CLARIFYING UTAUT IN PLANT PRODUCTION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF AGRONOMIC AND BIOLOGICAL PRACTICE ADOPTION STUDIES

André Carlos Cau dos Santos; Marcelo Kratz Mendes

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DOI

10.29327/9786527226680.1449536

Título do Trabalho

CLARIFYING UTAUT IN PLANT PRODUCTION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF AGRONOMIC AND BIOLOGICAL PRACTICE ADOPTION STUDIES

Autores

André Carlos Cau dos Santos
Marcelo Kratz Mendes

Modalidade

IRSA - Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (01/10/2025 a 20/01/2026)

Área temática

IRSA 10 - Whose knowledge shapes rural worlds? Southern and Indigenous perspectives on innovations and technologies

Data de Publicação

06/08/2026

País da Publicação

Brasil

Idioma da Publicação

pt-BR

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https://www.even3.com.br/anais/sober-irsa2026/1449536-clarifying-utaut-in-plant-production--a-systematic-review-of-agronomic-and-biological-practice-adoption-studies

ISBN

978-65-272-2668-0

Palavras-Chave

UTAUT; agronomic practice adoption; behavioural intention and use; qualitative framework synthesis; systematic review

Resumo

Practice adoption in plant production often involves cumulative change and repeated enactment over time. Among behavioural adoption studies in this domain, the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) is a recurrent construct vocabulary. UTAUT and its extensions were developed primarily to explain acceptance and use of discrete technologies. This review examines how UTAUT models are translated into empirical models of agronomic and biological practice adoption in plant and crop production, rather than a discrete information technology, with attention to construct operationalisation, construct meaning, and adaptation patterns. A systematic search of Scopus and Web of Science (26 December 2025), in line with PRISMA 2020, retrieved 243 records, from which 20 empirical studies met eligibility criteria and were synthesised using a qualitative framework synthesis based on structured extraction of model claims, implemented construct sets, and measurement traceability. Eligible studies were empirical plant production practice adoption studies using UTAUT. Appraisal focused on transparency and construct fidelity. Heterogeneity precluded meta-analysis. The review protocol was not registered. Across the corpus, UTAUT was typically used as a flexible construct vocabulary rather than a standardised specification. Studies frequently operationalised only subsets of the four core constructs, and construct meanings often shifted when mapped to practice adoption settings. Extensions clustered around attitudinal and agency beliefs, moral and normative motivations, risk and trust, economic value and cost, capability and institutional support, innovativeness, and practice attributes and outcomes. Outcomes ranged from behavioural intention to use, adoption intensity, and switching readiness, reflecting heterogeneous decision structures. Future studies would improve comparability by clearly distinguishing claimed variants from implemented construct sets, reporting construct definitions and measurement traceability, explicitly specifying adoption outcomes and decision structures, and being transparent about moderator choices.

Título do Evento: 16th World Congress of Rural Sociology and 64th Congress of the Brazilian Society of Rural Economics, Management and Sociology
Cidade do Evento: Porto Alegre
Título dos Anais do Evento: Anais do 64º Congresso da SOBER e XVI Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (IRSA)
Nome da Editora: Even3
Meio de Divulgação: Meio Digital
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SANTOS, André Carlos Cau dos; MENDES, Marcelo Kratz. CLARIFYING UTAUT IN PLANT PRODUCTION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF AGRONOMIC AND BIOLOGICAL PRACTICE ADOPTION STUDIES.. In: Anais do 64º Congresso da SOBER e XVI Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (IRSA). Anais...Porto Alegre(RS) UFRGS, 2026. Disponível em: https//www.even3.com.br/anais/sober-irsa2026/1449536-CLARIFYING-UTAUT-IN-PLANT-PRODUCTION--A-SYSTEMATIC-REVIEW-OF-AGRONOMIC-AND-BIOLOGICAL-PRACTICE-ADOPTION-STUDIES. Acesso em: 07/09/2026