One of the critical objectives underlying the digital transformation initiatives of numerous enterprises is the introduction of novel data-driven business models (DDBMs) aimed at facilitating the creation, delivery, and capture of value. While DDBMs has gained immense traction among scholars and practitioners, the implementation and scaling leave much to be desired. One widely argued reason is our poor understanding of the factors that enable DDBM's effective implementation. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study identifies a comprehensive set of enablers, explores the enablers' interdependencies, and discusses how the empirical findings are of value in DDBMs' implementation from theoretical and practical viewpoints.
{"title":"Exploring the enablers of data-driven business models: A mixed-methods approach","authors":"Reza Dabestani , Sam Solaimani , Gazar Ajroemjan , Kitty Koelemeijer","doi":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124036","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124036","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>One of the critical objectives underlying the digital transformation initiatives of numerous enterprises is the introduction of novel data-driven business models (DDBMs) aimed at facilitating the creation, delivery, and capture of value. While DDBMs has gained immense traction among scholars and practitioners, the implementation and scaling leave much to be desired. One widely argued reason is our poor understanding of the factors that enable DDBM's effective implementation. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study identifies a comprehensive set of enablers, explores the enablers' interdependencies, and discusses how the empirical findings are of value in DDBMs' implementation from theoretical and practical viewpoints.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48454,"journal":{"name":"Technological Forecasting and Social Change","volume":"213 ","pages":"Article 124036"},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143373098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-07DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124032
Yang Liu , Zuying Peng , Peng Cheng , Jiumei Chen
The existing studies have reinforced accommodating (i.e., voluntary product recall) and defensive (i.e., involuntary product recall) product-harm crisis responses. Little attention has been devoted to institutional influences on a firm's product-harm crisis response strategy. This research examines how institutional forces affect firms' accommodating (vs. defensive) product-harm crisis responses. Two distinct studies with different methods have been conducted: Study 1 adopts a set of cross-sectional survey data deriving from 178 top managers in Chinese auto firms; Study 2 takes a set of longitudinal archival data on Chinese automakers during the 2010–2018 period, confirming the results of Study 1. The results demonstrate that mimetic and normative pressures enhance the accommodativeness of product-harm crisis responses, whereas coercive pressure has a negative effect. Furthermore, superior technical capabilities and high crisis severity amplify the positive effects of normative pressure on response accommodativeness. This study contributes to the literature by elucidating the factors that drive accommodating reactions to product safety issues.
{"title":"Whose call to recall: Institutional pressure, technological capability and product-harm crisis response strategy","authors":"Yang Liu , Zuying Peng , Peng Cheng , Jiumei Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124032","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124032","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The existing studies have reinforced accommodating (i.e., voluntary product recall) and defensive (i.e., involuntary product recall) product-harm crisis responses. Little attention has been devoted to institutional influences on a firm's product-harm crisis response strategy. This research examines how institutional forces affect firms' accommodating (vs. defensive) product-harm crisis responses. Two distinct studies with different methods have been conducted: Study 1 adopts a set of cross-sectional survey data deriving from 178 top managers in Chinese auto firms; Study 2 takes a set of longitudinal archival data on Chinese automakers during the 2010–2018 period, confirming the results of Study 1. The results demonstrate that mimetic and normative pressures enhance the accommodativeness of product-harm crisis responses, whereas coercive pressure has a negative effect. Furthermore, superior technical capabilities and high crisis severity amplify the positive effects of normative pressure on response accommodativeness. This study contributes to the literature by elucidating the factors that drive accommodating reactions to product safety issues.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48454,"journal":{"name":"Technological Forecasting and Social Change","volume":"213 ","pages":"Article 124032"},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143328676","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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-07DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124034
Rocío Rocha , Rebeca García-Ramos , Ángel Cobo
In the context of crowdfunding, one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs face is selecting an online crowdfunding platform (CFP) to seek financing for their projects. However, there is limited knowledge on the characteristics of CFPs, which are often characterized by qualitative factors that are difficult to measure. To fill this gap, this study presented an assessment framework for evaluating CFPs based on the Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) theory. We proposed an evaluation and selection model for the most suitable CFP for an investment project based on seven criteria that encompass its main characteristics. By applying the Fuzzy Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (fuzzy TOPSIS), we presented a practical application for a green energy investment project within the Spanish context. Focusing on equity CFPs, a final sample of six feasible platforms was evaluated. The results of this study could be of interest to entrepreneurs, investors, and academics as they provide information about the criteria for selecting the best CFP to obtain financing.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-06DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.123972
Leandro J. Llorente-González , Josep Pinyol Alberich , Andrea Genovese , Benjamin H. Lowe
The mainstream narrative associated with the transition to a circular economy is one linked to eco-modernism: paradigmatic change is depicted as an apolitical and technical matter that is fully compatible with growth-led and market-based capitalist logic. As a result of the dominance of this viewpoint, the socio-political foundations of the transition to the circular economy have largely gone unquestioned. This is particularly pronounced regarding how variations in the social relations of production could shape the transition to alternative and more radical futures. This paper aims to address this knowledge gap by incorporating social relations of production into the analysis of circular economy futures. In doing so, a set of nine future circular scenarios is developed by drawing on a typology of five conceptual dimensions that include ownership of the means of production and access to the resulting goods. The typology and the circular scenarios are then validated by a three-part Delphi-like approach. It is argued that the proposed set of scenarios allows a more nuanced understanding of circular economy futures than previous contributions as they provide further insights about key actors and forces of change that could drive the transition to a sustainable society beyond neoliberal capitalism.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-06DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124010
Martin Ho , Henry C.W. Price , Tim S. Evans , Eoin O’Sullivan
A granular understanding of innovation dynamics is crucial for forecasting how and when different actors within the innovation system can make valuable contributions. Existing theoretical foundations of the foresight practice are largely qualitative and often oversimplify the innovation process. While foresight practitioners acknowledge the existence of knowledge feedback loops, these feedback loops are rarely quantified systematically in empirical forecasting studies. Innovators and funders tend to choose their dyadic relationships but rarely have visibility over the wider, dynamic innovation network. This study enriches innovation theories for the foresight practice by leveraging multilayer citation networks to explore innovation translation pathways, achieved by integrating data from market entries, clinical trials, patents, publications, funders, and grants over a 70-year period. Our analysis shows shifts in the order, prevalence, and tipping points of translation activities as technologies mature, with granularity not described in previous studies. We also examine the distinct funding patterns of major public and private entities throughout this maturation process, revealing their unique contributions and enriching sociotechnical explanations of innovation processes. This study improves the explainability of technology forecasting through innovation theories by reconstructing micro-technical innovation dynamics from first principles.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124033
Aline Simonetti , Enrique Bigne , Luis Fernando Rico Navas
Brands increasingly consider the metaverse a promising touchpoint for customer-brand interactions. This study investigates consumers' willingness to pay for brands in the metaverse when a default-free option exists. It examines how social contexts influence these decisions. Additionally, we assess the similarities between virtual and real-life purchase decisions. We apply the theoretical lenses of psychological motives, including self-identity, group identity, and status, alongside the theory of consumption values to identify drivers of branded purchase decisions. In a cross-cultural survey experiment, participants were asked to choose a phone for their avatars, encountering branded and free-of-charge options. We manipulated the social context (friends or strangers) and recorded preferences for real-life consumption. Results show that most consumers allocate their virtual budget to acquire a branded phone rather than take the free option, regardless of social company. The selected brand often mirrors the brand owned in real life and mostly reflects the brand that best represents the consumer. Status-seeking behavior increases branded-product choices, while group identity motivates choosing a brand that represents the consumer. This study advances the understanding of consumer purchase behavior in the metaverse as an omnipresent virtual extension of real life by highlighting psychological and value-driven mechanisms underlying virtual brand decisions.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.123996
Gülçin Büyüközkan, Merve Güler
The growing importance of cybersecurity stems from its strategic value to various stakeholders, including individuals, businesses, governments, and society as a whole. Ensuring robust cybersecurity programs and assessing maturity levels is critical for organizational resilience. Cybersecurity maturity models have emerged as essential tools for evaluating readiness and guiding improvements. This study aims to systematically review existing research with bibliometric analysis and propose a cybersecurity maturity model that will help organizations assess their readiness. Web of Science and Scopus databases were searched, and bibliometric networks were visualized and explored using the VOSViewer and Biblioshiny software. This study is one of the first attempts to examine cybersecurity maturity areas using the science mapping approach. The proposed cybersecurity maturity model uses bibliometric analysis, literature searches on academic papers, industry reports, and expert opinions. The proposed cybersecurity maturity model comprises five dimensions, fifteen factors, and five levels. The proposed model is applied to three companies to demonstrate the validity using real-world examples. This study significantly contributes to the body of knowledge on cybersecurity maturity. The proposed model serves as the foundation for future researchers interested in determining cybersecurity maturity. Additionally, practitioners can use the proposed maturity factors to lead their cybersecurity systems.
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This study examines the paradoxes in trade and global value chain (GVC) in Africa.
Firstly, we analyzed international trade statistics of selected countries to highlight paradoxes in resource endowments, exports, and imports. We found contrasts between Africa's development potential and its current reality in trade and value capture.
Secondly, we analyzed the content of reports focused on GVC challenges in four countries. We found that the reports predominantly focused on identifying issues in GVC upgrading in Africa rather than proposing solutions. These challenges, faced by developing economies in critical sectors, were categorized across four dimensions identified in the literature: technological capabilities, firms, government intervention, and joint ventures (JVs).
Thirdly, we analyzed how to address these GVC upgrade challenges by using interviews from successful GVC upgrade cases in two additional countries. We applied four theoretical dimensions to categorize actions that successfully facilitated GVC upgrading. We found that of all the success factors, government intervention—acting as a shareholder, producer, regulator, and negotiator—was the most critical for successful GVC upgrading. Actions by the state, such as a well-organized early upgrade plan, coercive local expectations toward foreign firms, a winning negotiation approach, and concise JV agreements, were instrumental in these successes.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-04DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.123997
Alexander Kessler , Hermann Frank , Elena Fuetsch
Due to the far-reaching and multifaceted potential of digital technologies, finding a way to enable digital technologies to unleash their full potential and to create competitive advantages is complex. Family businesses are often particularly careful with accepting innovation and represent insightful cases for analyzing digital transformation. We propose that digital transformation works particularly well when it is anchored as a strategic orientation. We refer to this as digitalization orientation (DO), which builds on fundamental premises that frame important digitalization decisions. By means of an in-depth analysis of four good practices, we identify five dimensions of DO: (1) openness towards digitalization, (2) awareness of data as valuable resources, (3) urge to find customized digital solutions, (4) perseverance in the implementation of digitalization plans, and (5) involvement of employees in the digitalization process. These five dimensions are proposed for research as a basis for a DO scale and for businesses in practice to reflect on promising ways of their digital transformation.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-04DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124009
Huaying Wei, Min Chen, Zhouyan Xiao, Honghao Sun
Understanding the relationship between urbanization, migration, and carbon emissions is critical, especially given the limited research on how varying skill levels in migrating populations affect carbon emissions. This paper examines the impact of population migration on carbon emissions, focusing on the diverse skill sets of the migrating population and considering the roles of urban innovation capacity and government innovation preferences. The findings reveal that high-skilled migration leads to increased carbon emissions with positive spatial spillover effects. Urban innovation capacity contributes to higher emissions from high-skilled migration but reduces emissions from general-skilled migration, thus confirming the rebound effect associated with high-skilled migration. Importantly, government innovation preferences can mitigate the emissions impact of high-skilled migration and enhance the carbon reduction effects of general-skilled migration. These insights highlight the significance of the government's role and provide valuable guidance for policymakers in urban and developing contexts.
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