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University-based animal welfare organizations are grassroots actors involved in managing free-roaming dog and cat populations, yet their role remains poorly characterized, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to identify and describe animal welfare organizations operating within universities in Ecuador and to analyze their potential contributions within a One Health framework. A cross-sectional survey of 63 universities was conducted using publicly available information from institutional websites and social media platforms, complemented by semi-structured interviews with representatives of identified organizations. Organizations with evidence of activity through 2026 and a focus on dogs or cats were included. A total of 14 animal welfare organizations from 12 universities were identified, representing 19.0% of the universities analyzed. Most organizations were located in public universities (75.0%), and 28.6% were associated with veterinary-related programs. Thematic analysis of interview data (12 out of 14 organizations interviewed) revealed four key dimensions of organizational functioning: capacity and governance, animal care and population management, public health and community engagement, and institutional integration. Reported activities included animal rescue, sterilization campaigns, adoption initiatives, and community outreach, aligning with internationally recommended strategies for humane population management. Several organizations have extended their reach beyond campus boundaries through free veterinary intervention campaigns in rural communities, partnerships with municipal authorities, and collaboration with civil society networks, reflecting a broader public health role consistent with One Health principles. Despite their potential, these organizations face structural challenges, including high volunteer turnover, the absence of direct institutional funding, and limited formal integration into governmental frameworks. Institutional support, where present, is predominantly material rather than financial, placing the burden of sustainability on self-management mechanisms. Nonetheless, their embeddedness within academic environments positions them as strategic platforms for interdisciplinary collaboration, experiential training, and community engagement. This study highlights the need to recognize and integrate university-based animal welfare organizations into broader animal population management and public health strategies. Strengthening partnerships between academia, government, and civil society could enhance both animal welfare outcomes and zoonotic disease surveillance efforts in Ecuador and other low- and middle-income countries. Full article

Child protection officers (CPOs) and social workers operate under sustained emotional, organizational, and relational pressure. This is especially salient in minoritized and conflict-affected settings where statutory authority may coexist with community mistrust, cultural obligations, and limited resources. The earlier version of this article relied primarily on four qualitative studies of Arab and Bedouin CPOs in Israel that were led by this article’s author., The present study is a focused integrative review of 21 peer-reviewed articles, comprising four related author-led studies and 17 independently authored external studies.. The review is purposive and transparent rather than systematic or meta-analytic. Published methods, findings, and discussions were analyzed within a matrix that distinguished direct support constructs (emotional, collegial, supervisory, informational, instrumental, organizational, and relational legitimacy support) from demands and contextual conditions (caseload, trauma exposure, threats, role conflict, and service scarcity). The four author-led papers were treated as one related contextual research cluster, not as independent replications or a pooled participant sample. Across the corpus, support emerged as a multi-level and conditional resource. Organizational climate, supervisor and peer relations, practical resources, and reflective space were repeatedly associated with wellbeing, resilience, job satisfaction, and retention-related outcomes, yet support did not substitute for safe staffing, manageable workload, adequate service capacity, or protection from violence. The Arab and Bedouin studies made visible a further dimension that is less developed in the wider literature: family and community relationships can confer legitimacy and cultural knowledge while also generating surveillance, stigma, confidentiality risks, and gendered pressure. This review therefore advances a cautious proposition that professional sustainability depends on the alignment of relational, organizational, and structural conditions rather than individual coping alone. This conclusion is context-bound and requires independent comparative and longitudinal evaluation. Full article

Geopolitical conflict, tariff shocks, and rapidly evolving environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulation have made global supply chains markedly less predictable. This study examined how manufacturing supply chain decision-makers perceive six regulatory-volatility risks, including labor, environmental, customs, ownership, military-logistics, and distribution, and whether those perceptions predict recorded engagement outcomes. Adopting an information systems perspective, we retrospectively analyzed 1988 fully anonymized decision-maker records from the digital lessons-learned repository of a multinational supply chain logistics firm, applying descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis with parallel analysis, and binary logistic regression with classification diagnostics. The perceived risks did not converge on a unified regulatory-volatility construct: sampling adequacy was weak (KMO = 0.470), and parallel analysis retained three single-indicator factors (distribution, environmental, and ownership risk) that were close to orthogonal apart from one moderate environment-distribution association. Critically, the sustainability-motivated risks were rated lowest, with a median labor severity of 0 and an environmental severity of 1 on 0–5 scales, during a period of record forced-labor enforcement; this perception gap invites sustainability leakage, whereby surprise enforcement provokes supplier exit and sourcing flight rather than remediation within scrutinized regions. The logistic regression separated success from failure perfectly in-sample (accuracy = AUC = 1.000), driven jointly by the near-collinear distribution and supply items—a complete-separation pattern warning of label leakage when digitized organizational records are mined for artificial intelligence-based decision support. The two items are near-duplicate measures (r = 0.915), so no individual predictor effect is identified. The findings favor multidimensional rather than composite digital risk dashboards, provenance-aware data governance for supply chain analytics pipelines, and digitally enabled ESG compliance under volatile regulation, contributing an empirically grounded information systems lens to sustainable supply chain management. Full article

Adolescent mental health is a high priority in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), yet perspectives may differ among youth and adult providers responsible for supporting mental health within schools. These differences may create challenges for designing contextually appropriate school-based preventive strategies. This qualitative study compared adolescent and school guidance and counseling coordinator (GCC) perspectives on factors influencing adolescent mental health and support in all 12 public senior high schools in Tamale, Ghana. GCC data were collected through semi-structured interviews informed by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research, and adolescent data was through human-centered design workshops. Data were analyzed using rapid qualitative analysis and organized using the Social Ecological Model. At the individual level, adolescents linked emotional distress, stress, and substance use to mental health challenges, whereas GCCs more commonly framed these as behavioral or academic challenges. At the interpersonal level, both groups identified peer relationships and confidentiality as important influences on help-seeking; adolescents emphasized trusted peer relationships, while GCCs described challenges implementing peer counseling approaches within schools. At the organizational level, adolescents emphasized teacher attitudes and punitive school responses to student distress, while GCCs emphasized staffing shortages, limited infrastructure, and insufficient institutional support. At the community level, both groups identified stigma and gendered social norms as barriers to mental health support. Adolescents and GCCs identified similar concerns but differed in how they understood adolescent mental health and support within schools. Integrating both youth and provider perspectives may strengthen multilevel school-based preventive strategies in resource-constrained settings. Full article

Digital investment does not automatically generate sustainable outcomes; firms require organizational capabilities, analytical decision routines, and supportive leadership conditions to translate technology into economic, environmental, and social value. Drawing on the dynamic capabilities view and contingency theory, this study examines how digital transformation capability, innovation capability, and data-driven decision making are associated with sustainable business performance and whether top management support moderates the relationship between digital transformation capability and sustainable business performance. Survey data obtained from managerial informants representing distinct large Slovenian companies were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results indicate that digital transformation capability, innovation capability, and data-driven decision making each showed a positive and statistically significant association with sustainable business performance. The interaction between digital transformation capability and top management support was also positive and statistically significant, indicating that the relationship becomes stronger as management support increases, although the magnitude of this amplification was modest. The study advances a differentiated capability-deployment perspective by distinguishing digitally enabled reconfiguration, innovation execution, and analytical decision routines and by identifying top management support as an amplifying condition. Full article

Despite extensive research on the antecedents of disruptive innovation, how disruptive innovation evolves through interacting mechanisms within complex adaptive systems remains insufficiently understood. To address this gap, this study conceptualizes disruptive innovation as an industry-level evolutionary process shaped by three differentiated mechanisms: the network mechanism, institutional mechanism, and resource mechanism. Drawing on Complex Adaptive Systems Theory, we develop an agent-based simulation model integrated with a genetic algorithm and complement the simulation with regression analysis to examine how these mechanisms shape technological penetration, market dynamics, and enterprise adoption. Based on 30 independent simulation replications with fixed random seeds and systematic sensitivity analysis, the results reveal three distinct evolutionary effects. First, higher social network connectivity does not necessarily accelerate disruptive-technology diffusion; when network advantages are concentrated among incumbent firms, stronger connectivity reinforces incumbent entrenchment and delays technological substitution. Second, government subsidies serve as an effective institutional lever, with greater subsidy intensity systematically accelerating the market penetration of disruptive technology. Third, initial resource endowment has limited influence on the timing of disruption, while heterogeneous resource configurations generate differentiated effects on market share, market price, and enterprise adoption. These findings demonstrate that disruptive innovation emerges not from isolated technological or organizational factors, but from the dynamic interactions of heterogeneous firms within a complex adaptive system. By distinguishing the different evolutionary functions of network connectivity, institutional intervention, and resource configuration, this study advances a mechanism-based understanding of disruptive innovation and provides implications for managing technological transitions through context-sensitive network development, targeted institutional support, and strategic resource allocation. Full article

Aging in place (AiP) and healthy cognitive aging (HCA) are closely interrelated concepts but seldom examined together within real-world care systems. Integrated care (IC) offers a framework to understand how community settings can support both. This qualitative case study examined a 25-year-old community-based integrated health and social care program in a rural Czech microregion. Utilizing a realist-informed context–mechanism–outcome framework, the study integrated data from documentary analysis, semistructured interviews, and participant observation. The findings suggest that the conditions facilitating AiP and HCA may be mutually supported through interrelated, context-dependent, cumulatively operated mechanisms, including environmental predictability, continuity of care, coordination across services, social embeddedness, supported autonomy, and reductions in cognitive and organizational burden and stress. IC is not a direct intervention, but acts as a context-dependent moderator that shapes the conditions for AiP and HCA. Behaviorally, these mechanisms minimize decision-making complexity and establish predictable interaction patterns that support everyday functioning. AiP and conditions relevant to HCA are mutually supported through shared underlying mechanisms embedded in care systems and community contexts. IC may facilitate this by fostering stable, person-centered environments that may reduce cognitive demands and support relational continuity. The study contributes to behavioral science by exploring how IC may shape conditions relevant to cognitive and functional outcomes in later life and provides actionable insights for the design of IC systems. Full article

This study examines how sustainable leadership fosters a regenerative mindset in the hospitality industry by enhancing ecological knowledge and promoting the development of sustainability-focused services. Drawing on Dynamic Capability Theory, the research demonstrates that sustainable leadership cultivates a range of organizational strengths, enabling hotels to transcend conventional sustainability practices and achieve substantive regenerative growth. A quantitative survey was administered to employees of four- and five-star hotels in Egypt. Data from 420 valid responses were analyzed using covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM) using JASP (0.98.1). The measurement model was evaluated, and the structural model and hypothesis testing were conducted in JASP. The results indicate that sustainable leadership enhances both ecological knowledge and sustainability-oriented service innovation. Furthermore, ecological knowledge serves as a catalyst for innovation that reinforces regenerative orientation. This study advances Dynamic Capability Theory by introducing a stepwise framework that elucidates how sustainable leadership supports regenerative orientation through interconnected organizational strengths. It contributes to the field of regenerative hospitality by shifting the emphasis from harm reduction to the development of capabilities that generate enduring ecological and social value. Additionally, the research provides practical guidance for hotels seeking to initiate a regenerative transformation. Full article

Alcohol use among emergency medical service (EMS) providers is an emerging concern given the demanding and stressful nature of the profession, although little research has explored how alcohol fits within EMS culture. This study examined EMS providers’ perceptions of alcohol use and how it intersects with their occupation. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 31 providers from non-fire-based EMS agencies across the United States. Participants represented a range of licensure levels, agency sizes, geographic regions, and drinking patterns. Interviews explored perceptions of alcohol use, workplace norms, and organizational influences related to drinking. Data were analyzed using an inductive qualitative approach to identify common themes across interviews. Participants described alcohol use as a driving force for social bonding, stress relief, and informal coping with the demands of the job. These findings highlight the importance of considering occupational culture and social norms when developing strategies to address alcohol use and support workforce health in EMS. Full article

Workplace incivility and workplace polarization represent two increasingly significant challenges in contemporary organizations. Although both phenomena have been studied extensively, their interrelationship remains underdeveloped in organizational behavior research. This conceptual study develops an integrative multilevel framework proposing how workplace incivility and workplace polarization may become reciprocally connected over time within the organizational context. Drawing on the Incivility Spiral Model, Organizational Justice Theory, and Social Identity Theory, the study proposes that repeated interpersonal incivility may contribute to identity-relevant interpretations and identity threat, which may, in turn, strengthen in-group/out-group differentiation. Trust erosion and emotional contagion may complement this process through relational and affective-transmission mechanisms, creating conditions that may support the emergence of workplace polarization. In turn, workplace polarization may reshape civility norms across perceived group boundaries and make expectations of respectful treatment increasingly group-contingent, thereby increasing the likelihood that subsequent workplace incivility will be directed toward perceived out-group members. The central contribution of this study is to explain how ambiguous interpersonal mistreatment may become interpreted as group-based disrespect and theorize how workplace polarization may make expectations of respectful treatment increasingly contingent on perceived group membership. The proposed model further identifies ethical leadership, organizational justice, psychological safety, and diversity climate as distinct contextual conditions that may influence different stages of the incivility-to-polarization pathway, rather than uniformly moderating the entire reciprocal process. By conceptualizing workplace incivility and workplace polarization as potentially reciprocally linked cross-level processes, this study contributes to theory development on workplace mistreatment, intergroup dynamics, and organizational division. It also outlines directions for longitudinal, experimental, multilevel, and network-based research to empirically examine the proposed relationships and highlights practical implications for fostering more respectful, cohesive, and inclusive work environments. Full article

Background: Integrating additive manufacturing (AM) into manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) requires addressing technological, economic, organizational, environmental, and institutional conditions whose interrelationships remain insufficiently understood. Methods: This study proposes a conceptual framework for the sustainable integration of AM by combining Systematic Literature Mapping (SLM) with Fuzzy DEMATEL. The SLM covered publications indexed in Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection, and EI Compendex from January 2015 to May 2026. Among 1123 identified records, 72 studies met the inclusion criteria, leading to eight critical factors across political, economic, social, and environmental dimensions. These factors were subsequently evaluated by a panel of 15 experts to determine their interdependencies and cause–effect structure. Results: Government incentives (F1; D − R = 0.928) and digital infrastructure (F2; D − R = 0.469) emerged as the main causal drivers, while implementation costs (F4; D + R = 22.690) showed the highest prominence. The resulting framework comprises four levels: strategic activation, implementation enablement, operational integration and feasibility, and sustainable outcomes. Conclusions: Sustainable AM integration follows a hierarchical causal structure in which institutional and digital conditions initiate adoption, financial and regulatory mechanisms support implementation, and organizational and environmental benefits emerge as subsequent outcomes, providing SMEs with a structured basis for implementation decisions. Full article

The events industry is facing mounting pressure to embed sustainability into core operations; yet, the mechanisms through which organizational initiatives translate into green practices remain underexplored. Drawing on Social Identity Theory, Stakeholder Theory, and Institutional Theory, this study examines the mediating role of Employee Environmental Identity (EEI) and the moderating role of Community Stakeholder Pressure (CSP) in the relationship between Sustainability Initiatives in Events (SIEs) and Green Operations (GOs). Data were collected from 448 employees in Saudi Arabian event management organizations and analyzed using PLS-SEM. The results reveal that SIE significantly enhances both EEI and GO. EEI partially mediates the SIE–GO relationship, while CSP strengthens all three hypothesized pathways, amplifying the effectiveness of sustainability initiatives and the translation of employee identity into operational outcomes. These findings advance theoretical integration across micro and macro perspectives and offer practical insights for managers, HR professionals, policymakers, and educators seeking to foster sustainability in event operations. By demonstrating the synergistic interplay among organizational initiatives, employee identity, and community pressure, this study underscores the importance of cultivating environmental self-concepts within a supportive stakeholder environment to achieve meaningful green outcomes aligned with Saudi Vision 2030. Full article

Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) has emerged as a promising approach to urban transportation by integrating multiple mobility services into a single digital platform for trip planning, booking, and payment. More recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has expanded the capabilities of MaaS, enabling more efficient data processing, predictive analytics, personalized services, and intelligent decision support. This narrative review examines the current state of research on AI-enabled MaaS from both technological and socioeconomic perspectives. The analysis covers five major research areas: data integration and interoperability, predictive systems and demand forecasting, AI-enabled decision support for policy and planning, fairness and ethical AI, and cybersecurity and privacy protection. The findings show that successful implementation depends not only on advances in AI algorithms but also on high-quality interoperable data, effective governance, regulatory support, public trust, and collaboration among stakeholders. The review concludes that the main challenges facing AI-enabled MaaS are no longer primarily technical but organizational, institutional, and social. Future research should focus on trustworthy and explainable AI, privacy-preserving learning, standardized evaluation methods, fairness-aware optimization, resilient cybersecurity, and long-term assessments of MaaS impacts on sustainable urban mobility. Full article

This study aims to examine the associations of work–family conflict, perceived social support, and meaning in work with well-being, engagement, and performance among employees returning from parental leave. The study is grounded in the Job Demands–Resources model and uses cross-sectional survey data from 1199 Romanian employees returning from parental leave. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to test a comprehensive model linking job demands and resources to individual and organizational outcomes. Results indicate that both work-to-family and family-to-work conflict are negatively associated with employee well-being, whereas perceived social support and meaning in work are positively associated with well-being. Moreover, perceived social support and meaning in work are also positively associated with engagement, whereas well-being is not significantly associated with engagement. Both engagement and well-being are positively associated with self-reported performance. These findings highlight the relevance of social and psychological resources for employee functioning during the transition back to work after parental leave. The study contributes to the literature by integrating work–family dynamics and several dimensions of positive functioning within a comprehensive model of post-parental-leave reintegration. Full article

Digital transformation can help firms put circular-economy practices into operation. Existing studies often discuss technical tools and implementation practices separately. Few studies explain the organizational logic that connects the two. This systematic review identifies 146 peer-reviewed English-language journal articles published from January 2015 to June 2026. The review follows PRISMA 2020. It examines how digital technologies support circular-economy adoption at the firm and organizational levels. Industry and supply-chain levels are also included. The evidence points to three core mechanisms. The first is information transparency. The second is resource-efficiency optimization. The third is circular business-model innovation. Their effects depend on internal green and digital capabilities. Supply-chain coordination and external institutional pressures also change how these mechanisms work. Environmental outcomes receive the most consistent empirical support. Operational and social outcomes depend more strongly on context and innovation and economic outcomes are also context-dependent. This review integrates dynamic capabilities theory with the natural-resource-based view and institutional theory to distinguish internal capability development from external constraints. The resulting framework links mechanisms with boundary conditions and outcomes while identifying priorities for longitudinal research, comparative research and improved outcome measurement. Full article