Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Papers
(The TQCC of Technological Forecasting and Social Change is 39. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Revolutionising retail: A review of Intelligent Unmanned Convenience Stores and their market implications750
Editorial Board406
Environmental behavioral perceptions under uncertainty of alternative economic futures389
Enhancing blue: The resilience of blue economy and the efficiency of China's sea-land industrial synergy361
Increasing lower incomes and reducing material deprivation: The beneficial role of social robots359
Are we making progress on decarbonization? A panel heterogeneous study of the long-run relationship in selected economies352
Direct network effects in electric vehicle adoption344
Cellulosic ethanol production: Assessment of the impacts of learning and plant capacity309
Birthplace diversity of immigrants and technological novelty: Unpacking the internal structure of diversity299
Unlocking the institutional foundations of green innovation: A machine learning analysis299
A multicriteria approach to ranking Latin-American universities based on region-specific criteria286
Does corporate social responsibility pay? Evidence from social ratings in microfinance institutions282
A framework for research on the automation of work282
Interdisciplinary limits of creative business education280
Identifying potential breakthrough research: A machine learning method using scientific papers and Twitter data273
A systematic literature network analysis of green information technology for sustainability: Toward smart and sustainable livelihoods271
Innovation in crisis: The role of ‘exaptive relations’ for medical device development in response to COVID-19267
Using fuzzy cognitive maps to develop policy strategies for the development of green rural housing: A case study in China262
Minimizing extractivism through 3D printing with law and policy support259
The effect of foreign aid on carbon emissions in recipient countries: Evidence from China253
Digital innovation as strategic response: How CEO with informal power deal with inconsistent performance feedback243
Exploring the impact of metaverse adoption on sustainability outcomes in retail organizations: A dynamic capabilities view perspective243
Cash rich to cashless market: Segmentation and profiling of Fintech-led-Mobile payment users238
Personal growth or servant leader: What do hotel employees need most to be affectively well amidst the turbulent COVID-19 times?236
Adopting new technologies during the crisis: An empirical analysis of agricultural sector235
Whom you know matters: Network structure, industrial environment and digital orientation235
Forecasting power load: A hybrid forecasting method with intelligent data processing and optimized artificial intelligence234
Advertising strategies for innovation capability sharing: A two-sided market analysis232
An exploratory study on users' resistance to mobile app updates: Using netnography and fsQCA223
A catalytic regulatory framework for accelerating sustainable innovation222
Capturing the timing of crisis evolution: A machine learning and directional wavelet coherence approach to isolating event-specific uncertainty using Google searches with an application to COVID-19222
Climate policy uncertainty and the U.S. economic cycle222
Assessing the impact of new technologies on wages and labour income shares218
Analyzing the interplay between eco-friendly and Islamic digital currencies and green investments214
Market competition dynamics under phasing the carbon policy: The case of Chinese electric vehicles210
Digitalization's effect on everyday entrepreneurs in the French organic wine industry208
Cross-spectral coherence and dynamic connectedness among contactless digital payments and digital communities, enterprise collaboration, and virtual reality firms205
Impact of robotics on unemployment: Moderating effect of the national culture204
Navigating the green wave: Understanding behavioral antecedents of sustainable cryptocurrency investment204
Towards novel blockchain decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) led corporate governance framework201
Effect of Digital Silk Road and innovation heterogeneity on digital economy growth across 29 countries: New evidence from PSM-DID198
From phone booths to Wi-Fi kiosks: the spatial inequality of public connectivity in New York City194
AI-empowered scale development: Testing the potential of ChatGPT193
Credit evaluation solutions for social groups with poor services in financial inclusion: A technical forecasting method191
AI technology and labor skill transformation: Theoretical and empirical evidence from China190
R&D innovation, industrial evolution and the labor skill structure in China manufacturing185
Risk prediction and credibility detection of network public opinion using blockchain technology184
Hesitation at increasing integration: The feasibility of Norway expanding cross-border renewable electricity interconnection to support European decarbonisation183
Stepping out of the innovation race to embrace outnovation: Fostering well-being and responsible consumption through sustainability, simplicity, authenticity, and nostalgia182
Quantile co-movement and dependence between energy-focused sectors and artificial intelligence179
Pathway and key factor identification of third-party market cooperation of China's overseas energy investment projects177
Coskewness and the short-term predictability for Bitcoin return177
The contagion effect of artificial intelligence across innovative industries: From blockchain and metaverse to cleantech and beyond177
Is FinTech making world more “inclusive”? Evidence from inclusive growth story of China175
Do multinational technology alliances promote enterprises' innovation quality or quantity in emerging markets? - evidence from China174
Impacts of digital government on regional eco-innovation: Moderating role of dual environmental regulations174
Who are we? Analyzing the digital identities of organizations through the lens of micro-interactions on social media173
Consequences of technostress for users in remote (home) work contexts during a time of crisis: The buffering role of emotional social support173
The empirical study of digital marketing strategy and performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)172
The relationship between total factor productivity and environmental quality: A sustainable future with innovation input171
Integrating human support with algorithmic control: Psychological reactance in platform work167
Can digital transformation alleviate corporate tax stickiness: The mediation effect of tax avoidance167
Service chatbot: Co-citation and big data analysis toward a review and research agenda164
Synergistic impacts of technological advancement and environmental hazards on social change and human well-being in South Asia160
Transition towards environmental sustainability through financial inclusion, and digitalization in China: Evidence from novel quantile-on-quantile regression and wavelet coherence approach158
Financing sustainable farming: The role of trust in the adoption of fintech by farmers158
The gig economy's secret weapon: ChatGPT158
Supporting the digital transformation journey through monitoring systems in healthcare. A comparative analysis of European empirical approaches through an adaptation of the IPOO framework155
Alignment of words and actions? Government environmental attention and enterprise digital transformation154
Technology married to good governance and diversity: Explaining e-participation preparedness in government153
Innovation ecosystems as structures: Actor roles, timing of their entrance, and interactions152
An AI-enabled approach for improving advertising identification and promotion in social networks150
Enabling battery circularity: Unlocking circular business model archetypes and collaboration forms in the electric vehicle battery ecosystem150
Selection of sustainable transportation strategies for campuses using hybrid decision-making approach under picture fuzzy sets149
Mitigating liabilities of foreignness in migrant entrepreneurship: The role of AI in building virtual embeddedness147
Implementing and scaling artificial intelligence: A review, framework, and research agenda146
Dynamic effect of Bitcoin, fintech and artificial intelligence stocks on eco-friendly assets, Islamic stocks and conventional financial markets: Another look using quantile-based approaches144
Deploying artificial intelligence for healthcare: An empirical study on the patients' usage of health care service and AI's anthropomorphic structure form143
The role of religiosity in product and technology acceptance: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccines142
Editorial Board138
Technological changes, financial development and ecological consequences: A comparative study of developed and developing economies138
Exploring new digital therapeutics technologies for psychiatric disorders using BERTopic and PatentSBERTa137
Biased technical change, capital deepening, and efficiency of environmental regulations: Evidence from the Chinese provinces137
Specialization in climate technologies at the regional level in Europe: relatedness and the moderating role of policy direction137
Exploring the knowledge base of innovation research: Towards an emerging innovation model136
Divergent Paths: Unpacking the role of skill-biased and routine-biased technological change on urban income inequality in China135
Urban and architectural spatial changes based on technology-adapted users: A literature review135
Empowering AI with experiential learning: Implications from analysing user-generated content134
Determinants of natural disaster emergency public investment cycles in central and southern Chinese regions: The role of technological innovation efficiency134
Contingency-based analysis of the drivers and obstacles to a successful sustainable business model: Seeking the uncaptured value133
Implementing customer relationship management successfully: A configurational perspective133
How can infectious medical waste be forecasted and transported during the COVID-19 pandemic? A hybrid two-stage method131
Technology yields spoils: The impact of digitalization on innovation value appropriation131
Hard budget constraints and artificial intelligence technology131
Female parliamentarians and environmental sustainability: Do national culture matter?131
Approaching the future: Blueprinting and Wayfinding in corporate foresight enactment130
Does financial inclusion achieve the dual dividends of narrowing carbon inequality within cities and between cities? Empirical evidence from China130
An exploratory study of breakthrough innovations in digital businesses: The case of the Perfect Corporation129
Why do people choose to continue using cryptocurrencies?129
Transforming supply chain operations: Unveiling the path ahead by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to drive the shift towards carbon neutrality (CN)128
IP dLedger - Decentralized ledger for intellectual property administration126
The Yin and Yang of social media: Employing PLS-SEM, fsQCA, and NCA to assess its effects on employee work performance126
How digital technology affects working conditions in globally fragmented production chains: Evidence from Europe126
Multi-dimensional environmental assessments of China's typical photovoltaic- and wind-driven seawater desalination in coastal areas122
Innovating agri-food business models after the Covid-19 pandemic: The impact of digital technologies on the value creation and value capture mechanisms120
Does Internet exposure reduce the desire for family control? Evidence from China120
Dynamic optimal distinctive configurations enabling manufacturing firms to achieve high green innovation efficiency119
Impact of population aging on food security in the context of artificial intelligence: Evidence from China119
The pressure of political promotion and renewable energy technological innovation: A spatial econometric analysis from China118
Exploring the nexus of digital transformation and sustainability in agribusiness: Advancing a research agenda118
Leveraging big data for strategic marketing: A dynamic capabilities model for incumbent firms118
Exploring the Nexus: TikTok cyberbullying, anxiety, depression, life satisfaction, and sex differences among young adults118
An exploratory analysis of Brazilian universities in the technological innovation process118
Digital health platforms for the elderly? Key adoption and usage barriers and ways to address them117
Analysis of artificial intelligence-based technologies and approaches on sustainable entrepreneurship117
Evaluating and forecasting the niche fitness of regional innovation ecosystems: A comparative evaluation of different optimized grey models116
The impact of natural resource dependency on green economic growth: A business environment perspective115
Social media content classification and community detection using deep learning and graph analytics115
Driven by the policy or bent by the market? Cracking the digital transformation code of farmer cooperatives115
Does mobile money contribute to reducing multidimensional poverty?114
Promoting low-carbon development in Yangtze River Delta area in China through the lens of decarbonization of industrial gas producers: A case study based on evolutionary game and Lotka-Volterra models112
Effective R&D capital and total factor productivity: Evidence using spatial panel data models111
Emission reduction targets and electrification of the Finnish energy system with low-carbon Power-to-X technologies: Potentials, barriers, and innovations – A Delphi survey110
Consumer knowledge and sustainable decision-making: A mixed-method inquiry and proposed model110
Appropriating IT outsourcing for IT alignment: An adaptive structuration theory perspective110
More is better or in waste? A resource allocation measure of government grants for facilitating firm innovations110
How can pilot and demonstration plants drive market formation? Lessons from advanced biofuel development in Europe110
Exploring the impact of AI investments on waste management and mitigation from the Lens of sustainable circular economy109
Framing the virus: The political, economic, biomedical and social understandings of the COVID-19 in Taiwan107
Antecedent configurations toward radical green innovation: Based on resource orchestration theory106
Beyond borders: Assessing the transboundary effects of environmental regulation on technological development in Europe106
Managing a blockchain-based platform ecosystem for industry-wide adoption: The case of TradeLens105
Impact of AI-focussed technologies on social and technical competencies for HR managers – A systematic review and research agenda105
AI-enabled Green Business Strategy: Path to carbon neutrality via environmental performance and green process innovation105
The role of cooperation and technological orientation on startups' innovativeness: An analysis based on the microfoundations of innovation105
What can the environmental rule of law do for environmental innovation? Evidence from environmental tribunals in China105
Renewable energy consumption, trade and inflation in MENA countries with augmented production function: Implications for the COP26105
From theory to practice: Empirical perspectives on the metaverse's potential105
Smart farming technologies and changes to farm work: New insights into on-farm experiences104
Geopolitics and the changing landscape of global value chains and competition in the global semiconductor industry: Rivalry and catch-up in chip manufacturing in East Asia104
Rethinking national health innovation systems for AI: Emphasizing trust building and user-integration104
Bringing employee learning to AI stress research: A moderated mediation model103
Technology-enabled financing of sustainable infrastructure: A case for blockchains and decentralized oracle networks103
New way out of efficiency-equity dilemma: Digital technology empowerment for local government environmental governance103
Determinants of firms' decisions to block AI crawlers: Strategic insights from the BEDC framework102
Editorial Board102
How do state internet regulations impact innovation? A cross-country configural narrative102
The role of lean, agility and learning ambidexterity in Industry 4.0 implementations101
Social acceptability of innovation: A systematic literature review and future research directions101
Cooperation in an uncertain environment: The impact of stakeholders' concerted action on collaborative innovation projects risk management101
On the post-pandemic travel boom: How capacity building and smart tourism technologies in rural areas can help - evidence from Iran101
Policy capacities for mission-oriented innovation policy: A case study of UKRI and the industrial strategy challenge fund100
African green hydrogen uptake from the lens of African development and European energy security: A blessing or curse?100
A decision support scheme for solving the mobile coverage gap in rural areas in developing countries – Demonstrated with a case in Indonesia99
Institutional forces, leapfrogging effects, and innovation status: Evidence from the adoption of a continuously evolving technology in small organizations99
Assessing the speed of improved postharvest technology adoption in Tanzania: The role of social learning and agricultural extension services99
The impact of voice assistant home devices on people with disabilities: A longitudinal study99
Strategic scenarios for the digitalisation of chronic disease care management: A 10-year foresight case study in Lisbon's primary healthcare setting99
Hybrid crops, income, and food security of smallholder families: Empirical evidence from poor states of India98
Proximity and cross-regional academia-industry collaboration: The moderating role of regional government support97
Editorial introduction to the Special Issue: Interactions between humans and social robots put to the test97
Unpacking the intellectual structure and evolution trend of general-purpose technologies development in innovation studies97
Spatial effects of technology market development on energy efficiency: Heterogeneity analysis based on the characteristics of technology market97
Editorial Board97
The impact-mechanism of “Internet +” on the innovation performance of traditional enterprises: Empirical evidence from China96
Unleashing the spillover potential: Exploring the role of technology-seeking investment in driving green innovation of host countries96
Corrigendum to “Forecasting inclusive futures: Fintech, capability expansion, and livelihood pathways in urban Indian slums – A mixed-methods analysis” [Published in Technological Forecasting & So96
Coupling for climate intervention: Sectoral and sustainability couplings for carbon removal and solar geoengineering pathways96
American society keeps a lid on the number of deaths from guns and car accidents but not from mass shootings96
Corrigendum to “Exploring the impact of responsible AI governance on corporate performance: A quasi-natural experiment” [Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change 223 (February 2026) 124425]96
Me, myself and AI: How gender, personality and emotions determine willingness to use Strong AI for self-improvement95
How do care service managers and workers perceive care robot adoption in elderly care facilities?95
Mapping technological trajectories and exploring knowledge sources: A case study of E-payment technologies95
Antifragility or threat-rigidity: the impact of board environmental policy uncertainty perception on corporate exploratory and exploitative green technological innovation95
A data-driven approach to establishing a patent strategy by generating a patent map based on generative topographic mapping95
Customer acceptance of frontline social robots—Human-robot interaction as boundary condition94
High-stake student drop-out prediction using hidden Markov models in fully asynchronous subscription-based MOOCs93
Industry 4.0 technologies in Smart Agriculture: A review and a Technology Assessment Model proposition93
Onboarding for a new playful narrative adventure in game metaverses93
Neither buying nor allying: Employing open innovation through the rental of R&D capabilities93
Does corporate social responsibility influence performance persistence? A signal extraction approach with evidence from Fortune 500 companies91
High-tech industry agglomeration and regional green development: An analysis of spatial Durbin model91
Sensing the Metaverse: The microfoundations of complementor firms' dynamic sensing capabilities in emerging-technology ecosystems91
Investigating the potential of low-carbon pathways for hydrocarbon-dependent rentier states: Sociotechnical transition in Qatar91
Unveiling the green innovation paradox: Exploring the impact of carbon emission reduction on corporate green technology innovation91
Innovation in times of crisis: The relevance of digitalization and early internationalization strategies91
The time-varying impact of geopolitical relations on rare earth trade networks: What is the role of China's rare earth export restrictions?90
Can digital literacy improve individuals' incomes and narrow the income gap?90
Forecasting impulsive consumers driven by macro-influencers posts: Intervention of followers' flow state and perceived informativeness90
To be (online) or not to be? The antecedents of online study propensity and e-learning-dependent dropout intention in higher education90
Roles of top management support and compatibility in big data predictive analytics for supply chain collaboration and supply chain performance90
Antecedents and consequences of social media group users' fatigue: A mixed-methods study under educational context89
The impact of climate change on credit cycles: Evidence from China's bond market89
“Assessment of circular economy strategies for climate change mitigation”: A forecast on India's path to a net zero future88
Unlocking blockchain's potential for supply chain transformation: A robust system analysis for enhanced strategic performance88
Designing a digital citizen-centered service87
Cross-border knowledge transfer and the innovation performance of developing economy small and medium enterprises: A moderated mediation effect of industry networks and localization of knowledge87
Forecasting benchmark product emergence via technological phylogeny and strategic features87
Evaluation of the critical success factors of dynamic enterprise risk management in manufacturing SMEs using an integrated fuzzy decision-making model86
Using emerging technologies to tackle mobility challenges caused by population ageing: Experiences from Japan86
An empirical investigation of critical success factors in implementing digital transformation86
Gender diversity on boards: Determinants that underlie the proposals for female directors86
Antecedents of international entrepreneurship and emerging technologies help to achieve sustainable development goals: Moderating role of global mindset86
Evaluation of the alternatives of introducing electric vehicles in developing countries using Type-2 neutrosophic numbers based RAFSI model85
Bibliometric analysis of sustainable tourism using CiteSpace85
The effects of internet use on the cultivation of non-timber forest products85
Game changers in science and technology - now and beyond85
Climate risks, financial performance and lending growth: Evidence from the banking industry85
The nonlinear effects of environmental innovation on energy sector-based carbon dioxide emissions in OECD countries84
The role of organizational ambidexterity and frugal innovation in enhancing circular supply chains: The effect of artificial intelligence capabilities84
Navigating toward the promised land of digitalization and sustainability convergence84
Are universities ready to deliver digital skills and competences? A text mining-based case study of marketing courses in Italy84
Artificial intelligence adoption in a professional service industry: A multiple case study84
Twin transition in industrial organizations: Conceptualization, implementation framework, and research agenda84
Technology–user–environment framework for assessing smart city technology adoption: Insights from Sejong National Pilot Smart City84
Examining the relationship between content length and engagement with news outlets on multiple social media platforms84
The choice of structural equation modeling technique matters: A commentary on Dash and Paul (2021)84
Firm performance and information security technology intellectual property83
Mid-air haptics for automotive HUDs: A sketch anticipation and design fiction study83
Comparing research trends with patenting activities in the biomedical sector: The case of dementia83
The unicorn match: Consumer mindset and the adoption of disruptive models83
Discovering the impact of farmer field schools on the adoption of environmental-friendly technology83
Guest editorial: Technological transformation and change82
Hiding in the supply chain: Investigating supplier eco-innovations when buyer and supplier have common owners82
“I am proud of my job”: Examining the psychological mechanism underlying technological innovation's effects on employee brand ambassadorship82
How do Fortune firms build a social presence on social media platforms? Insights from multi-modal analytics82
Unlocking employer insights: Using large language models to explore human-centric aspects in the context of industry 5.082
Global diversification, host-country environments, and corporate philanthropic giving: Evidence from Chinese multinational corporations82
Peer effects in digital inclusive finance participation decisions: Evidence from rural China82
Avatar anthropomorphism continuum: A blockchain-based data analysis of avatar skin purchases in the metaverse82
Enhancing employees' remote work experience: Exploring the role of organizational job resources81
Motivating strategic front-line employees for innovative sales in the digital transformation era: The mediating role of salesperson learning81
Technology-oriented start-ups and valuation: A novel approach based on specific contract terms81
Public sector development and entrepreneurial initiatives for improving circular economy performance: Government policy and digital transformation initiatives as moderators80
Comparative analysis of third-level digital divide among Korean older adults: Capital-based approach80
Tech hub entrepreneurial training to low-income communities: Evidence from Brazil80
Breaking the carbon lock-in: Identifying pathways for Malaysia towards a low-carbon future80
Assessing the impact of the sharing economy and technological innovation on sustainable development: An empirical investigation of the United Kingdom80
Industrial innovation processes and societal challenges: How Telenor's mobile phone data became a tool for fighting pandemics79
Gamification of mobile money payment for generating customer value in emerging economies: The social impact theory perspective79
A framework to overcome challenges to the adoption of artificial intelligence in Indian Government Organizations79
Win, lose, or draw? Forecasting the outcome of a race toward a dominant formal standard with machine learning79
Topic identification and sentiment trends in Weibo and WeChat content related to intellectual property in China79
Winds of change due to global lockdowns: Refreshing digital social entrepreneurship research paradigm78
Designing business models for Industry 4.0 technologies provision: Changes in business dimensions through digital transformation78
Discovering technology convergence opportunities based on interactions between science and technology convergence: The case of artificial intelligence and renewable energy78
How does gender diversity in top management teams affect carbon disclosure and its quality: Evidence from the technological industry78
Navigating the uncertainty path of virtual influencers: Empirical evidence through a cultural lens77
Estimating urban GDP growth using nighttime lights and machine learning techniques in data poor environments: The case of South Sudan77
The micromobility mindset: Socio-technical drivers of bike share scheme adoption in the UK77
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