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The paper tries to investigate the impact of applications of the resource-based view (RBV) theory in the management field to improve the firm’s profitability. Global firms are innovating and adopting new technology, paving the way to improve their performance.

We have adopted RBV in management practices such as marketing, strategy, finance, and human resources.

RBV has gained researchers' attention with the growing competitive world and new challenges to retaining customers and achieving their pre-defined targets. We attempt to identify the issues related to the usage of RBV in management.

Using RBV in management may help researchers create a competitive mindset and be prepared for uncertain challenges in the business world.

This study explores the impact of religiosity on self-esteem and mortality salience, subsequently influencing Indonesia’s Islamic banking consumers’ social responsibility (CnSR).

In total, 613 participants, Indonesia’s Islamic bank consumers, were recruited, and structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to examine research frameworks.

The empirical findings show that religiosity levels have a significant effect on self-esteem and mortality salience. Furthermore, mortality salience is less influential on CnSR than self-esteem. Furthermore, self-esteem and mortality salience partially bridge the relationship between religiosity and CnSR.

Future studies need to examine the correlation between religiosity and CnSR in other contexts and theories, such as conventional banks and companies across the globe, to provide comprehensive insights into the mindset and actions of CnSR.

The recent study clarified the primary operations of Islamic bank customers in the context of business, religion and CnSR. Hence, increasing attention to customers’ social responsibility and religiosity is required from both the government and the Shariah Supervisory Board.

The result of the current study contributes to extending knowledge on terror management theory (TMT). In addition, it creates a fresh perspective on the factors affecting customers’ decision-making.

The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-02-2024-0105

The paper discusses sustainability, in terms of creating purposive social value, which is increasingly an inherent characteristic of project leading and doing. Consequently, project scholars are currently grappling with what purposive social value creation means to initiation and execution of projects.

In line with recent development we offer reflections on the empowering nature of leadership enabling social value, its underlying forms of power and the dilemmas involved. Our theorizing is based on recent developments in literature on the value of sustainability in the context of projects, combined with literature on project leadership and reflections on the processes of power.

Based on a process ontology, we suggest that leadership for purposive social value creation calls for a rethinking of leadership as an inclusive patterning of actions, making it relational, boundary spanning and socialized in nature and essentially entailing a politics of representation.

The paper is conceptual, so it has all the limitations of any conceptual paper that innovates a new field of inquiry. It is a not a hypothetic-deductively structured paper but is abductive in nature, combining disparate literary studies in a conceptual framework for further inquiry.

The legitimacy of leadership for purposive social value does not reside in the singular formal position of a project leader but in its broader vesting and representation.

The paper calls for a rethinking of the nature of project leadership power relations, processes oriented toward the achievement of purposive social value and representation of interests.

This paper fulfills an identified need to study how purposive social value can be enabled by socialized and distributed project leadership that represents a broad-based and coherent conception of interests.

In order to preserve and honor authentic Bedouin Emirati heritage history, the Turath Centre for Traditional Handicrafts, which operates under the supervision of the Art authority of Dubai culture, which is essential. The center aims and its strategy for cultural preservation, then the effects of its operations on community development are all explored in this article.

The goals and strategies employed by the Turath Centre to promote traditional Emirati crafts are analyzed in this study using the qualitative methodology that blends historical analysis and ethnographical research. It also examines the effects of the center's training programs and workshops. This study reveals the methods the Turath Centre uses to disseminate cultural heritage through a thorough analysis of the supporting documentation and on-site observations.

According to the research, the Turath Center effectively instructs community people in a variety of craft areas, such as traditional weaving, silversmith work, and burqa sewing and intangible facets of Emirati history though Al Talli and Al Sadu Weave. This study highlights the value of the Turath Centre's contribution to community development and preservation of Emirati heritage though younger generations.

Although this study offers insightful information, there are certain limitations. Specifically, more research is required to evaluate the efforts of the Turath Center's adaptability and impact over time.

The results highlighted the consideration to these educational programs and their capacity to foster heritage industries, increase cultural tourism, and promote Emirati culture internationally.

By enhancing Bedouin heritage culture and encouraging pride and identity among community members, the Turath Center's activities support unity in society.

This research offers valuable insights into the Turath Centre's role in preserving Bedouin Emirati heritage and fostering community development, the center symbolizes Dubai's aim for cultural growth and makes a significant contribution to cultural preservation.

This study aims to analyse the impact of love of money, personality traits and peer influence on the ethical behaviour of graduate accounting students at the University of Ghana Business School.

This study used a quantitative research approach to sample postgraduate accounting students who completed a self-administered questionnaire on the variables of interest. Using partial least square–structural equation modelling, the hypothesized relationships were examined based on 328 appropriate responses received for the questionnaire.

The empirical findings suggest that peer influence and personality trait, extraversion positively and significantly influence unethical behaviour, whereas the personality traits, agreeableness and openness to experience have a negative and significant relationship with unethical behaviour. The study, however, does not find support for the hypothesized relationships between the love of money, personality traits (conscientiousness, neuroticism) and unethical behaviour.

The study contributes to the literature on unethical behaviour, highlighting how decision-making factors such as love of money, peer influence and personality traits, respectively, influence unethical behaviour explained by the self-justification concept under the social cognitive and moral reasoning theory. This could aid these potential managers in seeking higher reviews on ethical dilemmas. It could also aid the professional body and academics in Ghana particularly to intensify ethical education for students of the profession.

The literature on entrepreneurial masculinity has primarily focused on how hegemonic masculinity is constructed and performed in entrepreneurship. Little is known about how non-hegemonic masculinity is performed by male entrepreneurs who do not fit the dominant and traditional form of masculinity in a specific context. Focusing on a cohort of Black male entrepreneurs who practised entrepreneurship in a predominantly white context, this paper explores how non-hegemonic entrepreneurial masculinity is constructed.

The study uses Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to analyse qualitative data collected through semi-structured interviews with nine Black male entrepreneurs living and doing business in the Northeast of England.

The study found that Black male entrepreneurs construct a distinct form of entrepreneurial masculinity by leveraging the identity of White women to construct a respectable entrepreneurial masculinity. The form of masculinity the men engaged in is theorised as transactional masculinity. This is enacted through relationships with White women which is seen as a symbol of respect and social acceptance, and as a “rite of passage” in entrepreneurship. The study presents a model of entrepreneurial masculinity to explain how transactional masculinity is constructed in relation to femininity and other forms of masculinity.

The study theorises how non-hegemonic entrepreneurial masculinity is enacted through the concept of transactional masculinity. It presents a model of entrepreneurial masculinity and gives voice to the experiences of male entrepreneurial actors with non-hegemonic masculinity.