This study examines whether a persistent firm-specific component of financial performance, estimated only from a 2011–2017 training window, remains informative out of sample and whether it is associated with later ESG ratings in Korean listed f...
China’s revised Environmental Protection Law, adopted in 2014 and effective on 1 January 2015, strengthened the institutional framework for environmental governance. This article integrates bibliometric mapping with a systematic literature revi...
This paper examines how senior executives perceive the conditions under which an organization becomes data driven, and how those perceptions can be organised, through an explicit procedure, into candidate strategic orientations. An exploratory descri...
In multinational fast-moving consumer goods firms, marketing, legal and IT depend on the same brand data but need it at different levels of detail. Marketing needs it by variant and territory to measure campaign returns; legal to prove valid territor...
This paper examines how the Resource-Based View (RBV) and Dynamic Capabilities (DC) explain digital adaptation among rural entrepreneurs in South Africa. Although digital transformation is reshaping entrepreneurship globally, rural enterprises contin...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping organizational decision-making, managerial roles, and accountability, yet responsible AI governance remains dominated by principles, technical controls, and regulatory compliance. This conceptual paper develo...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) gives tourism small and medium-sized enterprises scalable cognitive and creative support, but access alone does not ensure sustained advantage. This conceptual article asks how firms can realize productivity...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly used in corporate reporting, where accounting policies and estimates require professional judgment. The central risk examined is not automated error but automated advocacy: a fluent, standard...
Porter’s Five Forces remains a foundational framework in strategic management, but its application is often qualitative and can be difficult to compare across industries shaped by digitalization, network effects, and intangible capital. This st...
The purpose of this study is to examine how apparel SMEs in less-developed regions of China adapt to long-term retail digitalization and how these adaptations relate to business resilience and the creation of consumer and community value. This two-an...
The continuing proliferation and diversification of management system standards (MSSs) intensify the need for integration approaches that extend beyond common clause structures, aligned documents, and combined audits. Organizations increasingly manag...
Organizations face a persistent tension between the need to hold employees accountable for results and the need to grant them the autonomy that fuels motivation, learning, and innovation. This conceptual paper theoretically develops and formalizes th...
The increasing adoption of machine learning models in corporate valuation has substantially improved predictive accuracy but at the cost of interpretability, a critical limitation in regulated financial environments. This study investigates whether S...
Digital signage is increasingly used in retail spaces, enabling contextually relevant forms of commercial communication. Despite its widespread adoption, relatively little research has examined how contextual variables influence the persuasive effect...
Industry 4.0 (I4.0) garnered significant attention from academics and practitioners in the last decade. However, there is a lack of a measure in the extant literature that evaluates I4.0 and digital transformation capability disclosure of companies....
The ACE model proposes authenticity, competence, and emotional intelligence as an integrated set of internally regulated leadership-related capacities. Grounded in Self-Determination Theory, the model proposes that these competencies align with auton...
In cryptocurrency markets, credibility may be created before it can be verified. Promotional signals from influencers, online communities, exchanges, and project actors can create an impression of legitimacy before consumers are able to independently...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming organisations by accelerating decision cycles, increasing informational density, and expanding behavioural visibility. While these technologies enhance analytical capability, they do not resolve a persiste...
In the original publication (Chaudhary & DaSouza, 2024), there was an error regarding the Institutional Review Board Statement [...]
Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) is reshaping recruitment, with organizations increasingly using it to draft job postings and screen candidates. Research on labor market analytics has concentrated on extracting skills from existing posting...
Legal certainty is a central condition of commercial exchange, yet its relationship with contractual digitalization remains insufficiently specified in business-to-business settings. This study examined how the degree of contractual digitalization wa...
Innovation clusters contribute to regional development but face substantial organizational challenges when time-limited public support is reduced or withdrawn. This study examines how membership-based cluster organizations build resilience during suc...
Artificial intelligence (AI) may influence economic performance through productivity, innovation, and the diffusion of advanced technologies, but direct country-level measures of AI adoption remain limited for small economies. This study examines the...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly reshaping customer relationship management (CRM) practices in service industries, yet its perceived effectiveness within emerging regional tourism economies remains underexplored. This study examined respo...
The rapid growth of e-commerce has increased the strategic importance of last-mile delivery as a critical determinant of customer satisfaction and retention. This study examines consumer perceptions of last-mile delivery performance in the Greece e-c...
This study presents a systematic review of the literature on business localness, a concept which, despite increasing interest, remains theoretically fragmented. This fragmentation limits a comprehensive understanding of how firms are embedded in loca...
Adventure tourism businesses operate in environments characterized by substantial physical risk, highly dynamic natural conditions, and rising customer expectations. As demand for adventure tourism grows, operators must continuously balance experient...
Endpoints of a continuous scale have identified the work engagement extremes of psychological flow and burnout. If a scale, employees could hold these experiences simultaneously, to some degree. Instead, there are two types of employees concerning wo...
The grocerant represents an emerging hybrid retail–foodservice format integrating grocery shopping, prepared meals, and in-store dining. Although practically significant, the academic literature remains limited and dispersed. This PRISMA-inform...
Innovation proficiency is widely recognized as essential to organizational competitiveness; yet, how product managers and their teams develop these proficiencies across organizational contexts remains understudied. This study examines six innovation...
Within the South-Western food industry of Nigeria, the overall impact, associated challenges, and implementation of Big Data Analytics (BDA) have remained underexplored. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the extent of BDA adoption, identify key b...
The effect of competitor orientation on the performance of furniture manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises was examined, with a special focus on customer loyalty as a mediator. A sample of 364 firms was obtained from the Dar es Salaam Region usi...
This study examines cultural risk as a key factor in organizational strategy, bridging cultural studies and the risk management literature. Despite its significance, culture as a risk driver remains underexplored, partly due to a lack of consensus on...
This study explores how Machiavellian leadership behaviors may become embedded in ethical mentorship relationships and how these dynamics influence trust formation, dependency, emotional ambivalence, and trust erosion within higher education institut...
Digital technologies make it possible to combine multiple technical functionalities within applications that address practical and organizational needs. This paper presents Cozzmo, an Android mobile prototype for supporting communication and coordina...
In high-demand financial environments, employees’ capacity to regulate and sustain personal energy may constitute a critical yet underdeveloped organizational resource. Drawing on the Job Demands–Resources (JD-R) model and Conservation of...
Background: One form of domestic and family violence (DFV) is financial abuse, which involves a person manipulating another person’s access to finances, assets, and financial decision-making. The aim of this study was to understand the perceive...
The strategic decision to choose in-house production and outsourcing (make and buy) is one of the enormous research questions of international business studies. However, the dynamics of offshore mixed sourcing involving suppliers with varying capabil...
As the strategic debate around corporate purpose intensifies, organizations face a persistent paradox: how to sustain purpose-driven commitments under the continuous pressure of exchange-system efficiency and competing institutional logics. This pape...
This paper examines whether randomized evaluations can fail to identify causal effects when outcomes include interactions between treatment and unobserved characteristics. We show that even under random assignment, standard regression estimators do n...
This study examines how heritage-based small and medium enterprises (SMEs) cope with economic shocks and institutional constraints in a semi-urban context. The study focuses on identifying context-specific barriers that shape SME growth and sustainab...
A recurring question in contemporary society is: How can one survive on a single income? Escalating socioeconomic challenges worldwide are pushing many households beyond their financial comfort zones. As a coping strategy, many individuals have adopt...
Shrinking and aging societies undermine the economic viability of network-based infrastructure once supported by economies of scale and network externalities. This paper develops a conceptual framing of “Denetworking” as a possible reconf...
Platformized markets increasingly organize consumer encounters through adaptive ranking and personalization systems that learn from behavioral traces and reorder what consumers see over time. Although consumer identity theory explains how consumers u...
Purpose: This research investigates where formal responsibility for artificial intelligence (AI) lies within organisations and how the presence, absence, or structure of that responsibility affects their ability to govern AI effectively. Method: The...
A method for integrated brand analysis and strategy is developed in this work. The foundation of this method is market research, through which the relevance of brand attributes, their evaluation for competing brands and the market performance of thes...
Sustainable environmental performance (SEP) among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has attracted researchers and practitioners’ attention. The achievement of sustainable environmental performance has been largely dependent on the preva...
In recent years, consumer preference for sustainable food product attributes has increased. This research aims to investigate the moderating influence of consumers’ shopping motives on the interplay among gender, preferences for sustainable att...
This study investigates tax evasion and the informal economy in Greece through an integrated research design that combines bibliometric analysis with large-scale survey data to examine both the structure of scholarly discourse and public perceptions...
Interest in organic food has grown steadily, driven by its health and environmental benefits and concerns about conventional production. Yet organic rice remains largely overlooked, while imported, low-cost inorganic rice dominates the market. This s...
