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on Information and Communication Technologies |
| By: | Houda Zitan (ENCGT - Ecole Nationale de Commerce et de Gestion de Tanger - UAE - Abdelmalek Essaadi University [Tétouan] = Université Abdelmalek Essaadi [Tétouan]); Khalid Chafik (ENCGT - Ecole Nationale de Commerce et de Gestion de Tanger - UAE - Abdelmalek Essaadi University [Tétouan] = Université Abdelmalek Essaadi [Tétouan]) |
| Abstract: | This study provides a bibliometric and conceptual analysis of Green Information Technology (Green IT) management in the agricultural sector. Despite the growing interest in sustainable digital technologies, existing research remains fragmented and lacks a clear management-oriented perspective. Literature is largely dominated by technological approaches, with limited attention to managerial and user-centered dimensions. This research adopts a positivist epistemological stance, consistent with the objective of mapping and structuring a scientific field based on bibliometric data. It aims to identify the main research themes, clarify the terminology used in the field, and highlight key gaps related to the adoption, acceptance, and actual use of Green IT in agriculture. Using a dataset of 5, 984 publications extracted from the Scopus database, a co-word analysis was conducted with VOSviewer to map the intellectual structure of the field. The findings reveal four dominant thematic clusters: precision agriculture, remote sensing, Internet of Things (IoT), and irrigation systems, reflecting a strong technological orientation. The results also show significant conceptual fragmentation, with terms such as smart agriculture, digital agriculture, and climate-smart agriculture being widely used, while "Green IT" itself remains marginal in the literature. This study relies exclusively on secondary data from Scopus and a bibliometric co-word analysis, which limits causal interpretation of the findings and does not capture the qualitative and contextual dimensions of the studied phenomena. Nevertheless, it contributes to clarifying the conceptual landscape of Green IT in agriculture and proposes a research agenda integrating technological, organizational, and sustainability perspectives. |
| Keywords: | Bibliometric analysis Paper type Literature review, Green IT management, adoption, Sustainable agriculture, Information systems |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05683656 |
| By: | Jean-Charles Pillet (TBS - Toulouse Business School); Kevin Carillo (TBS - Toulouse Business School); Federico Pigni (EESC-GEM - Grenoble Ecole de Management); Claudio Vitari (CERGAM - Centre d'Études et de Recherche en Gestion d'Aix-Marseille - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - UTLN - Université de Toulon) |
| Abstract: | In his early work, Karl Weick referred to information technology (IT) as "equivoques" to underline the conflicting interpretations that often arise among users, groups, and organizations interacting with IT systems. As modern IT systems support a growing variety of uses and applications, this phenomenon intensifies, with important implications for attitude formation and usage patterns. Based on individual sensemaking theory, we define perceived IT equivocality as a cognitive state characterized by a user's difficulty in making sense of an IT. This manifests through perceptions of incompleteness, fragmentation, and uncertainty. Through three empirical studies (n = 419, n = 411, n = 345), we validate this multidimensional construct and examine its relevance in three different post-adoptive use contexts. The results indicate that perceived IT equivocality is negatively associated with routine and innovative use, but positively associated with behavioral anxiety, confirming the theorized influence of IT equivocality on usage patterns. In closing, we discuss the importance of the IT equivocality construct to both theory and practice, along with the limitations of our work. Our distinctive contributions include 1) conceptualizing an ISspecific psychological phenomenon, 2) developing and validating a measurement instrument, and 3) demonstrating the behavioral potency of the construct. |
| Keywords: | multidimensional construct, scale development, post adoption IT use, individual sensemaking, generativity, equivocality |
| Date: | 2024–12–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:gemptp:hal-05718130 |