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Achieving social sustainability has become a critical challenge in global supply chain networks, particularly during complex crises such as terrorism. The purpose of this study is to explore how institutional forces influence the social sustainability approaches of logistics service providers (LSPs) in high terrorism-affected regions (HTAR). This then leads to investigating how the key factors interact with Institutional Theory.

An exploratory multiple-case study research method was used to investigate six cases of different-sized logistics LSPs, each in an HTAR. The data was collected using semistructured interviews and triangulated using on-site observations and document analysis. Thematic analysis was used in iterative cycles for cross-case comparisons and pattern matching.

The findings interact with Institutional Theory and the three final-order themes. First, management processes are driven by coopetition and innovation. Second, organizational resources, structure and culture lead to an ineffective organizational design. Finally, a lack of institutionalization creates institutional uncertainty. These factors are rooted in many other first-order factors such as information sharing, communication, relationship management, capacity development, new process developments, workforce characteristics, technology, microlevel culture and control aspects.

This study answers the call for social sustainability research and enriches the literature on social sustainability, Institutional Theory and LSPs in HTARs by providing illustrations showing that institutional forces act as driving forces for social sustainability initiatives by shaping the current management processes. Conversely, the same forces impede social sustainability initiatives by shaping the current organizational designs and increasing institutional uncertainty.

As a global pandemic of historically significant scale, COVID-19 and its impact on global business activities have gained significant scholarly attention in the international business (IB) domain. This study aims to review and consolidate the IB research findings on the COVID-19 crisis, considering both the literature on the dark and bright repercussions for firms.

The authors systematically reviewed and synthesized a sample of 87 scholarly articles published in major IB journals from 2019 to 2022.

This review paper highlights the important domains – including global value chains, digitalization and varieties of functional areas – that have been substantially affected due to the widespread disruptions caused by the pandemic. This study also discusses future avenues for extending the work on the dark and bright sides of crisis management.

Applying the overarching concept of the bright and dark sides of the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors developed a framework that highlights the important knowledge gaps and points to future research directions. This review also suggests the salient methodological and contextual avenues potentially suited for future IB research on the pandemic and similar crises.

The sporting body in Indian sports studies has been studied in the context of changing power relations in society, and this essay continues in a similar vein. The significance of sport in India evolved from being used as a means of control by the coloniser to becoming a point of resistance and then a tool for nation-building for the colonised peoples. Post-liberalisation wrought significant changes to the social and cultural landscape and brought with it a singular focus upon the individual, as the idea of the nation receded to the background and the link between sport and self-making became prominent. In the context of the changing cultures of sport and the body from colonial to post-liberalisation India and the growing prominence of sport in popular culture, this chapter turns a critical eye towards the representation of sport in three Nike advertisements between 2007 and 2016 with the understanding that these representations are shaped by the workings of power and ideology in society and therefore provide a window to access the evolution of sports discourse over time. Through this examination, it explores the complex dynamic between the liberation of the postcolonial sporting body from discursive shackles and its evolution – and possible entrapment – into becoming a placard of the neoliberal vision and what this means in terms of the decoloniality discourse.

Employee’s innovative behavior as a team allows the organization to achieve its goals; however, team green creativity requires transformational and entrepreneurial leader support. Therefore, the study explores the impact of green transformational and entrepreneurial leadership on team innovative behavior and green new product development with the mediating role of team green creativity.

A survey was conducted to collect data from 455 employees working in the hospitality industry via a self-administered questionnaire, and hypotheses were analyzed using the partial least squares structural equation modeling PLS-SEM technique using Smart-PLS 4.0.

The results indicate that green transformational and entrepreneurial leadership styles positively and significantly affect team innovative behavior and new green product development performance. Furthermore, findings show that team green creativity partially mediates the relationship between green transformational and entrepreneurial leadership on team innovative behavior, and new green product development performance.

The results of this study provide insights to hospitality professionals pursuing the improvement of team innovative behavior and new green product development performance through team green creativity and leadership styles.

This study is useful for organizations that target new green product development performance and establish higher green innovative behavior cohesively among its team members through these robust leadership styles.

This study is the first attempt to provide a valuable contribution to the growing field of green leadership styles on team innovative behavior and new green product development performance through team green creativity.

This research investigates the factors that drive affluent customers to engage in sustainable behaviours, particularly their choice to stay in green hotels. The study aims to understand how green purchase intentions (GPI) translate into green purchase behaviours (GPB), focusing on how the scarcity of green hotels may influence this relationship.

Using a quantitative research method, the study examines several key predictors – such as ecological concern, perceived behavioural control, social norms and green attitudes – and their impact on GPI and GPB. Data were gathered from 418 affluent consumers through a structured survey, capturing their views on ecological concern, perceived control, social norms, green attitudes and related purchasing intentions and behaviours. The data were then analysed using SPSS and AMOS, with additional validation through artificial neural networks (ANN).

The findings indicate that ecological concern, perceived behavioural control, social norms and green attitudes significantly affect GPI among affluent consumers, and there is a strong positive correlation between GPI and GPB. Additionally, the study highlights that the unavailability of green hotels weakens the intention–behaviour link.

One limitation of this study is its reliance on self-reported data, which may be subject to social desirability bias and may not accurately reflect actual behaviour. Additionally, the study focuses on a specific context, green hotel purchases, which may limit the generalizability of the findings to other green consumer behaviours or industries. The cross-sectional nature of the study also prevents the establishment of causality between the constructs. Furthermore, the study may not account for other potential moderating variables, such as price sensitivity, brand loyalty or individual differences in environmental knowledge, which could also influence the relationship between green purchase intention and behaviour.

The research emphasizes the importance of perceived behavioural control and the detrimental impact of limited green hotel availability on the intention–behaviour relationship. The study provides practical insights for hotel managers, recommending clear communication strategies, deeper integration of sustainability practices and collaboration with policymakers to encourage sustainable consumer behaviours.

This study stands out by focusing on affluent consumers and their green purchasing habits, contributing valuable knowledge to the field of sustainable behaviour.

This study aims to evaluate how biases among retail investors – such as mental accounting, overconfidence and herd behaviour – affect their investment choices, while also examining how demographics, specifically, age, gender and income moderate these effects.

This paper uses quantitative method for collecting data through questionnaire from 385 Indian investors investing actively in stock market. The relationship was tested using partial least squares structural equation modelling through SmartPLS 4.0. To analyse the moderating role of demographics, multi-group analysis with percentile bootstrapping approach was performed.

The results reveal the varying effect of each bias on investment decision. The evidence proves the presence of herd behaviour, overconfidence and mental accounting while making investment decisions. Furthermore, age and gender was found to be moderating the effect of biases and investment decision of Indian investors. Also, the results imply that female investors are more prone to herd behaviour compared to their male counterparts.

The study confirms that investors often deviate from complete rationality, with their investment decisions constrained by available resources, information and cognitive processing abilities, consistent with the theory of bounded rationality. The findings offer practical insights for financial advisors, educators, investors, government agencies and regulators to enhance investment decision-making practices.

This study offers new perspectives on the impact of behavioural biases on investment decisions. Particularly, the study enhances the understanding of investment patterns and contributes to the behavioural finance literature by addressing the interplay between demographics and investor behaviour in a rapidly growing economy.

This research proposes that leader expectations for green creativity promote employee green creativity, as they guide leaders to provide green intellectual stimulation to employees. This relationship exists only when organizations provide sufficient green intellectual capital.

We obtained survey data from 241 employees and their leaders over three waves and conducted regression analyses.

Leader expectations for green creativity evoke leader green intellectual stimulation, which increases employee green creativity. Green intellectual capital strengthens the link between leader green intellectual stimulation and employee green creativity as well as the indirect linkage between leader expectations for green creativity and employee green creativity through leader green intellectual stimulation.

This research provides valuable insights into key strategies that organizations and leaders can use to promote employee green creativity, such as expressing expectations, facilitating intellectual stimulation, and providing intellectual capital.

This research advances the literature on leadership and employee green creativity by integrating Pygmalion theory and green intellectual capital theory.

This systematic literature review aims to explore the adoption, global acceptance and implementation of human resources (HR) analytics (HRA) by reviewing literature on the subject. HRA adoption can assist HR professionals in managing complex procedures and making strategic human resource management (SHRM) decisions more effectively. The study also aims to identify the applications of analytics in various disciplines of management.

The review is conducted using a domain-based structured literature review (SLR), emphasizing the diffusion of innovative thinking and the adoption process of HRA among early adopters. The philosophical stances are analyzed with the combination of research onion model and PRISMA protocol. Secondary data are gathered from published journals, books, case studies, conference proceedings, web pages and media stories as the primary source of information.

The study finds that skilled professionals and management assistance can significantly impact adoption intentions, enabling professionals to deal with analytics. The examples and analytical models provided by early adopters allow managers to manage complex processes and make SHRM decisions.

The study suggests that the lack of use of quantitative techniques is a key limitation and should be considered in future studies. Despite the rise in the number of research papers on HRA, its application in the workplace remains limited.

This research can assist managers in implementing HRA and help resolve complex and inefficient processes, making SHRM decisions.

This study adds to the existing body of knowledge on how HRA can aid a company's efficacy and performance and can be considered one of the first to link adoption and HRA.

This paper investigates the associations among the Big 5 personality traits (neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, openness to experience and extroversion), nine prominent investment biases and the moderating role of financial literacy.

We used survey data from 475 individual investors in India based on various benchmarked scales in the literature and structural equation modeling to evaluate the desired relationship between the constructs.

Our evidence shows that the extroversion personality trait is the most vulnerable to behavioral biases, and overconfidence bias affects individual Indian investors the most. Financial literacy is positively associated with two biases (risk aversion and representativeness bias) and moderates the relationship between two personality traits (extroversion and agreeableness) and risk aversion.

Our study has limitations. First, it does not examine financial literacy in detail. Therefore, researchers should examine financial literacy within larger frameworks than those used in our study. Second, we confined our analysis to the Big 5 personality traits and nine behavioral biases. Our selection of biases to include in the study involved some subjectivity. Third, we limited our analysis to Indian investors. Researchers should replicate our study to see if its findings are generalizable in other countries with differing characteristics. Our findings call for a more careful examination of the circumstances behind which personality traits manifest in specific bias.

Investment advisors can help their clients make rational investment decisions by guiding them to deal with their investment biases.

Improving financial literacy could help investors avoid the pitfalls of behavioral biases and increase their performance in the stock market.

This study is the first to provide a comprehensive framework that examines the relationship between personality traits and investor biases and the moderating role of financially literate investors.

The purpose of this study is to determine how project governance influences project success. According to the authors, such an effect is mediated by organizational support and project team cohesion. The direct and indirect effects of organizational support and project team cohesion provided helpful information. The authors’ objective is to contribute to the project management knowledge of how project team cohesion plays a significant role in project success.

Data were collected from 350 employees working in Pakistan’s oil and gas industry. Four prime oil and gas exploration companies were selected as samples based on their contribution to the revenue. SPSS v23 and AMOS v23 were used for constructing structural equation modeling and path analysis to examine the direct and indirect effects.

The results revealed that project governance is positively related to project success. Furthermore, organizational support and project team cohesion mediated the relationship between project governance and project success.

Team cohesion has been primarily a topic of interest in sports psychology literature, education and medical sciences. There is an expressed need to investigate team cohesion issues in the broad domain of organizational development, specifically the project management literature. This study contributed by discussing team cohesion in the project context. Second, project governance was investigated using the conservation of resources theory. The lens of intellectual capital was applied to examine intangible resources of project governance like rules, regulations and directives for project success.