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Machine learning approaches to predicting energy price correlation: From a responsible AI perspective 预测能源价格相关性的机器学习方法:从负责任的人工智能角度
IF 13.3 1区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124515
Yu Su , Xuan Feng
This study is positioned within Responsible AI practice in energy markets, which exhibit inherent volatility and complexity. We integrate classical and modern machine learning techniques for enhanced energy price correlation forecasting. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is employed for dimensionality reduction to identify underlying factors driving energy price correlations, leveraging its interpretability as a key analytical advantage. Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks are then introduced for time-series modeling of energy prices and their inter-correlations.
Using a controlled simulation experiment, we empirically compare PCA-based and LSTM approaches in predicting energy price co-movements. While PCA provides transparent insights into correlation structure with low computation cost, LSTM achieves higher predictive accuracy (8.7% lower MES, 11.4% lower MAE) by capturing nonlinear temporal dependencies. The analysis highlights a governance-performance trade-off between PCA's interpretability and deep learning's precision, suggesting that model choice should be aligned with institutional capacity, regulatory requirements, and deployment constraints. These findings have significant implications for a technology-driven circular economy transitions, demonstrating how improved predictive modeling can enhance renewable integration and energy efficiency in energy markets.
本研究定位于能源市场中负责任的人工智能实践,其表现出固有的波动性和复杂性。我们整合了经典和现代机器学习技术来增强能源价格相关性预测。主成分分析(PCA)用于降维,以确定驱动能源价格相关性的潜在因素,利用其可解释性作为关键的分析优势。然后,将长短期记忆(LSTM)网络引入能源价格及其相互关系的时间序列建模。通过控制模拟实验,我们对基于pca的方法和LSTM方法在预测能源价格协同运动方面进行了实证比较。PCA以较低的计算成本提供了对相关结构的透明洞察,而LSTM通过捕获非线性时间依赖性实现了更高的预测精度(MES低8.7%,MAE低11.4%)。分析强调了PCA的可解释性和深度学习的精确性之间的治理-性能权衡,建议模型选择应与机构能力、监管要求和部署约束保持一致。这些发现对技术驱动的循环经济转型具有重要意义,证明了改进的预测模型如何提高能源市场的可再生能源整合和能源效率。
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Explore or exploit? How explorative and exploitative IT capabilities affect new product development process performance 探索还是利用?探索性和利用性IT能力如何影响新产品开发过程的性能
IF 13.3 1区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124517
Sven Heidenreich , Elena D. Denzer , Slawka Jordanow
This study investigates how explorative and exploitative IT capabilities drive performance across concept development, product development, and implementation stages of the new product development (NPD) process, and how environmental dynamism re-weights their effects. Drawing on survey data from 279 German innovation professionals and employing PLS-SEM alongside a polynomial-regression/response-surface analysis, we first show that treating IT exploration and IT exploitation as distinct dimensions uncovers their separate and joint contributions to stage-level outcomes. Both capabilities positively influence each NPD stage, but exploration yields its greatest marginal benefit during implementation, whereas exploitation exerts a steady effect across all stages. Response-surface results reveal that optimal performance is achieved not at a rigid 50:50 balance but at a context-sensitive, slightly exploitative-leaning ratio whose ideal position shifts as projects progress. Finally, environmental dynamism amplifies the value of explorative IT capabilities while attenuating that of exploitative IT capabilities. In turbulent settings firms benefit from heavier IT investment in exploration, whereas stable environments favor exploitation. These findings advance ambidexterity theory by challenging perfect balance assumptions, opening the NPD black box to reveal stage-specific digital mechanisms, and positioning environmental turbulence as a first-order boundary condition for IT strategy.
本研究探讨了探索性和利用性IT能力如何在概念开发、产品开发和新产品开发(NPD)过程的实施阶段推动绩效,以及环境动态如何重新权衡其影响。利用279名德国创新专业人士的调查数据,并采用PLS-SEM以及多项式回归/响应面分析,我们首先表明,将IT探索和IT利用视为不同的维度,揭示了它们对阶段水平结果的单独和共同贡献。这两种能力对每个新产品开发阶段都有积极影响,但勘探在实施过程中产生最大的边际效益,而开发在所有阶段都有稳定的影响。响应面结果显示,最佳性能不是在严格的50:50平衡下实现的,而是在一个上下文敏感的、略具剥削倾向的比例上实现的,其理想位置随着项目的进展而变化。最后,环境动态性放大了探索性IT能力的价值,同时减弱了利用性IT能力的价值。在动荡的环境中,公司从勘探方面的更多信息技术投资中受益,而稳定的环境有利于开采。这些发现通过挑战完美平衡假设,打开NPD黑箱以揭示特定阶段的数字机制,并将环境动荡定位为IT战略的一阶边界条件,从而推进了二元性理论。
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Unveiling the impact of artificial intelligence on corporate misconduct, the perspective of information asymmetry 揭示人工智能对企业不当行为的影响,信息不对称的视角
IF 13.3 1区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-01-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124506
Mingyang Zou , Yang Yang
Does the application of artificial intelligence technology in enterprises bring all benefits and no harm? Most current work focuses on the positive effects of AI technology usage on businesses, while largely ignoring this issue. Focusing on signal theory, we test how the adoption of artificial intelligence affects the occurrence of corporate misconduct. We argue that due to the information asymmetry between large language models and businesses, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology may lead to increased corporate misconduct. Using data from 4144 listed companies in China, we find evidence supporting our argument. We also analyze the impact of industry digitization, enterprise digital technology use, and executive tone on this effect, and we further distinguish the effect of this effect in different situations through additional analyses. Enterprises can utilize these findings to identify their risk points in AI technology application and develop corresponding risk management strategies accordingly.
人工智能技术在企业中的应用是否带来了所有的好处而没有坏处?目前的大多数工作都集中在人工智能技术对企业的积极影响上,而在很大程度上忽略了这个问题。我们以信号理论为中心,检验人工智能的采用如何影响企业不当行为的发生。我们认为,由于大型语言模型和企业之间的信息不对称,人工智能(AI)技术的使用可能会导致企业不当行为的增加。利用中国4144家上市公司的数据,我们找到了支持我们观点的证据。我们还分析了行业数字化、企业数字技术使用和高管语气对这一效应的影响,并通过附加分析进一步区分了这一效应在不同情况下的影响。企业可以利用这些发现来识别其在人工智能技术应用中的风险点,并制定相应的风险管理策略。
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Deep versus broad technology search and the timing of innovation impact 深度与广泛的技术搜索以及创新影响的时机
IF 13.3 1区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-01-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124488
Likun Cao , James Evans
This study offers a new perspective on the depth-versus-breadth debate in innovation strategy by modeling inventive search within dynamic collective knowledge systems and underscoring the importance of timing for technological impact. Using frontier machine learning to project patent citation networks in hyperbolic space, we analyze 4.9 million U.S. patents to examine how search strategies give rise to distinct temporal patterns of impact accumulation. We find that inventions based on deep search, which relies on a specialized understanding of the complex structure of recombination, drive higher short-term impact through early adoption within specialized communities, but face diminishing returns as innovations become “locked-in” with limited diffusion potential. Conversely, when inventions are grounded in broad search that spans disparate domains, they encounter initial resistance but achieve wider diffusion and greater long-term impact by reaching cognitively diverse audiences. Individual inventions require both depth and breadth for stable impact. Organizations can strategically balance approaches across multiple inventions: using depth to build reliable technological infrastructure while pursuing breadth to expand applications. We advance innovation theory by demonstrating how deep and broad search strategies distinctly shape the timing and trajectory of technological impact, and how individual inventors and organizations can leverage these mechanisms to balance exploitation and exploration.
本研究通过对动态集体知识系统中的创造性搜索进行建模,并强调了技术影响时机的重要性,为创新战略的深度与广度之争提供了一个新的视角。利用前沿机器学习在双曲空间中预测专利引用网络,我们分析了490万项美国专利,以研究搜索策略如何产生不同的影响积累的时间模式。我们发现,基于深度搜索的发明,依赖于对重组复杂结构的专业理解,通过在专业社区内的早期采用,可以带来更高的短期影响,但随着创新被“锁定”,传播潜力有限,其回报将会递减。相反,当发明建立在跨越不同领域的广泛搜索基础上时,它们最初会遇到阻力,但通过接触认知多样化的受众,它们会获得更广泛的传播和更大的长期影响。个人发明需要深度和广度才能产生稳定的影响。组织可以在战略上平衡多种发明之间的方法:利用深度建立可靠的技术基础设施,同时追求广度来扩展应用。我们通过展示深度和广泛的搜索策略如何明显地塑造技术影响的时间和轨迹,以及个体发明家和组织如何利用这些机制来平衡开发和探索,从而推进创新理论。
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Sustainable consumption of wearable healthcare devices and its relevance to the net-zero agenda: Evidence from senior citizens 可穿戴医疗设备的可持续消费及其与净零议程的相关性:来自老年人的证据
IF 13.3 1区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-01-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124509
Mingxue Wei , Suraksha Gupta , Xiaoping Yang , Yichuan Wang
The rapid advancement of medical technologies has increased electronic obsolescence and e-waste, yet research on this issue within the medical sector remains limited. Existing studies mainly emphasize environmental and health risks from improper disposal, overlooking the role of consumers, particularly elderly individuals with chronic conditions who depend on wearable health devices. This study addresses this gap by examining how sustainable consumption of wearable healthcare devices among senior citizens can help reduce e-waste and support net-zero goals. Using a mixed-methods design, we conducted 20 semi-structured interviews and surveyed 647 senior citizens, analysing the data through Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). The findings reveal that user experience strongly drives sustainable consumption. Moreover, user experience is shaped by design leadership, technology leadership, and brand leadership. Several factors, including self-health management efficacy, perceived severity, perceived vulnerability, and disclosure policy, moderate these relationships, while regulation shows no significant moderating effect. The study highlights the importance of enhancing user experience and leadership attributes in wearable healthcare devices to promote sustainable consumption and mitigate e-waste among elderly users.
医疗技术的快速发展增加了电子过时和电子废物,但医疗部门对这一问题的研究仍然有限。现有的研究主要强调处置不当带来的环境和健康风险,忽视了消费者,特别是依赖可穿戴健康设备的慢性病老年人的作用。本研究通过研究老年人可穿戴医疗设备的可持续消费如何有助于减少电子垃圾和支持净零目标,解决了这一差距。采用混合方法设计,对647名老年人进行了20次半结构化访谈,并通过偏最小二乘结构方程模型(PLS-SEM)对数据进行了分析。研究结果显示,用户体验强烈地推动了可持续消费。此外,用户体验是由设计领导力、技术领导力和品牌领导力塑造的。包括自我健康管理效能、感知严重性、感知脆弱性和信息披露政策在内的几个因素调节了这些关系,而监管没有显示出显著的调节作用。该研究强调了增强可穿戴医疗设备的用户体验和领导属性的重要性,以促进可持续消费并减少老年用户的电子垃圾。
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Unveiling AI washing: Bridging corporate technological gaps through a cognitive dissonance lens 揭示人工智能清洗:通过认知失调镜头弥合企业技术差距
IF 13.3 1区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-01-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124511
Zhe Sun , Yujun Wen , Liang Zhao , Intesar Almugren , Aradhana Galgotia
This study utilizes Cognitive Dissonance Theory to empirically investigate how ‘AI washing’, the discrepancy between AI narratives and actual capabilities, affects the corporate technological gap. Using panel data from China's A-share listed firms (2007–2022), the findings establish a significant inverted U-shaped relationship between ‘AI washing’ and the technological gap. Mediation analysis confirms this relationship is channeled through both internal R&D investment and industry-level R&D investment. Moderation analysis reveals that strong AI-enabled participatory learning capability flattens the inverted U-curve, indicating earlier corrective action. Conversely, high investor sentiment is shown to steepen the curve. Furthermore, the nonlinear effect is subdued for firms in national AI pilot zones or high-technology-intensive industries. This research advances ‘AI washing’ literature through quantitative analysis, extends Cognitive Dissonance Theory to the domain of technology strategy, and offers empirical insights for responsible AI governance.
本研究运用认知失调理论实证研究“人工智能洗涤”,即人工智能叙述与实际能力之间的差异,如何影响企业的技术差距。利用中国a股上市公司(2007-2022)的面板数据,研究结果在“人工智能洗涤”与技术差距之间建立了显著的倒u型关系。中介分析证实,这种关系是通过内部研发投资和行业层面的研发投资来引导的。适度分析显示,强大的人工智能参与式学习能力使倒u型曲线变平,表明采取了更早的纠正措施。相反,投资者情绪高涨会使曲线变陡。此外,对于国家人工智能试验区或高技术密集型产业的企业,非线性效应被抑制。本研究通过定量分析推进了“人工智能清洗”文献,将认知失调理论扩展到技术战略领域,并为负责任的人工智能治理提供了实证见解。
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Prioritizing interoperable AI-driven solutions for sustainable circular economy in the public sector 优先考虑可互操作的人工智能驱动解决方案,以促进公共部门的可持续循环经济
IF 13.3 1区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-01-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124513
Safiya Alshibani , Abhishek Bhushan Singhal , Bhumika Gupta , Armando Papa , Manlio Del Giudice
Although digital transformation using artificial intelligence (AI) presents numerous opportunities to enhance public services and align them with circular economy (CE) goals, there are various challenges that make such digital integrations tedious and slow. Various technical, organizational and policy factors for AI integration in CE-aligned public governance have been explored in silos and their interrelationships and dependencies are not widely reported. Hence the study identifies upstream/downstream drivers for a sustainable circular economy and examines causal influence of each driver and further identifies boundary-linking drivers. Fifteen prominent factors reported in literature and validated by 102 experts from academia and industry for their cause effect relationship. The causal relationship is identified using Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) analysis. The findings are reported as a hierarchy of cause-and-effect groups based on their influence in the system. Privacy and Security Concerns, Feedback Loops, Data Interoperability and Training and Digital Literacy are reported as major drivers. The most affected dependent variable Urban Infrastructure Planning, National Goal Alignment, Standardized Data Protocols, AI-based Energy Optimization, Policy Support for AI Adoption, AI in Waste Management and Cross-Agency Data Sharing Capability are reported as effect variables. This study provides a comprehensive framework of causality by mapping interdependencies, revealing the underlying enablers and the downstream operational results. For practitioners, the results of this study, provide an evidence-based, stepwise roadmap that can help in the sequencing of strategic investment and policy deployment for achieving circular economy goals through digital transformations using AI.
尽管使用人工智能(AI)的数字化转型为加强公共服务并使其与循环经济(CE)目标保持一致提供了许多机会,但仍存在各种挑战,使这种数字化整合变得繁琐而缓慢。人工智能整合到与ce一致的公共治理中的各种技术、组织和政策因素已经在孤岛中进行了探索,它们的相互关系和依赖关系没有得到广泛报道。因此,本研究确定了可持续循环经济的上游/下游驱动因素,考察了每个驱动因素的因果影响,并进一步确定了边界连接驱动因素。文献报道了15个突出因素,经102位学术界和产业界专家验证其因果关系。因果关系是确定使用决策试验和评估实验室(DEMATEL)分析。这些发现被报告为基于它们在系统中的影响力的因果组的等级。据报道,隐私和安全问题、反馈循环、数据互操作性和培训以及数字素养是主要驱动因素。受影响最大的因变量是城市基础设施规划、国家目标一致性、标准化数据协议、基于人工智能的能源优化、采用人工智能的政策支持、废物管理中的人工智能和跨机构数据共享能力。本研究通过映射相互依赖关系,揭示潜在的促成因素和下游操作结果,提供了一个全面的因果关系框架。对于从业者来说,本研究的结果提供了一个以证据为基础的逐步路线图,可以帮助排序战略投资和政策部署,通过使用人工智能进行数字化转型,实现循环经济目标。
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Assessment of 5G spectrum values and investment strategies considering demands forecasts and regulations: A Korean 5G case 考虑到需求预测和法规的5G频谱价值评估和投资策略——以韩国5G为例
IF 13.3 1区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-01-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2026.124525
Donghyun An, Deok-Joo Lee
In South Korea, the 28 GHz 5G licenses issued in 2018 were revoked after operators failed to meet the network building requirement, highlighting the need for rigorous assessment of regulatory obligations. This study develops an analytical framework that evaluates license value and the economic effects of regulatory conditions by integrating multi-generation demand forecasting, optimal base-station allocation, and a constrained real-options model. By representing regulatory rules as explicit constraints and quantifying their economic impact through shadow prices, the framework clarifies how policy choices influence deployment decisions. A case study on mmWave 5G identifies regional disparities in reserve prices and obligation burdens, and a sensitivity analysis shows how regulatory, financial, and usage parameters affect license feasibility. The results illustrate how regulators can calibrate obligations to regional conditions and how operators can assess deployment feasibility under alternative regulatory or demand scenarios, providing guidance for designing regulations that are economically evaluable.
在韩国,由于运营商未能满足网络建设要求,2018年颁发的28 GHz 5G许可证被撤销,这突显了严格评估监管义务的必要性。本研究开发了一个分析框架,通过整合多代需求预测、最优基站分配和受限实际期权模型,评估许可价值和监管条件的经济影响。通过将监管规则表示为明确的约束,并通过影子价格量化其经济影响,该框架阐明了政策选择如何影响部署决策。毫米波5G的案例研究确定了保留价格和义务负担的地区差异,敏感性分析显示了监管、财务和使用参数如何影响许可可行性。研究结果说明了监管机构如何根据地区条件调整义务,以及运营商如何在替代监管或需求情景下评估部署可行性,为设计经济上可评估的监管规定提供指导。
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How do economic sanctions affect corporate innovation? Lessons from China 经济制裁如何影响企业创新?中国的经验教训
IF 13.3 1区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-01-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124516
Hua-Tang Yin , Jun Wen , Guo-Hua Ni , Chun-Ping Chang
This paper employs a panel dataset of Chinese listed firms to investigate the impact that economic sanctions have on corporate innovation, along with its mechanisms and conditionalities. It is found that economic sanctions exert a significant negative effect on corporate innovation output. Such an effect mainly stems from the decline in innovation efficiency caused by economic sanctions, rather than a reduction in innovation inputs. Further exploration for their mechanisms reveals that sanctions-induced perceived uncertainty weakens entrepreneurial spirit, exacerbates investor myopia, and reduces firms' slack resources, thereby lowering innovation efficiency. Moreover, our heterogeneity analysis with respect to personnel and incentive arrangements suggests that stable executive teams, greater employee profit sharing, and better employee benefits enhance firms' resilience to innovation challenges under sanctions. Going a step further, we examine the conditionalities regarding institutional quality. An inclusive, open, and fair competitive business environment helps mitigate the adverse effects of economic sanctions on corporate innovation.
本文采用中国上市公司面板数据集,研究经济制裁对企业创新的影响及其机制和条件。研究发现,经济制裁对企业创新产出有显著的负向影响。这种影响主要来自经济制裁导致的创新效率下降,而不是创新投入的减少。对其机制的进一步探索表明,制裁诱导的感知不确定性削弱了企业家精神,加剧了投资者的短视,减少了企业的闲置资源,从而降低了创新效率。此外,我们对人员和激励安排的异质性分析表明,稳定的管理团队、更大的员工利润分享和更好的员工福利增强了企业应对制裁下创新挑战的弹性。更进一步,我们考察了有关制度质量的条件。包容、开放、公平竞争的营商环境有助于缓解经济制裁对企业创新的不利影响。
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Relational coordination in medical work: The role of digital health practices 医疗工作中的关系协调:数字健康实践的作用
IF 13.3 1区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-01-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124508
Mattia Vincenzo Olive , Luca Gastaldi , Francesco Paolo Appio
The increasing specialization of medical work has amplified the complexity of coordination among healthcare professionals, making its effectiveness a persistent challenge. Digital health technologies – including telemedicine, electronic medical records and generative artificial intelligence – have been introduced to facilitate coordination, yet their impact on relational coordination remains debated. While some studies highlight their potential to enhance structured communication and information sharing, others point to risks such as communication silos, depersonalization and cognitive overload. This study integrates Relational Coordination Theory with the sociomateriality paradigm to examine how digital health practices shape relational coordination among healthcare professionals. Leveraging survey data from a sample of Italian specialist doctors, we analyze the effects of distinct digital health practices (quantification, connectivity and instantaneity) on relational coordination. Our findings reveal that digital health practices exert heterogeneous effects. Consulting and collaborating at a distance through telemedicine positively influences relational coordination, whereas monitoring and visualizing patient data may introduce complexities rather than improving coordination. The role of EMRs and generative AI appears more ambiguous, with mixed evidence regarding their capacity to sustain relational coordination. These findings underscore the need to further understand how digital health practices are integrated into clinical work and their implications for coordination processes.
医疗工作的日益专业化扩大了医疗保健专业人员之间协调的复杂性,使其有效性成为一个持续的挑战。数字卫生技术——包括远程医疗、电子病历和生成式人工智能——已被引入以促进协调,但它们对关系协调的影响仍存在争议。虽然一些研究强调了它们在加强结构化沟通和信息共享方面的潜力,但也有一些研究指出了沟通孤岛、去人格化和认知超载等风险。本研究将关系协调理论与社会物质性范式相结合,研究数字健康实践如何塑造医疗保健专业人员之间的关系协调。利用来自意大利专科医生样本的调查数据,我们分析了不同的数字医疗实践(量化、连通性和即时性)对关系协调的影响。我们的研究结果表明,数字健康实践产生了异质性影响。通过远程医疗进行远程咨询和协作对关系协调产生积极影响,而监测和可视化患者数据可能会带来复杂性,而不是改善协调。电子病历和生成式人工智能的作用似乎更加模糊,关于它们维持关系协调能力的证据不一。这些发现强调需要进一步了解数字卫生实践如何融入临床工作及其对协调过程的影响。
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