Contributing to the scarce literature on how companies can deal with their business model of digital transition, this work explores the digital transformation (DT) process in small and medium enterprises (SME), investigating how organizational culture, structure, and leadership influence it. While such three factors are deemed essential components to facilitate DT, how they operate and how they relate to each other are still not very well-defined issues in need of in-depth investigation. This study employed a mixed-methods approach, following an exploratory sequential design. First, a conceptual model was developed based on qualitative data collected from expert interviews and analyzed through grounded theory. This stage uncovered 25 first-order concepts about culture, structure, and leadership, further organized into 6 constructs and hypothesis paths. Then, with a sample of 192 SMEs, the structural model was measured and validated using exploratory factor analysis and PLS-SEM. As a result, our study offers robust and timely research, whose conceptual model condenses a knowledge corpus that future research can benefit from, and it provides statistical extrapolations about how and how much those factors relate to each other in SME context; moreover, given the traditional scarce resources and lack of flexibility in SMEs, it provides orientation and guidelines to managers facing DT and needing to understand the organizational factors they should be aware of, where to focus energy, and what to expect as results. From a large-scale perspective, this study carries an impactful contribution to the many countries where SMEs play a major economic and social role.

The present article explores the concept of user involvement in the information system (IS) development context. It integrates situational involvement and intrinsic involvement constructs in the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and empirically tested a theoretical model with premises that were previously tested separately but not operationalized and tested together. From data collected from companies that have recently implemented an IS, Exploratory Factorial Analysis (EFA), Factorial Confirmatory Analysis (CFA), and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) were used to assess the construct's validity and the hypothesis test of the model, respectively. With a sample of 114 respondents, the main results indicate that situational involvement influences intrinsic involvement, perceived usefulness, and ease of use perception; it also indicates that intrinsic involvement influences usefulness perception, ease of use perception, and behavioral intention. Thus, this paper validated the assumptions about the importance of user involvement as an influence in adopting an IS, pointing out that situational involvement influences intrinsic involvement and that future users can become cognitively biased to better perceive a system as useful and easy to use, increasing its acceptance and adoption. It represents an original approach in this field with theoretical and empirical contributions.

There is currently a significant amount of discussion regarding new ways to insert ergonomics into the business community through adding financial benefits; however, analysis must be performed to justify this type of investment. Occupational problems that could be reduced by ergonomics solutions can be expressed as financial losses. Although the impact and importance of these losses are high, the difficulties in their quantification prevent adequate cost‐benefit analysis. This article aims to document evidence of the difficulties encountered when quantifying the financial losses that are caused by problems that could be reduced by ergonomic solutions. In this study, we performed a literature review concerning the financial costs related to occupational problems from the perspective of ergonomics. The results indicate that losses that occur mainly concern the productivity of the working process or the workers. The chief barriers documented in the scientific literature are the information cost, the multifactorial nature of the problem, the absence of information, and the methods of measurement. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Dado o crescimento do desenvolvimento e adoção de tecnologias digitais no ecossistema do agronegócio, o qual representa um mercado em expansão, o presente estudo verifica a influência das novas tecnologias digitais no agronegócio e como os atores do ecossistema de inovação ajudam desenvolver e implementar as mesmas. Para isto foram feitas 18 entrevistas semiestruturadas com diferentes atores do ecossistema agrícola. Os resultados apontam que o processo de digitalização no setor ainda é lento, devido diferentes barreiras relacionadas à infraestrutura de rede, à falta de conhecimento e habilidades e à resistência à adoção de tecnologia por parte dos agricultores, principalmente produtores de pequeno e médio porte. Nesse contexto os atores do ecossistema detêm um papel fundamental: universidades com pesquisa de pontas que impactam no setor e empresas públicas e privadas promovendo o uso das tecnologias e sendo um elo entre os desenvolvedores das mesmas e o agricultor.

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