OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Technological Forecasting and Social Change is 43. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-03-01 to 2023-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Driving forces and barriers of Industry 4.0: Do multinational and small and medium-sized companies have equal opportunities?	418
Servitization and Industry 4.0 convergence in the digital transformation of product firms: A business model innovation perspective	377
Green innovation and organizational performance: The influence of big data and the moderating role of management commitment and HR practices	350
Inequality, ICT and financial access in Africa	317
Do green technology innovations contribute to carbon dioxide emission reduction? Empirical evidence from patent data	283
A systematic review of the smart home literature: A user perspective	279
Supply chain re-engineering using blockchain technology: A case of smart contract based tracking process	260
Can big data and predictive analytics improve social and environmental sustainability?	242
Understanding Smart Cities: Innovation ecosystems, technological advancements, and societal challenges	217
Experimenting for sustainability transitions: A systematic literature review	215
Unlocking the circular economy through new business models based on large-scale data: An integrative framework and research agenda	207
Dynamic relationship among environmental regulation, technological innovation and energy efficiency based on large scale provincial panel data in China	200
Transformative social innovation and (dis)empowerment	198
Smart innovative cities: The impact of Smart City policies on urban innovation	191
Loaning scale and government subsidy for promoting green innovation	177
How do technological innovation and fiscal decentralization affect the environment? A story of the fourth industrial revolution and sustainable growth	170
Circular economy and big data analytics: A stakeholder perspective	169
Technological challenges of green innovation and sustainable resource management with large scale data	168
Mobile payment is not all the same: The adoption of mobile payment systems depending on the technology applied	161
Knowledge management: A global examination based on bibliometric analysis	159
The entrepreneurial university as driver for economic growth and social change - Key strategic challenges	155
Environmental ethics, environmental performance, and competitive advantage: Role of environmental training	152
Integrating sustainability into strategic decision-making: A fuzzy AHP method for the selection of relevant sustainability issues	130
Environmental regulation, green technological innovation, and eco-efficiency: The case of Yangtze river economic belt in China	129
Understanding the effect of social media marketing activities: The mediation of social identification, perceived value, and satisfaction	126
Open innovation in SMEs: Exploring inter-organizational relationships in an ecosystem	124
Perceptions and expectations of autonomous vehicles – A snapshot of vulnerable road user opinion	124
Big data analytics capabilities and performance: Evidence from a moderated multi-mediation model	123
Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices	123
Social media and innovation: A systematic literature review and future research directions	122
Improving the practical application of the Delphi method in group-based judgment: A six-step prescription for a well-founded and defensible process	122
Implementing citizen centric technology in developing smart cities: A model for predicting the acceptance of urban technologies	121
Towards the smart city 2.0: Empirical evidence of using smartness as a tool for tackling social challenges	120
Sustainability in equity crowdfunding	119
Polarization and acculturation in US Election 2016 outcomes – Can twitter analytics predict changes in voting preferences	116
ICT, total factor productivity, and carbon dioxide emissions in Tunisia	115
Industry 4.0 and capability development in manufacturing subsidiaries	114
Industry 4.0: A bibliometric review of its managerial intellectual structure and potential evolution in the service industries	113
Digital academic entrepreneurship: The potential of digital technologies on academic entrepreneurship	112
Trade-offs in land-use competition and sustainable land development in the North China Plain	111
The age of mobile social commerce: An Artificial Neural Network analysis on its resistances	105
How social commerce constructs influence customers' social shopping intention? An empirical study of a social commerce website	96
Improving eco-efficiency for the sustainable agricultural production: A case study in Shandong, China	96
Joint analysis of eco-efficiency and eco-innovation with common weights in two-stage network DEA: A big data approach	95
Digital entrepreneurship: An interdisciplinary structured literature review and research agenda	93
Product innovation and firm performance in transition economies: A multi-stage estimation approach	88
Understanding the crowdfunding phenomenon and its implications for sustainability	86
Combining co-citation clustering and text-based analysis to reveal the main development paths of smart cities	86
Technology transfer, climate change mitigation, and environmental patent impact on sustainability and economic growth: A comparison of European countries	86
Impacts of climate change on water resources and grain production	82
Technology usage, expected job sustainability, and perceived job insecurity	79
Can hydrogen fuel vehicles be a sustainable alternative on vehicle market?: Comparison of electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles	79
The role of universities in the knowledge management of smart city projects	78
Crowdfunding motivations: A focus on donors' perspectives	76
Green growth – A synthesis of scientific findings	75
Conditions for politically accelerated transitions: Historical institutionalism, the multi-level perspective, and two historical case studies in transport and agriculture	74
Digital startups and the adoption and implementation of Lean Startup Approaches: Effectuation, Bricolage and Opportunity Creation in practice	72
Assessment of concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies based on a modified intuitionistic fuzzy topsis and trigonometric entropy weights	71
The effect of traffic density on smog pollution: Evidence from Chinese cities	71
Triggering technological innovation through cross-border mergers and acquisitions: A micro-foundational perspective	70
Institutional determinants of R&D investment: Evidence from emerging markets	68
Understanding the diffusion of virtual reality glasses: The role of media, fashion and technology	68
Exploring the effects of inter-firm linkages on SMEs' open innovation from an ecosystem perspective: An empirical study of Chinese manufacturing SMEs	68
Shifting Wealth II in Chinese economy. The effect of the horizontal technology spillover for SMEs for international growth	67
To the smart city and beyond? Developing a typology of smart urban innovation	66
To use or not to use, that is the question: Analysis of the determining factors for using NFC mobile payment systems in public transportation	66
Decomposition analysis of sustainable green technology inventions in China	65
Enhancing university brand image and reputation through customer value co-creation behaviour	64
A complex adaptive systems agenda for ecosystem research methodology	63
The theory of technological parasitism for the measurement of the evolution of technology and technological forecasting	63
Municipalities' understanding of the Smart City concept: An exploratory analysis in Belgium	62
Carbon mitigation effects and potential cost savings from carbon emissions trading in China's regional industry	62
Distributed, decentralized, and democratized artificial intelligence	61
Blockchain-based platforms: Decentralized infrastructures and its boundary conditions	61
Is the entrepreneurial university also regionally engaged? Analysing the influence of university's structural configuration on third mission performance	61
Understanding smart cities as a glocal strategy: A comparison between Italy and China	61
Collaborative scenario modeling in emergency management through cross-impact	60
Fostering digital entrepreneurship from startup to scaleup: The role of venture capital funds and angel groups	60
Selling green first or not? A Bayesian analysis with service levels and environmental impact considerations in the Big Data Era	60
Many or trusted partners for eco-innovation? The influence of breadth and depth of firms' knowledge network in the food sector	60
Smart solutions shape for sustainable low-carbon future: A review on smart cities and industrial parks in China	60
How crowdfunding platforms change the nature of user innovation – from problem solving to entrepreneurship	59
Driving elements to make cities smarter: Evidences from European projects	59
Identifying and monitoring the development trends of emerging technologies using patent analysis and Twitter data mining: The case of perovskite solar cell technology	58
In crowdfunding we trust? Investigating crowdfunding success as a signal for enhancing trust in sustainable product features	57
Legal environment, government effectiveness and firms' innovation in China: Examining the moderating influence of government ownership	56
How aluminum changed the world: A metallurgical revolution through technological and cultural perspectives	56
The strategic orientation of universities in knowledge transfer activities	56
Excluding citizens from the European smart city: The discourse practices of pursuing and granting smartness	56
Smart cities and the citizen-driven internet of things: A qualitative inquiry into an emerging smart city	55
Legitimacy building and e-commerce platform development in China: The experience of Alibaba	55
A hybrid PSO-SVM model based on clustering algorithm for short-term atmospheric pollutant concentration forecasting	54
Sustainability oriented innovation dynamics: Levels of dynamic capabilities and their path-dependent and self-reinforcing logics	53
The emerging role of university spin-off companies in developing regional entrepreneurial university ecosystems: The case of Andalusia	52
Measurement framework for assessing disruptive innovations	52
Evolution of university-industry collaboration in Brazil from a technology upgrading perspective	52
Social media, open innovation & HRM: Implications for performance	51
Carsharing with shared autonomous vehicles: Uncovering drivers, barriers and future developments – A four-stage Delphi study	50
The influence of public R&D and knowledge spillovers on the development of renewable energy sources: The case of the Nordic countries	50
Forecasting technology trends using text mining of the gaps between science and technology: The case of perovskite solar cell technology	50
Motivation and challenges for e-commerce in e-waste recycling under “Big data” context: A perspective from household willingness in China	50
A hierarchical framework for assessing corporate sustainability performance using a hybrid fuzzy synthetic method-DEMATEL	49
The role of a business model in market growth: The difference between the converted industry and the emerging industry	48
An exploration of smart city approaches by international ICT firms	48
Assessing the impact of knowledge and perceived economic benefits on sustainable consumption through the sharing economy: A sociotechnical approach	48
Exploration and exploitation in the development of more entrepreneurial universities: A twisting learning path model of ambidexterity	48
Future goods transport in Sweden 2050: Using a Delphi-based scenario analysis	48
Are social enterprises technological innovative? A quantitative analysis on social entrepreneurs in emerging countries	48
Technological development for sustainability: The role of network management in the innovation policy mix	48
A regional perspective on the structural transformation of China's national innovation system since 1999	47
Business, innovation and digital ecosystems landscape survey and knowledge cross sharing	47
The role of inter-sectoral learning in knowledge development and diffusion: Case studies on three clean energy technologies	47
Induced innovation in clean energy technologies from foreign environmental policy stringency?	46
Who will drive the transition to self-driving? A socio-technical analysis of the future impact of automated vehicles	46
Digital entrepreneurship and field conditions for institutional change– Investigating the enabling role of cities	46
Opening up the transition arena: An analysis of (dis)empowerment of civil society actors in transition management in cities	46
Estimating the efficiency of a sustainable Chinese tourism industry using bootstrap technology rectification	44
Stimulating technological innovation through incentives: Perceptions of Australian and Brazilian firms	43
Smart cities and entrepreneurship: An agenda for future research	43
The role of crowdfunding in moving towards a sustainable society	43
Organizational ambidexterity through global strategic partnerships: A cognitive computing perspective	43
Participatory energy: Research, imaginaries and practices on people' contribute to energy systems in the smart city	43
The effects of public subsidies on emerging industry: An agent-based model of the electric vehicle industry	43