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  • Article
  • Open Access
2,396 Views
29 Pages

Between Firewalls and Feelings: Modelling Trust and Commitment in Digital Banking Platforms

  • Ruhunage Panchali Dias,
  • Zazli Lily Wisker and
  • Noor H. S. Alani

Digital banking has become part of everyday life in Aotearoa–New Zealand, offering convenience but also raising questions of trust, security, and long-term commitment. This study examines how service quality, security and privacy, user experien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,200 Views
21 Pages

5 June 2019

Drawing upon the psychology of sustainability, effective organizations can create a sense of belongingness for people, and successfully facilitate growth and development activities for both individuals as well as the organization itself. Extending th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,578 Views
29 Pages

30 June 2025

This study explores the factors driving employees’ sustainability-switching behaviors (SSBs) by integrating the Push, Pull, and Mooring (PPM) model with the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA). A quantitative, cross-sectional survey was conducted w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,031 Views
18 Pages

5 July 2022

The hotel industry experienced substantial economic losses during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is only recently that there has been a return to normal. In order to recover those losses, hotel managers are taking competitive actions focused on custom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,563 Views
21 Pages

12 December 2020

An absence of trust among partners can magnify the risk in a complex project by increasing behavioural uncertainty. Partnership trust can effectively substitute for control, reducing variability of outcomes and increasing value-adding strategic colla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,979 Views
18 Pages

This study investigated whether three components of ethical management—awareness, operation, and practice—have a positive effect on corporate trust and relationship commitment in business-to-business (B2B) transactions. The study examined whether the...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,374 Views
11 Pages

30 January 2018

This study focuses on three important shared values—trust, openness, and commitment—and examines the impact of these values on project performance and outcomes, specifically for science and innovation research projects. To this end, 12 in-depth inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,942 Views
10 Pages

30 March 2023

The authors of this study aimed to evaluate the links between corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, trust, identification, and commitment to measure the impact of consumer perceptions of CSR initiatives on these three marketing outcomes (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,612 Views
21 Pages

How Cyber Security Enhances Trust and Commitment to Customer Retention: The Mediating Role of Robotic Service Quality

  • Roshan Panditharathna,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Fabio Vinicius de Macedo Bergamo,
  • Dominic Appiah,
  • Peter R. J. Trim and
  • Yang-Im Lee

Cyber security is supportive of robotic service provision, the objective of which is to help marketers achieve their aim of providing a high level of service. Marketers need to be aware of cyber security issues and adhere to established cyber securit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,581 Views
15 Pages

14 May 2022

The innovative behavior of employees is the micro-foundation of enterprise innovation. The objective of this study was to assess the role of gender differences in the effect of interpersonal trust on employee innovation and the mediating roles of org...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,556 Views
16 Pages

Trust in the Leader, Organizational Commitment, and Nurses’ Intention to Leave—Insights from a Nationwide Study Using Structural Equation Modeling

  • Dhurata Ivziku,
  • Valentina Biagioli,
  • Rosario Caruso,
  • Marzia Lommi,
  • Anna De Benedictis,
  • Raffaella Gualandi and
  • Daniela Tartaglini

10 June 2024

Nursing retention is a major challenge globally. Ongoing workforce instability across countries underscores the need to understand the factors influencing turnover and nursing retention. Trust is a crucial element in managing workplace relationships...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,655 Views
25 Pages

13 April 2021

The successes of the digital market depend on customers’ intentions to purchase and reuse products or services. Previous studies have extensively discussed customer shopping value and customer learning, but most studies have analyzed the influencing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,978 Views
15 Pages

6 November 2018

Loyalty is one of the greatest intangible assets that any organization can possess and improving client loyalty is a primary marketing goal that can have a significant financial impact on any business. This quantitative study examined the mediating r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,605 Views
14 Pages

14 May 2025

Collegiate sports serve as a powerful platform for advancing youth development and social engagement, contributing not only to athletic growth but also to personal development, teamwork, and social justice among student-athletes. This study explores...

  • Article
  • Open Access
561 Views
21 Pages

12 December 2025

Leadership, organizational culture, and their effects on employee attitudes are key focuses in organizational behavior studies. In this research, there were two main aims: first, to explore how organizational trust influences the relationship between...

  • Article
  • Open Access
246 Views
34 Pages

6 January 2026

Although communication quality is widely recognized as a catalyst for workplace innovation, existing research seldom integrates communication quality, trust in leadership, and organizational commitment within a single explanatory framework, particula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,092 Views
27 Pages

There is an increasing interest in the use of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) to work in teams with humans. To achieve successful outcomes for these heterogeneous teams, many of the aspects found in successful human teams will need to be supported....

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
13,668 Views
21 Pages

22 February 2019

The present study examines the mediating role of affective and cognitive trust, and the moderating role of continuous commitment on participative leadership and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) relationships. Four hundred employees were recr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,892 Views
13 Pages

This research examines the direct influence of sexual harassment by superiors on subordinates’ young female trust in their superiors. The research also examines the mediating role of trust in the relationship between sexual harassment and conti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,843 Views
18 Pages

5 September 2022

This study aimed to analyze the relationship between deans and directors of Korean universities on the organizational commitment of university professors, and the mediating effects of organizational culture and organizational trust. A survey was cond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,006 Views
22 Pages

13 August 2021

Vietnam tourism experienced impressive growth from 2008–2019, but it has weakened due to the impact of the pandemic up to the present. So, what should the travel companies and their partners do to overcome the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic?...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,427 Views
17 Pages

23 January 2022

To achieve sustainable growth and ensure competitive advantage in response to rapidly changing industries, companies have recently focused on creating new values based on innovative organizational composition and various personnel management systems....

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,332 Views
27 Pages

13 November 2020

Human resource management system (HRMS) is an organizational instrument that sends organizational messages to employees. If we consider that HRMS can be an indicator of organization’s involvement towards employees’ it is relevant to under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,525 Views
19 Pages

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on an employee’s negative behavior, in addition to its intermediating mechanism (i.e., mediators and moderator) in the relationship. This paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
21,082 Views
13 Pages

12 February 2023

Leadership and organizational trust have become increasingly important in sport organizations. This study investigated the separate effects of inclusive leadership and autocratic leadership on organizational trust and the moderating role of sport inv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,238 Views
20 Pages

24 October 2023

Trust in “green” practices emerges as a crucial determinant in consumer decision-making, reflecting the value placed on a hotel’s sustainability endeavors. This study investigates the factors influencing trust in green hotels by ana...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,568 Views
15 Pages

The Impact of Customer-Centric Sustainability on Brand Relationships

  • Mafalda Nogueira,
  • Bruno Silva and
  • Sandra Gomes

10 August 2023

This paper contributes to the existing but scarce literature on customer-centric sustainability and measures consumers’ perceptions of fast-fashion brands regarding economic, environmental, and social sustainability. Furthermore, it aims to tes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,903 Views
19 Pages

Marital relationship quality significantly influences health outcomes, but validated measurement tools for South Asian populations remain limited. To validate scales measuring trust, commitment, and satisfaction as key components of marital relations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,496 Views
26 Pages

Determinants of Future Intentions in a Virtual Career: The Role of Brand Variables

  • Daniel Martínez-Cevallos,
  • Ferran Calabuig,
  • Daniel Duclos-Bastías,
  • Josep Crespo-Hervás and
  • Mario Alguacil

11 July 2025

This study aims to analyze, through structural equation modelling, the interaction between the variables of congruence, trust, commitment, satisfaction and word of mouth (WOM) in the context of a virtual sporting event, determining the significant re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,139 Views
13 Pages

Influence of Brand Image of a Sports Event on the Recommendation of Its Participants

  • Daniel Martínez Cevallos,
  • Mario Alguacil and
  • Ferran Calabuig Moreno

19 June 2020

The aim of this research is to test the psychometric properties and relationships of a model where, from brand congruence of a sport event, trust and commitment to it can be generated, influencing future behavior of participants and resulting in a hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,157 Views
18 Pages

15 April 2019

Lack of sustainability in ethical behavior is one of the principal reasons for unsustainable outcomes. The present study observes how sustainability in ethical leadership affects employee outcomes like trust, effective commitments, and organizational...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,740 Views
14 Pages

The Effect of Sustainability Orientation on CRM Adoption

  • Obaid Mobarak Al-Shuridah and
  • Nelson Oly Ndubisi

25 June 2023

As research stresses the relevance of sustainability orientation and the necessity of viewing it as a key source of organizations’ competitive advantage, interest in it from a number of academic fields is growing and gaining ground. Furthermore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,113 Views
21 Pages

6 June 2025

This study aims to examine the impact of ESG management activities (independent variable) on organizational trust and organizational commitment (mediating variables), as well as organizational performance (dependent variable), among members of large...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,084 Views
40 Pages

Customer-Based Brand Equity Drivers: A Leading Brand of Beer in Estonia

  • Dafnis N. Coudounaris,
  • Peter Björk,
  • Tõnis Mets,
  • Rustam Asadli and
  • Andreea I. Bujac

22 March 2024

Based on the trust/commitment theory and the customer-based brand equity theory, this study aims to ascertain which of the brand equity drivers of A. Le Coq beer have an impact on attachment and its overall brand equity in the Estonian brewery market...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
13,044 Views
17 Pages

The Stress-Induced Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism and Hospitality Workers

  • Sung-Eun Kang,
  • Changyeon Park,
  • Choong-Ki Lee and
  • Seunghoon Lee

27 January 2021

This study explores how COVID-19-induced stress (CID) influences organizational trust, job satisfaction, self-esteem, and commitment in tourism and hospitality organizations. A total of 427 tourism affiliated employees in South Korea participated in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7,797 Views
12 Pages

14 November 2024

Although most American eat at a fast-food restaurant 1 to 3 times a week, they would realize that fast food consumption is highly associated with chronic diseases and generates negative impacts on their health. As fast-food consumers become more heal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,656 Views
15 Pages

2 January 2023

This study investigates how leadership, more precisely leader–member exchange (LMX), affects innovative behavior through an innovative climate as well as, indirectly, through organizational commitment and internal trust. A total of 1114 samples...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
14,875 Views
24 Pages

24 August 2023

In the context of sports fitness centers, understanding the relationship between service quality and customer experience is crucial for enhancing customer loyalty and building long-term relationships. This study aims to explore the impact of service...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,147 Views
19 Pages

In today’s world, the higher education system represents a means of developing the national and global economy by providing individual and collective benefits. Student loyalty is a critical measure in the success of higher education institution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,315 Views
29 Pages

Conceptual Framework for Unlocking Customer Satisfaction Drivers in Digital Vendor-Managed Inventory Systems

  • Aihie Osarenkhoe,
  • Daniella Fjellström,
  • Tove Gioeli and
  • Anna Backer-Meurke

16 August 2024

There are calls in the extant literature for further exploration into the factors influencing customer satisfaction in industrial vending solutions (IVS), a distinct vendor-managed inventory method. This study delves into these factors, identifying p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,202 Views
14 Pages

11 March 2021

Committed Business-to-Business (B2B) relationships are linked to sustainable business partnerships and greater profitability. As competition increases, suppliers must seek to differentiate by shifting the focus of their offerings from the product to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,991 Views
14 Pages

This research presents a new perspective of social exchange to explain the employee responses to corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of their organizations. In particular, the current study aims to explore the social exchange based media...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,418 Views
16 Pages

21 September 2016

We study the evolution of strategic psychological capabilities in a population of interacting agents. Specifically, we consider agents which are either blind or with mindsight, and either transparent or opaque. An agent with mindsight can observe the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,932 Views
17 Pages

The Role of Relationship Marketing and Brand Love Among Banking Consumers in an Emerging Market Context

  • Jose Alberto Panduro-Ramirez,
  • Miguel Angel Gallegos-Reyes,
  • Miluska Villar-Guevara,
  • Elizabeth Emperatriz García-Salirrosas and
  • Israel Fernández-Mallma

20 December 2024

Relationship marketing is a concept that focuses not only on increasing the volume of relationship transactions, but also on improving consumer perception. Therefore, this research aimed to evaluate the influence of relationship marketing dimensions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,061 Views
17 Pages

Ethical Leadership and Emotional Exhaustion: The Impact of Moral Intensity and Affective Commitment

  • Carlos Santiago-Torner,
  • Mònica González-Carrasco and
  • Rafael Alberto Miranda Ayala

23 September 2024

Purpose: The impact of ethical leadership on employee emotional exhaustion has been extensively analyzed. However, the impact of a leader’s moral intensity on an employee’s emotional state has gone largely unnoticed. This research demonst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
9,198 Views
18 Pages

28 August 2019

Thriving at work refers to a psychological experience of learning (cognitive dimension) and vitality (affective dimension) to the workplace. Based on the Social Exchange Theory and the Socially Embedded Model of thriving, the purpose of this research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,382 Views
21 Pages

22 August 2021

The pandemic has triggered, on one hand, a wave of employee disloyalty in the form of quitting from non-functioning companies and choosing those seeking employees, and on the other hand, reinforcing their relationships with those companies that made...

  • Article
  • Open Access
372 Views
21 Pages

Online Marketing Tools and Students’ Career Decision Processes: Managerial Insights from Iraqi Higher Education

  • Mehmet Karakus,
  • Sandra Nelly Leyva-Hernández,
  • Sanar Muhyaddin,
  • Selman Tetik,
  • Ibrahim Keles and
  • Nurettin Can

5 January 2026

This study explores how digital and traditional marketing tools influence higher education students’ career decision-making, satisfaction, and career commitment during students’ educational trajectories in Iraq’s rapidly expanding u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,201 Views
24 Pages

Sustainable Management of Sports Federations: The Indirect Effects of Perceived Service on Member’s Loyalty

  • Pedro Cuesta-Valiño,
  • Pablo Gutiérrez-Rodríguez and
  • Cristina Loranca-Valle

6 January 2021

Sports federations are non-profit organizations that compete for members and resources. These organizations are obliged to cooperate on the environment, nature conservation, and sustainability together with other public bodies. Given this situation a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,653 Views
22 Pages

9 October 2023

This two-stage sequential mixed-methods study explores the contextual configuration of perceived high-performance work systems (HPWSs) and its association with psychological empowerment (PE), trust in immediate managers (ET), affective commitment (AC...

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