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Retraction

RETRACTED: Hussain et al. Abusive Supervision Impact on Employees’ Creativity: A Mediated-Moderated Perspective. Sustainability 2022, 14, 8648

by
Iftikhar Hussain
1,
Shahab Ali
2,
Farrukh Shahzad
3,*,
Muhammad Irfan
4,5,6,
Yong Wan
3,
Zeeshan Fareed
7 and
Li Sun
3
1
Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Kotli Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Kotli 11100, Pakistan
2
Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Kotli Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Kotli 11100, Pakistan
3
School of Economics and Management, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maonan, Maoming 525000, China
4
School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
5
Center for Energy and Environment Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
6
Department of Business Administration, ILMA University, Karachi 75190, Pakistan
7
School of Economics and Management, Huzhou University, Huzhou 313000, China
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2025, 17(19), 8732; https://doi.org/10.3390/su17198732
Submission received: 16 September 2025 / Accepted: 18 September 2025 / Published: 29 September 2025
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Leadership, Toxic Workplace Environment and Organizational Sustainability in the Post-Pandemic Era)
Versions Notes
The Journal retracts the article, “Abusive Supervision Impact on Employees’ Creativity: A Mediated-Moderated Perspective” [1], cited above.
Following publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the publisher regarding a potential undisclosed conflict of interest between authors and the Academic Editor.
Adhering to our procedure, a full investigation was conducted by the Editorial Office and Editorial Board, which confirmed the presence of a potential undisclosed conflict of interest that does not comply MDPI policies (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark22). Further Editorial board evaluation identified a number of significant limitations and flaws in the analysis and findings presented. As a result, the Editorial Board has lost confidence in the validity of the findings and decided to retract this publication [1], as per MDPI’s retraction (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark30).
This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sustainability.
The authors did not agree to this retraction.

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  1. Hussain, I.; Ali, S.; Shahzad, F.; Irfan, M.; Wan, Y.; Fareed, Z.; Sun, L. RETRACTED: Abusive Supervision Impact on Employees’ Creativity: A Mediated-Moderated Perspective. Sustainability 2022, 14, 8648. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
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Hussain, I.; Ali, S.; Shahzad, F.; Irfan, M.; Wan, Y.; Fareed, Z.; Sun, L. RETRACTED: Hussain et al. Abusive Supervision Impact on Employees’ Creativity: A Mediated-Moderated Perspective. Sustainability 2022, 14, 8648. Sustainability 2025, 17, 8732. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17198732

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Hussain I, Ali S, Shahzad F, Irfan M, Wan Y, Fareed Z, Sun L. RETRACTED: Hussain et al. Abusive Supervision Impact on Employees’ Creativity: A Mediated-Moderated Perspective. Sustainability 2022, 14, 8648. Sustainability. 2025; 17(19):8732. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17198732

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Hussain, Iftikhar, Shahab Ali, Farrukh Shahzad, Muhammad Irfan, Yong Wan, Zeeshan Fareed, and Li Sun. 2025. "RETRACTED: Hussain et al. Abusive Supervision Impact on Employees’ Creativity: A Mediated-Moderated Perspective. Sustainability 2022, 14, 8648" Sustainability 17, no. 19: 8732. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17198732

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Hussain, I., Ali, S., Shahzad, F., Irfan, M., Wan, Y., Fareed, Z., & Sun, L. (2025). RETRACTED: Hussain et al. Abusive Supervision Impact on Employees’ Creativity: A Mediated-Moderated Perspective. Sustainability 2022, 14, 8648. Sustainability, 17(19), 8732. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17198732

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