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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,875 Views
13 Pages

25 June 2023

Nowadays, corporations constantly innovate to stay ahead of the competition in the contemporary business environment. Thus, enterprises invest in high-performance work systems (HPWS) that foster employee growth and improve their abilities, in turn, t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation Management and Organizational Networks: Digital Innovation in Circular Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,346 Views
27 Pages

24 June 2025

Continuous improvement (CI) is vital for Saudi manufacturing firms to remain competitive in the global market. However, cultural factors significantly influence CI adoption. This qualitative study, involving 28 interviews and focus groups with employ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,828 Views
17 Pages

9 November 2024

This article aims to explore the role of management in translating the external factors’ and internal barriers’ impacts on the level of adoption of digital technologies as a lever for change in business operations and processes in small-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Catalyzing Growth: Nurturing Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Business Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
450 Views
23 Pages

10 June 2026

Sustainable higher education governance requires durable institutional mechanisms that support student engagement, faculty participation in education, and organizational coordination. Against the backdrop of China’s “Three-All Education&r...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
718 Views
21 Pages

Children’s cultural care is not an ancillary practice concern but a central element of governance, safeguarding, and ethical responsibility within out-of-home care systems. Across child protection systems internationally, out-of-home care servi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Public Child Welfare System: Discourses on Research, Practice and Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,394 Views
13 Pages

Purpose: This paper introduces and analyses the Business Model Prism (BMP) for the arts and cultural organizations as multidimensional framework to map the “as is” structure and the logic of their business model as well as to drive the design of inno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,713 Views
15 Pages

This study explores the relationship between organisational culture and total quality management (TQM) implementation in Australia, with the purpose of identifying the particular culture that dominants the Australian construction industry, and distin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Construction Management and Disaster Risk Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,253 Views
15 Pages

The purpose of this paper is to explore how organisational culture, represented by the competing values framework (CVF), and the relationship mechanisms of situational strength and power influence an organisation’s approach to supply chain resi...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,520 Views
37 Pages

Assessing the Long-COVID Impact on Heritage Organisations

  • Ari Volanakis,
  • Colin Seymour and
  • Kalliopi Fouseki

11 June 2024

The aim of this paper is to understand the long-COVID impact on cultural heritage organisations, and future research needed. COVID-19 was disruptive to cultural heritage socioeconomic activities across the world during 2020 and 2021. Whilst governmen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Heritage under Threat. Endangered Monuments and Heritage Sites)
  • Article
  • Open Access
838 Views
31 Pages

3 August 2026

This comparative case study investigates the impact of digital transformation (DT) on the development of a digital organisational culture (OC) within two distinct university settings: one in Saudi Arabia and the other in the United Kingdom. Adopting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,518 Views
26 Pages

Empowering Humanitarian Efforts: A Dynamic Approach to Competitive Intelligence (CI)

  • Emmanuel Ahatsi,
  • Lin Nie and
  • Oludolapo Akanni Olanrewaju

17 January 2025

Background: The article examines the adoption of competitive intelligence (CI) in Ghana’s humanitarian sector, identifying barriers such as resource limitations and organizational challenges, while highlighting CI’s potential to enhance d...

(This article belongs to the Section Humanitarian and Healthcare Logistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,482 Views
26 Pages

3 September 2020

Founded in the results of a systematic literature review, a professional development program was developed about the needs of ethnic minority victims/survivors of child sexual abuse, with one component on the role of organisations. The objective was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
17,187 Views
29 Pages

3 August 2023

The paper seeks to understand organisational context and culture’s influence on engaging First Nations People in Canada in work. Organisations have many opportunities to attract and engage Indigenous people, who have distinct worldviews and uni...

(This article belongs to the Section Gender, Race and Diversity in Organizations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,998 Views
12 Pages

18 October 2023

The question of culturally respectful and competent practice is important for human services, particularly in Australia, which is characterised by a highly culturally diverse population as a result of migration. On arrival in Australia, migrants star...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,321 Views
12 Pages

Bolstering the Moderating Effect of Supervisory Innovative Support on Organisational Learning and Employees’ Engagement

  • Opeyemi Olunike Joel,
  • Chinoyen Love Moses,
  • Ebeguki Edith Igbinoba,
  • Maxwell Ayodele Olokundun and ,
  • Odunayo Paul Salau,
  • Oluwatunmise Ojebola and
  • Olufunke P. Adebayo
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Organisational learning, as the process of continuous information acquisition, dissemination and exploitation, often leads to an organisation’s competitiveness. Hence, this study examined the relationship between organisational learning and emp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Organizational Behavior: Strategic Management and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,858 Views
20 Pages

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) states that Norway faces several major health challenges. Sick leave is at 6% and costs employers approximately EUR 1.75 billion annually. The NIPH proposes, with the support of the Public Health Act an...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
577 Views
28 Pages

20 August 2026

Background: Healthcare access in Vietnam confronts regional disparities and rising demand, requiring collaborative policies and strong workforce performance to guarantee effective and affordable services. This study scrutinises how organisational cul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,065 Views
15 Pages

In recent years, there has been growing interest in taking advantage of the technological progress in information technology and computer science to enhance the synergy between multidisciplinary organisations with a mutual objective of improving scie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Methodologies and Applications of Image Understanding in Cultural and Artistic Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,919 Views
17 Pages

6 August 2022

For years, sustainability has been on the minds of professionals, organisational leaders and everyone involved in everyday life. There has been a lot of research on different areas and processes of corporate operations, and more and more initiatives...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,408 Views
18 Pages

20 July 2019

The cultural sustainability of coastal landscapes relies heavily on the community’s self-organisation in fish foodways. The theoretical framework concentrates on cultural sustainability, foodways, land–sea interactions, and community of p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Community Self-Organisation, Sustainability, and Resilience in Food Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,100 Views
19 Pages

5 June 2026

This study investigates the relationship between toxic workplace culture and voluntary employee turnover, undermining workforce sustainability in Ghana’s construction industry. While some previous research has found a relationship between a tox...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Construction Management and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,481 Views
21 Pages

Green ICT Adoption Using a Maturity Model

  • Albert Hankel,
  • Gaston Heimeriks and
  • Patricia Lago

13 December 2019

The field green ICT focuses on the greening of ICT and using ICT to optimise the energy footprint of the ICT-supported processes. For organisations, applying green ICT in the broadest sense presents them with challenges. In this paper we explore what...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,719 Views
20 Pages

2 February 2026

This study explores gender-based perceptions of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the Australian construction industry, drawing on data from an exploratory mixed-methods investigation of construction practitioners. Australia provides a re...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,239 Views
21 Pages

Discovering Organisational Leadership Archetypes in Peru’s Circular Water Economy Using Latent Class Analysis

  • Persi Vera-Zelada,
  • Mauro Adriel Ríos-Villacorta,
  • Gladys Sandi Licapa-Redolfo,
  • Rolando Licapa-Redolfo and ,
  • Denis Javier Aranguri-Cayetano,
  • Aldo Roger Castillo-Chung,
  • Alexander Fernando Haro-Sarango and
  • Emma Verónica Ramos-Farroñán
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

The research examines organisational leadership styles in the transition to the circular water economy using explanatory quantitative methods, combining semantic normalisation of structured survey responses and latent class analysis. One hundred and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
549 Views
26 Pages

Development of a Survey Combining Lean, Quality, Safety and Culture in Manufacturing

  • Kongting Lee,
  • Dirk Pons,
  • Malcolm Taylor,
  • Anna Earl and
  • Yilei Zhang

9 June 2026

Industrial systems such as lean practices, quality systems, workplace safety, and organisational culture are often managed as separate systems; however, in practice, they are interdependent. This study presents a preliminary survey instrument (CiE II...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,165 Views
17 Pages

10 December 2020

The study explores how the COVID-19 outbreak prompted digital innovation in a Higher Education Institution (HEI) by providing evidence on the dimensions leveraged, the initiatives organised and the organisational results achieved. By means of an expl...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,714 Views
16 Pages

3 December 2024

Background: Cultural competence is central to ensuring effective culturally congruent care to patients and fostering positive work environments, particularly in multicultural settings. Objective: This study aimed to analyse the relationship between c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bullying in the Workplace, Gender Inequality: Challenges for the Quality and Safety of Health Care)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,274 Views
16 Pages

16 October 2025

Healthcare organisations recognise the need to deliver higher-quality, evidence-based care. Thus, managers need to improve their practice regarding managing and translating knowledge. Knowledge Translation faces diverse barriers that must be identifi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Systems Thinking and Healthcare Communities: A Community Approach to Transforming Healthcare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
564 Views
23 Pages

12 June 2026

Disability Enterprises have the potential to address employment barriers that people with an intellectual disability experience as they move into open employment. Disability Enterprises are able to facilitate this transition through strategic organis...

(This article belongs to the Section Disabled People/People with Disabilities (Non-Medical Coverage))
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,931 Views
16 Pages

24 July 2022

In 2018, a review was conducted to explore sporting organisations’ use of global safeguarding policies. Due to an increase in the number of organisations now adopting these policies, it is thought that an up-to-date review should be conducted t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Critical Child Protection Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,616 Views
12 Pages

The brutal ‘honour’ killing of Banaz Mahmod, aged 20, is still one of the most prominent murder cases of this kind in Britain. This was due partly to its complexity as well as the poor police response to Banaz’s pleas for help befor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, Children, Families and Their Communities in and against Social Welfare Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,367 Views
30 Pages

24 March 2026

Organisations increasingly face complex cybersecurity threats shaped not only by internal capabilities but also by external regulatory, institutional, and environmental conditions. While existing cybersecurity standards and maturity models provide va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,100 Views
14 Pages

There is little research on health-promoting workplace settings focused on people with an intellectual disability. There are a range of supported and open employment workplaces where people with an intellectual disability work, and this is an importa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Models and Approaches to Workplace Health Promotion and Well-Being with Diverse Population Groups)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,810 Views
16 Pages

Organisational commitment is a job attitude frequently linked to employee morale, motivation and behaviour. High organisational commitment has been associated with increased effort and productivity, while low commitment has been associated with low p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Leadership Behaviour and Teacher Job Attitudes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,208 Views
25 Pages

17 September 2021

Research reveals that organisations in general are keen to provide their staff with the support needed to boost their competency in BIM and subsequently leverage the effectiveness of its implementation. However, employers need a decision-making tool...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue BIM Implementation to Meet the Changing Demands of the Construction Industry)
  • Commentary
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,209 Views
11 Pages

20 January 2026

Frontline workers across health, emergency, and social care sectors are repeatedly exposed to distressing events and chronic stressors as part of their occupational roles. Unlike single-event trauma, these cumulative exposures accrue over time, gener...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Improving the Health and Well-Being of Groups of Workers Experiencing Work Disparities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
103 Citations
15,004 Views
25 Pages

Quality Culture of Manufacturing Enterprises: A Possible Way to Adaptation to Industry 4.0

  • Pavol Durana,
  • Pavol Kral,
  • Vojtech Stehel,
  • George Lazaroiu and
  • Wlodzimierz Sroka

19 April 2019

The concept of Industry 4.0 means a new paradigm of modern manufacturing. This phenomenon requires continuous innovation processes and technological development from each enterprise. Traditional concepts of quality must absorb changes and prepare the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industry 4.0 Implication for Economy and Society)
  • Protocol
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,982 Views
18 Pages

Creating Organisational Working Conditions Where Nurses Can Thrive: An International Action Research Study

  • Stephen Jacobs,
  • Willoughby Moloney,
  • Daniel Terry,
  • Peter A. Lewis and ,
  • Annie Topping,
  • Marcela González-Agüero and
  • Stephen Cavanagh
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Background: Attracting and retaining sufficient numbers of nurses is an international challenge. The group most difficult to retain are newly qualified nurses within their first five years of practice or earlier. A recent US study reported that appro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,253 Views
18 Pages

Engaging Health and Aged Care Workers in Rural and Remote Australia Around Factors Impacting Their Access to and Participation in Dementia Training

  • Sandra C. Thompson,
  • Jessica Valentine,
  • Kira Gusterson,
  • Katrina P. Fyfe and ,
  • Alex Beilby,
  • John A. Woods,
  • Myles Clarkson Fletcher,
  • Pascale Dettwiller and
  • Kathryn W. Fitzgerald
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

14 February 2025

Objective: To better understand barriers and enablers to uptake of dementia training in rural and remote areas using input from rural and remote aged and health care workers into how dementia training could be offered to better meet their needs. Meth...

(This article belongs to the Section Geriatric Public Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,468 Views
23 Pages

The Impact of Strategy, Environment, and the Management System on the Foreign Subsidiary: The Implication for Open Innovation

  • Margarida Rodrigues,
  • Maria do Céu Alves,
  • Cidália Oliveira,
  • José Vale and
  • Rui Silva

With globalisation, there has been an intensification of investments by foreign groups in sectors strategic to their country of origin, such as some minerals. It is, therefore, crucial for a parent company to implement specific controls in its manage...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
152 Citations
91,311 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,552 Views
14 Pages

Teacher Involvement in Organisational Change: From Engaging Risk to Cooperative Learning

  • Laima Daujotienė,
  • Aušra Kazlauskienė and
  • Remigijus Bubnys

13 November 2020

The present research aims at analysing the result of how preconditions, teacher reactions, action strategies, and intervening conditions of teacher involvement in the organisational changes manifest. A particular school which had recently implemented...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cooperative Learning for Sustainable Development and Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,683 Views
26 Pages

SME Engagement with Open Innovation: Commitments and Challenges towards Collaborative Innovation

  • Sanmugam Annamalah,
  • Kalisri Logeswaran Aravindan,
  • Murali Raman and
  • Pradeep Paraman

The open innovation concept is a comparatively new model, and there is an absence of empirical evidence to support a conclusive determination of the factors that affect open innovation, especially in terms of behaviour and costs. Researchers have pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Directions of Open Innovation, and Business Model with Digital Transformation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
662 Views
32 Pages

Assessing the Influence of Risk Maturity Level on Construction Delay Factors: A Machine Learning-Based Model

  • Faranak Zagia,
  • Stephen Kajewski,
  • Omid Motamedisedeh,
  • Sara Omrani and
  • Timothy Rose

7 August 2026

Construction project delays remain a persistent challenge in the construction industry, yet existing studies have generally examined delay risk prioritisation and organisational risk management maturity as separate research domains. This study addres...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Construction Risk Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,615 Views
21 Pages

13 April 2019

This article discusses the issue of the sustainable development of the Polish-Czech cross-border market for cultural services in a city divided by an international border. The article uses the example of Cieszyn and Český Těšín,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Cross-Border Cooperation: Common Planning, Policies, Strategies, Methods and Activities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,565 Views
23 Pages

2 June 2020

The transition towards sustainable cities cannot be solved by individual stakeholders and organisations acting alone. Better governance for tackling such complex problems, including policy change and innovation adoption, will require purposeful colla...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transforming Built Environments: Towards Carbon Neutral and Green-Blue Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
948 Views
16 Pages

Startup Hubs, Cultural and Creative Industries, and Tourism: A Comparative Analysis of European Cities

  • Ainhoa del Pino Rodríguez-Vera,
  • Carlos de las Heras-Pedrosa and
  • Carmen Jambrino-Maldonado

25 April 2026

This study examines the roles of startup hubs within the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) and their implications for cultural innovation and tourism in European cities. Despite the growing importance of CCIs in urban development and destinatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart and Sustainable Tourism Systems: Innovation, Management, and Future Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,523 Views
19 Pages

Digital Twins and the Stendhal Syndrome

  • Franco Niccolucci and
  • Achille Felicetti

The “Stendhal Syndrome” mentioned in the title refers to the first (early 19th century) documented perception of the role of intangible aspects in characterising cultural heritage. This paper addresses the semantic organisation of data co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
377 Views
25 Pages

8 October 2026

Churches can provide important sources of support, belonging, and resilience for survivors of gender-based violence. However, theological interpretations, organisational cultures, and institutional practices may also contribute to the perpetuation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,886 Views
29 Pages

8 December 2020

This article describes the development and subsequent testing of scales representing functions and features of school communication among staff in Australian primary schools using the Organisational Communication in Primary Schools Questionnaire (OCP...

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