2026 August - 54 articles
This study examines whether firms’ digital adaptation practices were associated with crisis-related innovation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey COVID-19 module for Jordan, Lebanon, Morocc...
Purpose: This study investigates the structural pathways driving the startup potential of Generation Z students in Romania’s post-transition economy. It examines the sequential relationship between Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM), Entrepreneurial...
This study investigates how Thai cultural norms shape employee perceptions of human-in-the-loop (HITL) AI systems in performance appraisal and compensation decisions. Drawing on procedural justice and culturally grounded views of fairness, the study...
Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are implemented through individual contracts, but their performance is often judged with indicators observed at broader sectoral or national levels. This study develops a measurement alignment framework compri...
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) disclosure plays an increasingly important role in evaluating corporate sustainability performance. However, the agricultural chemicals industry faces unique environmental and social challenges, while exist...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets face a critical challenge: how to leverage digital transformation to improve efficiency and sustain competitive advantage despite constrained financial and human resources. This study addr...
This study examines how residents evaluate local government within Japan’s Liveable Well-Being City Indicator (LWCI) framework, with a focus on public service delivery and the application of machine learning (ML). Using a nationwide survey of 6...
Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into business strategy requires organizational practices that convert sustainability- and stakeholder-related intentions into measurable and managerially usable information. This study examines whethe...
Organizations increasingly confront persistent tensions that require leaders to address competing demands simultaneously. Prior research has established paradoxical leader behavior (PLB) as an important behavioral response to such tensions, yet less...
This article proposes the Collective Delivery Demand Matrix (CDD Matrix), which repositions the New Agile as a correspondence property between collective delivery demands and teams’ operating regimes, aiming to form teams that are simultaneousl...
AI-driven personalization has become a defining feature of digital advertising, yet whether it drives purchase intention directly or depends on other underlying mechanisms remains insufficiently understood, particularly in under-studied emerging mark...
Climate risk is increasingly reshaping firms’ operating environments, yet limited evidence exists on how climate-related pressures influence corporate green innovation and through which organizational mechanisms such effects occur. Drawing on i...
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into human resources management is driving a profound transformation in the evolution of management, and even more so in the management of human talent, which is the primary resource of any organization...
Currently, intelligent agent applications generally face the bottleneck of “strong single-agent intelligence but weak group collaboration,” making it difficult to form systemic ecological advantages through network effects. Addressing thi...
The digital transformation of shrimp aquaculture in Ecuador has accelerated the adoption of traceability technologies to improve transparency, regulatory compliance, and supply chain coordination. However, persistent structural limitations—such...
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and growing global fragmentation are reshaping how multinational enterprises manage cross-border strategic alliances. Prior research has focused on alliance formation and resource access, yet less...
AI is currently shaping how people are being entrepreneurial by allowing the establishment of AI-native ventures. The creation of these new types of businesses builds off an infrastructure of data, computing power, and research that typically accompa...
Digital diversification increasingly occurs not through acquisition or formal alliance but through staged, option-like commitments between large technology firms and frontier artificial intelligence (AI) developers. This paper uses the Amazon–O...
Higher education institutions must sustain employees’ capacity and motivation amid organizational change. This study examined cross-sectional associations among perceived organizational support (POS), employee resilience, and sustainable employ...
Digitalisation and sustainability reporting exert parallel pressures on human resource management (HRM); yet, whether their research streams overlap is more often assumed than measured. This study measures that overlap directly. Treating digital HRM...
This study examines how Female-Associated Leadership Practices (FALPs) are associated with firm performance in Ecuadorian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through organizational governance and strategic orientation. Drawing on Upper Echelons...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly transforming banking, yet responsible adoption depends not only on technical deployment but also on organizational readiness, governance capacity, monitoring practices, and the capacity to scale AI respons...
This study examines students’ job search behaviour in the context of an increasingly digital labour market, focusing on preferred employer contact channels and the use of professional networking platforms. Despite the growing importance of digi...
Human-like virtual influencers (VIs) have become an increasingly important component of social media marketing. Their human-like appearance can simultaneously attract users and, meanwhile, evoke discomfort associated with the uncanny valley. This stu...
This study proposes a conceptual model of smart innovation to examine internationalization processes in traditional, territorially embedded industries, with a focal empirical focus on Sogrape, Portugal’s leading wine company, situated within th...
Intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) is believed to enhance transparency and reduce information asymmetry, yet its voluntary nature raises questions about its effectiveness, particularly in emerging markets. This study investigates whether ICD media...
Despite longstanding conceptual and measurement concerns surrounding transformational leadership, environmental applications of the paradigm have continued to proliferate through target-specific formulations and increasingly complex explanatory model...
Anticipatory governance is regarded as an important governance approach that promotes strategic foresight and future-oriented policymaking under conditions of uncertainty. Following recent crises, European states continue to face challenges in bridgi...
Export participation in emerging economies depends not only on structural firm characteristics but also on internal organizational capabilities that support international readiness. This study examines whether managerial practices and sustainability...
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Environmental disclosure and environmental, social, and governance assessments are gaining importance, using Corporate Disclosure Project (CDP) scores to evaluate corporate environmental disclosure. However, scarce evidence links CDP scores with perf...
Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) have been an eligibility requirement for Horizon Europe funding since 2022, yet formal adoption does not necessarily alter organizational routines, culture, or resource allocation. This article examines the process of mov...
Whether China’s carbon trading pilots stimulate firm-level innovation remains contested. This study investigates the conditional effect of carbon pricing on green invention patents, moderated by firms’ digital transformation capability. U...
This study sought to examine how micro and small customer-facing businesses sustain continuity of serving customers under conditions of disruption. Drawing on data collected from 230 owners of micro and small enterprises operating across various sect...
AI-enabled simulation platforms are increasingly used for talent development, offering scalable, low-risk practice and algorithmic feedback for interpersonal HR capabilities such as difficult conversations, negotiation, and consultation. Yet HRD eval...
This study examines the association between board-level incentive structures and executive compensation, focusing on director compensation as a key element of the corporate governance environment. Using panel data from publicly listed electronic firm...
Health-related product positioning has become an important strategy for influencing consumer evaluations and consumption behaviour. Previous studies have shown that favourable health-related perceptions positively affect consumer responses, yet the c...
Age-related microaggressions are short, everyday comments, actions, or environmental cues that, whether intentional or not, send messages of hostility or exclusion. These remarks or behaviors often target people who do not fit dominant social norms....
Digital transformation is reshaping business-to-business (B2B) sales processes through the growing use of customer relationship management systems, analytics dashboards, automation tools, digital communication channels, and predictive technologies. H...
This empirical study positions hotel-based sport wellness programs as structured physical activity offerings embedded in co-created guest experiences in luxury hotels in Saudi Arabia. It examines how the quality of wellness sports programs relates to...
Artificial intelligence is increasingly transforming organizational decision-making, yet the mechanisms through which AI Leadership contributes to innovation outcomes remain insufficiently understood. Drawing on dynamic capabilities theory, this stud...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is widely considered to hold transformative potential for public administration, but its adoption in local governments remains uneven, weakly institutionalized, and shaped by informal employee experimentatio...
Business process reengineering (BPR) is usually remembered as one of the most visible management fashions of the 1990s. It rose rapidly, promised radical redesign and major performance gains, and later lost legitimacy as many implementations failed t...
Drawing on Social Identity Theory and Self-Determination Theory, this study investigates whether paradoxical leadership is positively associated with team vitality—a core indicator of collective well-being—through an affective pathway of...
This study examines how tourism platform ecosystems have evolved into mechanisms supporting sustainable, resilient, and digitally transformed tourism systems amid rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), immersive technologies, and data-driven...
The research investigates the psychopathological mechanisms through which perceived leader favoritism (PLF) can affect counterproductive work behavior (CWB) through the mediating effects of employee jealousy toward their coworkers and the specialized...
This study examines AI-enabled talent acquisition from the perspective of prospective applicants and investigates how individual-level perceptions of AI-assisted selection are associated with anticipated procedural justice, organizational attractiven...
The digital transformation of “Specialized, Refined, Distinctive, and Innovative” (SRDI) firms is a vital indicator of high-quality development within the digital economy and has attracted considerable attention. This study empirically ex...
Government–enterprise collaboration does not automatically produce responsibility sharing in digital environmental governance. Integrating Social Role Theory with evolutionary game theory, this study constructs a role-based evolutionary game mo...
Romanian county Public Health Directorates (PHDs) were central to local COVID-19 crisis management, yet subnational differences in institutional response capacity remain insufficiently quantified. This study aimed to examine institutional characteris...
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