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This study aims to assess the level of sustainability competencies among full-time students and professional students, foresee any noteworthy change in students’ competencies after applying teaching pedagogy and determine whether lecturing is an effective teaching pedagogy for developing all five sustainability competencies in both cohorts.

The presence and development of competencies after varying pedagogical practices are assessed using a pre-/post-test based on two case studies. This research approach of comparative case study is more advanced and is particularly useful when seeking to understand differences and similarities between distinct entities, which in our case were students of two different capacities. The study targets two cohorts: the first includes 15 professional students with considerable industry experience, while the second consists of 24 full-time students without industry exposure.

The study revealed that professional students have more sustainability competencies than full-time students. Also, lecturing is an effective pedagogical practice when all five sustainable competencies have to be enhanced in full-time students. In contrast, lecturing does not work for interpersonal competence in professional students.

There are certain limitations of the study that future researchers undermine. Firstly, the study was conducted only on business students at Bahria University. Secondly, the sample size for the study is small as the data were qualitative, and the researchers had time constraints. Thirdly, the effectiveness of only one teaching pedagogy has been gauged in the current research.

It is recommended that higher educational institutions (HEIs) of Pakistan introduce sustainability courses or programs to its students to spread awareness among learners and develop sustainable competencies. All service and production industries in Pakistan should train their employees in sustainable practices so that hazardous impacts in the future can be reduced. It is a need of time for the country to move a step ahead towards sustainable development goals.

This research contributes to education for sustainable development (ESD) in Pakistan. Pakistan is a developing country that is far behind ESD. Therefore, this study identifies how sustainability education can become a part of the academic system. It also identifies the need for sustainable education not only for students but also for professionals. It also identifies teaching pedagogy required for developing sustainability competencies and is relevant to learners’ exposure.

As after-hours technology-mediated work (ATW) becomes common in organizations, the increased workload and interference to life caused by ATW has induced employee turnover. This research develops a mediated moderation model to explain how employees' intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for ATW affect their turnover intention through work–life conflict.

A survey was conducted to collect data of 484 employees from Chinese companies. Partial Least Square was used to perform data analysis.

The results show that intrinsic motivation for ATW has an indirect negative impact on turnover intention via work–life conflict, whereas extrinsic motivation for ATW has both a positive direct impact and a positive indirect impact (via work–life conflict) on turnover intention. This study also helps find that time spent on ATW can strengthen the positive impact of extrinsic motivation for ATW on turnover intention but has no moderation effect on the impact of intrinsic motivation for ATW. Furthermore, this study reveals that the interaction effect of time spent on ATW and extrinsic motivation on turnover intention is mediated by employees' perceived work–life conflict.

By discovering the distinct impact of employees' intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for ATW on turnover intention, this research provides a contingent view regarding the impact of ATW and offers guidance to managers regarding how to mitigate ATW-induced turnover intention through fostering different motivations.

The diverse impacts of brand logos on customer behaviour have garnered significant attention from scholars. However, the specific influences of halal brand logos remain mostly unexplored. This study aims to investigate the impact of halal brand logos on brand love, trust, self-brand connection and commitment.

This study used a survey to choose a sample of Indonesian Muslim customers who consumed halal brand foods, as indicated by the presence of the halal logo, throughout their travels in the years 2022–2023. The study was conducted using proportional random sampling among Muslim travellers in six provinces: Central Java, Yogyakarta, West Java, Jakarta, Banten and East Java. A total of 464 respondents participated in the poll. The analysis data used both confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling.

The findings demonstrated a strong and statistically significant impact of the halal brand logo on both brand love and brand trust. Likewise, brand love and brand trust have a strong and meaningful impact on the emotional connection with the brand. Ultimately, emotional attachment and personal identification with a brand have a strong and meaningful impact on the level of commitment towards that brand. However, the level of trust in a brand does not have a major beneficial effect on brand commitment.

Clarifying the theory of customer–brand relationships, the results of this study suggest that halal food producers should pursue halal certification to succeed in their business, as the halal brand logo has a crucial effect on customers’ brand commitment. Halal food providers should immediately adopt the halal logo or certification to enhance customer brand love, trust, self-brand connection and commitment.

This study gives new insight to explain the effect of the halal brand logo on Muslim customer behaviour based on customer–brand relationships and thus contributes to the marketing literature.

The purpose of this study is to recognize the empirical inhibitors of knowledge management (KM)in value co-creation in the dairy production context.

This study undertook a qualitative multiple-case study strategy. The datas collected comes from five players in the dairy sector that jointly co-create value. In addition to in-depth interviews with the actors, this study considers complementary documents, with reports, management flowcharts. Content analysis was conducted based on Bardin (2011).

This study identified three empirical barriers for KM in managing value co-creation in dairy production. The inhibitors observed were related to ineffective communication among stakeholders, organizational culture and high competitiveness. This study identified that sharing and KM among actors is a way to stimulate innovative solutions via value co-creation in dairy production.

This study explores the context in the Center-South of Brazil; therefore, it is not generalizable.

The findings help the managers to deal with the KM inhibitors in the value co-creation context and define actions based on the strategies listed to overcome the barriers identified in dairy production. This study can also help managers to change the mindset of organizations by adding KM to the organizational culture, as it identifies existing barriers in the sector and contributes by suggesting attitudes and tools capable of overcoming such difficulties.

Professionals in the dairy sector, especially the small rural producer, can have access to knowledge and professional training through the value co-creation among actors in the dairy sector. In this sense, the milk quality, for example, the nutritional characteristics and traceability of the milk, can be improved for the final consumer.

This study reveals the empirical inhibitors of KM presents in the value co-creation in the dairy production context. Additionally, insights to deal with the lack of sharing information and knowledge among multiple actors.

This study examines how Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) investment choices affect green investments for the period 2013-2022. The assets that these funds manage amount to around $25,880bn, which makes them significant.

Apart from the Univariate analysis, this study uses two types of regression analysis for obtaining estimates to address the two questions: Whether the climate change policy drives investment choices of SWFs? and whether the market uncertainty influences the asset allocation choices of SWFs. The two regression techniques are ordinary least square regression and probit regression given the dichotomous nature of the dependent variable i.e., green investment types: renewables, non-renewables and alternate investments of the asset classes.

This study finds that sovereign wealth funds give priority to green investments and that their investment strategies remain unaffected by stock market risk. This analysis indicates that sovereign wealth funds serve as investment vehicles for controlling and diversifying revenues from fossil fuels in governments that are largely reliant on such income. This study also concludes that sovereign wealth funds provide a crucial impetus for the fuel-intensive sector to adopt innovative solutions that mitigate carbon emissions.

This study uses regression analysis, univariate analysis and propensity score matching for obtaining estimates to address the two questions. First, Whether the climate change policy drives investment choices of SWFs? and second, whether the market uncertainty influences the asset allocation choices of SWFs.

The findings of this research have economic and social implications. This study shows that SWFs prioritize stability and invest in infrastructure, and services over renewables and non-renewables. Therefore, SWFs help build efficient infrastructure that moves commodities and people, lowers transaction costs and boosts productivity. Infrastructure also provides clean water, sanitation, health care and education, improving society. This study has practical and wider implications as it covers SDGs 7, 11 and 13.

Furthermore, investing in emerging markets also allows sovereign wealth funds to diversify their portfolios geographically. This diversification helps reduce risk to the resource rich countries by spreading investments across different regions and economies. The results also confirms that the SWFs investment strategies are not affected by market risk. Their long-term orientation and inclination toward alternate investment strategies, specifically in the infrastructure and diversification strategy of investment across the regions is making SWFs more resilient thereby reducing the market risk exposure. This study confirms that the SWFs are exercising responsibility by filling the financing gap in the alternate investments that includes development of infrastructure. The statistically significant relationship between SWFs and infrastructure are evident in this study. This analysis reveals that sovereign wealth funds do not impede macroeconomic management or serve as a mechanism for politically influenced “investments.” Instead, ensure that their choices support long-term, stable efforts, such as infrastructure investments. By making infrastructure investments, SWFs may mitigate the risks connected to these projects. Their prudent and stable funds can help to mitigate the risks associated with uncertain regulations, unpredictable market conditions and project schedules.

SWFs along with other institutional investors in aggregate prefer more dollars to fewer and less risk to more. Evidently, transitioning toward a low-carbon technologies is systemic in nature and therefore we expect differential effects on the role of SWFs choices is related to the characteristics of the companies in terms of their exposure to exogenous occurrences, performance, costs of financing and so on. Our purpose is to investigate the role of fund institutions, specifically, SWFs in dealing with climate risk mitigation.

In response to the worsening environmental crisis, there have been multiple calls for sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) scholars and practitioners to adopt a “business-not-as-usual” approach based on justice, fairness, equity and sustainability. We add to this literature by proposing environmental justice (EJ) as a key concept for the theory and practice of SSCM.

This conceptual article builds SSCM theory on EJ and contributes to supply chain justice research and practice by introducing the concept of the “environmentally just supply chain” and presenting pathways for operationalizing it in practice.

Three pathways are proposed to leverage transformative SSCM to create environmentally just supply chains: human rights due diligence, resilience thinking and coproduction of environmentally just supply chains.

The three pathways can be used by actors within a supply chain to create environmentally just supply chains.

This article extends transformative, non-instrumental perspectives on environmental sustainability within SSCM scholarship to provide insights into how supply chains can be transformed through EJ. Not only does the article show the relevance of EJ for SSCM theory and practice, but it elaborates pathways for moving from harm reduction to transformative sustainability actions.

This review paper aims to provide a comprehensive retrospective analysis of the research landscape in the Halal industry through a threefold approach, including bibliometric analysis, latent theme identification and examination of driving factors of research citations.

A total of 2,510 research documents, identified from the Scopus through a systematic search, were considered for review. The review methods included bibliometric analysis of the domain, application of the machine learning structural topic modeling (STM) to identify latent themes and negative binomial regression to estimate the impact of paper, author and geographical characteristics on citation rates.

In addition to bibliometric insights, the STM uncovered 10 key topics within the Halal industry literature, including certification processes, dietary practices, consumer behavior, ethical considerations, supply chain management, market dynamics, Halal tourism, verification methods, regulatory frameworks and Halal food production and marketing. Positive associations with citation rates were found for abstract length, number of keywords, paper age, number of references, funding, number of authors and international collaboration, while a negative association was observed for authorship from Malaysia.

This paper, besides providing insights into research dynamics and citation patterns, also guides future research avenues in the Halal industry.

There is a growing demand for healthy food across multicultural societies, and there are few exploratory studies that examined the motivations behind healthy eating. The purpose of this study is to explore the motives and understand the perceptions of healthy eating and how the online community conceptualizes their healthy eating.

Data were collected from the online community, such as posts and comments on YouTube channels, Facebook, Twitter and blogs using the hashtags (#healthyeating, #healthylifestyle, #foodforyourhealth, #culinarymedicine, #functionalfood and #nutrition). Content related to healthy eating was transcribed manually. Consumer motives regarding healthy food choices were explored using qualitative data analysis software using thematic analysis and applying Kozinet’s steps for data analysis. By examining communication on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and blogs, this online study will help us to understand the motives behind healthy food choices.

Respondents appeared to rate food goods’ healthiness on a spectrum. Healthy eating can be conceptualized at both the concrete and abstract representation levels. The themes that emerged through thematic analysis were healthy lifestyles, culinary medicine and the perceived benefits of food.

This study will guide policymakers and marketers of food products on how to develop strategies while making food products for multicultural societies. Social networking platforms are used to disseminate information on healthy eating to the online community.

The results that were found express the need for healthy food as well as health-related problems and diseases, and they reflect subjects of interest. Social networking sites give healthcare professionals a forum to interact with and educate the online community about nutrition and health. A health care provider can actively participate in online discussion to establish rapport, respond to questions and serve as a reliable source of factual information.

The study aims to access, monitor and visualize the scientific progress of Twitter-based research through a bibliometric analysis of scientific publications.

The data was retrieved from 2006 to February 23, 2022 using the Web of Science, a leading indexing and abstracting database. In response to the authors’ query, 6,193 items with 101,037 citations, an average citation of 16.31 and an h index of 126 were received. The “Biblioshiny” extension of the “Bibliometrics” package (www.bibliometrix.org) of R software was used to evaluate and visualize the data.

The present study highlighted the scientific progress of the field evolved over a period of time. The obtained results uncovered the publication trends, productive countries and their collaboration pattern, active authors who nurture the field by making their contribution, prolific source titles adopted by authors to publish the literature on the topic, most productive language in which literature was written, productive institutions, funding agencies that sponsor the research, influential articles, prominent keywords used in publications were also identified which will aid scientists in identifying research gaps in a particular area.

This study comprehensively illustrates the research status of Twitter-related research by conducting a bibliometric analysis. The study’s findings can assist relevant researchers in understanding the research trend, seeking scientific collaborators and funding for their research. Further, the study will act as a ready reference tool for the scientific community to identify research gaps, select research topics and appropriate platforms for submitting their scholarly endeavors.

This study aims to explore the influence of management control on the performance of teams with surface levels of social diversity.

Under the categorization-elaboration model perspective, an integrative literature review was conducted. Selecting articles published in the Scopus and Web of Science databases until 2023 and with the terms about gender diversity, age diversity, racial diversity and team performance, obtaining 122 documents. Results were analyzed in a matrix under the criteria of social diversity as a principal variable and examined the effects on team performance. Subsequently, it is synthesized according to the social diversity dimension and then integrated into an analysis with conceptual perspectives from management control systems.

The main negative effects of surface-level social diversity on team performance arise from stereotypical perceptions and social biases about differences in gender, age and race, affecting team members’ interactions. This scenario is related to the causes of the need for management control in the absence of direction, motivation problems and personal limitations, so control systems associated with possible solutions to improve group performance are proposed.

To the authors’ knowledge, this work opens the discussion on the influence of management control on the performance of teams with social diversity. Demographic changes require new perspectives for team management, from management control providing a way to guide socially diverse team behaviors to desired team performance.