Independent Research Institute · Seoul
HJ Institute of Technology and Management (HJITM) conducts empirical research at the intersection of technology and human behaviour, publishes it in SSCI, SCIE, A&HCI, Scopus and KCI journals, and serves as reviewer and editor for international journals in information systems, technology management and education.
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About
A small research organisation built around one question: how do people, organisations and institutions actually change when a technology arrives.
HJITM is an independent research institute based in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Our work is empirical and quantitative in the main: survey-based studies of technology adoption and continued use, organisational and public-sector research on how work environments shape behaviour, and text- and behaviour-based analyses of digital platforms. Recent work concentrates on generative AI — how office workers, students and organisations adopt it, what they fear about it, and what changes in performance and knowledge work when they do.
The institute publishes in international journals rather than reporting to clients, which shapes how we work. A study is designed to survive peer review from the first draft: the theoretical contribution is stated before data collection, the sampling frame is defensible, the measurement instrument is traceable to published scales, and the ethics approval is obtained before a single response is recorded.
Members of the institute also serve on the other side of the process, as reviewers for more than seventy international journals and as guest editors for special issues. That vantage point informs everything on this site: we have read a great many manuscripts that failed for reasons entirely unrelated to the quality of the underlying research.
Research areas
Domains are chosen by the question, not by discipline. The common thread is measurable human response to a technological or institutional change.
Adoption, continued use and abandonment; fear of replacement; metacognition and trust; effects on knowledge work and academic integrity.
Smart factories, digital transformation, open innovation and idea contests, venture capabilities and growth trajectories.
Enterprise systems (ERP), IS success and continuance, switching behaviour, service quality and intelligent assistants.
Leadership, recognition and fairness, collaborative culture, turnover intention, work–life conflict and burnout.
Presence and engagement in virtual environments, live commerce and omnichannel behaviour, media literacy across the life course.
E-learning continuance, digital literacy in later life, occupational safety and health behaviour, adolescent and family technology use.
Methods
Method follows the research question. Where a single method cannot answer it, the design is mixed and stated as such.
PLS-SEM and CB-SEM, measurement and structural models, mediation, moderation, multi-group analysis, MICOM, PLSpredict.
Regression families, ANOVA, multilevel and panel models, latent class and cluster analysis, meta-analysis.
Scenario and vignette experiments, factorial designs, manipulation checks, pre-registration where appropriate.
Topic modeling, sentiment analysis, keyword networks, review and social data collected via official APIs.
Interviews and focus groups, thematic analysis, sequential and convergent mixed designs.
Instrument development, scale translation and back-translation, pilot testing, panel sampling and response quality control.
Selected publications
Impact Factor values follow Clarivate JCR 2025 and are updated annually. A complete list is available through the academic profiles below.
International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education · Springer Nature · SSCI
2024 · sole author
International Journal of Information Management · Elsevier · SSCI
2025 · sole author
Technological Forecasting and Social Change · Elsevier · SSCI
2025
Computers in Human Behavior · Elsevier · SSCI
2024
Telematics and Informatics · Elsevier · SSCI
2023 · sole author
Information Technology & Tourism · Springer Nature · SSCI
2023 · sole author
Interactive Learning Environments · Taylor & Francis · SSCI
2025
Further work appears in the International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, the International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Management Decision, the Journal of Organizational Change Management, Scientific Reports, PLOS ONE, BMC Public Health and Child Abuse Review, among others.
Collaboration
Organisations whose researchers have co-authored published work with the institute. Figures are the number of jointly published articles, 2011–2026.
Compiled from OpenAlex bibliographic records for ORCID 0000-0001-7442-4736. Affiliations are those stated by co-authors on the published articles and do not imply endorsement by the organisations named.
Research support
Alongside its own studies, the institute supports researchers preparing manuscripts for international and Korean journals.
Support covers the full arc of a study rather than isolated tasks: sharpening the research question and locating the contribution, designing the model and hypotheses, building and translating the measurement instrument, preparing ethics documentation, collecting and validating data, running and interpreting the analysis, writing the manuscript in academic English, selecting target journals against index, quartile and scope, and drafting point-by-point responses to reviewers.
Work can also be scoped to a single stage — a structural equation model that needs to withstand review, a manuscript that needs to be readable to an English-language editor, a formatting pass against author guidelines, or a response letter after a major revision decision.
Every engagement follows the same ethical line. We do not write research we did not participate in, and we do not offer authorship or guarantee acceptance by any journal. What is offered is research capability and publication experience, applied to work that remains the researcher's own.
Contact
Collaboration proposals, reviewing and editorial invitations, and research support enquiries are all welcome. A reply normally follows within two working days.
HJ Institute of Technology and Management
6F, 31 Gangnam-daero 92-gil, Gangnam-gu
Seoul, Republic of Korea
① Enquiry → ② review of materials and scope → ③ online meeting → ④ agreed plan of work → ⑤ delivery and follow-up
Material you send is used only to respond to your enquiry and is not shared with third parties. Acceptance by any particular journal is never guaranteed.
