Agricultural technology plays a critical role in increasing productivity and modernizing the industry. Recognizing the importance of agriculture, governments devote significant public funds to research and development and creating an ecosystem for developing agricultural technology. While investing in new agricultural technology is important, it is also necessary to pay attention to technology adoption. For the technology to be sustainable, mass adoption is needed. This study proposes the technology adoption journey map (TAJM) to plan and study the farmers' technology adoption based on the Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) theory and the Customer Journey Map (CJM). The TAJM should reflect the five stages of the technology process, with further elaboration on the key touchpoints of the CJM adoption experience. The adopter's expectations and actions, as well as the actions of key stakeholders, are documented at each touchpoint. Because each adoption journey is different, the expected failures and recovery actions are recorded for each touchpoint. To facilitate the mass adoption of technology, this study suggests documenting the experiences of innovators and early adopters of the technology as a guide in building the technology adoption journey map of the early majority.
The transition to Industry 4.0 and the growing adoption of new digital technologies in industrial operations present new challenges and opportunities in terms of human work and work organization. To overcome these obstacles and seize emerging opportunities, new socio-technical and human-centered design and engineering methods and approaches are required. This paper will provide an overview of the Industrial Revolution version 5.0 and will discuss various aspects of Industry 4.0 implementation. Entering the 5th Industrial Revolution, globally companies will adopt new technologies to meet the demands of quality customers and value-added products, using new techniques in transparency, smart components, more significant data, and information security. The implementation of Industry 5.0 brings back human to the industry again and reduce unemployment which makes overall positive development for the future Industry. The leadership of organizations, policymakers, and other supply chain practitioners, particularly those currently working on Industry 4.0 initiatives, will benefit from this research because it will provide clear guidance on the dimensions necessary to structurally design and implement an Industry 5.0 strategy. This paper will benefit researchers and practitioners by examining the newest and most revolutionary concept of the Industry 5.0 phenomenon in the context of supply chain management, which is a relatively unexplored area. Finally, the impact of Industry 5.0 on the Malaysian manufacturing industry and the overall economy will be discussed from an economic and productivity point of view.This research would like to identify a research gap in the intersections between Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0 in regards to supply chain management through SLR to recommend how manufacturing companies should approach the introduction of new digital technologies with the human touch. Theoretically, this research is expected to recommend a framework to the current literature and the body of knowledge with humanizing factors.
Purpose -With internet technology, knowledge acquisition surpasses the confinement of the university's campus or syllabus. Concurrently, an entrepreneurship programme has recently been offered to students, positioning universities as an experimental ground for the breeding of entrepreneurs. Thus, this paper seeks to evaluate the effect of entrepreneurship education syllabi empowered with current information communication technology (ICT) exposure towards students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy together with social norms and their entrepreneurial intention; and whether this latest development lives up to stakeholders' expectations.Design/methodology/approach -Data were collected through a census survey of entrepreneurship students at four MSC-Status universities that offer entrepreneurship degree programmes. Quantitative analyses such as regression were performed.Findings -Specialised entrepreneurship education with ICT exposure significantly affects a student's entrepreneurial self-efficacy. However social norms were found to be a poor predictor towards entrepreneurial intention, explaining the diminished level of influence lecturers had upon their students' behaviour.Research limitations/implications -This study focuses on a group of entrepreneurship students who are exposed to ICT applications at that stipulated time, and as such, the findings cannot be generalised as technology evolves rapidly. The findings are also limited to only entrepreneurial intention and demonstrate the outcome in Malaysia's higher education industry.Practical implications -The two direct stakeholders i.e. the university's management and lecturers, may need to reconstruct their respective initiatives by introducing ''creative disruption'' philosophies, policies and pedagogies to facilitate the ''creative destruction'' mode of education into realising its full potential.Originality/value -This paper provides an insight into challenges that universities face in delivering distinctive knowledge consisting of theories and practices. Together, they require constructive and radical yet practical initiatives.
The agrofood sector is essential in many countries worldwide for food security, food safety and nutrition but facing challenges and issues of productivity, lack of involvement from youth, climate change, and scarcity of resources. Many countries have promoted the Internet of Things (IoT) as part of the policy intervention to curb these challenges. Malaysia is not excluded. The IoT adoption in farming is being focused by the government in order to increase productivity in the industry. Currently, the IoT implementation in the agrofood sector in Malaysia is still in the early stages of development. IoT adoption by farmers, especially from micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), is still far from expected. Many MSMEs may not be aware of the benefits of IoT for real-time information and reducing uncertainties in farming. Therefore, there is a huge gap in terms of reliable and timely information for decision-making processes. However, related studies on factors influencing IoT adoption among agrofood's MSMEs are minimal. Previous study on IoT in farming mainly focuses on the technical implementation of IoT. Furthermore, very few studies focus on the organization level and attitude of the owner-manager. Hence, based on the Technological-Organizational-Environmental (TOE) framework, this study will propose a conceptual framework that links the factors influencing the intention adoption of IoT in farming among MSMEs and mediating effect of attitude of the owner-manager on IoT adoption intention. This paper contributes to the existing body of knowledge and guides related stakeholders to develop suitable strategies for encouraging IoT adoption among agrofood's MSMEs.
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