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458 Citations
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29 August 2023

Considering the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and their potential implications for the higher education sector, this article seeks to critically evaluate the strategic adoption of AI in the framework of “smart universities&...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Change Management and Innovation Strategies for Digital–Quantum Business Transformation)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
218 Citations
18,042 Views
16 Pages

Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts in Decentralized Governance Systems

  • Adam P. Balcerzak,
  • Elvira Nica,
  • Elżbieta Rogalska,
  • Miloš Poliak,
  • Tomáš Klieštik and
  • Oana-Matilda Sabie

4 August 2022

The aim of our systematic review was to inspect the recently published literature on decentralized governance systems and integrate the insights it articulates on blockchain technology and smart contracts by employing Preferred Reporting Items for Sy...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
216 Citations
117,433 Views
34 Pages

20 January 2024

In an era marked by swift technological advancements and an escalating emphasis on collaborative learning, understanding effective methods and technologies for sharing knowledge is imperative to optimize educational outcomes. This study delves into t...

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  • Open Access
177 Citations
70,768 Views
13 Pages

This paper provides insights into the role of ongoing training and education on nurses’ career satisfaction across different career stages and their ability to provide quality patient care. Eighteen focus groups were conducted over the course of five...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Healthy Work Environments)
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  • Open Access
172 Citations
39,429 Views
16 Pages

From Trash to Cash: How Blockchain and Multi-Sensor-Driven Artificial Intelligence Can Transform Circular Economy of Plastic Waste?

  • Aditya Chidepatil,
  • Prabhleen Bindra,
  • Devyani Kulkarni,
  • Mustafa Qazi,
  • Meghana Kshirsagar and
  • Krishnaswamy Sankaran

15 April 2020

Virgin polymers based on petrochemical feedstock are mainly preferred by most plastic goods manufacturers instead of recycled plastic feedstock. Major reason for this is the lack of reliable information about the quality, suitability, and availabilit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial Ecology and Innovation)
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  • Open Access
171 Citations
62,436 Views
17 Pages

The Impact of Heavy Perceived Nurse Workloads on Patient and Nurse Outcomes

  • Maura MacPhee,
  • V. Susan Dahinten and
  • Farinaz Havaei

This study investigated the relationships between seven workload factors and patient and nurse outcomes. (1) Background: Health systems researchers are beginning to address nurses’ workload demands at different unit, job and task levels; and the type...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Healthy Work Environments)
  • Review
  • Open Access
162 Citations
60,275 Views
22 Pages

Artificial Intelligence in the Tourism Industry: An Overview of Reviews

  • Miguel-Ángel García-Madurga and
  • Ana-Julia Grilló-Méndez

26 July 2023

This study aims to comprehensively synthesize existing literature on AI in tourism, highlighting key themes, strengths, and limitations, and illuminating pathways for future research, including the identification of emerging areas within this context...

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  • Open Access
155 Citations
21,756 Views
13 Pages

17 February 2019

European Commission is strongly committed into issues related to plastic materials production and plastic waste management. While the Circular Economy Package has set targets generally referred to recycling rates, the European Strategy for plastics i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial Ecology and Innovation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
152 Citations
97,125 Views
28 Pages

AI in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Skill Transformation in the Industry

  • Leili Babashahi,
  • Carlos Eduardo Barbosa,
  • Yuri Lima,
  • Alan Lyra,
  • Herbert Salazar,
  • Matheus Argôlo,
  • Marcos Antonio de Almeida and
  • Jano Moreira de Souza

16 June 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications streamline workflows, automate tasks, and require adaptive strategies for effective integration into business processes. This research explores the transformative influence of AI on various industries, such a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovations, Projects, Challenges and Changes in A Digital World)
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  • Open Access
152 Citations
15,975 Views
14 Pages

21 August 2017

The lack of women in leadership across higher education has been problemitised in the literature. Often contemporary discourses promote ‘fixing the women’ as a solution. Consequently, interventions aimed at helping women break through ‘the glass ceil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Perspectives on Women’s Higher Education Leadership from around the World)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
151 Citations
90,350 Views
32 Pages

The Functions of a Servant Leader

  • Michiel Frederick Coetzer,
  • Mark Bussin and
  • Madelyn Geldenhuys

24 February 2017

Servant leadership has been researched internationally and various types of favourable individual, team, and organisational outcomes have been linked to the construct. Different servant leadership measures have been validated to date and a clear dist...

(This article belongs to the Section Leadership)
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  • Open Access
135 Citations
59,215 Views
21 Pages

2 August 2023

In recent years, a new type of influencer has emerged in the field of social media marketing: virtual influencers. Though it is spreading fast, the trend is still new and, therefore, limited research has been conducted on the topic. This study aims t...

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  • Open Access
135 Citations
17,591 Views
13 Pages

The ability to internationalize has become a competitive necessity for many firms, and one important for survival and growth in the era of globalization. At the same time, digitalization is transforming the locus of entrepreneurial opportunities and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Widening International Entrepreneurship Research)
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  • Open Access
123 Citations
18,981 Views
22 Pages

Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Global South: Empowering and Emancipating?

  • Funmi (Olufunmilola) Ojediran and
  • Alistair Anderson

3 November 2020

This paper addresses the following questions: Are women entrepreneurs empowered by entrepreneurship, and critically, does entrepreneurship offer emancipation? Our theoretical position is that entrepreneurship is socially embedded and must be recogniz...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Women, Empowerment and Entrepreneurship Development in Emerging Economies and the Global South)
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  • Open Access
117 Citations
17,338 Views
13 Pages

The circular economy strategy supports the transformation of the linear consumption model into a closed-production model to achieve economic sustainability, with the consumers’ acceptance of circular products being one of the major challenges....

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  • Open Access
116 Citations
15,945 Views
17 Pages

Empirical Analysis of Non-Financial Reporting by Spanish Companies

  • Laura Sierra-Garcia,
  • Maria Antonia Garcia-Benau and
  • Helena Maria Bollas-Araya

Spain is one of the European countries that is the most strongly committed to the presentation of non-financial information. In 2017, Spain adapted its legislation to Directive 2014/95/EU through Royal Decree-Law 18/2017, which required Public Intere...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure and Assurance: Economic and Financial Consequences)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
110 Citations
53,418 Views
33 Pages

22 September 2024

This systematic review underscores the significance of learning communities as fertile grounds for skill development across diverse contexts. Furthermore, it reviews and theoretically evaluates several commonly used strategies, methods, and supports...

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110 Citations
63,054 Views
16 Pages

28 November 2024

The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is profoundly transforming organizational landscapes, significantly influencing work practices and triggering cultural shifts. This study explores the role of AI in reshaping organizational work practices an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Resources and Artificial Intelligence—What Ties Will the Future Bring?)
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  • Open Access
110 Citations
66,058 Views
25 Pages

Digital Innovations in MSMEs during Economic Disruptions: Experiences and Challenges of Young Entrepreneurs

  • Lavinia Javier Cueto,
  • April Faith Deleon Frisnedi,
  • Reynaldo Baculio Collera,
  • Kenneth Ian Talosig Batac and
  • Casper Boongaling Agaton

5 January 2022

The spike in COVID-19 cases all over the world poses a massive impact on various sectors of society. The global economy is no exception, for it has been severely affected by the unprecedented public health crisis leading businesspeople to shutdown co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entrepreneurship and Innovations: Challenges and Successes for Organisations in the Modern Business Environment)
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  • Open Access
107 Citations
15,050 Views
15 Pages

17 November 2015

This paper conceptually synthesizes prior studies on sustainable entrepreneurship against the background of the multi-level perspective. It thereby relates separate streams of literature on sustainable entrepreneurship, sustainability transformations...

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  • Open Access
105 Citations
15,598 Views
17 Pages

This paper analyses the EU’s policies for energy and climate, using Börzel’s theoretical framework on Europeanisation, and examines Member States’ Green Deal responses, strategies, and compliance. As expressed in their final NECPs, although Member St...

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102 Citations
10,366 Views
13 Pages

7 September 2021

The introduction of Agenda 2030 has impacted the public and private sectors. Agenda 2030 is a document that aims to promote collaboration and partnership between countries and the population for the achievement of 17 SDGs, which cover all the three d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Social Responsibility, Stakeholder Engagement, and Universities)
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  • Open Access
96 Citations
13,963 Views
17 Pages

The Impact of Entrepreneurial Education on Technology-Based Enterprises Development: The Mediating Role of Motivation

  • Leo-Paul Dana,
  • Mehdi Tajpour,
  • Aidin Salamzadeh,
  • Elahe Hosseini and
  • Mahnaz Zolfaghari

22 September 2021

Technology-based enterprises play a paramount role in blooming a country economically. Nevertheless, according to a society’s capacity to launch such enterprises in various eras, their volume is less than expected in many economies. Therefore, establ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Perspectives on Entrepreneurship Education)
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  • Open Access
96 Citations
13,567 Views
16 Pages

Knowledge sharing has multifaceted effects on organizations, such as improving work performance, among which creativity is apparently one of the most important parts. Nevertheless, the effects of knowledge sharing on individuals has not been paid att...

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  • Open Access
95 Citations
26,581 Views
19 Pages

Corruption in Organizations: Ethical Climate and Individual Motives

  • Madelijne Gorsira,
  • Linda Steg,
  • Adriaan Denkers and
  • Wim Huisman

19 February 2018

The aim of this research was to examine how organizational and individual factors, in concert, shape corruption. We examined whether the ethical climate of organizations is related to corruption, and if so, whether it affects corruption through indiv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Organizational Aspects of Corporate and Organizational Crime)
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  • Open Access
94 Citations
17,969 Views
25 Pages

19 September 2019

The Industry 4.0 (I4.0) concept is concerned with the fourth industrial revolution in manufacturing, in which technological trends such as digitalization, automation and artificial intelligence are transforming production processes. Since the concept...

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  • Open Access
92 Citations
20,069 Views
18 Pages

4 February 2023

The use of digital health and wrist-worn wearable technologies have been increasingly utilized, especially during COVID-19 surge, to help monitor patients and vulnerable groups such as elderly people. As one of the countries with highest aging popula...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Global Perspective on the Hospitality and Tourism Industry)
  • Review
  • Open Access
92 Citations
29,734 Views
19 Pages

Where Does CSR Come from and Where Does It Go? A Review of the State of the Art

  • Sara Rodriguez-Gomez,
  • Maria Lourdes Arco-Castro,
  • Maria Victoria Lopez-Perez and
  • Lazaro Rodríguez-Ariza

20 August 2020

It can be said that business ethics are integrated into companies through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), which cannot be defined in a single way, nor has its concept remained unchanged since its appearance in the business world. The contribut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Social Responsibility and Eco-Innovation: From an International Perspective)
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  • Open Access
92 Citations
33,402 Views
21 Pages

Digital Technologies for Sustainable Tourism Destinations: State of the Art and Research Agenda

  • Youssef El Archi,
  • Brahim Benbba,
  • Moaaz Kabil and
  • Lóránt Dénes Dávid

10 August 2023

This study explores the adoption of digital technology in sustainable tourism destinations and provides insights into current research. Using a bibliometric analysis approach, it comprehensively evaluates research outputs, identifies trends, and high...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovations in Sustainable Tourism: Shaping the Future of Destinations)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Citations
60,858 Views
38 Pages

There is widespread recognition that organizational culture matters in corporations involved in systemic crime and wrongdoing. However, we know far less about how to assess and alter toxic elements within a corporate culture. The present paper draws...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Organizational Aspects of Corporate and Organizational Crime)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Citations
19,492 Views
11 Pages

The Cross-Cultural Invariance of the Servant Leadership Survey: A Comparative Study across Eight Countries

  • Dirk Van Dierendonck,
  • Milton Sousa,
  • Sigrún Gunnarsdóttir,
  • Andrea Bobbio,
  • Jari Hakanen,
  • Armin Pircher Verdorfer,
  • Emin Cihan Duyan and
  • Raquel Rodriguez-Carvajal

This paper tests and confirms the cross-cultural equivalence of the Servant Leadership Survey (SLS) in eight countries and languages: The Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Finland. A composite sample consisting of 5201...

(This article belongs to the Section Leadership)
  • Review
  • Open Access
89 Citations
17,543 Views
12 Pages

Entrepreneurship Education: The Effects of Challenge-Based Learning on the Entrepreneurial Mindset of University Students

  • Alessandra Colombelli,
  • Shiva Loccisano,
  • Andrea Panelli,
  • Orazio Antonino Maria Pennisi and
  • Francesco Serraino

16 January 2022

The aim of this paper is to investigate the implications of Challenge-Based Learning programs on entrepreneurial skills, and on the mindset and intentions of university students, through a quantitative approach. Resorting to an original database, we...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fostering Student Entrepreneurship: Nascent and Active Entrepreneurs in Universities)
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  • Open Access
85 Citations
16,535 Views
28 Pages

26 March 2019

Entrepreneurship education can increase student’s entrepreneurial skills and intention; and entrepreneurship activities stimulate economic growth. Therefore, the number of entrepreneurship courses is increasing, but they are often offered to st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entrepreneurship Education)
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  • Open Access
84 Citations
106,955 Views
16 Pages

26 April 2023

This paper aims to study the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on brand image and brand equity and its impact on consumer satisfaction. The study follows a quantitative methodology, using the implementation of an online questionnaire di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Marketing in the Strategic Organisational Transformation toward Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
82 Citations
38,622 Views
21 Pages

Self-Leadership: A Four Decade Review of the Literature and Trainings

  • Michael G. Goldsby,
  • Elizabeth A. Goldsby,
  • Christopher B. Neck,
  • Christopher P. Neck and
  • Rob Mathews

This paper reviews the fourth decade of self-leadership research. Two previous reviews of self-leadership from 2006 and 2010 are summarized, and the paper applies categories from those reviews to examine recent research in the field. This paper also...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Self-Leadership)
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  • Open Access
78 Citations
13,488 Views
14 Pages

18 September 2021

Even though research has been showing that telework, under regular circumstances, could benefit the integration of work and family life, mandatory telework during the COVID-19 lockdown brought additional challenges, with potential to create conflicts...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Leadership and Employees' Performance on the Verge of a New Era: The Challenges Brought by COVID-19 on Workplaces)
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  • Open Access
78 Citations
32,223 Views
14 Pages

An Exploratory Study of Consumer Attitudes toward Green Cosmetics in the UK Market

  • Yifeng Lin,
  • Shaohua Yang,
  • Haniruzila Hanifah and
  • Qaisar Iqbal

19 November 2018

People’s health awareness has extended from the food industry to the personal beauty industry. Consumers have increased their interest in natural ingredients, sustainable packaging, and other green elements of cosmetics. This research explores...

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  • Open Access
78 Citations
46,506 Views
23 Pages

Organisational adaptability is the ability of an organisation to recognise the need to change and seize opportunities in dynamic environments. In an increasingly complex world, leadership must pay attention to dynamic, distributed, and contextual asp...

(This article belongs to the Section Leadership)
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  • Open Access
77 Citations
16,472 Views
28 Pages

4 August 2014

Recent studies have begun to bridge the gap between general and workplace pro-environmental behavior by adapting specific existing behavioral models to the workplace environment. This conceptual article proposes a different approach by synthesizing t...

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  • Open Access
76 Citations
16,935 Views
17 Pages

1 March 2012

Partly as a result of the rapid growth in Chinese higher education, graduate placement has become a critical issue facing colleges and universties. In response, one of the policy initiatives adopted by the Chinese government is for higher education i...

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  • Open Access
75 Citations
16,271 Views
14 Pages

19 August 2018

Drawing from the tenets of social cognitive theory, the present study examined the effect of thriving at work on innovation behavior via organizational support of innovation. The data were collected at three points in time from 402 participants occup...

  • Review
  • Open Access
74 Citations
35,156 Views
22 Pages

31 January 2023

The advancement of data technology such as machine learning and artificial intelligence has broadened the scope of human resources (HR) analytics, commonly referred to as “people analytics.” This field has seen significant growth in recen...

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  • Open Access
73 Citations
18,867 Views
21 Pages

Toward Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation: The Nexus between Leadership, Organizational Agility, and Knowledge Transfer

  • Muhieddine Ramadan,
  • Najib Bou Zakhem,
  • Hala Baydoun,
  • Amira Daouk,
  • Samia Youssef,
  • Abir El Fawal,
  • Jean Elia and
  • Ahmad Ashaal

10 August 2023

The post-pandemic age has heightened the importance of digitalizing organizational practices and fostering innovation for SMEs to ensure resilient business operations in a volatile work environment. This research paper examines the impact of digital...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation Management of Organizations in the Digital Age)
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  • Open Access
72 Citations
39,250 Views
18 Pages

20 August 2020

Many organizations seek ways to stimulate and encourage staff innovation. One ofthese is leadership that can boost staff innovation behavior. The aim of thisarticle is to reflect on leadership and its contribution to stimulating innovation. To achiev...

(This article belongs to the Section Leadership)
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  • Open Access
72 Citations
6,918 Views
15 Pages

1 September 2021

The aim of this article is s to show that contrary to the common parlance and to the widespread belief that treats small business as “the backbone of the economy”, in the sense of being the prime motor of wealth and prosperity, therefore the underlyi...

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  • Open Access
71 Citations
10,367 Views
17 Pages

26 February 2020

Non-financial reporting is a growing topic, and the adoption of the EU Directive 2014/95/EU on non-financial information (NFI) is increasing the use of this reporting. One of the most distinctive elements of guidelines and standards that are widely u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial Ecology and Innovation)
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  • Open Access
71 Citations
38,845 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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Capabilities in Innovation and Strategy amid Technological Development and Economic Uncertainty)
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  • Open Access
71 Citations
11,251 Views
21 Pages

This paper examines the impact of board independence on corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure and analyses the moderating effect of the presence of family ownership. Using an international sample from 29 countries from 2006 to 2014, our pa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure and Assurance: Economic and Financial Consequences)
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