• Energy Research

Organizations are struggling to ensure knowledge workers’ productivity and innovative capabilities to adopt rapidly changing technologies. This study investigates this under-explored topic of impediments for knowledge workers’ sustainable productivity and innovative capabilities for digitalization and adoption of Industry 4.0 and 5.0 using multi-level and multi-dimensional research approach. Using in-depth structured literature review and refined through expert evaluation, a list of impediments was developed which was further categorized at multiple levels along with cross country comparative analyses using survey data collected from IT professionals from six countries. Analytical Hierarchal Process approach is used to prioritize impediments at four levels of impediment ranking, factors ranking, categories ranking and global ranking along with country-wise analysis to explore IT professionals’ preference. Findings suggest focus areas in three dimensions - organizational, technological, and personal along with three factors of each using relative rankings based on local and global weights. The study has significant theoretical and practical implications in relation to digitalization, knowledge workers and adoption of industry 4.0 and 5.0. Post-print / Final draft

Digital technologies play a vital role in daily human life and significantly influence human attitudes toward the adoption of new and attractive lifestyles. The internet has been widely accepted in every modern society, and the act of purchasing products or services over the internet, known as online/internet shopping, has revolutionized business. This study was designed using the technology acceptance model and theory of reasoned action. This study identified important factors such as perceived awareness of security, perceived usefulness, personal innovativeness, and perceived ease of use in purchasing, together with the effects of these factors on online purchasing intentions and the mediating role of consumer attitudes toward online purchasing. The results show that the identified factors are positively and significantly related to consumer intentions and attitudes toward online purchasing. This study has the potential to guide online retailers and managers in expanding online purchasing platforms and in increasing their responsiveness to the need to restructure business models according to new technological developments.