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Administrative Sciences, Volume 16, Issue 10

2026 October - 62 articles

Cover Story: Artificial intelligence can make corporate boards better informed, yet it may weaken the independent judgment on which oversight rests. This systematic review of 28 studies is the first to apply the combined ADO (Antecedents, Decisions, Outcomes) and TCM (Theories, Contexts, Methods) frameworks to board-level AI governance. It maps 72 constructs, tracing how organizational, structural, individual, and external pressures shape board decisions and, through them, supervision, decision-making, legitimacy, and accountability. The literature points to an emerging pattern favoring engaged augmentation over full automation, with AI supporting rather than replacing board members’ judgment. Eight evidence-graded propositions set a research agenda, including the paradox of diligence: diligence rises on paper while it may be falling in substance. View this paper
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Articles (62)

  • Article
  • Open Access
238 Views
27 Pages

21 October 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping occupational tasks and skill requirements, creating a human resource management (HRM) challenge around how future employees develop readiness for responsible AI-enabled work. This study examines relationships...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Generative AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
335 Views
25 Pages

21 October 2026

Online brand communities distribute brand-related credibility across multiple human actors, yet research typically examines these sources independently or focuses on a single advocacy group. This article introduces the trust portfolio—the configurati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Making Marketing Effortless: Creating Online Brand Communities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
227 Views
25 Pages

21 October 2026

This study examines whether the digitalization of tourism consumption is associated with greater access to holidays in Europe and whether this relationship depends on households’ financial conditions. Using publicly available Eurostat data, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tourism and Hospitality Marketing: Trends and Best Practices—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
352 Views
20 Pages

20 October 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely described as reshaping marketing administration through personalization, predictive analytics, and automated customer engagement. Whether firms describe AI as a customer-facing marketing capability or as a techn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Marketing: Transforming Strategy, Insight and Consumer Engagement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
306 Views
22 Pages

Employee AI Use and Readiness in Applied Higher Education: Awareness, Barriers, and HRM Implications

  • Shaikhah Alainati,
  • Ahmed Al-Hunaiyyan,
  • Salah Al-Sharhan and
  • Abeer Alomairi

19 October 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in higher education increasingly represents a challenge in workforce development and organizational transformation, rather than a purely technological issue. This study re-analyzed survey data from 311 faculty me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithmic HRM: The Transformative Power of AI in Crafting the Future of Work)
  • Review
  • Open Access
599 Views
57 Pages

Configuration-Based ADO-TCM Synthesis of Digital Platform Innovation Pathways

  • Atoosa Ebrahimi ShahAbadi,
  • Morteza Akbari and
  • Imaneh Goli

16 October 2026

Digital platform innovation has become increasingly complex as platforms enable product-service innovation, business process transformation, and ecosystem-level value creation simultaneously. However, existing research remains fragmented regarding ho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Building Capabilities for Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Digital Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
293 Views
19 Pages

16 October 2026

Knowledge-intensive organizations rely on multidisciplinary collaboration, yet the organizational structures that convert specialized knowledge into collective capabilities remain insufficiently understood. This cross-sectional study examined whether...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
391 Views
23 Pages

16 October 2026

Digital connectivity, remote and hybrid work, and expectations of constant availability have made “always-on” work cultures a central feature of contemporary organising, yet work engagement research has only partially incorporated these c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thriving Through People: Human-Centered Strategies for Organizational Sustainability in the Digital Age)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
398 Views
35 Pages

16 October 2026

GovTech ecosystems in Latin America are expanding rapidly, yet many initiatives struggle to scale beyond isolated pilots. While prior research has identified technological and regulatory barriers, limited attention has been given to how technological...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Public Management in the 21st Century: Innovations and Challenges in Governance)
  • Review
  • Open Access
224 Views
20 Pages

15 October 2026

The advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0, brings to the fore various opportunities for organisations to globalise with more efficient ways of implementing processes, from customer relations through artificial intelligence to th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Administrative Strategies and Practices for Economic Growth and Development: Governance, Sustainability, and Digital Transformation in the 21st Century)
  • Article
  • Open Access
319 Views
33 Pages

14 October 2026

This study compares the concentration, positional persistence, institutional mobility, and performance associations observed in five major public research funding systems: NSF, NSFC, JSPS, NSERC, and NSTC. Institution-year funding records are linked...

(This article belongs to the Section Strategic Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
248 Views
32 Pages

14 October 2026

The increasing integration of public social media (PSM) into workplace practices has transformed employee communication and collaboration while also creating new challenges for managing digital connectivity. Drawing on the Stressor–Strain&ndash...

  • Article
  • Open Access
292 Views
29 Pages

14 October 2026

Entrepreneurial mindset has traditionally been examined in relation to entrepreneurial behavior and business performance; however, its role in promoting individual wellbeing remains underexplored. Drawing on Social Cognitive Theory and Self-Determina...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
214 Views
10 Pages

13 October 2026

Societal disruptions have ceased to be exceptional events around which organizations can plan temporary responses [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship in the Time of Societal Disruptions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
310 Views
16 Pages

Storytelling in Brand Activism: Narrative Structure and Word-of-Mouth

  • Sara Santos,
  • Pedro Espírito Santo and
  • Sónia Ferreira

13 October 2026

Consumers increasingly evaluate brands based on the causes they choose to support, alongside product performance, raising the question of how storytelling can effectively convey this social commitment. This study examines whether narrative structure...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Reputation: Why It Matters and How to Manage It)
  • Article
  • Open Access
359 Views
21 Pages

13 October 2026

Growing environmental pressures have increased the need for the manufacturing industry to develop greener products. Employee empowerment is closely associated with green product innovation (GPI). Higher levels of employee empowerment are typically ac...

  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
327 Views
17 Pages

13 October 2026

Generative AI can now perform routine and first-pass knowledge work that has also helped less-experienced employees develop. This creates a leadership problem for servant leadership, which treats follower growth as a constitutive priority. This artic...

(This article belongs to the Section Leadership)
  • Article
  • Open Access
265 Views
32 Pages

12 October 2026

This study investigates the determinants of investors’ perceived decision-process quality, addressing a critical gap in the entrepreneurial finance literature, where blockchain ventures have been examined predominantly through speculative asset...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entrepreneurial Innovation in the New Normal: Navigating Hybrid Uncertainty)
  • Article
  • Open Access
470 Views
40 Pages

10 October 2026

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) increasingly combine digital customer engagement with sustainability practices, yet the literature reviewed for this study offered limited evidence of an integrated measure. This study initially calibrates a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Administrative Strategies and Practices for Economic Growth and Development: Governance, Sustainability, and Digital Transformation in the 21st Century)
  • Article
  • Open Access
257 Views
20 Pages

Women at the Helm: Female Top Managers and Business Process Innovation in Ecuadorian Firms

  • Gustavo Hermosa-Vega,
  • Giovanni Herrera-Enríquez,
  • Lili Salcedo-Vallejo and
  • Diego Sande-Veiga

10 October 2026

Women’s participation in senior management has increased, yet evidence regarding its relationship with different forms of business innovation remains inconclusive, particularly in emerging economies. This study examines whether formal Ecuadoria...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gender and Leadership: Advancing Equity and Empowerment in Executive Roles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
322 Views
22 Pages

Humble Leadership: Psychometric Validation of a Scale Adapted to the Peruvian Organizational Context

  • Elizabeth Emperatriz García-Salirrosas,
  • Miluska Villar-Guevara,
  • Ledy Gómez-Bayona and
  • Ghenkis Amilcar Ezcurra-Zavaleta

9 October 2026

Humble leadership has been recognized as a relevant style for organizational performance and well-being; however, empirical evidence on its psychometric properties comes primarily from English-speaking contexts, and validated instruments for Spanish-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cross-Cultural Leadership: Managing Across Borders and Cultures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
302 Views
29 Pages

Public Management and Public Security Policy: An Integrated Conceptual Governance Framework with a Mexican Documentary Illustration

  • David Sanchez-Hernandez,
  • Israel Alvarado-Martínez,
  • Gerardo Reyes-Ruiz,
  • Guillermo Urriolagoitia-Sosa and ,
  • Beatriz Romero-Angeles,
  • Jacobo Martinez-Reyes,
  • Julian Patiño-Ortiz,
  • Miguel Patiño-Ortíz,
  • Flavio Arturo Dominguez-Pacheco and
  • Jorge Alberto Gomez-Niebla
  • + 13 authors+ 8 authors

9 October 2026

Public-security policy is commonly assessed through operational outputs and crime-related indicators, yet policy performance also depends on the administrative and governance arrangements through which priorities are diagnosed, coordinated, implement...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Administrative Strategies and Practices for Economic Growth and Development: Governance, Sustainability, and Digital Transformation in the 21st Century)
  • Article
  • Open Access
239 Views
18 Pages

9 October 2026

Public organizations communicate procedural compliance through audits, certifications, and disclosures, but additional communication need not increase trust. This conceptual article asks when repeated procedural signals cease to improve audience judg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Public Management in the 21st Century: Innovations and Challenges in Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
262 Views
21 Pages

Beyond Pay: Job Quality and Job Satisfaction Among Private-Sector Workers in Ecuador

  • José Morales,
  • Karen Balladares,
  • Danny Arévalo,
  • Carolina Molina and ,
  • Carmen Padilla,
  • Rober Luciano and
  • Holger Cevallos
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 October 2026

Job quality extends beyond earnings to encompass employment stability, social protection, skill-development opportunities, and working-time conditions. This study examines how these employment characteristics are associated with global job satisfacti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
252 Views
15 Pages

9 October 2026

This exploratory study examines preferences for public- and private-sector employment among two groups of students in Norway with different educational and professional backgrounds: 145 bachelor’s students in business administration and 56 Mast...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Managerial Effectiveness and Corporate Governance: Behavioral and Strategic Foundations of Organizational Performance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
230 Views
17 Pages

9 October 2026

This study analyzes construction professionals’ assessment of 18 anticorruption measures categorized into regulatory, administrative, compliance, promotional, investigative, and disciplinary policy families in the context of southern Iraq. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
286 Views
19 Pages

9 October 2026

Executive positions are often described as being based on objective success criteria and key performance indicators (KPIs) serve as primary metrics—for example in science publications and third-party funding, primarily secured through project l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gender and Leadership: Advancing Equity and Empowerment in Executive Roles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
357 Views
31 Pages

7 October 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly transforming customer relationship management (CRM) in retail banking by improving customer targeting, campaign execution, and decision-making. This paper examines how AI contributes to CRM operational eff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Marketing: Transforming Strategy, Insight and Consumer Engagement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
531 Views
29 Pages

6 October 2026

The international apparel market is becoming more complex and competitive, but the multidimensional, human-centred capabilities that underpin export success in institutionally constrained markets are not well understood. This paper discusses the stra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
328 Views
19 Pages

Does Adding Workers Add Output? Workforce Expansion and Productivity in Small and Large Firms: Exploratory Panel Evidence from Uzbekistan

  • Aziza Dustova,
  • Layli Navruz-zoda,
  • Nodira Namazova,
  • Dilmurad Bekjanov and ,
  • Sohiba Yunusova,
  • Dilmurod Baymirzaev and
  • Ergash Ibadullaev
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 October 2026

Whether workforce expansion translates into output depends on an organization’s capacity to absorb new people. Drawing on Penrose’s theory of managerial capacity and on small-business HRM research, we ask whether the output response to he...

(This article belongs to the Section Strategic Management)
  • Review
  • Open Access
594 Views
29 Pages

5 October 2026

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how enterprises are led, organised, and governed, raising critical questions about which leadership attributes and practices best enable AI-driven digital transformation (AIDT). Enterpr...

(This article belongs to the Section Leadership)
  • Article
  • Open Access
325 Views
22 Pages

5 October 2026

Background: Organizations across sectors routinely place individuals into managerial roles without assessed, criteria-based selection and without structured preparation for the role; a phenomenon this article terms Management by Accident (MGA). MGA i...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
941 Views
36 Pages

4 October 2026

The article deepens understanding of artificial intelligence on corporate boards by systematically reviewing the literature using the ADO (Antecedents, Decisions, Outcomes) and TCM (Theories, Contexts, Methods) frameworks, following established syste...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thriving Through People: Human-Centered Strategies for Organizational Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
299 Views
22 Pages

Designing AI-Assisted Policy Intelligence for Agricultural Digital Government: A Case Study of the Mexican Agricultural Policy Observatory

  • Ricardo Alberto Rodríguez-Ojeda,
  • Jorge Alberto Romero-Hidalgo,
  • Paula Concepción Isiordia-Lachica,
  • Ricardo Alberto Rodríguez-Carvajal and ,
  • Luis Manuel Orozco Castellanos,
  • Omar Trejoluna Puente and
  • Gerardo Ramírez Uribe
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

4 October 2026

Public administrations increasingly publish programmatic and sectoral data, yet fragmented formats, inconsistent terminology, and uneven documentation limit their joint use. This article presents the design and functional evaluation of the Mexican Ag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 1st International Online Conference on Administrative Sciences (IOCAS 2026))
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
505 Views
25 Pages

4 October 2026

This study aims to systematically synthesise the literature on how government auditing contributes to fiscal transparency and to explain the digital, institutional, regulatory, and organisational mechanisms through which effective auditing strengthen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Critical Perspectives on Management, Accounting, and Finance: Power, Ethics, and Accountability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
302 Views
29 Pages

4 October 2026

Public expenditure is central to human development, but higher spending does not necessarily produce better outcomes. This study examines fiscal commitment, institutional conditions, and health and education trajectories in Canada, Malaysia, and Sout...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Public Management in the 21st Century: Innovations and Challenges in Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
378 Views
18 Pages

4 October 2026

Online hotel booking intention is commonly examined through technological, experiential, marketing-related, relational, and social constructs; however, measurement content remains fragmented across studies, with limited attention to transparent proce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
326 Views
35 Pages

Picking Winners, Marking Them, or Re-Labelling Them? Staged Certification and Spurious Pre-Trends

  • Angelo Leogrande,
  • Mauro di Molfetta,
  • Valeria Notarnicola,
  • Maria Giovanna Trotta and
  • Antonio Volpe Plantamura

3 October 2026

Voluntary certification policies channel fiscal, financial, and regulatory support, but their evaluation is complicated by self-selection and staged policy exposure. We therefore ask why certified firms display a performance premium, and whether it r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entrepreneurial Innovation in the New Normal: Navigating Hybrid Uncertainty)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
311 Views
39 Pages

3 October 2026

Although tourist satisfaction is widely regarded as a central correlate of destination loyalty, loyalty intentions may also reflect symbolic destination meaning and functional service conditions. This study examines the relationships among destinatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
370 Views
27 Pages

Mapping Project Success Research: A Comparative Bibliometric Analysis of Critical Success Factors and Success Criteria

  • Raquel Cañada-Martín-Romo,
  • Jaime González-Domínguez and
  • Gonzalo Sánchez-Barroso

3 October 2026

Project success has evolved from a traditional view centred on cost, time and quality towards broader approaches that incorporate stakeholders, benefit realisation, sustainability, value creation and strategic impact. In this context, CSFs and SCs re...

(This article belongs to the Section Leadership)
  • Article
  • Open Access
405 Views
35 Pages

3 October 2026

Times of crisis make evident the need to critically re-examine the foundational values that shape the theory and practice of public administration. In this context, institutional kindness has emerged as an increasingly important concept across a rang...

  • Article
  • Open Access
510 Views
20 Pages

2 October 2026

Green entrepreneurial offerings increasingly enter digital markets, yet their environmental benefits do not necessarily translate into consumer acceptance. For green entrepreneurs, a key challenge is therefore how consumer-generated information reinf...

(This article belongs to the Section International Entrepreneurship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
309 Views
17 Pages

2 October 2026

Corporate mission statements articulate organizational purpose, strategic priorities, and stakeholder commitments, yet there is limited evidence on how sustainability-leading corporations communicate these elements. This study examines mission statem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility into Business Strategy for Sustainable Advantage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
312 Views
20 Pages

2 October 2026

Research on sustainable business model innovation (SBMI) explains firm-level outcomes largely with firm-level constructs, leaving underexplored how employees contribute to business-model change. This question is especially important in small and medi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business Model Innovation for Sustainability in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs))
  • Article
  • Open Access
419 Views
30 Pages

2 October 2026

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face persistent pressure to convert digital transformation into organizational resilience amid continuous digital disruption. This capacity remains conceptually underdeveloped when digitalization and gender a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Building Resilient and Agile SMEs: Strategic Responses to Digital Disruption and Transformation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
424 Views
30 Pages

2 October 2026

BAs firms begin integrating AI into governance functions, research on how ownership structure and financing relate to this shift remains early-stage, especially among SMEs. To address this gap, this study draws on an unweighted analytical sample of 1...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation, and Organizational Performance: Emerging Trends in Management and Evaluation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
436 Views
27 Pages

Representational Adaptation Under Digital Performance Monitoring: Evidence from Employee Accounts on Reddit

  • Nuray Akar,
  • Tayfun Yörük,
  • Irmak Hatıpoğlu,
  • Ömür Tosun and
  • Raife Meltem Yetkin Özbük

2 October 2026

Organizations increasingly evaluate employee performance through digital traces alongside or in place of direct observation. This exploratory qualitative study examines how employees adapt not simply to monitoring technologies, but to the digital rep...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithmic HRM: The Transformative Power of AI in Crafting the Future of Work)
  • Article
  • Open Access
280 Views
16 Pages

Implementation of Blockchain Technology in the Public Sector: SEM-PLS Approach

  • Radu Octavian Kovacs,
  • Florina Oana Virlanuta,
  • Deniz Zungun and
  • Cristina Gabriela Zamfir

1 October 2026

Blockchain technology has emerged as a promising instrument for public sector digital transformation, yet its implementation remains constrained by technological, organizational, and institutional factors. This study’s aim is to identify the in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Government Transformation: Digital Government in Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
392 Views
25 Pages

Modeling and Predicting Sustainable Clothing Purchase Behavior of Bulgarian Gen Z Consumers

  • Teofana Dimitrova,
  • Margarita Terziyska,
  • Velin Stanev and
  • Iliana Ilieva

1 October 2026

Sustainable clothing purchase behavior (SCPB) is becoming increasingly important, underscoring the need to better understand the factors that influence it. This study addresses this issue among Bulgarian Gen Z consumers by extending the theory of pla...

(This article belongs to the Section Strategic Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
370 Views
28 Pages

1 October 2026

Pay what you want (PWYW) pricing is usually examined through isolated design features and short-term effects on payment behavior. This study investigates how nonprofit organizations configure and stabilize PWYW as an ongoing mission-related managemen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Building Resilient and Accountable Nonprofit Organizations: Governance, Strategic Management, and Sustainability Perspectives)

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