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This study uses meta-analysis to examine the relationship between corporate sustainability reporting (CSR) and stock price crash risk (SPCR) and to discern the moderating effects of country-level institutional quality and cultural dimensions on this link.

The study used mean correlation coefficients to test the relationship between CSR and SPCR and meta-regressions to test the moderating effects. The analysis considers 65 effect sizes from 24 empirical studies.

The results showed that CSR reduces the chances of SPCR. The inverse relationship between CSR and SPCR is stronger in masculine, high power distance and long-term oriented cultures and is less pronounced in individualistic, uncertainty avoidance and indulgent cultures. The inverse relationship is also stronger in countries where high-quality institutions exist.

This study is based on correlation coefficient analysis and excludes studies publishing only regression results. Furthermore, it provides guidance to lessen SPCR. Findings suggest that such initiatives may mitigate the risk of stock price crashes for firms. Through meta-analysis, this research investigates the correlation between environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure and stock price crash occurrences, offering insights with significant implications for the European financial landscape and globally.

This is a pioneer meta-analysis that investigates the link between CSR and SPCR and the moderating effects of country-level institutional quality and cultural dimensions. Our study sheds light on the potential impact of promoting a sustainable and responsible business environment in Europe through comprehensive ESG disclosure under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

Financial market sustainability is gaining attention as investors and stakeholders become more aware of environmental, social and governance issues, pushing demand for responsible and ethical investment practices. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the impact of carbon (CO2) emissions from three sources, oil, gas and coal, on the stock market sustainability via effective government policies.

The eight countries belong to two different regions of world: Asian economies such as Pakistan, India, Malaysia and China, and OECD economies such as Germany, France, the UK and the USA are selected as a sample of the study. The 22-year data from 2000 to 2022 are collected from the DataStream and the World Bank data portal for the specified countries. The generalized methods of movement (GMM) and wavelet are used as the econometric tool for the analysis.

Our findings show that the CO2 emission from coal and gas significantly negatively impacts stock market sustainability, but CO2 emission from oil positively impacts stock market sustainability. Moreover, all the emerging Asian economies’ CO2 emissions from coal and gas have a much greater significant negative impact on the stock market sustainability than the OECD countries due to the critical situation. However, the government’s effective policies have a positive significant moderating impact between them, reducing the effect of CO2 emission on the stock market.

This study advocated strong implications for policymakers, governments and investors.

Effective government policies can protect the environment and make business operations suitable, leading to market financial stability. This study advocated strong implications for policymakers, governments and investors.

This study provides fresh evidence of the government’s effective role to control the carbon environment that provide the sustainability to the organizations with respect to OECD and emerging economy.

This study aims to explore the various factors influencing students’ intentions toward sustainable entrepreneurship by investigating the case of Albania. Specifically, among the intention antecedents, it explores the role of environmental awareness and green consumption commitment.

A conceptual model is created to integrate the theory of planned behavior with additional sustainability-oriented factors, providing a comprehensive examination of the factors influencing higher education students’ intentions to embark on sustainable entrepreneurial ventures. A questionnaire was designed and administered to a sample of 411 third-year bachelor students at the University of Tirana, Albania, during the 2023–2024 academic year. This study posits nine hypotheses and uses structural equation modeling to evaluate the direct and indirect effects of self-efficacy, environmental awareness, education, entrepreneurial knowledge and green consumption commitment on sustainable entrepreneurship intentions.

The findings confirm that self-efficacy, personal attitude and subjective norms directly impact students’ intentions to engage in sustainable entrepreneurial activities. In addition, the paper finds that environmental awareness influences commitment to green consumption and indirectly affects sustainable entrepreneurship intentions among students. Entrepreneurial education and knowledge have a significant indirect effect as well, highlighting the crucial role of higher education institutions in fostering an environment conducive to sustainable entrepreneurial initiatives through curriculum reorientation toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and promoting environmental stewardship.

This research enriches the sustainable entrepreneurship literature by shedding light on the antecedents of sustainable entrepreneurship intention among students, particularly in a developing country like Albania. It offers novel insights into the integral role of HEIs in nurturing future entrepreneurs equipped to tackle environmental challenges through innovative solutions. Furthermore, the study’s findings emphasize the importance of incorporating sustainability-focused values into educational frameworks, presenting a case for policy changes and curriculum development supporting sustainable development.

The adoption of energy-efficient systems is crucial for Pakistan to meet its growing energy demand and address its energy challenges. However, adoption of these systems in Pakistan is hindered by several barriers, including economic constraints, lack of awareness and social attitudes toward sustainable development. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore adoption of energy-efficient household systems and the associated social influence.

The study incorporates social influence as a mediating factor to examine the relationships between awareness of consequences, perceived consumer effectiveness and attitudes toward the adoption of energy-efficient systems. A quantitative survey method was used to collect data from households from Faisalabad, Pakistan. A total of 203 valid questionnaires were received and data analyzed through SmartPLS 4 for structural equation modeling.

The results revealed that awareness of consequences positively impacts compliance, social identification and internalization, while perceived consumer effectiveness has a positive relationship with social identification and internalization. Moreover, the positive association of social identification and internalization with attitude were supported but relationship of compliance with attitude was unsupported.

The results may also be used to develop compelling marketing campaigns focusing environmental conservation and social influence for positive attitude development.

The study contributes to theoretical literature by examining the empirical relationships between specific individual characteristics and societal pressure that play a critical role in shaping attitudes toward the acceptance of energy-efficient systems. Additionally, the study's findings offer actionable implications for policymakers and marketers, contributing to the development of targeted interventions for promoting sustainable consumption.

The construction industry has embraced building information modelling (BIM) as a practical methodology towards digitalisation. However, critics believe BIM has reached a plateau in addressing distinctive construction challenges. As a result, literature has seen an increase in the development and use of BIM-based plugins. Overall, the plugins have been critical in delivering custom-built solutions to longstanding construction challenges. The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate this trend and the potential barriers undermining the wider development of BIM plugins, by that contributing to a stimulating research topic and a growing knowledge gap.

Methodologically, this study used a quantitative approach to collect data through a carefully designed questionnaire. This study achieved a sample size of 39 experts who have been involved in developing, experimenting and publishing BIM-based plugins for specific construction activities.

The findings led to the identification of the key barriers to using BIM-based plugins and the identification of the key strategies to overcome them across the three situational awareness (SA) phases. Results also suggest that the development and use of plugins are destined to increase, and the research community can now rely on the insights of this paper as a departure point to address the technological plateau in BIM-related research.

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to empirically identify and assess the barriers undermining the wider development of BIM-based plugins. This study contributes to theory by building on SA, by challenging existing wisdom and fostering new knowledge around strategies to overcome the evaluated barriers.

Energy saving in student housing has become a major challenge in the growing tertiary higher learning institutions in Africa. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the drivers of changes in energy-saving behaviours in student housing in Ghana.

This study is quantitative based on the theory of planned behaviour. A survey of 1,702 on-campus university student housing users in Northern Ghana was conducted using a simple random sampling technique. Behavioural drivers were conceptualised into two broad themes and analysed using the Partial Least Square Structural Equation Model tool.

The findings of this study accept the general view that behavioural factors affect energy saving. However, financial, indoor environmental quality and student housing energy management techniques positively determine changes in energy-saving behaviours in student housing than behavioural factors. Knowledge-related factors did not show any contribution to behavioural intentions of energy saving.

An all-inclusive energy-saving mechanism, highlighting improvement in student housing conditions, can enhance energy saving. Aside from this, increasing the attention to sustainability and energy efficiency programs in student housing environments can provide positive potential for energy saving in student housing.

Introducing the theory of planned behaviour in similar studies confirms the large contributions of behavioural drivers to energy saving. The additional exploration of other drivers in this study showcases the potential of influencing energy-saving decisions in student housing within the sub-Saharan sub-region.

Despite ChatGPT usage advantages to complete assignments as quickly as possible with detailed information, its adoption risks are crucial factors that may significantly influence student outcomes, like creative skills and achievement levels. Hence, this paper examines the potential effects of ChatGPT adoption risks on students’ cognitive achievement, underpinned by perceived risk theory (PRT). Further, this paper examines the mediating role of creative thinking levels among hospitality college students.

This paper employed a quantitative approach to collect data. Using an online survey, simple random sampling was employed to ensure bias. Hence, 267 faculty members at tourism and hospitality colleges affiliated with Egyptian public universities responded, and their responses were tested using SmartPLS v.4.

Creative thinking partially mediated five potential risks of students’ ChatGPT adoption effects on their cognitive achievement. More specifically, psychological risks of ChatGPT adoption among students are considered one of the most likely to reduce their levels of creative thinking and their ability to achieve achievement.

This paper provides insights for policymakers aimed at enhancing higher education quality in tourism and hospitality colleges. Accordingly, this paper concludes by highlighting the importance of addressing ChatGPT adoption’s psychological risks, integrating strategies to promote creative thinking among students and fostering responsible artificial intelligence usage in higher education.

This paper underscores the critical role of faculty members in navigating and mitigating these risks, fostering a more conducive learning environment for responsible ChatGPT usage.

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

People with visual impairments or blindness (PwVIB) are mostly excluded from tourism activities. Despite the rise of assistive technology (AT) solutions in Tourism, acceptance remains low because of the difficulty of providing the right functionality, effectiveness and usability. Arguably, it can be said that disability-oriented training can affect the latter two and, therefore, an AT solution’s acceptance. This paper aims to contribute to the theory development and conceptualization of technology acceptance of AT solutions in Tourism by studying, in the context of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), the effects of training PwVIB on using AT solutions. This study presents the effects of training on the tourism behavior of PwVIB and provides valuable information to the stakeholders.

Questionnaire data collected from 128 PwVIB after evaluating an AT were subjected to exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling followed by post-evaluation interviews. The used application, called BlindMuseumTourer, enables high-precision autonomous indoor navigation for PwVIB in tourist places like museums and places of health care.

The results of this study indicate the partial satisfaction of the extended model validating the importance of performance expectancy and training (the new factor) in predicting the behavioral intention of PwVIB tourists toward using ATs during their tourist activities. This suggests that practitioners have to provide performant technological solutions accompanied by special training sessions for improved engagement and satisfaction.

This study contributes to the UTAUT theory in the context of Tourism for PwVIB by adding a new factor and replacing two moderator variables. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, no similar work is studying AT acceptance by PwVIB in the tourism literature. Furthermore, the validation process used a novel indoor navigation application, demonstrating its effectiveness in the Tactual Museum of Greece.

视障或失明人士（PwVIB）大多被排除在旅游活动之外。尽管辅助技术（AT）解决方案在旅游业中兴起, 但由于难以提供适当的功能、有效性和可用性, 接受度仍然很低。可以说, 以残疾为导向的培训会影响后两者, 从而影响对辅助技术解决方案的接受程度。本文旨在通过在技术接受和使用统一理论（UTAUT）的背景下, 研究培训 PwVIB 对使用 AT 解决方案的影响, 为旅游行业对 AT 解决方案的技术接受的理论发展和概念化做出贡献。本研究将介绍培训对 PwVIB 旅游行为的影响, 并为利益相关者提供有价值的信息。

对 128 名无身份者在评估了辅助设施后收集的问卷数据进行了探索性因素分析、确认性因素分析和结构方程模型分析, 然后进行了评估后访谈。所采用的应用程序名为 “BlindMuseumTourer”, 可在博物馆和医疗场所等旅游景点为 PwVIB 提供高精度的自主室内导航。

结果表明, 扩展模型的部分结果验证了性能预期和培训（新因素）在预测无障碍游客在旅游活动中使用自动视听设备的行为意向方面的重要性。这表明, 从业人员必须提供性能优越的技术解决方案, 并辅以专门的培训课程, 以提高参与度和满意度。

本研究通过增加一个新因素和替换两个调节变量, 为UTAUT 理论在无障碍游客旅游方面的应用做出了贡献。据我们所知, 在旅游文献中, 还没有类似的工作是研究 PwVIB 对 AT 的接受程度。此外, 在验证过程中还使用了一个新颖的室内导航应用程序, 并在希腊触觉博物馆展示了其有效性。

Las personas con discapacidad visual o ceguera (PwVIB) están excluidas en su mayoría de las actividades turísticas. A pesar del auge de las soluciones de tecnología de asistencia (TA) en el turismo, su aceptación sigue siendo baja debido a la dificultad de proporcionar la funcionalidad, eficacia y usabilidad adecuadas. Podría decirse que la formación orientada a la discapacidad puede afectar a las dos últimas y, por tanto, a la aceptación de una solución de TA. Este artículo pretende contribuir al desarrollo teórico y a la conceptualización de la aceptación de las soluciones de tecnología de apoyo en el turismo estudiando, en el contexto de la Teoría Unificada de la Aceptación y el Uso de la Tecnología (UTAUT), los efectos de la formación de las PwVIB en la utilización de las soluciones de tecnología de apoyo. El estudio presentará los efectos de la formación en el comportamiento turístico de las PwVIB y proporcionará información valiosa a las partes interesadas.

Los datos del cuestionario recogidos de 128 PwVIB tras la evaluación de una TA se sometieron a un Análisis Factorial Exploratorio y Confirmatorio y a un Modelado de Ecuaciones Estructurales, seguidos de entrevistas posteriores a la evaluación. La aplicación empleada, denominada BlindMuseumTourer, permite la navegación autónoma en interiores de alta precisión para PwVIB en lugares turísticos como museos y lugares de asistencia sanitaria.

Los resultados indican la satisfacción parcial del modelo ampliado validando la importancia de la expectativa de rendimiento y la formación en la predicción de la intención conductual de los turistas PwVIB por lo que sugieren a los profesionales que las sesiones especiales de formación son esenciales para el compromiso y la satisfacción de los usuarios.

Este estudio contribuye a la teoría UTAUT en el contexto del turismo para PwVIB añadiendo un nuevo factor y sustituyendo dos variables moderadoras. Hasta donde se sabe, no existe ningún trabajo similar que estudie la aceptación de la TA por parte de las PwVIB en la literatura sobre turismo. Además, en el proceso de validación se utilizó una novedosa aplicación de navegación en interiores que ha demostrado su eficacia en el Museo Táctico de Grecia.

The purpose of this study is that researchers have widely explored and associated corporate social responsibility (CSR) with firm success. Measuring the relationship between CSR, service quality, corporate reputation and brand preference by drawing on the stakeholder theory in developing countries remains a substantial research gap.

The data were collected using a survey method. The study was performed on 387 respondents who have undergone treatments in hospitals. The authors analysed the data using the Smart PLS 3.0 structural equation modelling technique.

The survey revealed that service quality and CSR are positively linked with corporate reputation, leading to brand preference in the health-care sector.

The survey was performed in the context of the health-care industry; however, additional studies are necessary to extrapolate the findings to other fields, such as education and food. This research helps guide policymakers, administrators, health-care managers and researchers by highlighting the contribution and role of service quality, CSR and corporate reputation in achieving a hospital’s performance.

This study contributes to the CSR literature by introducing the concept of CSR. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study also extends research in the diverse literature by examining the relationship between CSR, service quality, corporate reputation and brand preference by illustrating the stakeholder theory in the context of the health-care sector.