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This study aims to validate the 17-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-17) within Public Primary Healthcare Centers, addressing the need for a reliable measure of work engagement among health workers.

This study conducted a validity and reliability analysis of the UWES-17 among community health workers in Chile, exploring its psychometric properties and structure, focusing on its three-factor structure and examining the causal relationships between work engagement dimensions.

The UWES-17 demonstrated a valid and reliable three-factor structure among Chilean health workers, with a significant construct dependence among its dimensions –vigor, dedication and absorption – highlighting their interrelated nature.

While validated for community health workers in Chile, the UWES-17’s applicability across healthcare settings and professions warrants further investigation.

The validated UWES-17 can guide human resource practices in assessing and enhancing work engagement among health workers, potentially improving employee well-being and performance.

Addressing work engagement and burnout among health workers is vital for a resilient healthcare system. This validated measure contributes to efforts to improve health worker well-being and healthcare service quality.

This study contributes a validated measure of work engagement specifically tailored to public primary healthcare centers, offering valuable insights for future research on health workers' well-being and performance. This research enhances the understanding of organizational dynamics within public healthcare settings.

This study aims to consolidate the fragmented knowledge on brand experience within marketing literature, evaluating its historical development, current state and prospective future. It seeks to offer a comprehensive understanding of the construct’s academic and practical contributions over the years, identify key topics and propose a research agenda for the field.

Adopting a bibliometric analysis, the authors conduct a detailed examination of the literature on brand experience. Performance analysis and science mapping techniques are used to evaluate 774 articles related to brand experience published from 1981 to 2023 and indexed in the Scopus database.

The bibliometric analysis reveals a significant expansion in the body of knowledge surrounding brand experience, highlighting its evolution over the past four decades. Key thematic areas and the intellectual structure of brand experience research are identified, evidencing both the growth and the diversification of the field. The study synthesizes these insights into a coherent research agenda, pinpointing emerging areas ripe for future investigation.

By systematically synthesizing longitudinal contributions to brand experience and using a bibliometric approach for analysis, this study provides a novel perspective on the topic. It not only maps the historical trajectory and current landscape of brand experience research but also sets the direction for future scholarly endeavors, marking a unique contribution to both academic research and practical application in marketing.

Este estudio tiene como objetivo consolidar el conocimiento fragmentado sobre la experiencia de marca dentro de la literatura de marketing, evaluando su desarrollo histórico, estado actual y futuro prospectivo. Busca ofrecer una comprensión integral de las contribuciones académicas y prácticas del constructo a lo largo de los años, identificar temas clave y proponer una agenda de investigación para el campo.

Adoptando un análisis bibliométrico, los autores realizan un examen detallado de la literatura sobre Experiencia de Marca. Se emplean técnicas de análisis de rendimiento y mapeo científico para evaluar 774 artículos relacionados con la experiencia de marca publicados desde 1981 hasta 2023 e indexados en la base de datos de Scopus.

El análisis bibliométrico revela una expansión significativa en el cuerpo de conocimiento sobre la experiencia de marca, destacando su evolución en las últimas cuatro décadas. Se identifican las áreas temáticas clave y la estructura intelectual de la investigación sobre la experiencia de marca, evidenciando tanto el crecimiento como la diversificación del campo. El estudio sintetiza estos conocimientos en una agenda de investigación coherente, señalando áreas emergentes con potencial para investigaciones futuras.

Al sintetizar sistemáticamente las contribuciones longitudinales a la experiencia de marca y emplear un enfoque bibliométrico para el análisis, este estudio proporciona una perspectiva novedosa sobre el tema. No solo traza la trayectoria histórica y el panorama actual de la investigación sobre la experiencia de marca, sino que también establece la dirección para futuros esfuerzos académicos, marcando una contribución única tanto a la investigación académica como a la aplicación práctica en marketing.

本研究旨在整合营销文献中有关品牌体验的零散知识, 评估其历史发展、当前状况及未来前景。研究试图提供对该构念的学术与实践贡献的全面理解, 识别关键主题, 并为该领域提出研究议程。

本研究采用文献计量分析法, 对品牌体验相关文献进行了详细审查。通过绩效分析和科学知识图谱方法, 研究者分析了Scopus数据库中收录的1981年至2023年间发表的774篇品牌体验相关文献。

文献计量分析揭示了品牌体验研究领域知识体系的显著扩展, 展示了该领域在过去四十年的发展演变。研究确定了品牌体验的核心主题领域和知识结构, 反映了该领域的增长与多元化。基于这些洞察, 研究提出了一个清晰的研究议程, 指出未来有待探索的新兴领域。

本研究通过系统整合品牌体验的纵向研究成果, 并运用文献计量方法进行分析, 为该主题提供了新颖的视角。研究不仅描绘了品牌体验研究的历史轨迹和当前概貌, 还为未来的学术探索指明了方向, 对学术研究和营销实践均作出独特贡献。

Inadequate empirical evidence on the effect of personality traits, entrepreneurship education and university entrepreneurial support on green entrepreneurial intention outcomes among technical university students in Africa has hindered concrete policy interventions. Based on the planned behaviour and social cognitive theories, we assess the influence of personality traits and entrepreneurship education on green entrepreneurial intention of undergraduates at technical universities in Ghana.

We employed an explanatory cross-sectional survey comprising 1,329 Ghanaian undergraduate students to assess the research gap. An adapted 60-item instrument was used to measure outcomes for ten constructs (six personality traits, entrepreneurship education and green entrepreneurial intention) for the participants. A multiple linear regression analysis was used to model green entrepreneurial intention as a function of personality traits, entrepreneurship education and university entrepreneurial support while controlling for respondents’ background characteristics.

We observed a significant direct positive effect of all the personality traits, except subjective social norms and need for achievement, on green entrepreneurial intention. There was also a significant direct positive effect of entrepreneurship curriculum, teaching methods and university entrepreneurial support on green entrepreneurial intention. Our findings further provide empirical data to inform educators, researchers, policymakers and practitioners on the design of pragmatic curriculum, policies and interventions to inspire students into green start-ups.

This study is valuable for its novel approach of using an integrated theoretical and conceptual model to provide empirical validation for the burgeoning discourse around the impact of personality traits and entrepreneurship education on the green entrepreneurial intentions of technical university students in a developing nation. By synthesising diverse theoretical perspectives, this research enriches the understanding of how individual characteristics and educational experiences influence environmentally conscious entrepreneurial aspirations.

This study aims to examine the intricate relationship between Chile’s coastal communities and the increasing effects of climate change, with a focus on Caleta Lenga as a case study. Chile’s extensive coastline is closely linked to the country’s economic well-being and the livelihoods of millions of people. The mounting threats posed by climate change require immediate action. To strengthen resilience and reduce risk, adaptive measures are imperative. However, effective adaptation is hindered by numerous barriers, including adaptive capacity and governance challenges.

This study uses a case study approach, which centres on Caleta Lenga’s unique socio-environmental and demographic context. This study used semi-structured interviews and historical reconstruction to reveal a socio-economic and environmental narrative that was influenced by significant events and transitions.

The residents’ perception of climate change impacts was viewed through the lens of industrial activities and changing weather patterns. This study emphasizes the community’s resilience in the face of changing socio-environmental dynamics. It highlights the importance of informed decision-making, community cooperation and the preservation of ancestral knowledge in promoting adaptive strategies based on community solidarity and collective decision-making. The findings underscore the need for effective adaptation measures that address both adaptive capacity and governance challenges to bolster climate resilience in vulnerable coastal communities.

The findings underscore the need for effective adaptation measures that address both adaptive capacity and governance challenges to bolster climate resilience in vulnerable coastal communities.

Given the evolution that knowledge management (KM) has undergone since the advent of the digital transition, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate how KM processes have changed as a result of agile organisations’ adoption of digital technologies.

Years have passed since the onset of the fourth industrial revolution, and the technologies unique to this revolution have permeated every organisation to varying degrees. Whether organisations have been at the forefront of technological innovation or have had to adapt to much more advanced digitised processes, they have had to change how they manage operations internally and with the remainder of the supply chain they serve. These changes have been much more significant for agile organisations, which rely heavily on digital systems and have strong supplier and customer interactions. Due to the large amount of data generated, these organisations are referred to as knowledge-intensive businesses, and as a result, their KM processes are of the utmost importance. For this reason, a multiple case study with a grounded theory approach has been implemented to carry out a field analysis.

The results show that Industry 4.0 technological advances can be included in the scientific debate on KM and agile innovation, given the effects that such technologies have on organisations.

In today’s increasingly connected world, these findings have the potential to generate significant economic value by improving coordination and collaboration in KM processes.

Expanding on the real-world financial market framework and considering the current market turmoil, with cryptocurrencies (where contracts for difference (CFDs) are extremely common) (Hasso et al., 2019) displaying unprecedented volatility, the authors aim to test in an online laboratory setting whether displaying a risk warning message is truly effective in reducing the level of risk taken and whether the placement of this method makes a difference.

To explore the impact of risk disclosure framing on risk-taking behavior, the authors conducted an online pair-wise lottery choice experiment. In addition to manipulating risk awareness through the presence or absence of risk warning messages of varying intensity, the authors also considered dynamic inconsistency, cognitive ability and questionnaire-based financial risk tolerance (FRT) scores. The authors aimed to identify potential relationships between these variables and experimentally elicited risk aversion. The authors' study offers valuable insights into the complex nature of risky decision-making and sheds light on the importance of considering dynamic inconsistency in addition to risk awareness and aversion.

The authors' results provide statistical evidence for the efficacy of informative and very salient messages in mitigating risky decision, hinting at several policy implications. The authors also provide some statistical evidence in support of the relationship between cognitive abilities and risk preferences. The authors detect that individual with low cognitive abilities scores display great risk aversion.

This study investigates the impact of risk warning messages on investment decisions in an online laboratory setting – a unique approach. However, the authors go beyond this and also examine the potential influence of dynamic inconsistency on decision-making, adding further value to the literature on this topic. To ensure a comprehensive understanding of the participants, the authors collect data on cognitive ability and FRT using questionnaires. This study provides a simple and cost-effective framework that can be easily replicated in future research – a valuable contribution to the field.

This study examines the impact of climate legislation on green agricultural production and tests the heterogeneous impact of different types of climate legislation on agricultural green production.

In this study, the super-slacks-based measure (super-SBM) model is used to calculate agricultural green total factor productivity (AGTFP). The impact of climate legislation (including legislative acts and executive orders) on AGTFP is examined through regression analysis. The transmission mechanism of climate legislation affecting agricultural green production is further investigated.

This study shows that climate legislation has a positive long-term effect on AGTFP. It stimulates innovation in agricultural green technology but has a negative impact on resource allocation efficiency. Executive orders have a more significant effect on AGTFP than climate legislative acts. The effectiveness of climate legislation is more significant in countries with stronger legislation. Moreover, climate legislation reduces AGTFP in low-income countries while enhancing AGTFP in high-income countries. This effect is most prominent in upper-middle-income countries.

This study examines the different effects of various types of climate legislation, considering the level of economic development and the strength of the legal system on AGTFP. The findings can offer a global perspective and insights for China’s policymaking.