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Business
Sung Hoon Lee
Summary: This study aims to examine the impact of technological regimes on firm entry and explore two sources of nonlinearity: the interaction effects of various dimensions of technological regimes and the role heterogeneity among entrants. These factors have significant implications for firm strategy and policy.
INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Business
Hui He, Qinghua He, Albert P. C. Chan, Ge Wang, Yang Yang
Summary: From a socio-technical perspective, this study used grounded theory to explore the matching relationship between different types of knowledge and interorganizational knowledge sharing (IKS) mechanisms. Four categories of knowledge were identified based on their characteristics, and a four-dimensional framework of IKS mechanisms was proposed to facilitate knowledge sharing in different scenarios.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chiara Sophia Weituschat, Stefano Pascucci, Valentina Cristiana Materia, Peter Tamas, Ruth de Jong, Jacques Trienekens
Summary: This study investigates the existence of cognitive lock-ins in farmers' decision-making and their impact on the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices. Through two case studies, it is found that the context of farmers' decision-making creates cognitive processes that significantly reduce the perceived viability and desirability of alternative agricultural practices.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Jin-Uk Choi, Chang-Yang Lee
Summary: This study examines the relationship between basic research and firm R&D productivity, focusing on the conditioning role of firm-level technological diversification. The findings suggest that technological diversification positively conditions the relationship, particularly unrelated technological diversification. This conditioning effect is more pronounced for firms in high-tech or less competitive industries, indicating that a broad technological knowledge base across unrelated fields is helpful for firms to utilize basic research effectively and enhance their R&D productivity.
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Economics
Anthony Frigon, David L. Rigby
Summary: This paper investigates the sources of capabilities that influence diversification in businesses. The findings reveal that capabilities located within establishments are the most significant, followed by firm capabilities and then place-based capabilities.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Machteld Catharina Simoens, Lea Fuenfschilling, Sina Leipold
Summary: This paper advances sustainability transition research by collecting insights from interpretative environmental discourse literature. It develops a heuristic that identifies and describes core discursive elements and dynamics in a socio-technical system. The paper proposes three discursive lock-ins and explores three pathways of discursive change.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Social Issues
Mohammad Nesari, Mohammad Naghizadeh, Soroush Ghazinoori, Manoochehr Manteghi
Summary: This study addresses the lack of systematic analysis in the field of socio-technical transition studies through scientometric analysis. The results show a growing trend in publication number and a noticeable network of collaborations among scholars. The core themes of the field are identified as energy transition, sustainability, and sustainability transitions.
TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Fisseha Zegeye Birhanu, Abrham Seyoum Tsehay, Dawit Alemu Bimerew
Summary: The study revealed that the mean technical efficiency of farm households was estimated to be 58%, and a higher proportion of farm households were multidimensionally poor. Improving technical efficiency significantly reduced multidimensional poverty among moderately diversified and least diversified farm households, indicating it as an effective approach to poverty reduction.
Article
Engineering, Aerospace
Xiao-Shan Yap, Jonas Heiberg, Bernhard Truffer
Summary: Given the rising challenge of space debris, it is crucial for the global space sector to consider sustainability concerns in the orbit. However, the direction of space debris management in terms of technological solutions, policies, and actor strategies remains uncertain. This paper applies the concept of 'global sociotechnical regimes' to analyze how actors frame and legitimize the space debris problem, revealing three development stages: problem identification, national interests, and the emergence of a global socio-technical regime connecting space sustainability with Earth-bound sustainability. The analysis suggests the need for a broader and clearer problem framing to inform effective policy making for future earth-space sustainability.
Article
Geography
Ezequiel Bernardo Gonzalez, Marcos Horacio Easdale, Diego Mariano Sacchero
Summary: This study examined the impact of relationships between farms and shearing contractors on the adoption of pre-lambing wool shearing at farm-level in Northern Patagonia, Argentina. Results suggest that seasonal changes and functional features of socio-technical networks may constrain further adoption of pre-lambing shearing.
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
(2021)
Article
Business
Jun Chen, Guangzhen Guo
Summary: By using Chinese city-level panel data, this study explores the impact of China's high-speed rail (HSR) connection on technological diversity. The results show that HSR connection leads to a decrease in technological diversity, especially in core cities and cities along the four longest HSR lines. It is suggested that HSR connection promotes technological specialization instead of diversification and spurs intra-industry knowledge spillovers rather than inter-industry knowledge spillovers.
JOURNAL OF INNOVATION & KNOWLEDGE
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Marie Schaefer, Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Kristin Arola, Christie M. Poitra, Elise Matz, Marika Seigel, Chelsea Schelly, Adewale Adesanya, Doug Bessette
Summary: Achieving a sustainable global society requires significant changes in both social and technological systems, addressing not only environmental impacts but also social, economic, and political harms perpetuated through systematic forms of oppression. To address these issues, a transdisciplinary framework integrating Indigenous and experiential knowledge is crucial for understanding and advancing socio-technological system transitions.
Review
Business
Kawaljeet Kapoor, Ali Ziaee Bigdeli, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Andreas Schroeder, Ahmad Beltagui, Tim Baines
Summary: Business models are shifting towards platforms to facilitate diverse participation for leverage growth, but studies often overlook the social factors critical to platform firms. This study reviews both social and technical aspects of platform ecosystems to understand the complex interdependencies of platform-oriented actor interactions in competitive environments.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Jay Ram Lamichhane, Lionel Alletto, Wen-Feng Cong, Elana Dayoub, Pierre Maury, Daniel Plaza -Bonilla, Moritz Reckling, Sergio Saia, Elias Soltani, Gilles Tison, Philippe Debaeke
Summary: Relay cropping is a multiple cropping system where a second crop is planted into a standing first crop before harvest. Despite its potential benefits, RC is poorly adopted worldwide, especially in Europe, compared to other innovative cropping systems. There are severe knowledge gaps on key factors affecting the performance of RC.
FIELD CROPS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Steve Griffiths, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Dylan D. Furszyfer Del Rio, Aoife M. Foley, Morgan D. Bazilian, Jinsoo Kim, Joao M. Uratani
Summary: Concrete, the most widely used construction material globally, has significant environmental impacts despite its durability and versatility. The cement and concrete industry is increasingly required to decarbonize its operations and products to reduce global energy-related CO2 emissions. This paper provides a comprehensive review of more than 800 studies and proposes ways to decarbonize the industry. A socio-technical perspective is used to assess key factors that will drive a net-zero transition in the long term.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2023)