparts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the proper role of tech-nology in a good society, and define criteria for assessing the extent to which technologies contribute to the quality of society.

TL;DR: In this article, a co-evolutionary dynamism between the increasing popularity of streaming music and the resurgence of live music is discussed, which suggests the significance of a trust-based ICT-driven disruptive business model with a consolidated challenge for social demand (CCSD) for the development of cultural industries.

TL;DR: The results show that the sarcasm detection task benefits from the inclusion of features which capture authorial style of the microblog authors, namely - function words and part of speech n-grams.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address how the Australian construction industry has kept up with the pace of digitization compared with other industries in Australia, and find that construction's labour productivity measured by GVA per hour was the third highest, despite low level of investments in digitization.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the Granger causal relationships between innovation, economic growth, information and communication technology infrastructure, government consumption expenditure, gross capital formation, foreign direct investment, and trade openness.

TL;DR: In this paper, a two-stage cluster sampling approach was used, and structured questionnaires were administered to a representative sample of 1004 randomly selected secondary school students (M age = 14.88 years, SD = 1.02).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the adoption factors of smart glasses through two frameworks: Product Characteristics and User Intention Characteristics, and examine the effects of smart glass design features; stand-alone device, field of view, interaction, price, and display resolution.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored how sex workers use the internet and digital technologies to facilitate the range of different services that they offer, identifying the ways in which the internet has improved the ability for sex workers to organize and professionalize their services, with increasing profit and safety being core objectives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and validated the Technophobia and Technophilia Questionnaire (TTQ) in a sample composed of 534 participants from two different countries (Poland and Estonia).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a mixed-method study, undertaking surveys and interviews with learners and teachers from three schools in the Khomas region, and found that the majority of teachers and learners in Namibian high schools are mobile literate.

TL;DR: In this article, an empirical analysis of digital business solutions in 500 global ICT firms over the period 2005-2016 was conducted with special attention to their specific features, and it was identified that research and development-intensive firms have fallen into a trap in ICT advancement, resulting in a decline in their marginal productivity of ICT that could be due to increasing dependency on uncaptured GDP.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore conceptualisations of responsibility, care and vulnerability in relation to contemporary approaches to Responsible Innovation (RI) and highlight the on-going, distributed and complex nature of innovation and responsibilities in relation with markets, patient and carer experience and data practices associated with these new technologies to highlight some of the limits of RI.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the dynamism of co-evolution between higher education and information and communication technology (ICT) in 20 countries and found that while ICT advanced countries have embarked on coevolution of ICT, higher education, and trust, ICT growing countries have not been successful in this due to a vicious cycle between ICT and trust.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study in a public hospital located in a developing country, the authors show that frugal innovations, defined as a novel and satisfactory solution under resource scarcity conditions, are an adequate innovation approach for organizations operating under both severe resource restrictions and universal access to healthcare mandates.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the correlation between digital skills and extrinsic rewards among late career employees (ages 45 and older) in the Israeli context using data from a large-scale Annual Social Survey of Israel's CBS, and found that digital skills were positively associated with exclusive fringe benefits from the workplace (i.e., company car, cellphone from work, and stocks or shares in the workplace) only among those who worked 5 years and more in the current workplace.

TL;DR: Rights of household participants to obtain knowledge and control over the intelligent IoT agents operating (and perhaps “quartering”) in their personal and intimate spheres are addressed, to be free from inappropriately opportunistic applications associated with IoT systems.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the sectors whose enterprises most engage in open innovation (such as cooperation on this issue) and which sources/agents are most used, analyzed by sector and type of innovation as an interesting way of differentiation for better open innovation strategy delineation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the role of the innovation environment in the outcomes of the implementation of Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR) practices in the developing region of Szeged, Hungary.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the factors contributing to household adoption of high speed broadband in Australia and presented and evaluated a hypothesized model of Household Adoption of Technology, based on the Theory of Reasoned Action.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the critical project management factors that contributing to sustainable growth of technology-based organizations based on literature review and demo interviews, a two-level evaluation structure is developed for further structured interview survey.