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The purpose of the paper is to determine the extent to which ESG education in graduate finance programs at Kazakhstani universities impacts ESG-related issues incorporating emissions, unemployment rates and corruption.

This research relies on cross-sectional data for 20 regions of Kazakhstan and 66 universities clustered in those regions for the academic year 2022–2023. This study uses a multiple linear regression method to ascertain the relationship between ESG education and ESG problems.

Findings indicate that environmental education and overall ESG education have a negative impact on the volume of emissions and the youth unemployment rate. The number of universities is positively related to all three dependent variables representing issues on each aspect of ESG.

I might have omitted some important variables that can play a pivotal role in elucidating ESG-related problems, including the mobility of students from one region to another. Furthermore, the paper analyzed only finance programs at a graduate level, without touching undergraduate-level studies and other programs. Finally, the variables and, hence, the regression results are based on the academic year of 2022–2023; it does not account for the change for the past years and does not include time-series analysis.

This paper is original, as it examines whether ESG education helps to curb ESG-related issues at a national level in Kazakhstan, and the studies on sustainability education in Kazakhstan are limited.

This study examines the relationship between entrepreneurial alertness, long-term and short-term focus and sustainable entrepreneurship in the context of young family firms. Additionally, we investigate how family management and long-term/short-term focus moderate the relationship between entrepreneurial alertness and sustainable entrepreneurship. Our findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the factors influencing sustainable entrepreneurship in family firms.

This quantitative study investigated 707 young family firms in Portugal. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to analyze the data and test the proposed hypotheses.

The results indicate a positive relationship between young family firms’ entrepreneurial alertness and sustainable entrepreneurship. Also relevant is that long-term focus is positively related to sustainable entrepreneurship, while short-term focus shows a negative relationship, challenging the temporal ambidexterity of new ventures. Conversely, two moderating effects were found: family management weakens and short-term focus strengthens the relationship between entrepreneurial alertness and sustainable entrepreneurship.

As far as we know, this study is the first one to explore the link between the entrepreneurial alertness of young family firms and sustainable entrepreneurship. It is also the first study to explore the contradictory impacts of both long-term focus and short-term focus on sustainable entrepreneurship.

The study compares the effects of creativity and digital nativity, with the latter signifying proficiency in digital skills, on enhancing innovation among employees. The research specifically evaluates the impact of creativity and digital nativity on general innovative performance and personal innovativeness using IT (PIIT).

Two studies were conducted. Study 1 surveyed 497 individuals on Prolific using objective measures of general innovative performance and self-report measures of PIIT. Study 2 replicated the same research design on Amazon Mechanical Turk with 336 participants and other-rated measures of PIIT.

Results were consistent across both studies and showed that creativity influenced general innovative performance more than digital nativity. However, digital nativity was a stronger predictor of PIIT, above and beyond the nonsignificant effects of creativity.

This study helps understand the roles that digital nativity and creativity play in general innovative performance and in IT-related innovative performance by providing a relative importance analysis of these components.

We offer guidance to organizations on how to select individuals and assign them to particular tasks depending on digital or general innovative task requirements.

This is the first study to examine the direct comparison of creativity and digital nativity. Although the literature highlights the importance of digital nativity for innovation, our research reveals that creativity is more important for general innovative performance.