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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often face severe resource constraints and operational fragility during crises. However, little is known about how managerial resilience (MR) translates into performance through time-related psychological resources and innovation—two capabilities that are both scarce and critical under such conditions. Drawing on Temporal Motivation Theory (TMT), this study develops and tests a dual-mediation model in which employee temporal psychological capital (TPC) and employee innovative behavior (EIB) transmit the effects of MR on performance. As a core methodological innovation, we adopt a multi-method analytical strategy to provide robust and complementary evidence rather than a hierarchy of results: Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) is used to examine sufficiency-based causal pathways and quantify the mediating mechanisms; Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification offers a non-parametric predictive validation of how MR and its mediators distinguish high- and low-performance cases; and Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) identifies non-compensatory conditions that must be present for high performance to occur. These three methods address different research questions—sufficiency, classification robustness, and necessity—therefore serving as parallel, equally important components of the analysis. A total of 455 SME managers and employees were surveyed, and results show that MR significantly enhances all three dimensions of TPC (temporal control, temporal fit, time pressure resilience) and EIB (idea generation, idea promotion, idea realization), which in turn improve employee performance. SVM classification confirms that high MR, strong TPC, and active innovation align with high performance, while NCA reveals temporal control, idea generation, and idea realization as necessary bottleneck conditions. By integrating sufficiency–necessity logic with predictive classification, our findings suggest that SMEs should prioritize leadership resilience training to strengthen managers’ adaptive capacity, while simultaneously implementing time management interventions—such as temporal control workshops, workload balancing, and innovation pipeline support—to enhance employees’ ability to align tasks with organizational timelines, execute ideas effectively, and sustain performance during crises. Full article

Passenger flow forecasting is crucial for optimizing urban transit operations, especially in developing countries such as India, where congestion, infrastructure constraints, and diverse commuter behaviors pose significant challenges. Despite its importance, limited research explored forecasting models for Indian urban transit systems, particularly incorporating the effects of holidays and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. To address this gap, we propose TBATS Boosting, a novel hybrid forecasting model that integrates the statistical strengths of trigonometric, Box–Cox, ARMA, trend, and seasonal (TBATS) with the predictive power of LightGBM. The model is trained on a five-year real-world dataset from e-ticketing machines (ETM) in Thane Municipal Transport (TMT), incorporating holiday and pandemic-related variations. While Route 12 serves as a primary evaluation route, different station pairs are analyzed to validate their scalability across varying passenger demand levels. To comprehensively evaluate the proposed framework, a rigorous performance assessment was conducted using MAE, RMSE, MAPE, and WMAPE across station pairs characterized by heterogeneous passenger flow patterns. Empirical results demonstrate that the TBATS Boosting approach consistently outperforms benchmark models, including standalone SARIMA, TBATS, XGBoost, and LightGBM. By effectively capturing complex temporal dependencies, multiple seasonalities, and nonlinear relationships, the proposed framework significantly enhances forecasting accuracy. These advancements provide transit authorities with a robust tool for optimizing resource allocation, improving service reliability, and enabling data-driven decision making across varied and dynamic urban transit environments. Full article

Fairness-related decision-making often involves a conflict between egoistic and prosocial motives. Previous research based on Terror Management Theory (TMT) indicates that mortality salience can promote both selfish and prosocial behaviors, leaving its effect on fairness-related decision-making uncertain. This study integrates TMT with the strength model of self-control to investigate the effects of mortality salience on fairness-related decision-making and to examine the moderating role of dispositional self-control. Participants were primed with either mortality salience or negative affect and then asked to make a series of binary choices (equal allocation vs. unequal allocation favoring themselves) to distribute monetary resources. In both studies, mortality salience heightened selfish tendencies, leading to less equitable monetary allocation. Study 2 further revealed that this effect occurred among participants with low, but not high, self-control. These findings indicate that mortality salience promotes selfishness and inequitable monetary allocation, but that self-control can buffer these effects. Full article

In an era where digital transformation (DGT) is pivotal for organizational resilience and competitiveness, integrating sustainability into the digitalization process has emerged as a strategic imperative. By employing the resource-based view (RBV) and the dynamic capability theory (DCT), this study delves into the micro-foundations of DGT in medium- and large-sized enterprises, highlighting the synergistic role of managerial digital literacy in fostering digital transformation through the mediation role of digital readiness and the moderation role of the top management team (TMT). To fulfill the objectives of this study, data were collected through a cross-sectional mail survey, yielding responses from 235 senior and mid-level managers across medium- and large-sized firms in various industries within Turkey. Results have confirmed that digital literacy significantly enhances digital transformation and readiness, laying the groundwork for successful digital transformation initiatives. Digital readiness significantly mediates the relationship between digital literacy and digital transformation, indicating that enhancing digital literacy is a crucial step that indirectly influences digital transformation through improving digital readiness. The moderating effect of top management team (TMT) behavioral integration on the digital literacy and digital readiness link is affirmed, highlighting its critical role in facilitating organizational digital adaptation. TMT behavioral integration does not positively moderate the direct relationship between digital literacy and digital transformation. The study’s findings offer a novel lens on digital transformation, revealing that the interplay between digital literacy, readiness, and TMT behavioral integration crafts a strategic scaffold for enhancing organizational agility and competitive edge in the digital era. Full article

The integrity of the natural habitat benefits the harmonious coexistence of nature and humans. However, a negative anthropogenic impact on natural habitats exacerbates the ongoing decline of global biodiversity, further undermining ecosystem services for human well-being, and making it difficult to reach the UN sustainability development goals (SDGs). Understanding people’s willingness to engage in habitat conservation is essential to provide realistic recommendation and coordination for building environmentally sustainable rural communities. We conducted social field interviews in rural communities and evaluated how external factors, individuals’ perceptions, and attitudes impacted villagers’ willingness to conserve nature by using structural equation modeling analysis method. Particularly, we examined the influence of the Chinese government’s two mountains theory (TMT) propaganda campaign, which encourages environmentally sustainable behavior and appreciation of ecosystem services. Our surveys examined behavior in the context of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) in Menglun town in rural Southwest China in 2020. The results indicated that villagers had a basic understanding of the two mountains perceptions and tended to be willing to engage in conservation. The path analysis revealed that villagers’ willingness to conserve nature was directly influenced by external factors, mainly containing policy advocacy and environmental education, and was indirectly influenced by their perceived ability through identification and assessment of local habitats’ ecosystem services. We identified the importance of TMT slogan advocacy with natural conservation perceptions and local traditional culture as key drivers for the impact paths. These factors can achieve the SDGs 4, 8, 13, and 14. We also identified the importance of social perceptions of villagers’ willingness to conserve nature as a way to bring insights into habitat conservation in rural emerging areas of other regions and achieve the SDGs 13, 14. The study suggests that government and stakeholders should fully consider villagers’ demands for acquiring material benefits and recreational pastimes when optimizing ecosystem services of the natural habitat. Certainly, considering public environmental education and environmental advocacy can be a complementary strategy for rural development and conservation. Full article

This study considers the mediating role of top management teams’ (TMTs) behavioral integration in exploring the relationship between the strategic decision-making process (SDMP; procedural rationality and constructive political behavior) and sustainable decision performance (decision quality and decision satisfaction). Survey data totaling 580 from the TMTs of the science and technology enterprises from first-tier cities in China were analyzed through structural equation modeling. The results indicate a positive influence of procedural rationality and constructive political behavior on sustainable decision quality and satisfaction. Behavioral integration appeared to mediate the nexus between the sustainable decision-making process and strategic decision performance. By categorizing the SDMP into two dimensions, a complete and explicit concept of the SDMP is reached, which permits practitioners to aim investments of a critical resource in realizing the full potential of decision performance in the sustainable decision performance. Full article

Top management teams’ (TMTs’) behavioral integration has received extensive attention from strategic management scholars in recent years. To learn more about the consequences of this phenomenon at the team level, we explore the relationship between TMTs’ behavioral integration with their innovativeness and sustainability orientation. To accomplish this, we surveyed 40 TMTs in Iranian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at two points in time. We ran a hierarchical multiple regression in order to test the hypotheses of the study. Building a theoretical model based on the Upper-Echelons framework, we found that the extent to which a TMT is behaviorally integrated is positively and significantly related to TMT innovativeness. Furthermore, our result reveals that a highly behaviorally integrated TMT is more likely to engage in sustainability-oriented actions. Hence, behaviorally integrated TMTs offer its team members an increased chance of being innovative and generating new ideas as compared to less behaviorally integrated TMTs. Finally, our results indicate that the generation of novel ideas is higher in teams with younger members, and that highly educated TMTs generate more innovative ideas in the workplace. Full article

Physical death is an inevitable part of life. From the perspective of terror management theory (TMT), people’s efforts to manage the awareness of death can sometimes have harmful social consequences. However, those negative consequences are merely one side of the existential coin. In considering the other side of the coin, the present article highlights the more beneficial trajectories of the terror management process. For example, the awareness of mortality can motivate people to prioritize their physical health; uphold prosocial values; build loving relationships and peaceful, charitable communities; and foster open-mindedness. Further, the article explores the possible balance between defense and growth motivations, including the motivations toward integrative self-expansion, creativity, and well-being. And finally, we tentatively consider the potential positive impacts of direct confrontations with mortality on terror management processes. In sum, the present analysis suggests that although death awareness can sometimes produce some harmful outcomes, at least under certain conditions it can also motivate attitudes and behaviors that have positive personal and social consequences. Full article