Morphogenetic System Theory (MST), proposed by Germano Resconi in 1998, is a generalized system model that integrates multidisciplinary knowledge and provides a unified mathematical framework for the recording, preservation, and reconstruction of for...
3 August 2023
Background: In the development of effective telerehabilitation (TR) interventions, understanding the various characteristics affecting its practice is essential. Remote connection creates a new technically shaped environment for therapy and, therefor...
We investigate whether China’s Value-Added Tax (VAT) Credit Refund policy influences firms’ sustainable development capability (SDC), which reflects innovation-driven growth and green development. Exploiting the 2018 implementation of the...
Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediates leadership-relevant judgment through models, dashboards, metrics, decision-support systems, and autonomous agents. This conceptual article develops a socio-technical systems theory of systemically me...
The current world’s green economy and digital economy collide at an accelerated pace, and the deep integration of digitalization and greening has become a new requirement for high-quality industrial transformation. Premised on a socio-technical...
This study examines Lean 4.0, defined as the integration of Lean soft practices (LSPs) and Industry 4.0 technologies (I4Ts), from a socio-technical systems perspective. While prior research has mainly linked Lean and I4Ts to operational and cost-base...
Short-video platforms such as TikTok, Douyin, and Instagram Reels have transformed digital consumption into an immersive, algorithmically mediated commerce ecosystem. This study examines how compulsive short video use (CSV), a maladaptive pattern lin...
The implementation of Industry 4.0 is becoming increasingly prevalent in the manufacturing industry since its inception. The purposeful joint optimization of social and technical factors of organizations is imperative to the successful adoption of th...
The integration of drones into health care as a supplement to existing logistics methods may generate a need for cooperation and involvement across multiple resource areas. It is currently not well understood whether such integrations would merely re...
The implementation of flexible work arrangements in the modern work environment has increased in recent years. Jointly optimizing social and technical factors within an organization is necessary for the development of hybrid work environments. This s...
When digital technologies are disconnected from organizational routines, they fail to create and capture real value in organic agriculture. Anchored in socio-technical systems theory, a five-dimensional analytical framework covering technology, struc...
This study examines the factors that influence individuals’ intentions to create socially oriented ventures, emphasizing the joint role of social and technical systems. Grounded in Socio-Technical Systems Theory, the research investigates how p...
Production data transparency in smart manufacturing simultaneously enhances and impairs employee performance across organizational contexts. Existing research has not resolved this theoretical contradiction. Drawing on socio-technical systems theory,...
This study explores the determinants of the intention to adopt blockchain technology for sustainable supply chain management in Indian micro, small, and medium enterprises. Different from existing studies that advocate the use of socio-technical theo...
Drawing on digital identity theories, social software engineering theory (SSE), and the Privacy Safeguard (PriS) methodology, we examined the way that personal information uploaded on social media (SM) imposes privacy issues. Throughout a review on u...
Effective collaboration between artificial intelligence and human capital has become an important organizational foundation for improving corporate carbon emissions. Drawing on socio-technical systems theory, we examine the effect of human–AI c...
Based on Conservation of Resources (COR) theory and a socio-technical systems perspective, this study examines how technology-enacted abusive supervision (TAS) influences employees’ counterproductive work behavior (CWB) in digitalized organizat...
Digital technologies are increasingly embedded in tourism performing arts, yet technology-intensive projects do not automatically generate profound cultural experiences. To explain this high-investment-but-low-experience dilemma, this study conceptua...
This study investigates why artificial intelligence (AI) may hinder rather than enhance teaching efficiency in primary school physical education (PE). Guided by socio-technical systems theory, we conducted focus group interviews with 13 PE teachers (...
The rapid growth of electric vehicles (EVs) is reshaping transport systems and accelerating the sustainable digital transformation of smart mobility. EV battery-swapping, delivered through platform-based, data-driven service networks, offers a low-ca...
The shift to teleworking, defined as technology-enabled work arrangements in which employees perform organizational tasks remotely outside traditional office settings, has exposed the limitations of traditional performance management systems, includi...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) increasingly rely on digital technologies in everyday operations, often without having sufficient resources or structured mechanisms to manage the cyber risks that accompany this dependence. As digitalization...
Building services systems in comprehensive hospitals must support safety-critical clinical workflows within dense spatial and technical interfaces. Coordination among owners, designers, contractors, operators, and clinical users is often fragmented a...
As the road to environmental and social sustainability is tied to large-scale systemic transitions, inevitably, sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship should be considered in their context. In this paper, we investigate how entrepreneurial oppor...
Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven fraud detection systems in FinTech ecosystems increasingly face a governance tension between high predictive accuracy and limited regulatory transparency, a gap that existing reviews have not addressed through an i...
With the growing concern worldwide regarding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and their impacts on human health and the environment, transportation has become a central theme in their mitigation, responsible for 15% of anthropogenic GHG, 23% of global...
5 January 2026
Urban delivery demand continues to rise, intensifying last-mile logistics challenges and accelerating the transition from manual delivery to autonomous delivery robots (ADRs). This study investigates the behavioral mechanisms underlying consumers&rsq...
Explainability in deep learning (XDL) for healthcare is increasingly portrayed as essential for addressing the “black box” problem in clinical artificial intelligence. However, this universal transparency mandate may create unintended con...
Post mortem incident investigations are vital to prevent the occurrence of similar events and improve system safety. The increasing interactions of technical, human and organizational elements in modern systems pose new challenges for safety manageme...
Although digital readiness is widely recognized as a prerequisite for digital transformation, existing research predominantly adopts a determinant-based perspective, offering limited insight into how readiness actually emerges within organizations. T...
This study investigates the accelerating adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) integrated with residential rooftop solar and battery storage in Australia, employing Actor–Network Theory (ANT) to elucidate socio-technical dynamics. Through purposi...
An ongoing question is what constitutes the characteristics of a project manager. This is the subject of many studies. The characteristics, skills, abilities and knowledge of project managers—essential factors in a project’s success&mdash...
It is widely recognised that the achievement of a sustainable built environment requires holistic design practices and approaches that are capable of balancing the varied, and often conflicting, demands of environmental, social and economic concerns....
To effectively address the sustainability crises our planet faces, decision-makers at different levels of government worldwide will have to get a handle on three key challenges: learning from Global North and South initiatives in tandem, taking stock...
Better nitrogen management, technologies, and regulation are required to reduce nitrogen losses in the aquatic environment. New innovative technologies can support farmers in a more targeted planning of fertilizer application and crop management at t...
This conceptual paper argues that enterprise architecture (EA) should move towards a conscious human-centered conception of the enterprise. Employing the conceptual methodological approach of theory synthesis and drawing on the extant literature in e...
1 April 2013
As the use and value of social networks continues to expand and creatively grow, the question of how to attract people to the various sites becomes an important question. This research focuses on interactivity and its role in user satisfaction with a...
This article examines how grassroots civic mobilization can drive the transition from solid fuel combustion to low-emission urban heating systems, using the Kraków Smog Alert (KSA) as a case study. Employing the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) f...
Digital transformation in public administration is shaped not only by technology but also by institutional expectations, legitimacy concerns and uneven local capacities. However, existing qualitative instruments rarely support structured reflection o...
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), particularly Foundation Models (FMs), has recently become a key component of Industry 5.0. Despite growing interest in integrating these technologies into industrial environments, comprehensive analyses of...
3 January 2026
Conventional research on digital business development offers a limited view, overwhelmingly concerned with the isolated effects of individual variables while overlooking their synergistic relationships. This study challenges this reductive perspectiv...
Frequent introductions and revisions of climate policy instruments constitute a salient exogenous shock to firms’ strategic decisions. From a socio-technical systems perspective, climate policy uncertainty (CPU) represents an external instituti...
Does asymmetric cost behavior require an uncertain environment to emerge? We study cost “stickiness” and “anti-stickiness”—the asymmetric response of costs to sales increases and decreases—as the output of a comple...
Despite strong policy support for prefabricated interior decoration systems (PIDSs) in China, residential consumer uptake remains limited. Existing research has focused primarily on adoption drivers or industry-side promotion; in contrast, in this st...
In organizational cyber crises, incident response and official communication form coupled control loops, yet they are usually engineered separately. We present V-CHIMERA (Verified Coupled Human–Information–Machine Incident Response Archit...
Healthcare delivery fragmentation can be understood as a structural coordination problem within a socio-technical System of Systems, where autonomous but interdependent providers, insurers, suppliers, information systems, support services, and care r...
Industry 5.0 emphasizes human-centricity, sustainability, and resilience while requiring workforce competencies that support technologically advanced and human-centered work environments. This study examined managers’ perceptions of organizatio...
Innovation systems are commonly analysed through indicators of investment, performance, technological capacity, and research output, while less attention is paid to the composition of the research workforce. This article asks whether workforce compos...
Digital transformation (DT) fundamentally reshapes how organisations operate, create value, and respond to complex environments through the integration of digital technologies. Beyond mere technical deployment, DT involves behavioural, strategic, and...
Digital transformation is a strategic priority across care-intensive service sectors, yet many organisations struggle to realise its intended benefits. Existing research often examines technological, organisational, and environmental barriers separat...
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