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This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.

Researchers from Australia found that talent management practices have a positive effect on employee commitment in Jordan’s financial sector, but no direct effect on employees’ intention to leave. The study also provided the first evidence that perceived career growth mediates the following relationships: talent management practices usage and commitment, and talent management practices usage and intention to leave.

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This study aims to examine the evolution of cosmetic advertising in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s, a time characterised by notable cultural upheaval and Western influences. Focussing on Shiseidō as a case study, it explores the interplay between traditional and Western beauty standards, highlighting how this leading cosmetic brand shaped perceptions of femininity and cultural aesthetics.

This research analyses Shiseidō’s brand magazines, packaging and store designs from the interwar period. Primary sources, including Shiseidō Geppo, Shiseidō Gurafu and Hanatsubaki, offer insights into cosmetics marketing and its cultural impact.

The findings reveal that Japanese cosmetic advertising during this era adopted both traditional and Western beauty ideals. Shiseidō and other brands skilfully integrated these diverse influences to create a unique aesthetic that appealed to modern Japanese women. This approach not only promoted beauty products but also reflected and reinforced the evolving notions of a new modern femininity.

While numerous cosmetic companies thrived in interwar Japan, this study focuses on Shiseidō for its luxury positioning and broad cultural impact. This research addresses gaps in current scholarship which has mainly focused on Western cosmetic practices. Additionally, the study offers a nuanced perspective on moga (Japanese modern women), presenting them as a hybrid of Western and traditional styles and highlighting the complex, non-linear nature of their transformation.

Using an Integrative Literature Review (ILR), this study aims to investigate the components defining the Safe and Just Operating Space (SJOS) within food systems and assess their applicability in decision-making for public food procurement (PFP).

Data concerning SJOS implementation in food systems and the criteria used in PFP were retrieved from the Web of Science and Scopus databases, following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol.

The analysis of the literature highlights that climate change (n = 31; 17%) and water use (n = 29; 16%) are the primary focus areas regarding Planetary Boundaries (PB), followed the nitrogen cycle, land use, biodiversity loss and the phosphorus cycle. In PFP, key criteria linked to PB encompass climate change (n = 19; 7.2%), water use (n = 17; 6.44%) and chemical pollution (n = 17; 6.44%). The social and ethical dimensions underscore labour (n = 18; 6.82%), water (n = 17; 6.44%), income (n = 16; 6.06%) and energy (n = 16; 6.06%).

Despite the strengths of this study, certain limitations should be acknowledged. Although the inclusion and exclusion criteria for the reviewed articles were clearly defined, it is possible that relevant literature was unintentionally excluded. Expanding the scope to include grey literature – such as government documents, reports, policy statements and statistical reports – could provide additional insights and broaden the scope of the findings. Moreover, the search was limited to the Web of Science and Scopus databases, which may have resulted in the omission of relevant studies, particularly those published in non-English languages or not indexed journals.

The identified procurement criteria can help public administrators develop guidelines and tools for food procurement that consider the SJOS.

This paper offers an understanding of the connection between planetary processes and human well-being in the context of PFP.

This pioneering research lays the groundwork for future agendas in this field and encourages reflection on critical factors essential for selecting methods and standards applied in practical public procurement.

We show that debt financing can increase firm value by serving as a commitment device in the presence of information asymmetry.

We develop a model in which firms privately learn the true quality of their investment projects over time, which can cause adverse selection when these firms seek to raise additional capital for new investments in later stages. Using this framework, we investigate the optimal capital structure of firms that can mitigate the adverse selection that is expected to arise in the future.

We find that each firm’s owner may choose to issue debt ex ante to avoid the adverse selection in the future because the intentionally created debt burden will hurt firms with low-quality investment projects more severely, discouraging these firms from mimicking high-quality firms to raise additional capital for new investments. Our model also predicts that equity or enterprise values of firms in the industry with higher leverages will diverge more significantly over time.

Our paper contributes to the capital structure literature by providing a novel mechanism to show that debt financing can improve firm value by acting as a commitment device in the presence of information asymmetry.

Police officers increasingly deal with individuals with mental health problems. These interactions are more likely to result in the use of force and fatalities. To monitor these situations, several experts have recommended the use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) by police organizations. Past research and evaluations have overlooked how BWCs may influence mental health-related interventions, creating a knowledge gap regarding how BWC policies should oversee them. This paper, thus, aims to draw upon the street-level bureaucracy framework to explore how police officers perceive the usefulness of BWCs during interventions involving mental health issues and how they exercise discretion in activating them.

The authors analyzed comments on mental health-related interventions captured by BWCs from 83 interviews with 61 police officers.

The findings shed light on how BWCs may positively or negatively affect interactions with individuals with mental health issues and how officers adapt their activation practices to mitigate potential negative impacts and enhance potential positive effects on their work.

This study reiterates that the use of BWCs is not a simple solution for mental health-related calls, highlighting the need for a formal evaluation after implementation. It calls for BWC activation policies that reflect the dynamic and complex realities of police work. It does not advocate for a total ban on recording, mandatory filming or unrestricted officer discretion, but rather a balanced approach. It calls for policies that are both aligned with police leaders objectives and street-level officers’ ability to develop alternative and adaptative practices.

This study provides guidance for policymakers in developing BWC policies that will improve police–civilian interactions in the context of mental health crises while considering the ability of street-level officers to create their own alternative practices.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how States may counter economic sanctions in line with international law, using the European Union’s (EU) evolving approach as an illustration. After elaborating on the concept of economic sanctions and their political and economic background, this study addresses their legality under international law. On this basis, this paper reflects on the two main EU measures to counter extraterritorial sanctions: the blocking statute and countermeasures.

Methodologically, this paper combines doctrinal analysis with research from political science and economics.

This paper finds that blocking statutes represent a more cautious approach, whereas countermeasures constitute a more assertive reaction to extraterritorial sanctions. However, both measures remain second-best options in the absence of a compulsory global international dispute settlement system.

This paper contributes to the literature by offering a novel comparison of blocking statutes and countermeasures.

The paper aims to develop a cogent and coherent research instrument to measure the effect of good citizenship actions by corporations on the commitment of their employees through micro-level research (i.e. based on the perceptions of employees’ themselves).

A three-phase modus operandi has been used, where at first scale, items have been phrased from a methodical review, then arranged and finally validated by factor analysis. For this, 240 forms filled out by the top-notch executives of selected Indian family conglomerates have been analysed through a split-sample approach.

The results of exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis uncover and underpin three building blocks (employee fidelity, immersion and perseverance) and indicate 14 indicators to reflect employees’ strong commitment on account of corporation’s citizenship endeavours.

This measurement catalyst would function as a panacea while addressing the existing methodological gap (by conducting an all-inclusive micro-level exploration), conceptual gap (using the “extended view” of corporate citizenship) and contextual gap (through culture-specific examination). Also, it could complement the earlier macro-level investigations.

It would realistically support corporate practitioners in identifying how their good deeds of citizenship have been affecting the diverse sides of commitment among their most valued yet overlooked assets.

Corporate citizenship, a concept that has by now theoretical relevance for a company’s internal stakeholders and on the commitment, they manifested, can nonetheless obtain empirical significance as well through this micro-level instrument by divulging employees’ underlying facets of commitment.