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        <pubDate>2026-11-14T06:32:48.75+00:00</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hotspots and hinterlands: peasant industrial entrepreneurship in premodern Sweden]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-11-13T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Hypothesis and Theory</category>
        <author>T. L. Thurston</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This article examines why and how peasant farmers participate in non-agricultural market exchanges, and the conditions that enable them to do so. The case, set in late medieval and early modern Sweden (ca. 1520–1800 CE), uses a collective action approach to highlight differences between how this period is theorized: the “industrial revolution” of orthodox economists and economic historians, which assumes a state government and institutions based on top-down authoritarianism, versus the “industrious revolution” of historical archaeologists and social historians which postulates a collectivized society in which agency and self-determination are widespread. Archaeological, ethnographic and historical data suggest that despite difficult environmental conditions, the collectivized sociopolitical setting provided ample motivation and pathways for peasants to improve their livelihoods and well-being. As knowledgeable actors, through three different kinds of entrepreneurial manufacturing activity, they targeted different kinds of “hotspots” with production in primary, secondary and tertiary economic sectors. Far from being “proletarianized” by the era's emerging capitalists, many were able to thrive despite the hardships of an increasingly encroaching state and life in a boreal subarctic zone.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nurturing people's sense of place: immersive technologies as “affective mediators” for relatable, diverse, and positive local stories]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-11-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Maruša Levstek</author><author>Helen Scarlett O'Neill</author><author>Christine Singer</author><author>Laryssa Whittaker</author><author>Andy Thomas Woods</author><author>Isabelle Verhulst</author><author>James Bennett</author><author>Polly Dalton</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Stories can influence people's sense of place and when local narratives are not shaped by local communities, this can result in stigmatisation and alienation. There is little research on the role of immersive storytelling as a community place-making tool, so this paper interrogates how immersive technologies can be harnessed to challenge dominant place-related narratives and nurture people's sense of place. We implemented a survey at an immersive storytelling event, The StoryTrails Experience, across 15 UK cities. Each location featured a unique film shown on a cycloramic screen, which showed an animated reimagination of a city. Those films comprised of 3D scans of people, places, and objects central to their audio stories, all of which were collected by local creatives (“story mappers”). Local event audiences with an existing connection to a city (n = 67; ages 7–86) completed a survey measuring sense of place on a city and national level – reported before (retrospectively) and after watching the cycloramic film – alongside variables measuring emotional engagement (i.e., enjoyment, awe, presence, and perceived closeness to others). We also measured storytelling elements (recognition of own or others’ stories, story relatability, positive city portrayal, encountering new perspectives), contextual factors (event company and technical difficulties) and demographics. Overall pre–post changes in sense of place were not significant; however, enjoyment and awe were associated with positive change in both city and UK sense of place, and perceived closeness to others was associated with sense of place increase on the UK level. Sense of presence did not interact with any of the sense of place variables. Further, storytelling elements correlated with enjoyment, awe, and closeness. Enjoyment was predicted by story relatability and positive portrayal of place; awe by positive city representation and encountering new perspectives; and closeness by story relatability. This suggests that the place-making potential of immersive community storytelling lies primarily in sharing relatable, diverse and positive stories. We draw on Henri Lefebvre's conception of space to discuss the role of immersive technologies as an affective mediator for stories and a medium of positive disruption, rather than direct, causal agent of change.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[When wanting to return is not enough: social protection and the capability to realize return aspirations]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-11-09T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Perspective</category>
        <author>Marco Tulio Falconí Picardo</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Migration research increasingly distinguishes between desired mobility and the capabilities required to realize it. Yet this distinction remains insufficiently developed in return migration research, where aspirations, intentions, expectations, and actual return are often treated as closely aligned. In this Perspective, we argue that return should instead be examined as a future-oriented project whose realization depends on migrants' effective opportunities to act. We propose the return aspiration–capability gap to describe the discrepancy between a desired return and the capabilities available to enact it. These capabilities are shaped by economic, institutional, relational, and place-based resources and conditions. We focus particularly on social protection as an underexamined component of this configuration. Pension income, portable social rights, healthcare access, and institutional accessibility may expand return capability, whereas fragmented contribution histories, non-portable benefits, administrative barriers, and insecure legal status may constrain it. We further conceptualize the portability–mobility paradox as one mechanism through which rights accumulated through international mobility may subsequently restrict further mobility when they cannot move with their holders. The gap need not result in permanent immobility; it may be expressed through delayed return, constrained staying, recurrent cross-border mobility, recalibration of return aspirations, or return followed by renewed migration. We conclude by proposing an aspiration-sensitive research and policy agenda that distinguishes what migrants desire, expect, intend, and are effectively capable of doing.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The digital paradox of the silver economy: not all digital consumption is equal]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-11-09T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Ieva Meidute-Kavaliauskiene</author><author>Olga Iurasova</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionPopulation ageing and rapid digital transformation are increasing older adults' participation in e-commerce, yet the relationship between their online consumption patterns and national-level economic conditions remains insufficiently understood. This study examines the associations between different categories of online consumption among individuals aged 55–74 and national-level economic conditions across 24 European Union countries and explores how these associations vary across different temporal specifications.MethodsUsing panel data for 2013–2024, the study analyses e-commerce sector revenue, net national income per capita (NNI), and gross national income per capita (GNI) using descriptive statistics, multiple regression, fixed-effects regression, and time-lag analysis.ResultsThe results reveal substantial heterogeneity across online consumption categories. Positive associations with national-level economic conditions are observed for travel and accommodation services, periodicals, pharmaceuticals, and electronics, whereas clothing, food products, ICT services, and event tickets exhibit comparatively stronger negative associations. Notable associations are also observed in the one-year lag specification, indicating that the estimated relationships between online consumption patterns among individuals aged 55–74 and national-level economic conditions vary across temporal specifications.DiscussionThe findings provide empirical evidence consistent with the proposed Digital Paradox of the Silver Economy, suggesting that the economic implications of digital participation depend on the composition of online consumption rather than its overall level. The study advances a conceptual framework for understanding the heterogeneous economic outcomes of digital participation in ageing societies and highlights the importance of distinguishing among different forms of online consumption in research and policy on the silver economy.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Integrating digital financial solutions into MSME business models: assessment of MSME readiness for digital financial integration]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-11-02T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Donald L. Montenegro</author>
        <description><![CDATA[The integration of digital financial solutions has become essential for enhancing the sustainability and competitiveness of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), especially in developing economies. This study examined MSME readiness in terms of digital capability, financial literacy, infrastructure readiness, and strategic orientation in relation to the integration of digital financial systems. Using a quantitative, cross-sectional research design, data were collected from 189 MSMEs in Surigao del Sur, Philippines, and analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression techniques. The findings revealed a strong positive relationship between MSME readiness and the level of digital financial integration. MSMEs with higher levels of readiness demonstrated greater improvements in business performance, operational efficiency, and financial stability, whereas those with lower levels of readiness gained only limited benefits. The results also indicated that full and systematic integration produced better outcomes than partial adoption. Overall, the study highlights that readiness is a key driver of successful digital transformation among MSMEs and emphasizes the need for targeted interventions to strengthen their capabilities and support sustainable digital finance adoption.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[From text-to-image to text-to-video: the reconfiguration of prompting practice in human-AI co-creation in 2022–2025]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-28T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Yigang Liu</author><author>Jiayang Ma</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionThe movement of generative artificial intelligence from still-image to moving-image creation has reshaped the symbolic mechanism of human-AI co-creation.MethodsThis comparative observational study asks how prompt expression changes when the output shifts from static images to moving images, comparing two large-scale public prompt corpora under one neural topic-modeling protocol that combines lexical analysis of style, quality, technical, motion, camera, and format vocabulary with manual family coding and validity checks, and adds an exploratory user-focused topic structure.ResultsVideo prompts weaken the style, quality, and technical decoration characteristic of image prompts and instead organize meaning around action, scene, and screen format. Because the corpora differ in platform ecology, model generation, period, and corpus construction as well as in modality, these differences are described rather than causally attributed, and the format result is the most interface-sensitive of them. Artist-style imitation loses its earlier prominence, a decline that survives the coding reliability checks, while everyday action and scene description forms the largest family in the adjudicated solution, a position that is sensitive to those checks.DiscussionPrompting practice moved from selecting aesthetic styles toward specifying how a scene moves and how it is framed, and the prompting grammar observed here appears bound to the modality and the period. The terms that organized image prompts did not carry over intact to video prompts. These patterns suggest that the symbolic interface of human-AI co-creation is not a fixed grammar but an adaptive arrangement that responds to the salient capabilities of a generative system. The study contributes a comparative account of how the division of creative labor is reconfigured across media modalities, with implications for co-creation theory, generative interface design, and media literacy education.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Marketplace exchange across history: transcending theoretical divides]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-27T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Editorial</category>
        <author>Gary M. Feinman</author><author>Richard E. Blanton</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Time held in reserve: psychological standby time and the link between digital availability and employee wellbeing]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-26T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Review</category>
        <author>Nthabeleng Innocentia Mdhluli</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Digital work increasingly extends employees’ psychological availability beyond formal working hours, making the boundary between work and non-work more permeable. Research on work-related extended availability has consistently linked after-hours availability with impaired recovery, work-life conflict and poorer wellbeing. What remains less clear is how off-job time can become psychologically constrained even when no work is actually performed. This paper introduces psychological standby time (PST) as an off-job experiential state characterised by anticipatory readiness for possible work demands and vigilance about remaining reachable. PST arises during formally non-working periods in which no substantive work task is being performed, yet employees experience their time as only conditionally available for non-work life. Conservation of resources (COR) theory provides the primary explanatory framework by showing how standby can restrict resource replenishment while requiring continued cognitive and self-regulatory investment. Attention research clarifies the within-episode processes of readiness and vigilance, while the job demands-resources (JD-R) perspective is used to organise the work conditions and resources that may increase or reduce the likelihood of PST. The paper differentiates PST from work-related extended availability, workplace telepressure, psychological detachment, organisational e-mail monitoring expectations, after-hours work and formal on-call arrangements by advancing a specific prediction: anticipated organisational claims may constrain the usability of non-work time even when no message is received and no work is undertaken. The framework also separates PST from its consequences. PST comprises anticipatory readiness and reachability vigilance; activity foreclosure refers to the selective avoidance, postponement or modification of activities that carry high anticipated interruption costs; and repeated foreclosure may, over time, narrow the range of non-work activities employees perceive as realistically available. The framework distinguishes within-evening processes, next-morning recovery and longer-term outcomes, and offers testable propositions together with preliminary guidance for assessing PST as a fluctuating state and as a pattern of repeated exposure. The proposed relationships remain subject to empirical validation.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Does format matter? The impact of interactive annual reports on retail investors]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-26T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Laura Hackl</author><author>Andreas Enzminger</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Annual reports have evolved from statutory financial documents into strategic communication instruments. Beyond meeting regulatory requirements, companies increasingly design them to address broader, more heterogeneous audiences, shifting from static PDFs to interactive HTML formats. This shift is potentially consequential for the growing group of younger retail investors. Despite their lower financial literacy, they are expected to face fewer obstacles in understanding annual reports, as the interactivity of the HTML format provides a more vivid, approachable, and easier-to-engage-with presentation of the company and its performance. Nevertheless, it remains underexplored how the report format shapes these audiences’ perceptions of the report and the company. Drawing on the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), this study examined how two formats of the same annual report (PDF vs. HTML) affect young, non-professional investors’ perceptions of the report and the company, as well as their subsequent behavioral intentions. The study used a between-subjects design with 106 participants and collected data using eye-tracking and a survey. The results show no significant difference in how participants evaluated the company or their subsequent behavior after exposure to the annual report, comparing both formats across the general sample. However, the format significantly redistributed participants’ visual attention. Format effects on reading time and investment intentions emerged, albeit tentatively, only among readers with comparatively lower financial literacy within the sample: the interactive HTML format increased willingness to invest, without affecting the underlying evaluation of the investment. The findings indicate that interactive formats shape the reading process rather than persuasive outcomes, and that their influence, where present, is strongest among readers with comparatively lower financial literacy who may therefore have more difficulty critically assessing complex financial content. For investor relations, this positions format design as a question not only of accessibility but also of responsibility, as interactive reporting may engage and motivate less financially literate audiences, which raises the question of whether this engagement is matched by a corresponding depth of processing.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The impact of the dynamic shift to organic farming practices in bulukumba regency, Indonesia: evidence from grounded theory research]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-19T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author> Vandalisna</author><author>Rahmawaty A. Nadja</author><author>Muslim Salam</author><author>Letty Fudjaja</author><author>Darmawan Salman</author><author>Baharuddin Patandjengi</author><author> Heliawaty</author><author>Pipi Diansari</author><author>Nitty Hirawaty Kamarulzaman</author><author>Rida Akzar</author><author>Hamed Noralla Bakheet Ali</author><author>Ayu Anisa Amir</author><author>Siti Hardiyanti Syam</author><author>Adhyta Puspita Summase</author>
        <description><![CDATA[BackgroundIn developing countries such as Indonesia, the agricultural sector remains the backbone of the economy, providing jobs, food, and foreign exchange. However, globalization and developments in the global economic system have put a strain on conventional agricultural practices. The key issue for this sector is to ensure that agriculture continues to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals by implementing organic farming and profitable agricultural innovations.ObjectiveThis study aimed to examine the impact of the dynamic shift of conventional to organic farming practices in Bulukumba Regency, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The research results were expected to provide an empirical-theoretical framework for the management of agricultural resources in rural Indonesia.MethodsThe primary data were collected through in-depth interviews with 30 participants, including organic farmers, community leaders, and local agricultural officials. The data were then analyzed using the grounded theory research approach. The analysis process was carried out systematically through iterative stages of open, axial, and selective coding.ResultsOne main theoretical category that emerged from the shift from conventional to organic farming practices was socio-ecological rationality, which explains how farmers integrate environmental ethics, economic needs, and socio-cultural norms into their agricultural decision-making. The study showed that ecological awareness, relational solidarity, and moral commitment are the main drivers of farmers’ adaptive resilience in maintaining organic farming practices amid constraints such as market access, certification costs, and suboptimal institutional support. These findings confirm that organic farming practices are not only an economic choice, but also an expression of moral and social values rooted in local culture.DiscussionsTheoretically, these research results have broadened the understanding of socio-ecological rationality as a relevant conceptual framework in explaining the sustainable behavior of smallholder farmers. In practical terms, this study recommends improving access to certification, strengthening farmer education and training capacities, and strengthening the role of supporting institutions to encourage the sustainability of organic farming systems. The long-term implications emphasize the importance of synergy between public policy, social innovation, and local values in building sustainable agricultural independence in Indonesia.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Trust in voice-based assistants: a multidimensional conceptualization based on in-home user interviews]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-14T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Katharina Frehmann</author><author>Marc Ziegele</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Voice-based assistants (VBAs) such as Alexa and Siri are widely used in everyday life and increasingly act as information intermediaries. Their human-like voices and behaviors can elicit social responses, while new assistants based on large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT voice mode, further blur the boundaries between machine and human communicators. Despite risks associated with misinformation and limited data transparency, adoption remains high. Trust may be relevant to users’ relationships with conversational AI, but there is little consensus on how it should be conceptualized. Technical, interpersonal, and media trust frameworks may all be applicable. This multi-method qualitative study examined users’ subjective concepts of trust through 22 in-home interviews complemented by observational tasks involving participants’ own VBAs and ChatGPT voice mode. Participants drew on interpersonal concepts when defining trust but commonly restricted trust in VBAs to particular tasks and functions. Technical and media-related trustworthiness criteria were especially prominent, whereas social responses and anthropomorphic qualities did not necessarily translate into interpersonal trust. Experience, calibrated expectations, selective use, habitual engagement, and trust were described as closely interrelated. Although ChatGPT was often evaluated positively, particularly as an information intermediary, its perceived capabilities were not uniformly accompanied by greater trust compared with participants’ familiar VBAs. Based on these findings, we propose a preliminary conceptual framework of task-specific hybrid trust in VBAs.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ethics, computation, and institutional linkages in AI and mental-health research]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-13T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Moses Boudourides</author><author>Niko Männikkö</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence (AI) and mental-health research spans distinct clinical, technical, and care-oriented problem areas. We constructed a publication-centred relational dataset from Dimensions.ai, comprising 7,146 rule-defined, high-specificity AI-and-mental-health publications, 3,022 linked grants, and 214 linked policy documents. A four-component nonnegative matrix factorization of publication titles and abstracts provided a stable operational partition: mental-health risk prediction, digital mental-health care and ethics, social and affective detection, and neuropsychiatric assessment. Compared with digital mental-health care and ethics, risk prediction and neuropsychiatric assessment had substantially higher adjusted odds of recorded funding support. Policy-document coverage through 2021 was lower for neuropsychiatric assessment and social and affective detection; risk prediction did not differ reliably. Across the thematic corpus, publication funding-support and policy-document coverage relations co-occurred on the same publications more often than expected under a publication-year-stratified permutation null. We also describe author-affiliation, funder, and policy-issuer institutions and countries for each theme. The findings concern recorded database relations and thematic text structure; they do not establish causal effects, institutional intent, policy endorsement, or policy impact.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Institutional-based social network resources, social resource orchestration competence, and business growth of manufacturing small and medium enterprises: evidence from Kenya]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-08T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Loise Wanjiru Kanotha Oburu</author><author>Joseph Odhiambo Onyango</author><author>Anne Ndirangu</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionThe sustainable growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in manufacturing in developing economies depends significantly on how firms harness institutional social networks as strategic resources. Despite growing scholarship on social capital and firm performance, the mechanisms by which institutionally based social network resources — comprising regulatory, normative, and cultural-cognitive networks — translate into business growth remain insufficiently theorised. Specifically, the moderating role of social resource orchestration competence (SROC) in converting institutional network resources into firm growth value has not been empirically examined among Kenyan manufacturing SMEs.MethodsA quantitative cross-sectional survey was conducted among 393 purposively selected respondents — comprising business owners, heads of operations, and heads of finance — drawn from Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM)-registered manufacturing SMEs across 14 sub-sectors in Nairobi County, Kenya. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was conducted in SmartPLS 4.0, preceded by Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to establish reliability and validity. Convergent and discriminant validity, as well as collinearity, were assessed using established thresholds before path analysis was conducted.ResultsDirect path analysis confirmed significant positive associations of regulatory (β = 0.332, p < 0.05), normative (β = 0.285, p < 0.05), and cultural-cognitive resource networks (β = 0.162, p < 0.05) with SME growth. When SROC was introduced as a moderator, it emerged as the dominant growth factor (β = 0.543, p < 0.05). SROC significantly amplified the association of regulatory resource networks with SME growth (β = 0.162, p < 0.05) and attenuated the contribution of cultural-cognitive networks (β = −0.429, p < 0.05), while having no significant moderating effect on normative resource networks.DiscussionThese findings advance Social Exchange Theory by offering preliminary evidence that the economic value of institutional network exchanges varies with the firm's SROC. The study introduces the Social Exchange Orchestration Grid (SEOG) — a novel theoretical framework that maps the differential economic value of institutional network archetypes against SROC — providing manufacturing SME managers with a strategic tool for prioritising institutional network investments. Implications for SME policy in sub-Saharan Africa are discussed, with an emphasis on building orchestration capabilities as a potentially more critical investment than network acquisition per se.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Digital inclusion, trust, and experience quality: a conceptual framework for smart tourism technology acceptance in fast-digitalising destinations, with illustration from Uzbekistan]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-07T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Conceptual Analysis</category>
        <author>Yulduz Dushanova</author><author>Ergash Ibadullaev</author><author>Bokhodir Isroilov</author><author>Dilfuza Khamzaeva</author><author>Jasur Kushmanov</author>
        <description><![CDATA[When a state digitalises the gateway to its territory faster than its population and its visitors acquire the competence to pass through it, digital inequality becomes a cross-border condition. Tourism is where that encounter happens at scale, yet research on tourists' acceptance of smart tourism technologies carries three assumptions that hold only under mature and shared digital infrastructure: digital capability is a facilitating condition rather than a stratified resource governing whether an unassisted evaluation can occur; trust is one belief aimed at one object, although a visitor abroad must judge a platform, a payment rail, a provider, and a state at once; and experience quality is a terminal outcome, which conceals its role as a source of revision for later judgements inside the same trip. This conceptual analysis develops an alternative account grounded in digital inequality research, trust transfer theory, expectation disconfirmation, and negativity asymmetry. It reconstructs digital inclusion as two pre-use gating tiers (functional access, enacted competence) and one post-use outcome tier (realised conversion); separates trust into four referents joined by association-conditioned transfer and by calibration; and models experience quality as recursive and asymmetrically sensitive to breakdown. The elements are combined in the Digital Inclusion, Trust, Acceptance and Experience (DITAE) framework, stated as eight propositions and three bridging mechanisms with theoretical anchors, an illustrative measurement specification, and a four-stage research agenda organised by estimand. The counter-case for existing models is examined rather than assumed away. Uzbekistan, where high aggregate connectivity coexists with uneven competence and where entry and registration run through state platforms, illustrates the configuration; the illustration is contextual and does not test the framework. The central implication is that identical pre-encounter intentions can conceal sharply unequal realised outcomes, so intention alone is an unsafe indicator of inclusive digital transformation. No new empirical data are reported.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The role of digital management control systems on TQM practices and employee performance: an empirical study on Saudi service organizations]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-07T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Salma Elhag</author><author>Mariah Alaseeri</author><author>Taif Alsharif</author><author>Nada Almatrafi</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This study explores how Digital Management Control Systems (MCS) affect employee performance in Saudi service organizations by focusing on the role of Total Quality Management (TQM 4.0) that aims to address the growing need for digital integration in the Kingdom's evolving economy. Data was collected from 108 employees across different service organizations. Using statistical methods like linear regression and mediation analysis to test the relationships. Additionally, quality tools such as Pareto charts and fishbone diagrams were used to identify implementation barriers. The results show a full mediation effect. This means that digital systems do not improve performance directly instead, they improve quality practices first, which then strongly boosts employee performance. This suggests that quality management serves as the essential mechanism through which digital tools generate value. The study also found that employees’ resistance to change is the biggest challenge to digital transformation. This highlights the importance of addressing human factors alongside technical upgrades to achieve successful organizational change. Finally, the research proposes a digital dashboard mockup to help managers easily monitor performance and solve these issues. Also, a study proves that investing in technology is most effective when combined with strong quality management practices.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Socio-legal, ethical, technical and medical considerations on neuroprivacy and brain-machine interaction technologies in the era of A.I.]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-06T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Editorial</category>
        <author>Gianluigi M. Riva</author><author>Simona Tiribelli</author><author>Giovanni Ziccardi</author><author>Surjo R. Soekadar</author><author>Sara Colantonio</author><author>Agusti Solanas</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[Too hot to give birth? Temperature shocks and general fertility rates in Japan]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-05T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Qifan Fu</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This paper studies how alternative measures of ambient temperature change the estimated short-run relationship between heat and fertility. I combine monthly vital statistics for all 47 Japanese prefectures from 2012 through 2019 with daily weather reconstructed from raw station records. The outcome is the monthly general fertility rate, defined as live births per 1,000 women ages 15–49. Models include complete temperature-bin vectors, lagged precipitation and missing-weather controls, year-month fixed effects, prefecture-by-calendar-month fixed effects, and prefecture-by-year fixed effects. A day with a minimum temperature of at least 25∘C is associated with 0.39 and 0.25 percent lower fertility nine and ten months later. A day with a mean temperature of at least 30∘C is associated with 0.50 percent lower fertility at lag ten. In contrast, the maximum-temperature result is borderline at lag nine, insignificant at lag ten, and disappears when complete mean-temperature bins enter jointly. The evidence therefore points more consistently to sustained heat and limited nighttime cooling than to a brief daytime peak. Dynamic analysis and the recorded-fetal-death check do not identify whether the fertility estimates reflect conception timing, early pregnancy loss, gestational length, or another mechanism. The birth-rate estimates capture short-run reductions or displacement around the gestational horizon, not changes in completed fertility.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Aesthetic experience and perceived interactional accessibility in award-winning video games: a mixed-methods study using MDA–DDE with gamers in Guayaquil, Ecuador]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-02T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Alonso Eduardo Veloz Arce</author><author>Mauricio Pérez Moreno</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This study examines the aesthetic experience in award-winning video games using a multidimensional approach that integrates the Mechanics–Dynamics–Aesthetics (MDA) and Design–Dynamics–Experience (DDE) frameworks. The objective is to analyze how the aesthetic experience is shaped and perceived by players, particularly in relation to perceived interactional accessibility. A mixed-methods approach with a qualitative focus was employed, combining a theoretical review with empirical data obtained from an overall sample of 31 mid-core and hard-core gamers in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Partially overlapping game-specific subsamples participated in supervised gameplay sessions (Astro Bot, n = 19; Helldivers 2, n = 19; Hi-Fi Rush, n = 17; The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, n = 11), followed by structured assessment questionnaires. Additionally, semi-structured interviews were conducted with four international experts in video game design and development. Quantitatively, 84% (n = 16/19) of Astro Bot participants associated the limited narrative focus with easier entry into the gameplay experience; in Helldivers 2, 84% (n = 16/19) valued the shared-lives system as a source of challenge and 74% (n = 14/19) associated gameplay with cooperative dynamics; in Hi-Fi Rush, 59% (n = 10/17) expressed dissatisfaction with the tutorial, while 88% (n = 15/17) considered musical feedback essential; and in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, 45% (n = 5/11) reported interruptions in gameplay flow and 73% (n = 8/11) identified joy as the predominant emotional response. The findings suggest that perceived interactional accessibility may emerge from the relationship between mechanics, design clarity, sensory feedback, and player experience. This study provides a hybrid analytical model that expands current approaches to aesthetic experience in interactive media.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Beyond digital health: public and community digital interventions for migrant psychosocial well-being in Spain and Argentina]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-02T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
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        <author>Anabel Melguizo-Garín</author><author>Gisele Kleidermacher</author><author>Cecilia Melella</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionThe rapid digitalization of services for migrant populations has transformed the ways in which information, guidance, and social support are delivered. However, existing research has primarily focused on clinical digital mental health interventions or on migrants' own uses of digital technologies, paying considerably less attention to digital devices developed by public institutions and community organizations. This study comparatively analyzes four digital intervention devices implemented in Spain and Argentina, two public and two community-based, to examine how they may contribute to psychosocial well-being from a social determinants of health perspective.Methods and ResultsUsing a qualitative design based on digital ethnography and comparative thematic content analysis, the study explores the characteristics, functions, and intervention strategies of these digital resources, with particular attention to their roles in information provision, guidance, psychosocial support, and community participation. The findings show that these digital resources function as hybrid intervention ecosystems that integrate technological tools, professional support, and community networks rather than merely providing information. Four predominant intervention models were identified: administrative-information, institutional guidance and service access, rights-based community, and community guidance, accompaniment, and referral.DiscussionTogether, these models offer a novel analytical framework for understanding the diverse roles of digital interventions in migration contexts. Rather than providing direct therapeutic care, these devices contribute to psychosocial well-being by reducing barriers to access, strengthening social support networks, promoting rights, and facilitating connections with specialized services. By shifting the focus from clinical digital health to digital social intervention ecosystems, this study expands current debates on digital interventions for migrant populations and provides practical implications for the development of more inclusive, accessible, and culturally responsive digital resources aimed at promoting psychosocial well-being.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Affective governance theory: rethinking organisational control in digitally mediated organisations]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-10-01T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Conceptual Analysis</category>
        <author>Nthabeleng Innocentia Mdhluli</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Digital work is increasingly organised through communication platforms, workflow systems, electronic monitoring and algorithmic systems. Existing research already shows that digital technologies create affordances, structure choice, intensify visibility and support algorithmic and datafication-based control. The unresolved issue is therefore not whether digital systems influence behaviour, but how recurrent digital cues become organisationally linked to norms and anticipated consequences strongly enough to acquire stable affective and evaluative force. This paper formulates Affective Governance Theory (AGT) as a new mid-range theory of organisational control. Using an abductive conceptual model-building approach, the analysis integrates organisational control, digital affordances and sociomateriality, algorithmic and datafication control, digital nudging and persuasive technology, surveillance, affect theory and work-design scholarship. Theory development proceeds through anomaly specification, comparison of alternative explanations, iterative construct formation, discriminant and boundary testing, and recursive model derivation. AGT proposes that digital work infrastructures become affective configurations when four conditions co-occur: recurrent dependence, evaluative legibility, organisational norm linkage and anticipated relational or professional consequences. Three mutually reinforcing mechanisms, affective inscription, anticipatory self-regulation and the moral economy of digital presence, explain how these configurations orient behaviour and become recursively reproduced. Seven propositions specify emergence, operation, discriminant effects, sustainable-work consequences and structural amplification. AGT does not claim that digital design, monitoring or algorithms shaping behaviour are new. Its contribution is to theorise the organisational conversion of recurrent digital affordances into relatively stable affective governance structures and to generate predictions that can be tested against surveillance, algorithmic control, nudging and normative control. Practically, AGT offers a diagnostic for identifying when digital work design turns visibility, response latency and online presence into informal governance demands. It thereby connects responsible digital transformation with employee autonomy, recovery, dignity, well-being and equity.]]></description>
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