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Based on major e-commerce platforms in China, combined with an extended technology acceptance model, this study examines the factors affecting low-carbon supply chain adoption by agricultural product consumers on e-commerce platforms. The results showed that consumers\u2019 perceived risk, perceived usefulness, and adoption attitude all influence their adoption behavior, with the effect of adoption attitude being the greatest. Furthermore, the effect of perceived usefulness on adoption attitude is stronger than that of perceived risk. Moreover, perceived usefulness is affected mainly by the perceived price, technical utility, green behavior tendency, and subjective norms, whereas the perceived risk is affected mainly by technical utility, information display and dissemination, and green behavior tendency. This study provides valuable insights for e-commerce platforms to better understand the needs of agricultural product consumers, improve market competitiveness, and enhance consumers\u2019 awareness and willingness of adopting low-carbon approaches, which can promote the low-carbon sustainable development of agricultural product supply chains.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/systems12120563","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,16]],"date-time":"2024-12-16T10:08:53Z","timestamp":1734343733000},"page":"563","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Energy-Efficient Pathways in the Digital Revolution: Which Factors Influence Agricultural Product Consumers\u2019 Adoption of Low-Carbon Supply Chains on E-Commerce Platforms?"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0290-5386","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xuemei","family":"Fan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Business and Management, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8862-7585","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yingdan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Business and Management, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jiahui","family":"Xue","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Business and Management, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"573","DOI":"10.1108\/SCM-02-2023-0064","article-title":"The role of digital platforms in e-commerce food supply chain resilience under exogenous disruptions","volume":"29","author":"Suali","year":"2024","journal-title":"Supply Chain. 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