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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine how technology overload (system feature, information, and communication overload) influences salespeople's role stress (role conflict and role ambiguity), effort to use technology and performance. This research examines whether these relationships are linear or quadratic. It also examines the moderating effect of salespeople's technology self-efficacy.Design/methodology/approachSalespeople at a national company providing services to small and medium companies were surveyed via an online instrument to measure key constructs and control variables. Over 200 usable responses resulted; structural equation model was used to analyze the data.FindingsResults show that dimensions of technology overload had linear and/or quadratic relationships with role stress, effort to use technology and performance. Salesperson's technology self-efficacy moderated the relationship between technology overload, effort to use the technology and performance.Practical implicationsThe benefits from new technology are not always linear. Managers should regulate the timing of technology improvements, as well as the availability of information, communication and system features, to reduce role stress and enhance efforts to use technologies.Originality/valueDrawing on the job demand and resource model, this research demonstrates that technology used as a job resource will aid the salesperson and company; however, when technology overload exists, it becomes a job demand with the potential to enhance role stress and decrease salesperson performance.

PurposeUser uncertainty and risk are inherent in any technology adoption due to the perceived long‐term consequences (LTC) associated with the internalization process. This study seeks to investigate antecedents of technology trust (TT) and perceived LTC associated with using a technology in order to understand the underlying attitudes and beliefs influencing supply chain members' trust in a specific information technology (IT).Design/methodology/approachA theoretical model was tested through a survey of 449 supply chain members using an IT innovation for part‐level visibility along the entire first‐tier of a major US automotive supply chain.FindingsEmpirical results confirm the basic structure of the model, including the role of TT impacting users' perceptions of LTC relative to internalizing the technology. Results also identify several uncertainty reducing antecedents of TT and perceived LTC including satisfaction with the existing system, task‐technology fit, and prior similar experiences.Research limitations/implicationsThe study, although significant in terms of its power and the industry from which it is drawn, focuses on one‐tier of a US automotive supply chain. It would be useful for future research in this area to include multi‐tier supply chain members.Originality/valueThis study represents an important first step in examining the relationship between uncertainty reduction relating to incorporating technology in the supply chain context.

We study climate policy when there are technology spillovers within and across countries, and the technology externalities within each country are corrected through a domestic subsidy of R&D investments. We compare the properties of international climate agreements when the inter-country externalities from R&D are not regulated through the climate agreement. With an international agreement controlling abatements directly through emission quotas, the equilibrium R&D subsidy is lower that the socially optimal subsidy. The equilibrium subsidy is even lower if the climate agreement does not specify emission levels directly, but instead imposes a common carbon tax. Social costs are higher under a tax agreement than under a quota agreement. Moreover, for a reasonable assumption on the abatement cost function, R&D investments and abatement levels are lower under a tax agreement than under a quota agreement. Total emissions may be higher or lower in a second-best optimal quota agreement than in the first-best optimum.