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Exploring interventions for improving rural digital governance performance: A simulation study of the data-driven institutional pressure transmission mechanism
Technological forecasting & social change, Vol.208, 123695
11/2024
Web of Science ID: WOS:001312064800001
Abstract
Considering the technological and institutional nature, along with the inherent complexity, of the rural digital governance context, a data-driven institutional pressure transmission (D-IPT) mechanism is developed in this study. This mechanism aims to facilitate effective regulation of villagers' behaviours, thereby improving rural digital governance performance. Firstly, we proposed a conceptual model based on complex adaptive systems theory and institutional theory to demonstrate how this mechanism can ensure an improvement of the emergent rural digital governance performance. Subsequently, we translated the conceptual model into a computational representation, thereby constructing a theory-informed simulation model. A behavioural dataset consists of 1,255,206 rural households from 119 villages over a span of 18 months was used to instantiate and validate the simulation model based on a specific scenario. Then, we designed five simulation experiments to investigate interventions aimed at harnessing the D-IPT mechanism more effectively to improve the rural digital governance performance. The results show that interventions targeting interaction efficiency, interaction frequency, and institutional environment configuration significantly affect the role of the D-IPT mechanism in enhancing rural governance performance. Finally, we discussed the theoretical and practical implications of the D-IPT mechanism.
•A D-IPT mechanism is developed to improve rural digital governance performance through effective behavioural regulation.•Based on CAS theory and institutional theory, a conceptual model is built to demonstrate the role of the D-IPT mechanism.•The transmission of coercive, normative and mimetic institutional pressures among rural agents is quantified by ABM method.•Interventions targeting interactions among agents and the environment, are explored to better utilize the D-IPT mechanism.
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- Title
- Exploring interventions for improving rural digital governance performance
- Publication Details
- Technological forecasting & social change, Vol.208, 123695
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Copyright
- © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.
- Identifiers
- WOS:001312064800001; 99380576593806600
- Academic Unit
- Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business; Business Administration
- Language
- English