Firms’ Darq Readiness And Marketing Implications: A Systematic Literature Review,
2026
Edith Cowan University
Firms’ Darq Readiness And Marketing Implications: A Systematic Literature Review, Ali N. Tehrani, K. Roy, Richard Gruner
Research outputs 2022 to 2026
Purpose – This study aims to systematically review literature across diverse disciplines, including marketing, management and information systems, to synthesise insights on firms’ readiness to adopt and implement DARQ technologies and their marketing implications. DARQ technologies are emerging and cutting-edge technologies, including Distributed Ledger Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Extended Reality and Quantum Computing (hence, DARQ). Design/methodology/approach – Through a systematic review of over 2, 500 papers across three databases, this study distilled a focused sample of 88 papers. It comprehensively explores the reported dimensions, antecedents, outcomes and marketing implications of firms’ readiness for DARQ technologies. Findings – This study identified three …
Sme-Team: Leveraging Trust And Ethics For Secure And Responsible Use Of Ai And Llms In Smes,
2026
Edith Cowan University
Sme-Team: Leveraging Trust And Ethics For Secure And Responsible Use Of Ai And Llms In Smes, Iqbal H. Sarker, Helge Janicke, Ahmad Mohsin, Leandros Maglaras
Research outputs 2022 to 2026
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing today’s business practices; however, their adoption within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) raises serious trust, ethical, and technical issues. In this perspective paper, we introduce a structured, multi-phased framework, “SME-TEAM", positioning trust and ethics as a driving force for resilience, competitiveness, and sustainable innovation within the area of business analytics and SMEs.
The Service Variety Paradox In Crypto-Exchanges: A Stimulus-Organism-Response (Sor) Perspective,
2026
Edith Cowan University
The Service Variety Paradox In Crypto-Exchanges: A Stimulus-Organism-Response (Sor) Perspective, Cheuk Hang Au, Po Hsu Shieh, Vladimir Nurbaev, Kris M.Y. Law, Kevin K.W. Ho
Research outputs 2022 to 2026
Digital platforms face a fundamental paradox: while expanding service variety is a dominant competitive strategy, it risks inducing a “paradox of choice” that confuses and deters users. This tension manifests with extreme clarity in the nascent, high-complexity market of cryptocurrency exchanges, creating a pressing empirical puzzle. To resolve this, we adopt the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) perspective in a three-stage mixed-method study to investigate how platforms can strategically manage this trade-off. Our qualitative exploration (Study 1) established a capital flow schema called “inflow, roll, and go” and identified key complexity-reduction mechanisms. A subsequent survey (n = 190, Study 2) validated that perceived …
Marching To The Beat: The Role Of Complementor Alignment In The Architectural Evolution Of Ecosystems,
2026
Peking University
Marching To The Beat: The Role Of Complementor Alignment In The Architectural Evolution Of Ecosystems, Pengxiang Zhang, Liang Chen, Yang Yang, Sali Li
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
The evolution of innovation ecosystems hinges on the effective coordination between ecosystem leaders and complementors. While ecosystem-sponsored architectural innovations create new technological opportunities for complementors, they may unintentionally disrupt the performance of complementor products that were originally developed based on legacy architectural designs. This study provides empirical evidence of these disruptive effects and explores how complementors’ alignment with the ecosystem leader mitigates such challenges. Focusing on Apple’s release of Core ML—a proprietary artificial intelligence module—in its mobile ecosystem, we employ a difference-in-differences design to investigate variations in complementor performance after adopting this ecosystem-sponsored architectural innovation. Our findings reveal that complementors’ …
The Nevada Innovation Economy And Federal Funding,
2026
The Lincy Institute
The Nevada Innovation Economy And Federal Funding, Len Jessup, Sean Curry
Policy Briefs and Reports
This policy brief examines the nascent Nevada innovation economy and the funding capacity of the federal government. The analysis highlights how federal innovation programs have stimulated research, commercialization, and long-term economic development in Nevada. Using a multi-level framework encompassing technological, industrial, and spatial innovation, this policy brief documents how federal research funding, augmented by state programs and university infrastructure, has contributed to the formation of new research capabilities, seeded industry clusters and startups, and expanded workforce capacity. The findings suggest that federal resources have been productively deployed to date, generating significant scientific, economic, and social returns, but that more must …
Data Without Borders, Sovereignty Without Guarantees: Cybersecurity Risks Of Cross-Border Data Hosting In The Global South, Evidence And Policy Lessons From Mozambique,
2026
Instituto Superior Politécnico de Tete
Data Without Borders, Sovereignty Without Guarantees: Cybersecurity Risks Of Cross-Border Data Hosting In The Global South, Evidence And Policy Lessons From Mozambique, Faztudo Languisse Eng.
Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
The digital transformation of public and private institutions across the Global South has produced a paradox: as states digitize government services, financial systems, and citizen records, an increasing share of this data is hosted on servers physically located in the United States, the European Union, and other developed economies. This article develops a taxonomy of the cybersecurity and sovereignty risks generated by this dependency, distinguishing deliberate risks, arising from extraterritorial legal instruments such as the United States CLOUD Act, foreign surveillance regimes, and a concentrated hyperscale cloud market, from non-deliberate risks, arising from undersea cable failures, hyperscaler outages, misconfiguration, and …
Specification And Internal Assessment Of A Self Reported Protective Application Use Composite Among Computer Science Undergraduates In Enugu State Nigeria,
2026
Federal University of Allied Health Sciences,Enugu, Nigeria
Specification And Internal Assessment Of A Self Reported Protective Application Use Composite Among Computer Science Undergraduates In Enugu State Nigeria, Adesegun Nurudeen Osijirin, Leonard C. Anigbo, Oliver Okechukwu
Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
This study specifies a Protective Application Use Composite restricted to self-reported protective application use. A cross-sectional survey provided 364 complete records from Computer Science undergraduates at four universities in Enugu State, Nigeria, from 393 distributed questionnaires. The score is the equal-weight average of five questionnaire categories: antivirus, firewall, encryption, multi-factor authentication, and virtual private network use. Reanalysis of the author-supplied item records yielded category means from 2.097 to 2.376 and internal-consistency coefficients from 0.958 to 0.971. The composite mean was 2.170, with a standard deviation of 0.469. The first component of the category-score correlation matrix explained 50.98 percent of variance. …
Markets For Unverified Capability: Why Organizations Facing Real Adversarial Scrutiny Reject The Metrics Academic Ai-Security Research Relies On,
2026
SecurityWall
Markets For Unverified Capability: Why Organizations Facing Real Adversarial Scrutiny Reject The Metrics Academic Ai-Security Research Relies On, Babar Khan Akhunzada
Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
Governments, insurers, and defenders increasingly rely on published capability claims about AI cybersecurity agents to inform procurement, regulation, and risk assessment. Yet a striking pattern runs through the organizations with the most at stake: enterprises and technology companies deploying frontier AI agents against real production infrastructure consistently decline to publish the accuracy metrics that academic and vendor benchmarks compete to report. This paper investigates that pattern as an economic, organizational, and policy problem rather than a purely technical one. We audit eleven independently published AI cybersecurity benchmarks and deployments using a five-dimension integrity rubric and find that benchmarks relying on …
Innovation Ecosystem Model To Achieve Sustainability In Palm-Oil Biofuel Development In Indonesia,
2026
Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, West Java 16424, Indonesia
Innovation Ecosystem Model To Achieve Sustainability In Palm-Oil Biofuel Development In Indonesia, Fanny Rahmadhitya, Avanti Fontana, Ignatius Heruwasto
Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development
Achieving sustainable expansion of Indonesia’s palm-oil biofuel sector requires overcoming two interconnected challenges: ecological limits on feedstock expansion and weak translation of research into industry adoption. Although innovation ecosystem research emphasizes multi-actor collaboration, existing innovation ecosystem research provides limited understanding of how governance and innovation intermediation can bridge these gaps in the palm oil biofuel sector. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, the study draws on 12 semi-structured interviews with key policymakers, industry practitioners, and researchers, analyzed using constructivist grounded theory (CGT) and triangulated with policy documents and a structured comparison with Malaysia. The findings reveal two interconnected bottlenecks. First, …
The Influence Mechanism Of Patent Pool Relationships On Collaborative Innovation Performance: Evidence From Mpeg La,
2026
School of Economics and Management, Changsha Normal University, Changsha 410148
The Influence Mechanism Of Patent Pool Relationships On Collaborative Innovation Performance: Evidence From Mpeg La, Liubin Lai, Hua Xie, Chen Peng, Lin Chen
Journal of Scientific Information Research
[Purpose/significance] Collaborative innovation is an important means of breaking through one's own resource bottlenecks and achieving technological upgrading. Studying the impact of patent alliance relationships on collaborative innovation performance among alliance partners is of significant importance, and at the same time, it provides guiding value for enterprises in effectively utilizing patent alliances to promote open innovation. [Method/process] Based on the panel data of more than 5 000 pairs of MPEG LA members, this paper focuses on the alliance network of patent pools.A fixed effects negative binomial regression model was used to analyze the influence mechanism of alliances within patent pools …
Research On Quantitative Assessment And Optimization Path Of China's Future Industrial Policy From The Three-Dimensional Perspective Of "Theme-Tool-Effectiveness",
2026
School of Management, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620
Research On Quantitative Assessment And Optimization Path Of China's Future Industrial Policy From The Three-Dimensional Perspective Of "Theme-Tool-Effectiveness", Xiao Liu, Lei Wu, Yanfei Song, Xintong Huang
Journal of Scientific Information Research
[Purpose/significance] Policies serve as a critical safeguard for guiding cutting-edge technological innovation and fostering a modern industrial system. Systematically evaluating the future industrial policy system and exploring its optimization paths are of great significance for enhancing the scientificity of policies and strengthening industrial competitive advantages. [Method/process] Based on a three-dimensional of framework "theme-tool-effectiveness", this study conducts a systematic quantitative assessment of 19 provincial-level future industry policies in China using a combination of content analysis, LDA-based topic modeling, and the PMC index approach. [Result/conclusion] The research indicate that while the thematic coverage is comprehensive, coordination is fragmented. Stronger links are needed …
Haven: Helping Hotels Detect Human Trafficking Together Without Sharing Guest Data,
2026
Utah Tech University
Haven: Helping Hotels Detect Human Trafficking Together Without Sharing Guest Data, Mahboubeh Cheraghian, Saeed Vayghan, Mehmet Erdem
ICHRIE Research Reports
In the global response to human trafficking, the hospitality industry occupies a crucial but understudied role. A 2018 Polaris survivor survey, based on a self-selected sample rather than a representative prevalence study, found that approximately three out of four respondents had interacted with a hotel at some point during their exploitation. The core challenge is that no single property accumulates sufficient information to act independently. Traffickers deliberately rotate guests across three or four properties within a week, and privacy regulations including the GDPR and CCPA, together with the duty hotels owe their guests, make it unlawful for properties to compare …
Permission Granted? Navigating Ai Use In Graduate Speech-Language Pathology Education,
2026
University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
Permission Granted? Navigating Ai Use In Graduate Speech-Language Pathology Education, Megann Mcgill, Ana Rivera Rodriguez, Alayna Townsend, Kelly Roy, Christine Fiestas
Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI (GenAI), is transforming higher education and raising important questions about its role in graduate professional training. Speech-language pathology (SLP) programs face the dual challenge of preparing students to engage with AI technologies that are increasingly present in clinical and academic environments while also safeguarding academic integrity, ethical practice, and skill development. This tutorial paper describes the development and delivery of a one-hour, synchronous virtual AI training created for graduate students in a hybrid online Master of Science in SLP program at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences. The …
Operating Costs, Liquidity, And Demographic Pressures In Tanzania's Reformed Public Pension System (2004–2024),
2026
University of Dar es Salaam
Operating Costs, Liquidity, And Demographic Pressures In Tanzania's Reformed Public Pension System (2004–2024), Athumani S. Mbuttuka, Ellinami J. Minja, Siasa I. Mzenzi
Business Management Review
The efficiency of public pension systems is critical for accumulating old-age savings and reducing fiscal pressures. This study evaluated Tanzania’s reformed public pension system from 2004 to 2024, covering pre- and post-merger periods, using longitudinal financial data and benchmarking indicators, including cost-to-contribution, cost-to-asset, payout, and dependency ratios, against regulatory and OECD levels. One-tailed sample t-tests compared efficiency and sustainability metrics against benchmarks. Findings show that operating costs averaged 2.8% of assets and administrative cost-to-contribution averaged 11.8%, exceeding the OECD average of 1.6% and the regulatory ceiling of 10%, respectively. Although operating-cost ratios declined after the 2018 restructuring, costs generally remained …
Modelling The Financial Viability Of Offshore Aquaculture Using A Case Study Of A Sea Bass Farm In The Bay Of Lion, France,
2026
American University of the Middle East, Kuwait
Modelling The Financial Viability Of Offshore Aquaculture Using A Case Study Of A Sea Bass Farm In The Bay Of Lion, France, Jeremy Van Dyken, Houshang Habibniya, Suzan Dsouza, Tyler Sclodnick
Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics
The extension of net pen aquaculture to open ocean sites provides many advantages to the industry including opportunity for expansion, utilization of high energy sites, and better resilience to certain near shore or surface-associated stressors. The industry has been slow to develop due to high perceived risks and a lack of operating farms to provide financial information for open ocean farm operations. A model was developed to evaluate the economic viability of a hypothetical sea bass aquaculture venture in the open French Mediterranean Sea that utilizes open ocean submersible farming systems. Advanced open ocean equipment, including submersible net pens, environmental …
The Digital Responsibility Index: Quantifying Perceived Multi-Layered Responsibility In Cybersecurity,
2026
The Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
The Digital Responsibility Index: Quantifying Perceived Multi-Layered Responsibility In Cybersecurity, Mircea Ţălu
Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
In the evolving digital landscape, cybersecurity responsibility extends beyond technical safeguards to include individual behavior, organizational governance, and societal impact. This study introduces the Digital Responsibility Index (DRI), a novel metric that quantifies multi-layered accountability across four domains: technical, individual, organizational, and societal. Data were collected through scenario-based Likert-scale surveys with 120 cybersecurity professionals, supplemented by semi-structured interviews with senior leaders. Results reveal that while technical and organizational responsibilities are consistently prioritized, individual and societal accountability remain under-recognized. Leadership engagement significantly enhances responsibility scores across all layers. The proposed DRI framework provides a measurable and potentially actionable basis for assessing …
Ai-Generated Phishing Attacks: Emerging Threats And Detection Strategies For Security Operations Centers,
2026
Webster University
Ai-Generated Phishing Attacks: Emerging Threats And Detection Strategies For Security Operations Centers, Bahzad Khalid
Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming cybersecurity by strengthening defensive capabilities while simultaneously enabling more sophisticated phishing attacks. AI generated phishing emails increasingly evade traditional detection methods through improved grammar, contextual relevance and realistic communication styles creating significant challenges for Security Operations Centers (SOCs). This study investigates the effectiveness of current email security systems in detecting AI generated phishing emails compared with traditional phishing emails. A mixed method experimental approach was employed using controlled Gmail and Outlook environments to evaluate the detection and classification of multiple phishing scenarios. The results demonstrate that several AI generated phishing emails successfully bypassed initial security …
A Narrative-Driven, Socratic Instructional Framework For Teaching Adversarial Cognition In Cybersecurity,
2026
Independent
A Narrative-Driven, Socratic Instructional Framework For Teaching Adversarial Cognition In Cybersecurity, Joshua K. Goossen
Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
The Socratic method has demonstrated, in studies across law, medicine, and nursing, that dialectic structured questioning improves expert reasoning. Cybersecurity currently teaches tools and techniques but lacks Socratic dialogic leaving graduates underprepared for novel scenarios requiring cross-domain reasoning. Because law, medicine and nursing cultivate similar reasoning as security there is principled reason to expect reasoning benefits could transfer to security students. This paper argues that the correspondence warrants investigation. Investigation requires a named, teachable reasoning target analogous to clinical reasoning and we specify that target as adversarial cognition, a framework integrating adversary features, system architecture, implementation logic, governance structure, human …
Designing For Who Actually Shows Up: A Signal Framework For Online Adult Learners In Cybersecurity And Information Technology,
2026
University of Maryland Global Campus
Designing For Who Actually Shows Up: A Signal Framework For Online Adult Learners In Cybersecurity And Information Technology, Chad Whistle, Mayyada Al-Hammoshi
Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
Online adult learners pursuing cybersecurity and information technology credentials represent one of the fastest-growing student populations in American higher education, yet the frameworks institutions use to support their success were not designed for them. This population, disproportionately drawn from the 41.9 million Americans who hold some college credit but no credential, arrives workforce-embedded, time-constrained, and skeptical of institutional systems that previously failed to serve them. Existing persistence models grounded in traditional student integration theory inadequately account for the behavioral patterns, motivational structures, and credential expectations that define this learner. This paper proposes the SIGNAL Framework (Skills-based credential architecture, Integrated AI-informed …
From Innovation To Impact: Evaluation Of The Shape Accelerator Cohort,
2026
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
From Innovation To Impact: Evaluation Of The Shape Accelerator Cohort, Iryna V. Lendel, Chloe Wieber
Upjohn Institute Technical Reports
The Solutions Hub for an Alternative Packaging Ecosystem (SHAPE), a Michigan-Ohio partnership operated by the Michigan State University Research Foundation as part of a National Science Foundation Regional Innovation Engine, co-funded a special cohort of the NextCycle Accelerator focused on sustainable packaging and circular economy ventures. This report evaluates how the accelerator contributed to firm-level advancement and ecosystem-level change, drawing on program data and interviews with participating companies, program facilitators, stakeholders, and SHAPE management. Participants most consistently credited coaching, network connections, and the Pitch Showcase with meaningfully impacting their business trajectory, gaining market traction, advancing technology readiness, and gaining access …
