Administrative Sciences, Volume 16, Issue 2

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed significant vulnerabilities in public-sector administrative capacity, particularly in the implementation of crisis-related state aid schemes. Under conditions of extreme workload, time pressure, and legal constraints, ad...

Background: Boundary-spanning bank employees experience continuous customer interactions that can generate negative emotions and influence how they perceive interpersonal treatment at work. Although emotions are known to shape fairness judgments, lit...

Background: Professional burnout, characterized by three distinct psychological dimensions—emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal achievement—threatens elementary teachers’ well-being and educational quality....

The use of business intelligence (BI) is becoming more common in many fields to help managers make better decisions. There are not many empirical studies on BI. The objective of this research is to analyze the influence of business intelligence capab...

The rapid expansion of the gig economy is reshaping work globally, producing both new opportunities and significant challenges for workers across diverse regions. This scoping review mapped global evidence on gig workers’ experiences between 20...

Engineering remains a highly gendered and racialised profession in South Africa, shaped by enduring historical inequalities and the imprint of institutionalised exclusion that structures women’s experiences of belonging and professional legitim...

Institutions play a central role in shaping entrepreneurial behavior, yet much of the existing literature, even with the foundational insights of institutional economists such as Veblen, Mitchell, Commons, Coase, Ostrom, Williamson, and North, contin...

Gen Z is an emerging talent entering the world of work with distinct characteristics, expectations, preferences, and aspirations compared to previous generations. Therefore, there is growing interest in understanding Gen Z’s entry-level experie...

The increasing deployment of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems and decentralized digital infrastructures has challenged traditional assumptions about organizational administration, control, and governance. While AI has advanced task-level...

Administrative strategies are essential for ensuring efficiency and effectiveness in public institutions, particularly in the context of low- and middle-income countries where governance challenges and resource constraints persist. This study analyze...

Women are essential to the growth of any progressive society. Equal access to employment is necessary for both women’s empowerment and global economic growth. However, discrimination against women persists at all career levels, making it challe...

Public-sector innovation is frequently portrayed as the domain of dedicated innovation labs and experimental units, obscuring how innovation capacity can emerge within core bureaucratic institutions. This article explores how Norway’s Brø...

Leadership is a key predictor of employees’ well-being, especially in sectors with high labor intensity and role changes, such as the hotel sector. Leadership communication can act as a major job resource element in forming positive exchanges w...

Climate change threatens the future of the next generations and is already causing widespread destruction in the present through an increasing number of natural disasters. A new model of production and consumption based on sustainability is required,...

One of the most important priorities of the most recent research work regarding the professional appraisal (PA) process is to understand different aspects of the social workers’ satisfaction with this particular type of professional evaluation....

This study systematically reviews 53 peer-reviewed articles on public sector innovation published between 2021 and 2025 to synthesize knowledge on how innovation is conceptualized, triggered, enacted, and constrained. Findings reveal that innovation...

This qualitative study employs interpretive phenomenology and Actor–Network Theory (ANT) to examine the evolving role of AI as an agent within European marketing contexts. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 36 senior executives from the...

Global employee work engagement remains critically low, with only 21% of employees engaged worldwide in 2024 and Switzerland ranking near the bottom in Europe at 8%. Existing theories and models that explain employee engagement (Reinforcement Theory,...

Organizations increasingly deploy artificial intelligence (AI) in human resource (HR) decision processes to improve efficiency and strategic execution, yet ethical failures persist when principles remain decoupled from everyday workflow enactment. Th...

E-government adoption rates in emerging economies remain persistently low despite substantial infrastructure investments. Understanding adoption drivers requires synthesizing fragmented empirical evidence on technology acceptance and service quality...

Employee innovative behavior is an important source of organizational competitiveness and sustainable development. Accordingly, increasing scholarly attention has been directed toward how leadership behaviors are associated with employees’ inno...

The entrepreneurial performance of new ventures operating within the sustainable open innovation paradigm remains underexplored, particularly in terms of how specific sustainability-oriented practices translate into measurable performance outcomes. P...

The pursuit of disabled students’ inclusion in higher education remains a significant global concern, particularly in developing nations where systemic and institutional barriers persist. Despite progressive legislative and policy frameworks pr...

This study examines how technological innovation and sustainability jointly reshape contemporary public administration by integrating digital transformation with public value creation. Using a mixed-method approach, we compile a Scopus-based bibliogr...

Although toxic work environments are acknowledged as harmful, hospitality research rarely explains how toxic work environments translate into musculoskeletal discomfort through psychosocial mechanisms. Therefore, our study addresses that gap by integ...

The rule of law, a foundational value of the European Union as enshrined in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union, faces challenges in implementation due to historical and political factors that have evolved over the past decade, particularly wit...

Micro-foundational HRM has advanced our understanding of how employees perceive and respond to HR practices, yet explanations of how HR systems can generate and sustain coordinated action in day-to-day work remain underspecified. This article present...

Corporate communication of sustainability within the fashion industry operates in a sector with high reputational exposure and increasing demands for environmental and social accountability. Despite the growing volume of research, the field remains c...

Technological advances are increasingly influencing how the public sector makes decisions according to citizens’ needs and the community’s problems. The need for a solution that facilitates the fast adaptation of administration to social...

This study investigates the interplay between entrepreneurial leadership and innovation performance in Jordanian IT firms, with a specific focus on the strategic role of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Grounded in a quantitative methodology, data were...

This study examines how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) manage reputational threats related to morally controversial issues. Analyzing three Norwegian SOEs—Norsk Tipping, Equinor, and Kongsberg Gruppen—over 2002–2023, we identify thr...

(1) Background: Professional burnout threatens secondary school principals’ well-being and educational quality worldwide. This study investigated burnout prevalence and gender differences among Greek secondary school principals, addressing gaps...

Performance management systems (PMSs) in private secondary education are vital, and although several tried and tested public sector performance measurement models exist, limited private secondary school performance measurement models exist in South A...

As global sustainable development increasingly intersects with rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), understanding how emerging technologies reshape corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) behavior has become essential. This s...

Despite global advances, the digital transformation of public services in developing countries often fails to meet its objectives. This study argues that a primary reason for this is an overemphasis on technological solutions and a neglect of the bro...

Sustainable innovation is important in Albania, a small transition economy facing pressures from digitalization, the green transition, and increased competition. Yet the country’s innovation system is still developing, and academia–busine...

Growing pressure for sustainability has intensified the need for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt environmental innovation while maintaining competitive performance. This study examines how green innovation strategy, environmental...

Academic spin-offs (ASOs) are one of the main means of relationship between universities and the market. ASOs transform scientific research results into products, services, or processes that can be commercialized, promoting the transfer of technology...

Against the backdrop of global energy transition and sustainable development, advancing the new energy industry has become a critical pathway for optimizing energy structures and achieving the dual carbon goals. However, while China’s new energ...

This study examines how psychological safety (PS) relates to employees’ innovation commitment (IC) in private higher education institutions (HEIs) in Egypt by specifying a learning-based mechanism and two enabling boundary conditions. Drawing o...

Hybrid work not only redistributes where employees work; it also reshapes how they stay connected to their colleagues. Drawing on Communicate–Bond–Belong (CBB) theory, we examine how daily work location shapes employees’ team commit...

Turnover is a major concern for the hotel and hospitality industry on a global scale. This research focuses on several Middle Eastern five-star hotels in terms of transactional leadership and its relationship with employees’ turnover intentions...

Product placement has become an integral part of contemporary marketing communication, aiming to influence consumer attitudes and purchasing behaviour through subtle brand exposure in audiovisual media. Despite its growing prevalence, the effectivene...

Entrepreneurship aims to contribute significantly to economic development, a trend that has been progressively growing over time. Nonetheless, female entrepreneurs continue to face substantial challenges, including limited access to financial resourc...

Instead of being a mechanism used by management in the name of productivity, it is suggested that social power theory can be combined with the extended marketing mix to empower groups of actors in organisations. These two foundational rubrics usually...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has evolved into a strategic governance framework through which organisations address environmental sustainability, stakeholder expectations, and long-term institutional viability. In knowledge-intensive organisa...