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22-05-2024 | Review Paper

Interdependence between supply chains and sustainable development: global insights from a systematic review

Economic growth combined with industrialization brought negative repercussions, notably the depletion of resources and environmental challenges. In light of new global consumption patterns, unprecedented challenges arise for Supply Chain …

Authors:
Allan Dênisson Soares da Silva, Wesley Vieira da Silva, Luciana Santos Costa Vieira da Silva, Nicholas Joseph Tavares da Cruz, Zhaohui Su, Claudimar Pereira da Veiga

21-05-2024 | Correction

Correction: Family firm ownership and its impact on performance: evidence from an emerging market

Authors:
Avinash Ghalke, Arunima Haldar, Satish Kumar

Open Access 21-05-2024 | Original Paper

Employee turnover in multinational corporations: a supervised machine learning approach

This research explores the potential of supervised machine learning techniques in transforming raw data into strategic knowledge in the context of human resource management. By analyzing a database with over 205 variables and 2,932 observations …

Authors:
Valerio Veglio, Rubina Romanello, Torben Pedersen

17-05-2024 | Original Paper

Governing professional microfinance associations: the Tanzanian case through the prism of institutional design

Given recent criticisms, orienting the practices of microfinance institutions towards the achievement of their social missions is critical. Going beyond the dichotomous “government-or-market” view, we investigate a fundamental but barely studied …

Authors:
Tristan Caballero-Montes, Cécile Godfroid

15-05-2024 | Editorial

Special Issue in memoriam Jacob Spronk: new developments in Financial Modelling and their impact on society beyond Finance

Two papers cover topics on gender issues.

Authors:
Rita Laura D’Ecclesia, Anoop Rai, Karen Watkins-Fassler, Onno Steenbeek

06-05-2024 | Original Paper

Are brand preferences inherent, constructed, or a mixture of both? A memory-based dual-process model

Understanding whether consumer preferences are inherent or constructed has profound implications for a range of marketing and economic issues, such as demand estimation, consumer education and information, market design and competition. The …

Authors:
Jiang Zhiying, Suman Ann Thomas, Chu Junhong

Open Access 29-04-2024 | Original Paper

Does the economic motivation of firms to address the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promote the SDGs or merely SDG-washing? Critical empirical evidence from Japan and Vietnam

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call on all firms to apply their creativity and innovation to solving sustainable development challenges. There is then an argument that firms should address the SDGs by applying the …

Authors:
Kimitaka Nishitani, Thi Bich Hue Nguyen, Katsuhiko Kokubu

Open Access 26-04-2024 | Original Paper

E-service failure and recovery strategy in times of crisis: effect on peer attitudes, expectation and future intention

This study analyses the impact of the critical issues on Travel and Tourism e-service failure and explores specifically how peer-to-peer accommodation business can cope with the potential collapse in demand caused by global crises. The purpose is …

Authors:
Pantea Foroudi, S. Asieh Hosseini Tabaghdehi, Valentina Cillo, Maria Teresa Cuomo

Open Access 24-04-2024 | Original Paper

Sustainable development through frugal innovation: the role of leadership, entrepreneurial bricolage and knowledge diversity

Frugal innovation through frugal functionality, frugal cost, and frugal ecosystems that reduce goods to their essential features has emerged as a highly effective method to improve sustainable development across societies, in developed countries …

Authors:
Qaisar Iqbal, Katarzyna Piwowar-Sulej, Andreas Kallmuenzer

Open Access 18-04-2024 | Original Paper

Artificial intelligence enabled product–service innovation: past achievements and future directions

This study intends to scrutinize the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Product-Service Innovation (PSI). The literature on AI enabled PSI, other related innovation business models, product-service systems, and servitization has grown …

Authors:
Rimsha Naeem, Marko Kohtamäki, Vinit Parida

Open Access 17-04-2024 | Original Paper

Innovation ecosystem for smart product: empirical quantification of its key dimensions in SMEs of 21 European countries

This paper aims to quantify the innovation ecosystem model for allowing the development of smart products at the country level. In this regard, the research used an empirical approach to scale and validate the six dimensions of an innovation …

Authors:
Fahimeh Khatami, Paola De Bernardi, Šárka Vilamová, Enrico Cagno, Francesca Ricciardi

16-04-2024 | Original Paper

Drivers of decision-making towards for digital transformation

In the age of the digital economy, certain mechanisms and actions allow companies to generate sustainable competitive advantage by developing their transformative capacity through digitalisation. Identifying these mechanisms is important, and it …

Authors:
Klaus Ulrich, María Guijarro-García, Esther Pagán-Castaño, Paula Nieto-Alemán

Open Access 10-04-2024 | Original Paper

SME’s bond issuance and access to bank credit: evidence from Italy

In this paper, we rely on the information asymmetries framework and relationship lending theory to study how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)’s access to bank credit improves after the issuance of a Minibond. Minibonds are fixed-income …

Authors:
Annalisa Croce, Anita Quas, Francesca Tenca

Open Access 04-04-2024 | Original Paper

Consumer responses to human-AI collaboration at organizational frontlines: strategies to escape algorithm aversion in content creation

Although Artificial Intelligence can offer significant business benefits, many consumers have negative perceptions of AI, leading to negative reactions when companies act ethically and disclose its use. Based on the pervasive example of content …

Authors:
Martin Haupt, Jan Freidank, Alexander Haas

Open Access 01-04-2024 | Original Paper

Operationalization of coopetition performance: challenge accepted

It is indisputable that coopetition exerts an influence on firm performance. However, a critical question persists: How should we comprehensively measure the performance of coopetition itself?. This paper addresses the inconsistencies in …

Authors:
Patrycja Klimas, Katarzyna Gadomska-Lila, Karina Sachpazidu

Open Access 01-04-2024 | Review Paper

Public management of digitalization into the Spanish tourism services: a heterodox analysis

This study is a critical review of public intervention and its management of change with digitalization, applied to Spanish tourism services, as ones of the largest case and most required of attention into the European Union. In comparison with …

Authors:
Antonio Sánchez-Bayón, F. Javier Sastre, Luis Isasi Sánchez

Open Access 23-03-2024 | Original Paper

Integrating supply chain risk management activities into sales and operations planning

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) became a relevant managerial topic for academics and practitioners with a growing literature body and implementation cases in the industry. However, S&OP has been analysed mostly in stable environments, with …

Authors:
Christian Kalla, Luiz Felipe Scavarda, Bernd Hellingrath

Open Access 23-03-2024 | Correction

Correction: Technical efciency in banks: a review of methods, recent innovations and future research agenda

Authors:
Özlem O. Akdeniz, Hussein A. Abdou, Ali I. Hayek, Jacinta C. Nwachukwu, Ahmed A. Elamer, Chris Pyke

Open Access 23-03-2024 | Original Paper

Interactions between dynamic team composition and coordination: an agent-based modeling approach

This paper examines the interactions between selected coordination modes and dynamic team composition, and their joint effects on task performance under different task complexity and individual learning conditions. Prior research often treats …

Authors:
Darío Blanco-Fernández, Stephan Leitner, Alexandra Rausch

Open Access 15-03-2024 | Review Paper

Running up that hill: a literature review and research agenda proposal on “gazelles” firms

In recent years, “gazelles”—a small set of high-growth firms—have attracted considerable interest from researchers for their capacity to contribute significantly to the competitiveness of nations. However, in management literature, the research on …

Authors:
Irene Fulco, Francesca Loia, Barbara Aquilani, Ginevra Gravili