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While big data analytics can spur innovation among firms, it is unclear whether it can effectively drive value creation, value proposition, value delivery and value capture to deal with disruptions and the ever-changing demands of customers. This study therefore aims to examine how value creation, value proposition, value delivery and value capture can be improved through big data analytics capability (BDAC). This study advances the discourse by investigating how the market environment and strategic orientations play significant but little-studied roles in enhancing or lessening BDAC’s impact on business model innovation (BMI).

Drawing on dynamic capability and contingency perspectives, a model of five hypotheses was developed and validated using survey data from 208 managers of manufacturing firms in Ghana. Covariance-based structural equation modeling was used for the analysis.

The findings revealed that BDAC and strategic orientation (market and learning) directly influence the dimensions of BMI (value creation, value proposition, value delivery and value capture). The findings further showed that strategic orientations partially mediate the BDAC–BMI link. The authors also noted that the BDAC–BMI link is amplified at high levels of market dynamism.

The findings suggest that investing in BDA alone may not be sufficient to drive superior business model innovation. However, market orientation and continuous learning are crucial to fully realizing BDAC’s full potential in enabling value creation, value proposition, value delivery and value capture, especially in a dynamic market environment.

This study contributes to existing BMI literature by being the first to examine how BDAC facilitates value creation, value proposition, value delivery and value capture in developing countries. This paper also advances BM literature by theorizing and validating important but rarely studied roles of strategic orientations and market dynamism. Thus, this paper extends the understanding of the conditions and mechanisms through which the effect of BDAC on value creation, value proposition, value delivery and value capture can be optimized.

This study investigates the impact of human capital (managers' capital, employees' capital) and orientation (market orientation, entrepreneurial orientation) for accelerating the digitalization process and improving the firm performance. It also studies the role of supply chains as both direct and indirect mediators of the correlation between digitalization and business performance.

This article aims to develop an empirical study using a random sampling technique and survey data collected from 368 managers and owners of different food enterprises in Vietnam. The study adopted a methodological approach quantitatively. Analysis of the relationships and confirmatory factors was performed using structural equation modeling (SEM), a technique to evaluate the proposed relationships.

In line with expectations, the findings emphasize the impact of human capital (managers' capital, employees' capital) and orientation (market orientation, entrepreneurial orientation) for accelerating the digitalization process and the role of supply chains as both direct and indirect mediators of the correlation between digitalization and improving the firm performance, in the context of emerging markets.

This is an important investigation, according to the authors' knowledge, regarding the role of developing human capital (managers' capital, employees' capital) and orientation (market orientation, entrepreneurial orientation) as a key strategy for accelerating the digitalization process and improving the firm performance. Further, the study's novelty reinforces the role of supply chains as both direct and indirect mediators of the correlation between digitalization and business performance in the Vietnamese food companies, where a market economy is emerging.

This study integrated the service gap of the PZB model, hidden importance and Taguchi’s quality engineering to develop a new two-dimensional strategic matrix, the Hidden Importance and Relative Quality Performance (HI-RQP) model. The HI-RQP model was then used to determine the managerial implications and improvement direction of memorable dining experience (MDE) attributes of Michelin-starred restaurants (MSRs).

This study collected 619 MDE questionnaires from customers of seven MSRs.

The results reveal that the HI-RQP model comprises four quadrants. Professional and high-quality service, carefully prepared dishes, restaurant style and customer-oriented service attitude are competitive advantages that should be maintained. Conversely, taste and freshness that exceed customers’ expectations and provide extra services to customers are MDE attributes that require urgent improvement.

Besides contributing practically to the enhancement of MDE in MSRs, the findings facilitate a more plausible identification of MDE attributes by integrating various theories into the HI-RQP model.

The implementation of sustainable corporate policies and practices requires that employees engage in green behavior. Understanding the drivers of employee green behavior (EGB) is a fundamental research question. This paper aims to extend the scholarship on the micro-foundations of EGB by examining workplace greenery as an antecedent of EGB.

Drawing from theories in environmental psychology (biophilic design, well-being and nature relatedness [NR]), the paper studies the mediating role of well-being and the moderating role of employee nature-relatedness in a three-wave panel study, conducted nine months apart in a sample of white-collar workers.

Workplace greenery influences the green behavior of employees; whereas the effect is direct for employees with low NR, for employees high in this trait the effect is mediated by well-being.

Workplace greenery emerges as a practical environmental cue that contributes to achieving the environmental goals of the company reducing its environmental impact. Organizations may consider investing in creating greener workspaces as it implies a double dividend: for employees with stronger environmental identities, these plants enhance well-being and indirectly foster green behavior, but it will encourage green behavior in employees without such an identity.

The insights provided about the complex interplay between workplace greenery, NR, well-being and environmental behavior can guide the development of targeted and more strategic workplace interventions that foster greener and happier employees and organizations.

This study contributes to the micro-foundations of EGB in three ways. First, it reveals that workplace greenery, an under-researched organizational factor, may be used as a cultural artifact to promote green behavior among employees. Second, it enriches the authors’ understanding of the psychological mechanisms leading to EGB. Finally, it expands on the individual determinants of EGB, underscoring the importance of considering NR in green human resource management.

As employees face increased turbulence due to uncertain economic and organisational conditions, they are nowadays pushed to be proactive in both their jobs and careers in terms of heightened customisation, adaptability and flexibility. Drawing from the career construction theory, we examine the reciprocal associations of a contemporary career orientation among employees to customise one’s own career (i.e. protean career orientation) vs one’s own job (i.e. job crafting behaviours) as well as the boundary conditions due to the levels of career adaptability.

We conducted a cross-lagged study with three waves using data collected from a sample of Polish employees. The data were analysed using structural equation modelling in AMOS.

Results from a cross-lagged panel study with 168 participants revealed a bidirectional relationship between protean career orientation and job crafting behaviours. The results also confirmed the moderating role of career adaptability between these two variables.

This research is one of the first to examine a reciprocal relationship between protean career orientation and job crafting. Moreover, it examines the moderating role of career adaptability in the aforementioned association.

This research aims to examine the interplay between social media engagement, motivation and materialistic values on purchase intention towards luxury fashion brands among young Chinese consumers in Hong Kong. The study explores three key areas: the correlation between social media engagement and luxury purchase intention, the motivational factors that influence this relationship and the role of materialistic values within this context.

The study employs a moderated mediation analysis approach to explore these relationships. A cross-sectional online survey was completed by 226 young Chinese respondents (aged 18–35) in Hong Kong. The survey aimed to measure the participants’ engagement with luxury fashion brands’ social media (predictor), materialistic values (moderator), intention to purchase luxury items (outcome) and their motivation regulation (mediator).

The study reveals a moderated mediation model. It indicates that consumers’ autonomous motivation, specifically intrinsic and identified regulation, acts as a mediator between social media engagement and luxury purchase intention. Interestingly, social media engagement has a more profound influence on the intrinsic motivation to purchase luxury items among consumers with less materialistic values.

This study pioneers in explaining luxury purchase intention in relation to social media engagement, autonomous motivation and materialism among young Chinese consumers in Hong Kong. Further, it highlights that by engaging in social media, non-materialistic consumers’ intrinsic motivation toward purchasing luxury goods can mirror that of their materialistic counterparts.

This study aims to examine the causal and reciprocal relationships between participation in travel and recreational activities and depression alleviation among survivors of traumatic events. It seeks to uncover the transformative potential of these activities as nonpharmacological interventions and to provide insights that inform the therapeutic design of travel in rehabilitation contexts.

Using a longitudinal dataset, this study employs the random intercept cross-lagged panel model – a robust technique for evaluating causal relationships in nonexperimental longitudinal research – to assess the reciprocal effects between travel and recreation participation and depression severity over time.

Individuals with more severe depression are more likely to engage in travel as a coping mechanism. However, travel does not inherently alleviate depressive symptoms, likely because its physical and emotional demands often outweigh its benefits. This highlights the need to transform travel into structured interventions to maximize therapeutic potential. In contrast, recreational activities exhibit a stronger therapeutic effect, with early participation reducing depressive symptoms and lower depression levels, subsequently encouraging continued engagement in recreation over time.

By highlighting the interplay between social causation and social withdrawal theories, this research proposes transforming travel experiences into structured therapeutic interventions, pioneering a new perspective on integrating health and tourism studies. The study encourages researchers to adopt a holistic approach to understanding the health benefits of travel, considering both the influence of external factors on health and how individuals respond to their psychological state.

本研究旨在深入探讨创伤事件幸存者参与旅行与娱乐活动与抑郁症状缓解之间的因果和相互作用关系, 旨在揭示这些活动作为非药物干预的潜在疗效, 并为康复场景下旅行的治疗性设计提供理论依据和实践参考。

本研究利用纵向数据集, 采用随机截距交叉滞后面板模型（RI-CLPM）进行分析。该方法是一种适用于非实验性纵向研究的模型工具, 能够有效评估旅行与娱乐活动参与和抑郁严重程度之间的双向动态影响。

研究发现, 抑郁程度较高的个体更倾向于将旅行作为一种应对机制。然而, 由于旅行活动的身体与情感成本通常超过其潜在收益, 旅行本身并未显著缓解抑郁症状。这表明, 需要将旅行体验转化为结构化的治疗干预, 以充分发挥其潜在价值。相较而言, 娱乐活动表现出更显著的治疗作用。早期参与娱乐活动能够有效降低抑郁症状, 而抑郁水平的降低反过来又会激励个体持续参与娱乐活动, 从而形成良性循环。

本研究通过结合社会因果理论和社会退缩理论, 提出了有必要将旅行体验转化为结构化治疗干预的新视角, 为健康与旅游研究的整合提供了新的理论创新路径。同时, 本研究倡导从整体视角理解旅行的健康益处, 兼顾外部环境对健康的影响以及个体心理状态对行为的反馈作用, 为未来研究提供了重要启示。

Este estudio tiene como objetivo examinar las relaciones causales y recíprocas entre la participación en actividades de viaje y recreación y el alivio de la depresión entre los sobrevivientes de eventos traumáticos. Busca descubrir el potencial transformador de estas actividades como intervenciones no farmacológicas y proporcionar ideas que informen el diseño terapéutico de viajes en contextos de rehabilitación.

Utilizando un conjunto de datos longitudinales, este estudio emplea el Modelo de Panel Cruzado con Intercepto Aleatorio (RI-CLPM), una técnica robusta para evaluar relaciones causales en investigaciones longitudinales no experimentales, para analizar los efectos recíprocos entre la participación en viajes y recreación y la gravedad de la depresión a lo largo del tiempo.

Las personas con depresión más severa tienden a participar en viajes como mecanismo de afrontamiento. Sin embargo, el viaje en sí no alivia inherentemente los síntomas depresivos, probablemente porque sus demandas físicas y emocionales suelen superar sus beneficios. Esto resalta la necesidad de transformar los viajes en intervenciones terapéuticas estructuradas para maximizar su potencial. En contraste, las actividades recreativas muestran un efecto terapéutico más fuerte, con una participación temprana que reduce los síntomas depresivos y niveles más bajos de depresión que fomentan la participación continua en recreación a lo largo del tiempo.

Al destacar la interacción entre las teorías de causalidad social y retirada social, esta investigación propone transformar las experiencias de viaje en intervenciones terapéuticas estructuradas, abriendo una nueva perspectiva para integrar estudios de salud y turismo. El estudio fomenta que los investigadores adopten un enfoque holístico para comprender los beneficios de salud de los viajes, considerando tanto la influencia de factores externos en la salud como cómo las personas responden a su estado psicológico.

Drawing from agency and comprehension theories, this paper aims to examine the influence of annual report readability (ARR) on financial reporting quality (FRQ), with a focus on how information asymmetry moderates this relationship.

The study uses a sample of 467 listed firms in Vietnam from 2015 to 2021. To analyze the relationship between ARR and FRQ, this paper employs a Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) regression, incorporating information asymmetry as a moderating factor.

The research findings show that ARR has a positive and significant impact on the FRQ of Vietnamese-listed firms. This paper also finds that information asymmetry significantly and partially moderates the relationship between ARR and FRQ. Specifically, ARR can help alleviate the level of information asymmetry and contributes to improved FRQ.

From a practical perspective, this paper provides empirical evidence for managers, investors and related government departments to evaluate the effects of ARR and offers regulators a method to help improve the transparency of the stock market. More importantly, the results of this study have reference value for scholars and practitioners in developing countries like Vietnam.

From a theoretical perspective, our study adds to the growing literature on ARR, expands the scope of ARR research, elaborates on relevant economic consequences of ARR and complements the literature on the determinants of FRQ.

Little study has focused on diversity-oriented leadership in the context of public organizations. Thus, this study aims to investigate how diversity-oriented leadership impacts knowledge sharing through transparent internal communication. In addition, this study also explores the moderating role of internal social network use in the proposed model.

Data were collected from 422 public servants working in wards (grassroot-level government) in Vietnam. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used to test the research hypotheses.

Empirical findings indicate that diversity-oriented leadership positively impacts knowledge sharing through the mediating mechanism of transparent internal communication. Moreover, internal social network use moderates the nexus between diversity-oriented leadership and knowledge sharing.

The findings suggest that public managers can promote knowledge-sharing behaviors among employees by building diversity-oriented leadership and enhancing transparent internal communication. Moreover, public managers should encourage employees to use internal social network.

This inquiry advances the understanding of knowledge sharing in public organizations via the predictive role of diversity-oriented leadership and the mediating mechanism of transparent internal communication. Moreover, this study is among the pioneering studies investigating the moderating role of internal social network use.

This study aims to explore the challenges and opportunities of adopting Industry 4.0 technologies in Africa, specifically focusing on the automotive industries in Morocco and Nigeria. By comparing these two leading African countries in Industry 4.0 adoption, the research seeks to identify key factors influencing the implementation of smart manufacturing technologies and to provide insights into the potential benefits and challenges faced.

The research uses a multiple case study design with a quantitative approach, collecting data through structured questionnaires from 167 participants across five automotive companies in Morocco and Nigeria. Regression analysis assessed the impact of opportunities and challenges. Statistical analysis identified significant differences between the two countries.

The study reveals significant differences in the perceived challenges and benefits of Industry 4.0 adoption between Morocco and Nigeria. In Morocco, key challenges include high implementation costs and resistance to change, whereas, in Nigeria, lack of skilled workforce and high implementation costs are predominant barriers. Both countries recognize the benefits of improved productivity, better product quality and enhanced supply chain agility.

While focused on two countries and the automotive industry, the study provides valuable insights into Industry 4.0 adoption in Africa, with potential for expanded future research.

The insights provided by this study can guide policymakers in developing tailored strategies to support Industry 4.0 adoption in Africa. For organizations, understanding the specific challenges and benefits can aid in designing effective Industry 4.0 implementation plans, enhancing competitiveness and achieving sustainable growth.

By providing a comparative analysis of Morocco and Nigeria, the study offers unique insights into the specific factors influencing Industry 4.0 implementation in different African contexts with differences between North and West of Africa.