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  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
3,770 Views
18 Pages

28 April 2023

The motivation of this paper is to explore the influence of farmers’ endowments and technology perceptions on farmers’ green production technology adoption behaviors. Based on a survey of 471 grain farmers in the main grain-producing area...

  • Article
  • Open Access
508 Views
20 Pages

Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) are often introduced as platforms expected to deliver strategic value through workforce analytics, decision support, and alignment with organizational goals. Yet evidence consistently shows that line managers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,632 Views
25 Pages

Chinese Farmers’ Low-Carbon Agricultural Technology Adoption Behavior and Its Influencing Factors

  • Liqun Zhu,
  • Yutao Wang,
  • Yujia Liu,
  • Zhuqun Tan,
  • Siqi Ke,
  • Naijuan Hu,
  • Shuyang Qu and
  • Guang Han

Low-carbon agricultural technology (LCAT) is essential for China to achieve its carbon emissions peak by 2030 and neutrality by 2060. Farmers’ adoption of LCAT is crucial for adapting to and mitigating climate change risks. This study explores...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
160 Citations
12,945 Views
24 Pages

15 August 2021

Solar PV (photovoltaic) technology has gained considerable attention worldwide, as it can help reduce the adverse effects of CO2 emissions. Though the government of Pakistan is adopting solar PV technology due to its environmental friendliness nature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
245 Citations
20,653 Views
21 Pages

Blockchain Technology Adoption Behavior and Sustainability of the Business in Tourism and Hospitality SMEs: An Empirical Study

  • Guych Nuryyev,
  • Yu-Ping Wang,
  • Jennet Achyldurdyyeva,
  • Bih-Shiaw Jaw,
  • Yi-Shien Yeh,
  • Hsien-Tang Lin and
  • Li-Fan Wu

10 February 2020

This paper investigates the factors influencing the intention to adopt cryptocurrency payments among small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in tourism and hospitality through the lens of the technology acceptance model (TAM). This paper uses an ori...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,481 Views
11 Pages

There is an urgent need to promote the technical means of energy conservation in rural buildings. However, it is difficult to inspire enthusiasm among rural residents to implement the mandatory building energy conservation policy, resulting in invisi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,511 Views
32 Pages

11 June 2020

Understanding and integrating the user’s decision-making process into product design and distribution strategies is likely to lead to higher adoption rates and ultimately increased impacts, particularly for those products that require a change...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,810 Views
17 Pages

15 August 2025

Encouraging farmers to adopt low-carbon agricultural technologies is a vital strategy for addressing climate change and fostering a harmonious relationship between humans and nature. An initial step is understanding the formation of farmers’ wi...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
67 Citations
18,303 Views
12 Pages

Behavioral Monitoring Tool for Pig Farmers: Ear Tag Sensors, Machine Intelligence, and Technology Adoption Roadmap

  • Santosh Pandey,
  • Upender Kalwa,
  • Taejoon Kong,
  • Baoqing Guo,
  • Phillip C. Gauger,
  • David J. Peters and
  • Kyoung-Jin Yoon

10 September 2021

Precision swine production can benefit from autonomous, noninvasive, and affordable devices that conduct frequent checks on the well-being status of pigs. Here, we present a remote monitoring tool for the objective measurement of some behavioral indi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,467 Views
20 Pages

Coffee is the second most important commodity in terms of global trade value, with its global market value exceeding $460 billion in 2020. Its supply networks, which encompass multiple stakeholders, are complex and nontransparent. Blockchain is a tru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,928 Views
10 Pages

How Does AR Technology Adoption and Involvement Behavior Affect Overseas Residents’ Life Satisfaction?

  • Nargis Dewan,
  • Md Billal Hossain,
  • Gwi-Gon Kim,
  • Anna Dunay and
  • Csaba Bálint Illés

This study aims to better understand foreign residents’ life satisfaction by exploring residents’ AR technology adoption behavior (a combination of transportation applications’ usefulness and ease of use) and travel involvement. Dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,774 Views
23 Pages

Green production technology is a critical component of contemporary agricultural development, playing a pivotal role in the promotion of sustainable agricultural practices. Information literacy is the basic ability for farmers to engage in agricultur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,218 Views
21 Pages

3 March 2025

Farmers are the key adopters of low-carbon agricultural technologies, and their adoption behavior is crucial for achieving the “dual carbon” goals. However, how digital literacy influences farmers’ technology adoption remains undere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,807 Views
13 Pages

23 April 2025

The objective of the study was to investigate factors that influence people’s intentions to adopt biogas technology in Malawi. The study adopted variables of the diffusion of innovation theory (DIT) (relative advantage, compatibility, complexit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,322 Views
23 Pages

The application of digital technology offers new opportunities to promote the green transformation and upgrading of agriculture. Farmers’ digital literacy, as a critical link between digital technology and agricultural green development, signif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,255 Views
17 Pages

Green technologies are important for achieving green and high-quality agricultural development. The Chinese government has issued various policies to explicitly encourage the adoption of green technologies. However, incentives for Chinese farmers to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
94 Views
28 Pages

Against the backdrop of China’s rural revitalization, understanding the factors influencing farmers’ agricultural technology adoption behavior is crucial for enhancing such adoption. Therefore, exploring the decision-making logic behind f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,098 Views
23 Pages

24 November 2022

The China–Tanzania Village-based Learning Center for Poverty Reduction project aims to demonstrate China’s experience in poverty reduction through developing smallholder agriculture at the village level, and through the promotion of impro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,836 Views
23 Pages

12 October 2021

Conservation tillage technology (CTT) provides a new solution to the problem of cultivated land protection. Using effective policy tools to ensure that farmers adopt conservation tillage technology is crucial to the sustainable utilization of cultiva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
576 Views
26 Pages

18 November 2025

Alongside technological innovations, the energy transition requires notable behavioral changes in the residential sector. Smart technologies (STs) can support this shift by promoting transparency, energy-conscious behavior, and automated efficiency g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,946 Views
24 Pages

Along with the increasing prominence of environmental risks such as soil surface source pollution and declining quality grade of arable land, the issues of how to address irrational fertilizer application and enhance the safety of agricultural produc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,649 Views
21 Pages

23 October 2021

Smartphone-Based Electrochemical Analytical Devices (SEAD) enable sophisticated toxic heavy metal quantification experiments to be conducted anywhere with high precision, selectivity, and sensitivity. However, a very limited number of such technologi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,799 Views
20 Pages

27 October 2020

Green information systems (IS) is a research domain that contributes to finding solutions for fostering environmental behavior in individuals, organizations, and communities. So far, researching Green IS for individual users has been less abundant an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
322 Views
20 Pages

Modeling Service Experience and Sustainable Adoption of Drone Taxi Services in the UAE: A Behavioral Framework Informed by TAM and UTAUT

  • Sami Miniaoui,
  • Nasser A. Saif Almuraqab,
  • Rashed Al Raees,
  • Prashanth B. S. and
  • Manoj Kumar M. V.

16 January 2026

Urban air mobility solutions such as drone taxi services are increasingly viewed as a promising response to congestion, sustainability, and smart-city mobility challenges. However, the large-scale adoption of such services depends on users’ per...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,303 Views
25 Pages

Nudging the adoption of agricultural green production technologies (AGPTs) by cotton farmers is a practical need to implement the national “green development” strategy. Based on the micro-survey data of 502 cotton farmers, this paper empi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
9,309 Views
23 Pages

3 November 2020

A common managerial and theoretical concern is to know how individuals perceive Internet of Things (IoT) products and applications and how to accelerate adoption of them. The purpose of the current study is to answer, “What are the factors that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,726 Views
26 Pages

28 June 2023

In recent years, cryptocurrency has increased in popularity in Indonesia. In Indonesia, based on data from the Ministry of Trade (Kemendag), until the end of May 2021, the number of investors in cryptocurrency assets or crypto money was 6.5 million p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
906 Views
19 Pages

23 January 2026

The rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) is reshaping academic work in higher education. While classical technology acceptance models primarily emphasize cognitive and instrumental determinants, the adoption of GAI also raises...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,547 Views
17 Pages

Technology Acceptance in e-Governance: A Case of a Finance Organization

  • Fatemeh Mohammad Ebrahimzadeh Sepasgozar,
  • Usef Ramzani,
  • Sabbar Ebrahimzadeh,
  • Sharifeh Sargolzae and
  • Samad Sepasgozar

Presently, one of the most critical challenges for e-government and e-banking is the accurate and correct realization of factors that have a significant impact on customer behavior. Without appropriate knowledge of these factors, it would be impossib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,263 Views
19 Pages

7 October 2023

This study examines the perception and adoption of IoT technologies for crop monitoring among farmers in Jizan, Saudi Arabia. The research investigates the relationship between farmers’ awareness of IoT technologies, their perception of benefit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
11,842 Views
34 Pages

The introduction of mobile banking is essential in today’s financial sector, where technological innovation plays a critical role. To remain competitive in the current market, businesses must analyze client attitudes and perspectives, as these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,379 Views
12 Pages

Part-time farming has been suggested by scholars to play an important part in farmers’ decision making, but seldom empirical evidence has been done on the field of conservation agriculture (CA) technology adoption worldwide. Based on the field...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,569 Views
19 Pages

8 March 2025

This study examines consumers’ technology acceptance behavior regarding indoor smart farm restaurant systems focusing on the value-based adoption model and value–attitude–behavior hierarchy. More specifically, the study explores the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,274 Views
17 Pages

Modeling AI Adoption in SMEs for Sustainable Innovation: A PLS-SEM Approach Integrating TAM, UTAUT2, and Contextual Drivers

  • Raluca-Giorgiana (Chivu) Popa,
  • Ionuț-Claudiu Popa,
  • David-Florin Ciocodeică and
  • Horia Mihălcescu

29 July 2025

Despite growing interest in AI technologies, there is a lack of integrated models explaining AI adoption in SMEs from a consumer perspective. This study addresses this gap. Although artificial intelligence (AI) has gained traction in digital innovati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,802 Views
18 Pages

16 July 2019

The emissions trading scheme (ETS) has been long advocated to address climate change not only because it is cost effective but also because it can provide economic incentives for the adoption of new technologies. The emissions abatement of the energy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,070 Views
30 Pages

Determinants of Emotion Recognition System Adoption: Empirical Evidence from Malaysia

  • Muhammad Nadzree Mohd Yamin,
  • Kamarulzaman Ab. Aziz,
  • Tan Gek Siang and
  • Nor Azlina Ab. Aziz

30 October 2023

Emotion recognition systems (ERS) are an emerging technology with immense potential, exemplifying the innovative utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) within the context of the fourth industrial revolution (IR 4.0). Given that personalization i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
10,455 Views
12 Pages

17 April 2017

Smart home technologies offer exciting opportunities to promote more efficient uses of energy. For instance, programmable thermostats, centralized lighting controls, and rooftop solar panels all have potential for energy conservation and efficiency....

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
10,171 Views
32 Pages

Exploring the Adoption of Precision Agriculture for Irrigation in the Context of Agriculture 4.0: The Key Role of Internet of Things

  • Sergio Monteleone,
  • Edmilson Alves de Moraes,
  • Brenno Tondato de Faria,
  • Plinio Thomaz Aquino Junior,
  • Rodrigo Filev Maia,
  • André Torre Neto and
  • Attilio Toscano

11 December 2020

In recent years, the concept of Agriculture 4.0 has emerged as an evolution of precision agriculture (PA) through the diffusion of the Internet of things (IoT). There is a perception that the PA adoption is occurring at a slower pace than expected. L...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,961 Views
17 Pages

8 July 2023

The continuous adoption of artificial intelligence technology (CAAIT) has fully demonstrated its transformative roles in various fields, and it has effectively improved the economic benefits of agriculture in practical applications. However, sustaina...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,991 Views
23 Pages

14 June 2025

This systematic review explores key theories and factors shaping the adoption of photovoltaic (PV) systems by households in developing countries. Following the PRISMA protocol, we reviewed 44 empirical and theoretical studies published between 2010 a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,335 Views
34 Pages

In recent years, some studies have explored the determinants of Building Information Modeling (BIM) adoption. However, the findings of these studies are varied and sometimes contradicting. Consequently, this study undertakes an in-depth exploration o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
76 Citations
31,352 Views
16 Pages

Consumer Adoption of Electric Vehicles: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Paweł Bryła,
  • Shuvam Chatterjee and
  • Beata Ciabiada-Bryła

25 December 2022

Electric vehicle (EV) disposition may challenge serious environmental issues such as excessive dependence on oil, especially in the transport sector. Despite this understanding, the adoption intention has been disappointing to date. This review tries...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,702 Views
21 Pages

Influencing Factors in MOOCs Adoption in Higher Education: A Meta-Analytic Path Analysis

  • Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh,
  • Samsilah Roslan,
  • Zulkifli Mohamad,
  • Ismi Arif Ismail,
  • Habibah Ab Jalil and
  • Seyedali Ahrari

6 July 2022

(1) Background: Due to the rapid growth of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), higher educational institutions across the world are investing heavily in MOOCs to support their traditional teaching, their students’ learning experience, and thei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,501 Views
14 Pages

30 April 2023

We extend prior research by empirically demonstrating employees’ attitude–behavior gap when sharing goods and services with coworkers using platform technology. We also integrate theories on psychological ownership and territoriality in o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,076 Views
16 Pages

Human Resource Information Systems (HRISs) have become integral to contemporary organizational life, yet their successful adoption remains uneven and poorly understood. Existing models often focus on cognitive or technical determinants, overlooking h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,123 Views
16 Pages

Factors Influencing Residents’ Behavior in Internet Recycling: From the Perspective of the Adoption of New Technology

  • Tingting Liu,
  • Zichen Zheng,
  • Zhichao Wen,
  • Shangyun Wu,
  • Yaru Liu,
  • Jing Cao and
  • Zhixiong Weng

Achieving carbon neutrality has become a major national strategy for sustainability, and the recycling of recyclable resources is an important direction toward doing so. Due to the huge amounts of recyclable resources generated every year and the low...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,220 Views
34 Pages

What Are the Preferences of Chinese Farmers for Drones (UAVs): Machine Learning in Technology Adoption Behavior

  • Fanhao Yang,
  • Jianya Zhao,
  • Jinteng Liu,
  • Zijia Luo,
  • Xingchen Gu and
  • Shu Wang

25 November 2025

With the continuous advancement of sustainable agriculture, drone technology has become a focus of attention. Current research primarily relies on classical models for questionnaire surveys and analyses within specific regions, rather than implementi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,296 Views
16 Pages

Based on the field survey data for 1216 apple growers in three provinces from China’s Loess Plateau Region, this paper adopted Multivariate Probit (MVP) model and intermediary effect model to analyze the influence mechanisms of digital technolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,015 Views
26 Pages

22 April 2023

In the context of increasingly severe resource and environmental constraints, accelerating family farms to take the path of green agricultural development is an urgent practical problem to be solved. The bancassurance interaction, an innovative form...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,415 Views
25 Pages

11 November 2019

The aim of this paper is to investigate households’ willingness to adopt technological and behavioral energy savings measures, in their dwellings and for daily mobility. Based on the evidence that occupants’ behavior has a major impact on...

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