Highlighting gaps in technology acceptance research : a call for integrating happiness and well-being into smart city development

Manfreda, Anton (author), Mijač, Tea (author)

This research aims to present a synopsis of four eminent theoretical concepts that scholars have expended to help understand how digitalisation has changed the workplace as we used to know it. The research is based on a conceptual approach. It aims to critically synthesise the relevant literature as the principal methodology for analysing work in the selected four research domains where the perspective on digital work is most controversial. The study shows two central chronicles that have emerged due to workplace digitalisation - utopian and dystopian perspectives. The research sheds light on controversial discourses regarding changing nature of work in the digital era, particularly concerning work polarisation, non-standard employment, unemployment and platform work. The study also provides guidelines for change that help minimise the dark side and harm to the worker of digitalisation by developing appropriate capabilities for the new digital environment.

• Language: English
• Keywords: smart cities, technology acceptance, well-being, happiness, smart city index, happy city index
• Work type: Journal
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 15 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 9, iss. 4, article no. 100585
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-173801
• UDC: 502.131.1
• ISSN on article: 2530-7614
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2024.100585
• COBISS.SI-ID: 212281603
• Publication date in RUL: 23.09.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of innovation & knowledge
• Shortened title: J. innov. knowl.
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISSN: 2530-7614
• COBISS.SI-ID: 147590403

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: informacijska tehnologija, ekonomija blaginje, informacijska tehnologija, ekonomija blaginje

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P2-0037-2019
• Name: Tehnologije interneta prihodnosti: koncepti, arhitekture, storitve in družbeno-ekonomski vidiki