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Administrative Sciences, Volume 15, Issue 3

2025 March - 45 articles

Cover Story: Organizational bureaucratic responsiveness, the readiness and ability of public organizations to respond to public needs, in particular in times of change, requires collaborations between public organizations and citizens and responsiveness to citizens’ evolving needs. One of the organizational barriers to such collaborations may be Learned Helplessness (LH), the belief that actions and outcomes are unrelated,  accompanied by a lack of sense of control. This paper proposes a novel theoretical framework for collaborative responsiveness that builds on a process-based approach, thereby indicating the potential impacts of LH on collaborative responsiveness in public organizations, particularly in current times, when it is most needed, as well as practical methods of mitigating learned helplessness and supporting collaborative responsiveness. View this paper
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Articles (45)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
16,453 Views
13 Pages

20 March 2025

The concept of a four-day workweek (4DWW) has gained traction as organisations explore ways to improve employee well-being and productivity. This study investigates the opportunities, challenges, and perceived feasibility of adopting a 4DWW in the UK...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,261 Views
24 Pages

19 March 2025

Background: A business plan (BP) is an essential tool for companies, supporting strategic planning, financial acquisition, and stakeholder communication. Despite its importance, BP drafting lacks a standardized approach in both academic research and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,503 Views
20 Pages

19 March 2025

The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of entrepreneurship education on the social entrepreneurial intentions of undergraduate tourism students at a Greek university. Using a qualitative diary-based research tool, the study examined how d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,109 Views
27 Pages

19 March 2025

This study investigates the impact of digital transformation on visitor satisfaction, engagement, and recommendation intentions at World Heritage Sites in Chinese coastal cities. A survey-based quantitative research design was employed, collecting da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,512 Views
29 Pages

Analysis of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Hotel Sector Spanish: An Efficiency Study by Regions

  • Juan Antonio Giménez Espín,
  • María Pilar Alberca Oliver and
  • José Manuel Santos-Jaén

18 March 2025

In this paper, the non-parametric frontier methodology (DEA) with input orientation, variable returns to scale, and the Malmquist productivity indices are used to study the level of national and regional efficiency and know the productive change of S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,800 Views
26 Pages

18 March 2025

Entrepreneurship plays a crucial role in driving innovation, productivity, and economic growth, with universities emerging as key actors within entrepreneurial ecosystems. This study seeks to expand the understanding on the role of Latin American uni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
27,500 Views
16 Pages

18 March 2025

This study identifies critical success factors contributing to the digital transformation of SMEs. Despite their crucial role in the economy, limited research explores how they navigate digitalization challenges. This study addresses this gap by prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,890 Views
23 Pages

The Old, the New, and the Used One—Assessing Legacy in Family Firms

  • Alexandrina Maria Pauceanu,
  • Rodica Milena Zaharia and
  • Melisa Petra Benchis

17 March 2025

The current study aims to determine the meaning and the role of legacy in the development of family businesses from the perspective of multigenerational family businesses. Employing Thematic Analysis (TA) and Gioia methodology, the transcript of in-d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
982 Views
13 Pages

16 March 2025

Policymakers face a dilemma in determining the optimal approach to regulating highly concentrated markets, especially in the context of digital government initiatives in healthcare. The current study investigates whether vendor market concentration f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,666 Views
17 Pages

15 March 2025

The main objective of this study is to investigate the role of digital leadership in the sustainability of SMEs. Furthermore, this study examines the mediating role of digital transformation between digital leadership and SME sustainability and the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,398 Views
31 Pages

Sustainability Reporting and Environmental Responsibility: The Case of Romania

  • Cristian Dobre,
  • Camelia Mirela Baba,
  • Carmen Elena Anton,
  • Alexandra Zamfirache and
  • Denisa Aldea

14 March 2025

A detailed analysis of non-financial and sustainability reporting may indicate companies’ attention to and responsibility regarding environmental, social, and economic aspects. This article investigates the correlation between environmental per...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15,149 Views
16 Pages

A New Perspective on Talent Management: An Integrative Review of the Current Literature

  • Kiriakos Tsaousiotis,
  • Konstantinos Panitsidis,
  • Konstantinos Spinthiropoulos and
  • Eleni Zafeiriou

14 March 2025

Purpose: Although talent management is widely applied across various business sectors, the comprehensive literature focusing on talent management within the context of migration flows remains limited. This paper addresses this gap by conducting an ex...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,389 Views
15 Pages

14 March 2025

Organizational bureaucratic responsiveness, the readiness and ability of public organizations to respond to public needs, in particular in times of change, requires collaborations between public organizations and citizens and responsiveness to citize...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,885 Views
18 Pages

13 March 2025

Greenwashing undermines the trustworthiness and integrity of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting. It undermines disclosure quality, confuses decision making, destabilizes financial markets, and reduces the probability that people wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,459 Views
24 Pages

Servant Leadership Style and Employee Voice: Mediation via Trust in Leaders

  • Noor Hassan,
  • Junghyun Yoon and
  • Alisher Tohirovich Dedahanov

13 March 2025

Servant leadership has been identified as extremely important for organizational performance and success; therefore, much focus is placed on developing and maintaining leaders’ positive attitudes and behaviors toward their subordinates. Differe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,357 Views
22 Pages

Strategic Innovation and Leadership Dynamics: Unveiling Mediating Effects on Operational Quality in Manufacturing Organizations

  • Ricardo Santa,
  • Rodrigo Zarate-Torres,
  • Claudia Fabiola Rey-Sarmiento and
  • Diego Morante

12 March 2025

This study investigates how strategic innovation influences operational quality, focusing on the mediating effects of transformational and transactional leadership, as well as process innovation, within manufacturing organizations in Colombia. It emp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,364 Views
17 Pages

12 March 2025

This study examines how performance pressure influences the complex relationships between job autonomy and critical employee outcomes in contemporary organizations. Specifically, we investigate the relationships between employees’ job autonomy,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,406 Views
20 Pages

Unveiling Digital Maturity: Key Drivers of Digital Transformation in the Greek Business Ecosystem

  • Eleni C. Gkika,
  • Antonios Kargas,
  • Ioannis Salmon and
  • Dimitrios Drosos

12 March 2025

In the current dynamic business landscape, digital transformation is recognized as a critical driver of entrepreneurship, innovation, and growth, particularly among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This study aims to investigate the key fac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,243 Views
25 Pages

11 March 2025

This study proposes that MNCs might withdraw from the CSR concept to gain tangible benefits, like improved corporate financial performance (CFP), and intangible benefits, such as reputational capital (RC). This represents a paradigm shift from the ph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
21,528 Views
27 Pages

11 March 2025

Human resource management (HRM) plays a critical role in shaping public administration by ensuring the efficiency, effectiveness, and adaptability of public institutions. In post-socialist European countries, HRM reforms have been central to broader...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,419 Views
14 Pages

10 March 2025

Previous studies conducted in Portugal on work–family conflict and turnover intention have focused on analyzing how difficulties in balancing employees’ work and personal lives affect individual commitment and performance, and little atte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,100 Views
17 Pages

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic took a sledgehammer to the education sector, shattering the established structured systems, norms and rituals of practices and procedures. To ensure continuity whilst adhering to the pandemic-induced containment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,387 Views
19 Pages

Structuring Corporate Governance in the Context of Crisis: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Nonprofit Organization

  • Raffaella Regueira de Oliveira,
  • Osvaldo Luiz Gonçalves Quelhas and
  • Níssia Carvalho Rosa Bergiante

This study aimed to analyze the adaptations in the corporate governance practices of a Brazilian support foundation, in the context of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Support foundations act as pillars of support for research and innovati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,142 Views
16 Pages

This study explores the association between engaging leadership and the strength of an ethical organizational culture (EOC) in leader–follower mentoring dyads. In particular, we use an Actor Partner Interdependence Mediation model to test in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,133 Views
22 Pages

Purpose: Social media has become a significant catalyst for entrepreneurship in the Middle East, particularly for women. Considering the limited research conducted to understand the factors influencing social media adoption in conservative societies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,605 Views
23 Pages

Many African countries continue to face economic challenges even though the continent has much potential for economic progress. Entrepreneurship and ICT are one of the key forces behind economic change. However, little is known about how entrepreneur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,425 Views
20 Pages

The aim of this paper is to identify the main moderating aspects of entrepreneurship in people with disabilities in Spain in relation to the main explanatory theories on the subject via a discourse analysis of a group of entrepreneurs and qualified w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,263 Views
16 Pages

A long-term strategy for China’s national development is to foster the growth of “Specialized, Refined, Niche, and Innovative (SRNI)” small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, these enterprises often face significant finan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,187 Views
30 Pages

Exploring the Nexus Between Economic Utility, Perceived Risk, Organizational Characteristics, and Supply Chain Performance

  • Abdelmoneim Bahyeldin Mohamed Metwally,
  • Abdullah Almulhim,
  • Yasser Tawfik Halim and
  • Mohamed Samy El-Deeb

This study investigates the effects of the mediations of economic utility and moderation of perceived risk on supply chain performance as determined by the organization factors (innovation, organizational culture, and employee motivation) in the Egyp...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
4,122 Views
17 Pages

Enduring Legacy: Proud Roots in an Uncertain Land

  • Sand Mohammad Salhout and
  • F. Robert Buchanan

28 February 2025

Siniora Food Industries of Palestine was facing a strategic dilemma. They had sold packaged meats for over 100 years in a challenging and risky environment. Siniora had carved a path of growth, expansion, and development, showcasing the power of endu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,633 Views
23 Pages

27 February 2025

Leadership is often framed within Western paradigms, with limited focus on African business leadership. This study, part of a broader research project, aims to conceptualise African business leadership and its effectiveness, providing an integrated u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,565 Views
21 Pages

26 February 2025

Efficient and sustainable human resources are crucial for promoting development in emerging nations. Brazil’s education policy provides its citizens with widespread educational opportunities, resulting in high literacy rates. However, women wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,934 Views
15 Pages

25 February 2025

This study investigates the role of work–family conflict (WFC), family–work conflict (FWC), and two dimensions of burnout (emotional exhaustion and cynicism) in mediating the relationships between work demands and job satisfaction, life s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,148 Views
19 Pages

Open Active Transparency in Spain: Regional Conglomerates and the Role of Accounting Information

  • Ricardo Curto-Rodríguez,
  • Rafael Marcos-Sánchez and
  • Daniel Ferrández

25 February 2025

Active transparency is developed through the provision of information by public administrations. However, for this information to be reusable, it must be offered through free licenses and open formats, two characteristics present in open data. This p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,403 Views
10 Pages

Translation and Validation of a Team Viability Scale for Peruvian Workers

  • Josue Pilco-Pezo,
  • Maribel Paredes-Saavedra,
  • Mardel Morales-García,
  • Liset Z. Sairitupa-Sanchez,
  • Oriana Rivera-Lozada and
  • Wilter C. Morales-García

25 February 2025

Background: Team viability, understood as the ability to adapt and collaborate effectively over time, is a key concept in organizational literature. In Peru, where changes are constant, culturally adapted tools are needed for its measurement. Objecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,456 Views
12 Pages

The Beneficial Relationship Between Marketing Services and Schools

  • Eleftheria Palla,
  • Panagiotis Serdaris,
  • Ioannis Antoniadis and
  • Konstantinos Spinthiropoulos

25 February 2025

The modern literature examines the debate concerning the influence of modern marketing services in schools. In this context, the need arises to evaluate how educational marketing finds resonance in secondary schools and how this is beneficial to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,869 Views
25 Pages

24 February 2025

This study explored how volunteer management is adapted to the specific context of a nonprofit organization (NPO). Through a participatory autoethnographic approach in Huellas Foundation, a Colombian NPO that supports its mission operation in volunte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,649 Views
29 Pages

24 February 2025

This paper explores and compares two participatory management approaches—the Company Democracy Model and Holacracy—for their application within the Indian Ministry of Education. It emphasizes the need for innovative organizational techniq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,851 Views
24 Pages

24 February 2025

We explore the question of whether entrepreneurial education matters for medium-sized venture performance. We do so to better understand the conflicting evidence indicating that, while such education appears to have significant positive micro-level e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,337 Views
16 Pages

Village-Owned Enterprises Perspectives Towards Challenges and Opportunities in Rural Entrepreneurship: A Qualitative Study with Maxqda Tools

  • Imam Radianto Anwar Setia Putra,
  • Radna Andi Wibowo,
  • Purwadi,
  • Tania Andari,
  • Asrori,
  • Nisa Novia Avien Christy,
  • Catur Wibowo Budi Santoso,
  • Herman Yaarozatulo Harefa and
  • Edy Suryawardana

24 February 2025

The Village Fund program was started by the Indonesian government in 2015 and had a budget of USD 19.14 billion for the years 2015–2019. This research aims to provide novel insights into the importance of village-owned enterprises (BUMDes) in p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,572 Views
21 Pages

24 February 2025

Digital transformation affects nearly every sector of society and is seen as a strategic approach to addressing evolving demands, including those of citizens, demographic shifts, and skill shortages. To tackle these challenges, governments have begun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,578 Views
18 Pages

22 February 2025

The increasing moral challenges facing organizations flag the significance of ethical leadership. Despite the significance of promoting moral behavior, the existing literature has scarcely looked at ethical leadership in small and medium enterprises...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,418 Views
28 Pages

Public Sector Entrepreneurship: Present State and Research Avenues for the Future

  • Bojan Moric Milovanovic,
  • Matea Cvjetkovic and
  • Jasmina Masovic

22 February 2025

Public sector entrepreneurship (PSE) is a growing area of knowledge that studies the application of innovative activities and processes to enhance public service quality. This can ultimately affect the public organization’s performance and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,554 Views
23 Pages

21 February 2025

During the COVID-19, Muslim entrepreneurs had to adapt to remain resilient. These Muslim entrepreneurs can rely on entrepreneurial personality and skill traits to survive a crisis. This paper aims to expand the analysis of the several contributing fa...

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