Technology in Society

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Volume 89, issue C, 2026

Before imperfections escalate: How inoculation warnings by service robots shape customer responses to minor service imperfections

Lichen Ji, Shih-Shuo Yeh, Chieh-Lu Li, Shih-Yun Hsu and Tzung-Cheng Huan

Enabling reuse of construction and demolition waste with data spaces: Potentials and limitations in the transition to circularity

Krista van Zandwijk, Alex Donkers, Floor Alkemade, Ekaterina Petrova and Pieter Pauwels

Communicating servitisation offers for mitigating weather-related risk for the construction industry through a simulation based serious game

Mohammed Soheeb Khan, Vassilis Charissis, Samar AlTarteer, Tasneem Kabli and Ahmed Naseraldin

Between degrees and dreams: Overeducation, digital literacy, and migration in China

Shuaihe Zhuo and Lin Jia

Virtual collective consciousness in metaverse communities: Sociological insights from collective effervescence and networked sociality

Manuel B. Garcia and Sou Hyun Jang

Algorithmic governance and the uneven digital transformation of urban night-time economies: Evidence from Hanoi, Vietnam

An Quan Tran, Thi Duyen Nguyen, Huu Duc Luu, Minh Thuy Pham, Thi Thao Pham, Khanh Cuong Le and Minh Hieu Nguyen

AI technology threat perception and occupational anxiety: The dual buffering role of skill adaptability and industry support

Li Gong and Xiao-Hui Li

Exploring technology acceptance of ChatGPT consumers: A combined TAM-SOR framework on perceived fee and consumer innovativeness

Bahri Baran Koçak

What drives blockchain technology adoption? A meta-analysis across TAM, TPB, and UTAUT frameworks

Amir Rahmani, Roohollah Ahmadi, Tugrul U. Daim, Mehdi Zamani and Dilek Ozdemir Gungor

The social dynamics of AI companionship: How activated attachment states and organizational signals shape human–AI relationships

Li-Keng Cheng, Hsien-Long Huang and Wei-Chih Tseng

Affordance entrenchment analysis: A diagnostic tool for technology foresight

Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow

The unintended consequences of AI adoption: How moral displacement and ethical numbing suppress pro-environmental behavior at work

Byung-Jik Kim and Julak Lee

Technology transfer challenges in circular supply chain: Insights from expanded absorptive capacity- dynamic capability view

Feng Ming Tsai, Taufik Kurrahman, Ming K. Lim, Kanchana Sethanan and Ming-Lang Tseng

ESG and corporate performance: An empirical study of technological innovation in China

Duan Yu and Ruan Yutong

The impact of AI adoption in the workplace on knowledge workers' career commitment: A job insecurity perspective

Binyu Li, Carman K.M. Lee, Muhammad Saleem Sumbal, Andrew K.F. Cheung and K.L. Keung

Toward a multilevel understanding of knowledge hiding in digital workplaces: Insights and opportunities

Nienke Rust, Robin Bauwens, Sasa Batistič and Rob Poell

The effect of artificial intelligence and robotics on SME exports: Evidence from the EU countries

Ömer Tuğsal Doruk

Who accepts AI labor displacement? Trust, social benefit, and cross-national contexts in the age of generative AI

Yushu Zhou and Tianshu Du

Digitalisation and public life: Professional interpretations of technology-mediated socio-spatial transformation

Esin Özlem Aktuğlu Aktan, İbrahim Eren and Aslı Altanlar

Social media use and self-reported happiness and loneliness among adolescents: An exploratory machine learning approach

Soyoung Park

Leveraging change-oriented organisational citizenship behaviour for public sector adaptability: The U-shaped role of hindrance techno-stressors

Huang Zhanglong and Chen Xueqiang

Academic digital information hoarding among Generation Z students: The mediating role of perceived academic competition within an attachment-based framework

Saqar Moisan F. Alotaibi

AI innovation policy and corporate digital transformation: Evidence from China

Caibin Zhang and Hongmin Fan

Smart governance and the direction of innovation: AI, foresight, and behavioral design as enablers of governance efficacy

Elias G. Carayannis and Nikos - Rigert Zota

Artificial intelligence and job design: Insights from Job Demands–Resources theory

Arnold B. Bakker, Tom L. Junker, Yuri S. Scharp and Matej Cerne

How do interdisciplinary pathways shape gender diversity in ICT? Evidence from a quantitative study

Irene Finocchi

ChatGPT as an ecosystem shock: Longitudinal quasi-experimental evidence from commercial mental health chatbots

Hongyi Yang, Fangyuan Chang, Zhao Liu, Weibo Zhang and Jun Cai

Artificial intelligence in academic research: Adoption, productivity, and skill perceptions

Alessandro Muscio and Sotaro Shibayama

An assessment for trust and misbehavior in Internet of Medical Things (IoMTs) technologies: An improved decision making approach

Pragathi Subramaniam, Samayan Narayanamoorthy, Joseph Raj Vikilal Joice Brainy, Dragan Pamucar, Vladimir Simic and Daekook Kang

Conceptual framework of social trust in AI-enabled circular economy: An integrative and bibliometric review

Justyna Żywiołek, Radosław Wolniak and Wiesław Wes Grebski

Configuring open government data (OGD) platforms for digital entrepreneurship: A socio-technical systems perspective using fsQCA

Qingting Tang, Bin Chen, Litai Chen and Wenjie Zhang

E-leadership in the digital era: Vitalizing employees through workplace flexibility and behavior control

Rui-Xiao Li, Yet-Mee Lim and Garry Wei-Han Tan

Understanding consumer behaviours: A study of ICT expenditure and digital access divide in Spain

Aurora Ruíz-Rúa, Fernando Fernández-Bonilla and Covadonga Gijón

Green innovation performance assessment in European Countries: A quartile-based decision support framework

Karahan Kara, Galip Cihan Yalçın, Emre Kadir Özekenci, Vladimir Simic, Zbigniew Bentyn, Yigit Kazancoglu and Dragan Pamucar

The role of digital platforms to enable industrial symbiosis: unveiling outcomes, drivers and barriers

Lucrezia Sgambaro, Davide Chiaroni and Andrea Urbinati

From access to innovation: Curiosity and reflection in the uneven realisation of generative AI's value at work

Muhammad Awais Khan

Institutional elasticity, digital niches, and industrial upgrading: A comparative study of Sichuan and Zhejiang's economic development in China

Yuanfei Mei, Chao Wang, Zhijing Gao, Yan Xu and Hongia Chen

From basic actions to subversive affordances: Development and validation of the social media algorithmic resistance scale (SM-ARS)

Dragoş M. Obreja, Răzvan Rughiniş and Flavia Oprea

A methodology for investigating technological changes driven by social events: The case of COVID-19

Hyunjin Shin, Woojin Cho and Sungjoo Lee

The Thucydides Trap in the age of AI: Automated science, global technological advancement, and the governance of technological acceleration

Francisco Herrera, Jesús Rodrigo-Comino, Enrique Herrera and Marcos López de Prado

Is AI development undermining international trade? A deglobalization perspective

Jingting Zhang and Qianwen Cao

Whose AI problem? Critical narratives and practitioner problematizations

Simon Larsson, Martin Viktorelius, Max Boholm, Claes Tängh-Wrangel and Matilda Arvidsson

Digital efficiency, human exhaustion: How human-centered AI buffers the impact of AI adoption on physical health via AI technostress

Byung-Jik Kim and Min-Jik Kim

Loving the brand through the founder: The mechanism of entrepreneurs' narrative authenticity driving consumers' brand attachment. A multi-case and experimental study

Muyang Shi

The role of strategic and contextual ambidexterity in enhancing team performance: The moderating effect of cross-training

Sara Melkić, Tomislav Hernaus and Miguel Pina e Cunha

Examining the digital trust infrastructure as a driver of organizational innovation and scalability

Safiya Mukhtar Alshibani, Atiya Bukhari, Varun Chotia and Bhumika Gupta

Advanced digital technology adoption under risk and uncertainty: A multi-method study of retail firms

Pedro Mota Veiga, Juan Herrera-Ballesteros, Gadaf Rexhepi, Veland Ramadani and João J. Ferreira

Digital technologies as drivers of business model innovation in UAE retail startups

Subayal Aftab Khan, Maqsood Ahmad Sandhu, Rohit Sharma and Xiaotian Xie

Turning unknowns into value: How digital organizational ambidexterity drives digital innovation value creation under risk and uncertainty

Li Junwen, Arwa Abuhaimed, Vinit Ghosh and Hind Alofaysan

Evaluating advantages and disadvantages of twin avatar-based management: A multicriteria framework for assessing organizational impacts

Vânia M.M. Silva, Fernando A.F. Ferreira, Marina Dabić, Neuza C.M.Q.F. Ferreira, Florentin Smarandache and Afonso M.F. Ferreira

HR analytics adoption and managerial decision-making style: The mediating role of human–AI interaction and the moderating role of attitude toward AI

Shuja Iqbal, Zuhaib Zafar and Shamim Akhtar

Fact-check misinformation by generative artificial intelligence: The roles of digital literacy, information processing, and information self-efficacy

Chi Tran Mai Nguyen and Chei Sian Lee

Country-level configurations associated with enterprise AI diffusion in Europe: An fsQCA of digitalization, skills, and R&D intensity

Alaeddin Koska

Innovation governance after the state: Capital concentration in the U.S. commercial space industry

KwangWook Gang and Boreum Choi

Analysis of ocean cleanup technologies support among early adopters in the Philippines: An integrated SEM-neural network assessment

Terrence Manuel C. Palad, Ardvin Kester S. Ong and Marloun P. Sejera

Used but unseen: Generative AI diffusion and the governance readiness gap in Croatia

Aco Momčilović, Nikolina Dragičević Rogge and Rebeka Danijela Vlahov

Calculated risks or emotional rewards? Integrating cognitive and affective drivers of the privacy paradox in online social networks

Qianwen Yang and Ruihe Yan

Riding out uncertainty: Tech trade resilience across the US, China, and the European economies

Ewa Cieślik and Anna Zamojska

Artificial intelligence and sustainable development: Unveiling the contributions and risks of AI investments on SDG achievement

Mesut Dogan

User-perceived ethical compliance of artificial intelligence: Scale development and validation

Xiaoxiao Chen, Yixuan Wang and Qin Li

AI-augmented dynamic capabilities for digital innovation under risk: Unveiling predictive insight and uncertainty absorption mechanisms

Fuqi Zhao, Nourah O. Alshaghdali, Varun Chotia and Hawazen Almugren

Constructing a social innovation-related outcomes benchmarking index: A comparative diagnostic approach applied to european countries

Beyza Varol Çolak, Pembe Güçlü and Hülya Ünlü

The evolution of value co-destruction and the role of restorative governance in SMEs’ digital transformation: An ecosystem perspective

Qing-song Xing, Shi-yu Chen, Yi-meng Li and Peng Wang

Collaborative certainty under uncertainty: Physical climate risk, collaboration network reconfiguration, and corporate digital technological innovation

Delin Meng and Lan Wang

Where knowledge predicts digital sophistication and where it does not: institutional contingency of the second-level divide in subnational software production

Raimundo Elías Gómez

Financial stability, R&D, and AI activity in high-tech exports: Evidence from panel data

Peter Wanke, Yong Tan, Rachita Gulati and Dragan Pamucar

How metaverse influencers shape electronic word-of-mouth: Credibility, attractiveness, and parasocial relationships across cultures and gender

Mansour Alraja, Basel Khashab, Padmali Rodrigo and Elmira Djafarova

Generative borders: Manipulated visuals, platform drift, and refugee-policy legitimacy

Deniz Tunçalp

Good or bad? A stochastic evolutionary game analysis of environmental fluctuations and innovation resource sharing

Yanping Chen, Yunfei Shao, Zhichun Dong and Bo Liu

Understanding students’ Generative AI use in higher education: A SEM-ANN analysis of AI attributes, behavioral reasons, and perceived learning performance

Mohammed A. Al-Sharafi, Mostafa Al-Emran, Shahla Asadi, Noor Al-Qaysi, Nazrita Ibrahim and Omid Ameri Sianaki

Technology convergence between artificial intelligence and healthcare: A visualization study based on patent texts

Yu You, Yun Liu and Ruixue Zhao

Employee acceptance of AI-driven performance management systems in hospitality

Luo Yu, Rupam Konar, Liang Xiaoxin and Jochen Wirtz

Technologies towards climate-neutral farming: Drivers of adoption and intentions across four European regions

Sylvain Quiédeville, Lorin Ineichen, Anna Christina Braun, Marie Collard and Deirdre Hennessy

Understanding the emergence of the future industry innovation collaboration network from a resource dependence perspective: A cross-industry comparative analysis

Neng Shen, Xiaofei Shang, Siyi Huang and Xinyu Xu

Digital technology empowers low-carbon consumption: A systematic review of hot topics, trends, gaps, and future promises

Yao Wei, Hao Chen, Bin Liang, Mingyue Wang and Pengyu Jin