The rapid development of digital technologies has profoundly impacted port operations, driving digital transformation to maintain competitive advantage and operational resilience. However, the role of organizational capabilities such as flexibility and transformation in facilitating digital adoption and improving port operational performance remains underexplored. This study proposes and tests a structural model that examines how organizational flexibility and transformation influence digital adoption and port operational performance, with digital adoption serving as a mediator. This study is grounded in Dynamic Capabilities Theory, Technology-Organization-Environment Framework, and the Resource-Based View. The study employed PLS-SEM to analyze the data. The sample consisted of managerial respondents representing 103 container ports in Indonesia, with each response treated as a port-level observation. The results show that flexibility and organizational transformation positively influence digital adoption, but digital adoption does not significantly enhance port performance. The findings suggest that organizational flexibility positively and significantly influences digital adoption, whereas organizational transformation does not have a significant direct effect on digital adoption. Digital adoption positively and significantly enhances port operational performance. Furthermore, digital adoption significantly mediates the effects of organizational flexibility and organizational transformation on port operational performance. These findings highlight the importance of organizational flexibility and the effective adoption of digital technologies as key mechanisms for achieving measurable performance improvements in port operations.
Social marketing interventions have emerged as important approaches for addressing online gambling-related harm, particularly amid the proliferation of digital gambling platforms and sophisticated marketing practices. However, existing bibliometric studies on gambling prevention have paid limited attention to the social marketing dimensions. This study addresses this gap by conducting a bibliometric analysis of 333 peer-reviewed articles selected from 481 Scopus-indexed records using predefined document type, language, publication year, and relevance criteria. Social marketing is operationally defined as the application of marketing principles to influence voluntary behaviours for individual and societal benefit, particularly prevention, harm reduction, consumer protection, and responsible gambling. Using VOSviewer, the study identifies research streams and thematic clusters, highlighting growth since 2005. Bibliographic coupling identified four areas: safer gambling message effectiveness and consumer protection, behavioural addiction mechanisms, industry practices and regulatory responses, and problem gambling epidemiology and behavioural patterns. Co-word analysis revealed three clusters related to responsible gambling campaigns, psychological and population-level vulnerability, and technology-related addiction patterns. The findings reveal an uneven geographic distribution, with research concentrated in English-speaking countries. Persistent gaps remain in cross-cultural prevention, harm-reduction messaging, and the integration of emerging technologies into intervention design. The study provides a knowledge map and identifies future research directions.
Social media has grown in popularity over the last decade, creating new opportunities for influencer marketing and reshaping how consumers make purchasing decisions. While prior reviews have mapped this field’s overall growth and its dominant theoretical lenses (chiefly Source Credibility Theory and Parasocial Interaction), the extent to which these lenses have been tested across, rather than within, generational cohorts have not been established. The current study employs a combination of Systematic Literature Review (SLR) and Bibliometrics analysis to explore the intellectual structure, development of themes, and generational focus of research on influencer marketing conducted between 2016 and 2025. The bibliographic analysis of dataset extracted from Scopus was examined using bibliometrix R package, specifically its Biblioshiny interface. The systematic qualitative synthesis of the highly cited papers was also made. The results show sustained growth in influencer marketing research from 2020 onward, alongside a concentration of studies on Generation Z relative to cross-generational comparison. Building on this evidence, the study proposes a structured, theoretically grounded agenda for cross-generational influencer marketing research, offering both a methodological reference point for future bibliometric-SLR reviews and a practical roadmap for researchers and practitioners seeking to understand influencer effectiveness across generational audiences.
In Vietnam’s increasingly competitive labor market, organizations are placing greater emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices as part of their employer branding strategies to attract young talent. Drawing on signaling theory and employer branding theory, this study examines how perceived DEI practices influence young job seekers’ intention to apply, while considering the mediating role of perceived organizational reputation and the moderating role of career growth expectation. Data were collected from 344 young job seekers in Hanoi, Vietnam, and analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results indicate that perceived DEI practices do not directly influence intention to apply but significantly enhance perceived organizational reputation, which in turn positively affects application intentions, indicating a full mediation effect. In addition, contrary to the hypothesized positive direction, career growth expectation negatively moderates the relationship between perceived DEI practices and intention to apply. These findings highlight the importance of organizational reputation as a key mechanism linking DEI signals and applicant attraction and suggest that HR and recruitment managers should combine DEI-related signals with clear career development opportunities when attracting young applicants. Given the cross-sectional, convenience-sampled design, the findings should be interpreted with caution regarding causality and generalizability.
Universities communicate their contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through institution-wide sustainability reports and through external ranking systems, but these public channels are produced by different mechanisms. This study examines two related questions: how review-ready university SDG disclosures are as accountability documents, and how the SDGs foregrounded in institutional reports diverge from those made most visible through Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Ranking profiles. The analysis uses 107 university SDG or sustainability disclosures retained from an initial frame of 250 universities in the THE Impact Rankings 2025. The SDG Disclosure Review-Readiness Index (SDG-DRRI), a study-specific diagnostic instrument grounded in accountability and sustainability-reporting literature, assesses strategic alignment, governance and accountability, metrics and evidence, SDG coverage and prioritisation, and review readiness. A second-stage directional comparison contrasts report-based SDG salience with ranking-visible SDGs while explicitly recognising that THE profiles are shaped by institutional submissions, bibliometric data, scoring rules and the platform’s selection of strongest SDG results. Only 29.0% of analysed disclosures reached high review-readiness. Institutional reports strongly foregrounded SDG 4 and other mission-related goals, whereas THE profiles made a different set of SDGs more visible. The study does not interpret this divergence as evidence of manipulation, weak commitment or inconsistent performance. Rather, it distinguishes dual-channel SDG visibility, cross-channel divergence and unreconciled divergence. Unreconciled divergence is treated as a conditional interpretive concept rather than a measured outcome because the study did not systematically code whether each university provided a reconciliation explanation. A concise SDG reconciliation statement is proposed to make the relationship between institutional priorities and ranking-visible outcomes more transparent and reviewable.
