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.