A Scoping Review on Value Creation from Collaborations enabled by the Internet of Things in Agriculture

The purpose of this review is to better understand the types of research relating to value creation from collaboration enabled by the Internet of Things in agriculture and clarify venues for future research. By applying the Joanna Briggs Institute Scoping Review Protocol, we identified 37 articles used for further analysis. The results indicate that the agricultural environment’s current structure is in the initial stages of collaboration enabled by IoT. Of the articles, the majority were published in the last three years, with publication steadily increasing per year. Publications were the most prevalent in India, China, the United States, Italy, and Canada. The majority of the studies did not possess a methodology, being categorised either as a conceptual study or industry report (14) or as not an official analysis (a news article in a magazine, newspaper, wire feed or trade journal) (12). The literature is multifaceted, and as a result, the papers were categorised into the themes of economic (20), legal (12), social (21), technical (25), and operational (18). Many authors did not connect value or collaboration to a measurable outcome. In the articles, value creation, value, and the Internet of Things was either not defined or had varying definitions. As a result of these collaborations, concerns include the ownership, privacy, and misuse of data. Future empirical research is required to define these concepts, concerns and create a framework of the Internet of Things discourse.