The current study looked at how a safety management system (SMS) affected contract mineworkers' safety performance, through safety knowledge and motivation. Using 363 valid responses from frontline contract mineworkers in Ghana, the study's paths were analysed using hierarchical regression analysis in SPSS version 27. The findings showed that six SMS variables (promotion and training-PT, documentation and commands-DC, executive management commitment-EMC, safety rules and procedure-SRP, safety management policy-SMP and safety committees-SC) significantly influenced safety compliance. Emergency preparedness and response plan (EPRP) had an insignificant effect on safety compliance. Surprisingly, only four SMS variables (PT, EMC, EPRP, and SC) significantly influenced safety participation. DC, SRP, and SMP did not significantly affect safety participation. The five SMS variables (PT, DC, EMC, SMP, and SC) and compliance were found to be significantly mediated by safety motivation. The relationship between four SMS variables (PT, EMC, EPRP, and SC) and safety participation was further significantly mediated by safety motivation. On the other hand, the indirect route from EPRP and SRP to safety compliance could not be substantially mediated by safety motivation. Also, safety motivation insignificantly mediated the indirect path from DC, SRP and SMP to safety participation. Similarly, safety knowledge significantly mediated the relationship between four SMS variables (PT, DC, SMP, and SC) and safety compliance, and between two SMS variables (PT and SC) and safety participation. Unfortunately, safety knowledge insignificantly mediated the indirect paths from EMC, EPRP, and SRP to safety compliance. Similarly, safety knowledge did not mediate the paths from DC, EMC, EPRP, SRP, and SMP to safety participation to a significant extent.
This exploratory study examines the association between green credit and the financial performance of eight Vietnamese commercial banks over the 2022-2024 period. The balanced panel comprises 24 bank-year observations compiled from the financial statements, annual reports, sustainability reports, and ESG disclosures of BIDV, Vietcombank, LPBank, MB, SHB, MSB, Techcombank, and VPBank. Financial performance is measured by return on assets (ROA), while green credit is proxied by the ratio of outstanding green loans to total outstanding loans (GCR) and the logarithm of outstanding green loans (LogGCO). The pooled OLS results indicate that GCR has a positive and statistically significant coefficient across all three specifications, whereas LogGCO is not statistically significant. In the parsimonious model, the non-performing loan ratio and financial leverage have negative and statistically significant coefficients in relation to ROA. The VIF test for the parsimonious model does not indicate serious multicollinearity; the White test fails to reject the null hypothesis of homoskedasticity; and the Wooldridge test fails to reject the null hypothesis of no first-order serial correlation at the 5% level, although p = 0.0501 is very close to the threshold. The findings should be interpreted as exploratory evidence of statistical associations rather than causal effects. The study suggests that the development of green credit should be accompanied by effective risk control, data standardization, and transparent reporting.
Digital transformation has emerged as a critical enabler of organizational resilience, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets. This study investigates how digital technologies, such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and e-commerce platforms, enhance the resilience of SMEs by improving operational efficiency, adaptability, and crisis management capabilities. Using a mixed-methods approach, the research analyzes data from 300 SMEs across three emerging markets: India, Brazil, and South Africa. The findings reveal that digital transformation significantly strengthens organizational resilience by enabling SMEs to respond effectively to disruptions, such as economic crises, supply chain disruptions, and pandemics. However, challenges such as limited digital infrastructure, skill gaps, and financial constraints hinder the full realization of these benefits. The study concludes with actionable recommendations for policymakers and SME leaders to foster digital adoption and build resilient organizations in emerging markets.
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) finance complex Asian projects, but government and local donor personnel often neglect established protocols and assessment procedures. Furthermore, MDB complaint mechanisms lack local visibility due to centralized management and limited cross-border oversight, focusing mainly on mitigating donor risk.This research employed the Delphi technique to conduct a qualitative evaluation of fraud management practices in three MDB-funded infrastructure projects across various Asian countries. The experts contained within an “expert panel” constituted a sample from a closed population of borrower stakeholders, relating to complex construction projects. The pool of experts were chosen through a snowball sampling process where each expert was corroborated independently, whilst adhering to anonymity procedures. The independent expert panel was employed to generate consensus, through an iterative process, and controlled, by independent online feedback. The modified Delphi design entailed 3 review iterations.The outcome reflected 11 main themes, and 28 sub-themes after iteration 3. The main themes underwent further assessment and were reduced to 4 main themes, corroborated through iteration 3 outcomes. These were Donor Governance; Stakeholder Issues; Project Fraud Risk Management; and Project Resilience.The study outcomes showed that donor governance is reduced in Asia, most often by government agency management interventions, who conduct fraud on projects with collusive elements from the PMC whilst undertaking coercion measures to hide and reinforce fraudulent behaviour. There is little or no project risk management conducted showing that the donor’s do not conduct project risk management to protect their project assets in a loose laissez-faire management style indicating political interference and fear.
Literature asserts that management is not leadership. Because leadership enhances employee performance, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment, among other advantages, scholars have argued that it is beneficial for managers to become leaders or develop leadership skills. To become leaders, literature indicates that subordinates must first willingly transform into followers who subsequently make their manager their leader. However, followership results from various positive human relations practices by the manager, which convince subordinates of the manager's followership worthiness. This study recognizes organizational justice as an effective human relations competence that managers should practice in transforming subordinates into followers. This is based on the literature, which asserts that organizational justice enhances the work environment by stimulating employee performance, increasing motivation, engagement, trust in supervisors, and commitment to the organization. While literature recommends organizational justice as a leadership competence, the specific behaviors that produce justice remain sparse and sometimes controversial. This study contributes to the knowledge of organizational justice analysis and recommends specific social justice behaviors for managers to practice as a roadmap for achieving organizational justice and increasing their subordinates’ likelihood of becoming followers.
The objectives of the study are to identify behavioral changes such as low job satisfaction, increase in absenteeism, low motivation, changes in napping patterns and procrastinating work that accrued due to the increase in retirement age, to determine the level of health towards the increase in retirement age, to determine the level of productivity of workers towards an increase in retirement age and to determine the relationship between the impacts and increase in retirement age.119 individuals who are from private sectors in Selangor and above 50 years old are accepted as the respondents. The research design that has been chosen to conduct this study is descriptive and correlational research using a quantitative paradigm.
The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationships between the five dimensions of Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence (EI) on business undergrad students, using a scale to tap the construct. The methodology is divided into 3 stages: confirmatory analysis to validate the questionnaire, the core of the research which is the exploratory analysis of emotional intelligence factors on Brazilian undergrad students, and closing with a proposal of classification model to identify the EI profile of individuals according to the EI sub-factors found in the previous stage of the research. A convenience sample of 129 cases from a population of 250 was collected from the population of business undergrad students at a university located in São Paulo State, Brazil. The research identified that each of the five EI factors proposed by Goleman was empirically segmented into significative sub-factors without losing the original roots. Moreover, the building of a classification model according to the EI sub-factors can be used to evaluate the student’s profile from time to time, during their school journey. Besides recognizing the significance of EI in business education, it provides a reference point for more in-depth analyses of EI factors. With the proper knowledge of the students’ emotional traits, the teachers can better understand their behavior profile and thus, will be able to get the most of them in the classes.
In fast-changing project environments, traditional management approaches are increasingly insufficient to meet practical demands. Agile methods, characterized by short delivery cycles, flexibility, and stakeholder involvement, have become a key trend in project management. However, the impact of organizational governance on the effectiveness of agile practices remains underexplored. This study investigates project professionals in Taiwan with agile experience to examine how agile methods influence three dimensions of project success—efficiency, stakeholder satisfaction, and future potential—and compares outcomes across different governance characteristics. The results indicate that agile methods positively affect project success and enhance organizational learning. Although governance did not show a statistically significant moderating effect, differences observed across governance types suggest a potential contextual role. This study fills a gap in Taiwan’s agile research and highlights the importance of aligning management approaches with governance structures.
The article explores the concept of Social Entropy realized at the intersection of physical and social sciences. It analyzes physical laws of Thermodynamics–Entropy and Negentropy–and relates them to the life of social institutions asserting the organizational fate may not be controlled by conscious decisions but a natural law instead. Simply put, organizations atrophy despite good intentions. That makes decisions on the part of management important but not sufficient. Under such circumstances, the role of management rests upon its ability to organize the work, not the people, using processes that enable Self-Organization at every level. It replaces people managers with system managers. The concept of Holacracy is presented as an alternative to bureaucratic and post-bureaucratic structural isolationism, encompassing self-management and free flow of life-producing usable energy throughout the organization as its target process. In such a structure, the authority shifts from personal leadership to a formal process of constitutionally derived power in an open system.
Cornucopia of emerging information far exceeds any one’s ability to confront the emerging issues today. Isaac Newton’s emphasis on linear clockwise universe in which all principles of the known world could be understood through rational faculties pushed subconscious intuition to the side as superstitious not worthy of academic pursuit. Merely three hundred years later, digital revolution embraced intuition’s long-lost appeal. Today’s technology granted humanity the opportunity to collect infinite amount of information. Again, intuition is being espoused as an alternative to a rational decision-making model. Following science three-hundred-year-long love affair with reason and logic, humanity is back where it started–in the dark ages. Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity associated with complexity and use of nonlinear concepts such as intuition and emotions have become a common corporate practice. Even though human mind retained its rational capacities, the world in which decisions are made today has changed.
Commercialization of Agri-biotechnology research outputs has remained low. The government of Kenya has implemented multiple policy frameworks to support the growth of the Agri-biotechnology industry. It has developed an elaborate approval process for Agri-biotechnology innovations. However, despite the huge potential of Agri-biotechnology crop innovations, Bt cotton remains the only product approved in Kenya for commercial cultivation and human use since 2019. This represents a paltry 2.5% of the approved in-house research projects. The industry has not been able to translate its Agri-biotechnology crop research and development into marketed products. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of strategic entrepreneurial mindset, entrepreneurial culture, strategic entrepreneurial leadership, and strategic resource management on the commercialization of Agri-biotechnology crop innovations.The study was founded on four theories: Technology Commercialization Theory, Strategic Entrepreneurship Theory, Knowledge Spillover Theory, and Theory of Traditional Agriculture.A descriptive survey research design was employed. Primary data was collected from 46 scientists from 15 organizations involved in Agribiotechnology research and development in Kenya. The data was analyzed through descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and multiple linear regression using SPSS version 30. Strategic entrepreneurial practices had a positive and statistically significant effect on the commercialization of Agri-biotechnology crop innovations.This study underscores the critical role of strategic entrepreneurship in the commercialization of Agri-biotechnology crop innovations in Kenya. By fostering an entrepreneurial mindset, cultivating an entrepreneurial culture, and optimizing resource management, organizations can effectively turn their innovations into market-responsive products.
In today’s global economy, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have greater opportunities to venture into foreign markets—an opportunity that was less feasible a few decades ago. While macro-factors of free-trade and lower transaction costs are the necessary conditions for all firms to expand globally, these are not sufficient for SMEs to expand. SMEs face significant challenges in entering new geographic markets due to their small size and the need for partnerships. Unlike larger firms, SMEs lack “natural market mechanism” to penetrate foreign markets. Instead, small and medium sized enterprises must rely on network ties to opportunistically expand internationally. Drawing from academic literature around embeddedness theory and network ties, this paper explores effective strategies for SMEs aiming to achieve global expansion. Specifically, how small and medium sized enterprises form effective international partnerships, with a focus on the benefits of weak ties over strong ties in providing complementary knowledge, broader access to partners, and avoiding entanglements.
This research is concentrated on the opinions of a PMC/Engineer staff of a dual metro construction project in UP, India, in relation to project fraud and underpinned by toxic leadership of the Employer. The research study employed a qualitative/interpretive methodology focused on grounded theory to extract meaning associated with the views and practices regarding the Employer and PMC Core Group collusion to negatively affect the project performance and management competence. The research scope was PMC/Engineer staff as part of the joint venture, contracted by the Employer, to oversee the project management and construction. The targeted population was made up of eleven (11) respondents, from a Project Management JV (PMC), located across a dual metro construction project having similar experiences of toxic leadership and fraud. The research outcomes comprised of four (4) main-themes - Employer, PMC Core Group, PMC, and ED; with Fourteen sub-themes (14) – illustrated by 276 discussion targets.The research outcome has raised important issues of project Employer derived fraud, where toxic leadership was used to deflect from the fraudulent activities underpinned by a PMC Core Group, acting as sycophantic fraud “enablers”. These included harassment, creation of fear, arrogation of contract, and a sense of impunity of the Employer MD/DWI and the PMC Core Group. The lack of risk management and project governance, attributed to significant procedural failures of the project stakeholders, including the European donor, has raised clear evidence of ongoing and associated fraud.
Purpose – This study provides an analysis view of prior studies on the integration of ICT into accounting curriculum.Methodology – The method of document analysis is used to collect the data published from 1981 to 2023 in the fields of social science, specifically focused on the study of information technology and accounting curriculum.Scope of the study – This study revolves around the analysis of the past trends of publication years, the most influential countries, the most research-active institutions and the most highly cited articles in research studies exploring the integration of ICT into accounting curriculum. Findings –From 1981 to 2023, there has been a noticeable and significant increase in research focusing on integrating ICT into the accounting curriculum. This trend reflects the growing recognition of the pivotal role that technology plays in modern accounting education and practice. Practical Implications – The increasing research on integrating ICT into the accounting curriculum underscores the critical need for accounting programs to adopt advanced technologies, enhancing students' technical skills, job readiness, and alignment with industry standards, thereby maintaining educational institutions' relevance and competitive edge.Originality/ Value – This study lies in its comprehensive analysis of how technological advancements have been progressively adopted in accounting education. It uniquely documents the evolution of educational practices in response to ICT, providing a historical perspective that underscores the growing importance of digital competencies for accounting professionals. It also offers valuable insights for educators, policymakers, and researchers, guiding future curriculum development to ensure accounting education remains relevant and prepares students for modern workforce demands.
This study aimed to investigate the impact of human resource management practices on organizational performance at Libyan International Medical University. The population consisted of 400 employees. The stratified randomized sample consisted of 196 employees. To reach the purpose of this study, data were collected from 151 employees using the questionnaire adopted from Al Shaikhly (2017). The questionnaire was revised, and validated by the supervisors. Statistical techniques such as descriptive statistics, Cronbach's alpha, multiple regressions, and stepwise regression were used to test the hypotheses. The results showed that there is a significant impact of human resource management practices (planning & recruitment, training program, and performance appraisal) on the organizational performance of Libyan International Medical University at level ( ). The results also showed that the performance appraisal variable has the most impact on organizational performance. On the other hand, the results also showed that compensation management had no impact on the organizational performance of Libyan International Medical University. The study limitations were the lack of previous studies published in Libya related to this topic, also the data were not normally distributed, and just 46% of variations in the organizational performance are explained by human resource management practices in this study. The study recommended conducting more research on the topics addressed in this study to acquire a deeper and broader understanding of human resource management practices. Keywords: Human resource management practices, organizational performance, LIMU.
The current study proposes a practical and structured approach for performing materiality analysis that results in a reference table with 8 dimensions and 13 material topics. The models of SASB Standards and Sustainable Development Goals as well as requirements of the health industry key players were used as references for this reference table. The key players were divided into producers, intermediaries, and providers besides the regulatory agency. This reference model takes into account a breakdown of the dimensions and topics that are transversal to all groups of players and classifies those that have an impact and are relevant under each group of players. In unraveling the materiality analysis of Brazilian health industry players, it becomes evident that success in this competitive landscape requires a holistic understanding of factors influencing decision-making. The contribution of this article is to delve into the intricate details of the materiality analysis, shedding light on its significance and impact within the Brazilian health industry.
There has been a great deal of controversies concerning the performance implications of conglomerate (business group) strategy, often prevalent in emerging economies. The aim of this research is to develop a theoretical model that prescribes the viability of corporate diversification strategy in relation to institutional contexts. The theoretical model suggests that conglomerate strategy will be positively related to firm performance in institutional contexts where the functions of formal market controls and informal normative controls are inefficient, whereas focused/related diversification strategy will be positively related to firm performance in institutional contexts characterized by efficient market and normative controls. The framework synthesizing major theoretical perspectives will contribute to better understanding of the connection between institutional contexts and corporate diversification strategy.
While many ESG measures focus on factors that influence an organization's bottom line, some do not consider the role of women in leadership. First, we want to perform a time series segmentation study to identify the clusters of companies that have improved the ESG scores over the years and also the cluster of companies that has not been able to do so. Second, we want to test the assumption that businesses with more women directors make better decisions than those with more men. The difference in ESG ratings between companies with and without women on their boards isn’t particularly substantial, and it is unclear what the exact impact of a woman’s inclusion on a board is.A direct link exists between an organization's ESG rating and the composition of its board of directors. We want to verify empirically that companies with gender-diverse boards perform higher on the ESG index than companies with less diversity. The ESG rating reflects three dimensions of sustainable business development. Listed companies with more women on their boards are expected to perform better across all three GSS categories. The idea is that by including a female board member on your board, organizations will be making a positive impact on the lives of the people who work for the organization.
The current study investigated the impact of the predictors of workplace violence (harassment, physical violence, stalking, and ostracism) on sustainable work performance with mediating the role of social well-being of Pakistani nurses considering the ‘hierarchy of need’ theory. A survey method was used to conduct the current study. The data was collected from 400 respondents of four nursing teaching colleges, affiliated with hospitals of Lahore, Pakistan. The data was analyzed in Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and Smart Partial Least Square (PLS) software using structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique. The results revealed a negative influence of workplace violence on the performance of nurses. Moreover, it tends to dissatisfy their safety and social needs, the most important human needs according to Maslow’s theory. Since Maslow’s time, researchers continued to explore how safety and social needs impact the well-being of nurses. Social well-being is related to better physical, mental, and social health and conversely, feeling isolated (unmet safety and social need) bears negative consequences for health and well-being. Eventually, it became the reason for low performance. The findings confirmed that workplace violence is the strong predictor of sustainable performance. Whereas, nurse’s social well-being mediates the relationship between the predictors (workplace violence) and the outcome variable (performance). Therefore, the study concluded that when safety and social needs are fulfilled, nurses perform their duties enthusiastically. This is the first endeavor to use the “hierarchy of need” theory in order to mediate the effect of violence, performance, and social well-being of nurses. Therefore, the current study served as a baseline for further research in this area. The findings helped the higher authorities and hospitals’ management to devise such policies which help nurses towards organizational growth and sustainable work environment.
Bringing innovation to organizations is not only considered to be a growth strategy but also a way to survive in the current technological era. Technological innovation involves customer participation and engagement for value co-creation and co-destruction, which raises new challenges in theory and practice. It becomes more challenging in the service industry, specifically the education sector. Limited literature is available regarding different roles played by the participating customers during technology innovation. Therefore, an empirical study was needed to explore the role(s) of customer participation in the entire process of co-creation, the drivers for customers’ positive engagement, and the reasons behind the negative engagement of customers while participating in technology innovation process. The negative engagement of the customers not only hinders the success of the co-creation process, rather it also causes co-destruction from multiple aspects. The current study followed the qualitative method to explore the phenomenon of value co-creation and co-destruction. In order to perform this task, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with the representatives of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) firms and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) of Pakistan. The collected qualitative data was sorted in Nvivo 13 and thematic analysis was performed. The study concluded with the identification of multiple roles/dimensions of customer participation to foster or hinder the cocreation process. The major beneficiaries of the study include ICT firms and HEIs which need to re-assess their business processes. The study also contributes to the evolving theory of value co-creation, while engaging the actors (customers).
