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The climate change crisis is putting pressure on high-polluting companies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which often requires significant investments. This study aims to propose a framework for companies to reduce their GHG emissions while enhancing their financial performance.

A case study approach examines four South Korean listed companies in high GHG-emission sectors, identifying their GHG reduction activities. Based on the findings, a new framework has been developed and applied to two other companies to test its practicability and effectiveness.

Enhanced corporate governance can align with sustainable goals of mitigating GHG emissions. Direct emissions (Scope 1) can be reduced by improving manufacturing processes, while indirect emissions (Scope 2) can be lowered with increased use of renewable energy. Cost reductions can be achieved through production optimization and using byproducts as inputs for other industries. Revenue growth can be achieved by promoting energy-efficient products, engaging customers in environmental initiatives and recycling materials.

This study introduces a comprehensive and practical framework for companies, particularly those in high-polluting sectors, to develop effective strategies that address climate change while improving financial outcomes. The framework presents a win-win approach for reducing GHG emissions and enhancing financial performance.

This study aims to examine the nexus between digital financial literacy and customers’ perceived financial behavior within the Kuwaiti context. Moreover, it will further explore how digital financial literacy relates to financial behavior dimensions.

Data collection was facilitated by creating a questionnaire derived from multiple literature sources. This study used a cross-sectional, time-based dimension. Data was analyzed using the partial least square (PLS) structural equation modeling approach, using the Smart-PLS 4 software for computation.

Findings demonstrated a significant relationship between digital financial literacy and financial behavior, with a path coefficient of 0.542, a p-value of 0.000 and an R² value of 0.581. The explorative model revealed substantial relationships between many dimensions of digital financial literacy and various dimensions of financial behavior. More precisely, financial knowledge, awareness and decision-making were the factors that had the most significant impact on financial behavior.

Kuwaiti policymakers should consider including digital financial literacy programs in comprehensive financial education programs to improve public understanding of digital financial instruments and their consequences.

As the authors know, this is the initial endeavor to evaluate the relationship between digital financial literacy, financial behavior and their respective dimensions.

Exoskeletons have the potential to alleviate musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), increase productivity and ultimately reduce construction project costs, but the concerns about their ethical, social and psychological risks for the construction industry are unknown. This paper investigates these risks and their implications for exoskeleton acceptance.

Participants performed masonry tasks without an exoskeleton and with an active and passive exoskeleton. Using descriptive and inferential statistics, ethical, social and psychological risks associated with exoskeletons, as well as their trust levels, were assessed. Objective data were procured to determine stress and productivity levels with and without these exoskeletons, while subjective data included trust and the ethical and social risks of the exoskeletons.

The findings show that lack of informed consent and procuring sensitive health data is an important ethical consideration when using active and passive exoskeletons. Regarding social risks, unequal access to exoskeletons, exoskeleton sharing and exoskeleton costs as major concerns. Furthermore, the findings revealed statistical differences between active and passive exoskeletons in terms of certain social risks. The findings show that participants believed in passive exoskeletons more than active exoskeletons. The results also revealed a strong positive relationship between ethical and social risks, and trust levels. The results also indicated that both exoskeletons induce relatively moderate stress levels and enhance productivity, compared to the no exoskeleton condition.

This study is one of the few empirical investigations in the construction industry on the ethical and social risks associated with exoskeletons, which can facilitate the adoption of exoskeletons for mitigating MSDs in the construction industry.

This study aimed to (1) examine the impact of restaurant customers’ emotional self-regulation on ethical evaluations and judgments on their food waste reduction behaviors and (2) explore the influence of ethical judgments and evaluations on food waste reduction behaviors in restaurants.

Data were collected through a face-to-face survey at 20 restaurants in three major cities in Vietnam, namely Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City. Responses from 870 restaurant customers were used to analyze the data. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to examine the path effects.

Based on the model of Hunt and Vitell (1986), this study incorporates the role assessment of emotional self-regulation, deontological and teleological evaluation into the research model to examine consumers’ ethical judgments and ethical behaviors as food waste reduction behaviors. All hypotheses were accepted with the study’s data. From there, the author makes some implications for state management agencies and businesses in promoting consumers’ food waste reduction behaviors.

Several recommendations should be made based on the results of the study. First, there is a need for guidelines for people to regulate emotions to match ethical consumption decisions, such as increasing the amount of study time for subjects on ethics and emotion management, teaching and promoting ethical values and standards as well as discussing ethical perspectives on food waste. Second, governments and businesses need to promote communication about the consequences of food waste on television, radio, newspapers and social networks, should have anti-food waste posters and should even popularize charging for cases of ordering or taking food that is beyond personal needs.

First, this is believed to be the first study to investigate the role of emotions on ethical consumption decisions in general and food waste reduction in particular. Second, this study is one of the few studies that examine the influence of deontological evaluation, teleological evaluation and ethical judgments on food waste reduction behaviors (reduce, reuse and recycle). Finally, this is one of the few studies that comprehensively examines food waste reduction behaviors, including reduce, reuse and recycle.

The ultimate objective of this study is to compare the impact of face-to-face and online flipped learning on students' academic achievements and their perspectives on learning and teaching, offering valuable insights to the field.

The study utilized a quasi-experimental research method that involves pre-test and post-test control groups.

The results indicated that face-to-face and online flipped learning positively impacted learning, with comparable contributions to academic achievement. However, we found that online flipped learning did not affect students' beliefs about learning and teaching, while face-to-face flipped learning positively influenced them.

As distance learning becomes increasingly important in our modern era, this research aims to explore the use of active learning methods, including discussion, writing, animation, drawing, association, analysis, knowledge measurement and games, in virtual learning environments, such as online flipped learning. The study seeks to enhance the existing literature on the impact of face-to-face and online flipped learning models on student success. Additionally, it aims to address a significant gap in the literature by determining the effect of these models on students' epistemological and pedagogical beliefs, which can impact their motivation, learning outcomes, academic achievements and decision-making processes.

Digitalisation is a key driver of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) to better understand the opportunities and challenges pertaining to digital transformation; organisations adopt different approaches to dealing with digitisation. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the impact of Industry 4.0 on the procurement process re-engineering and its role within the area of supply chain management. Additionally, the research will examine barriers and challenges involved in the digitalisation of procurement and supply chains and how to overcome them. According to the findings, digitalisation of the procurement process can have several advantages, such as supporting complex decision-making processes and administrative tasks, focusing on strategic decisions and activities, transforming procurement into a strategic interface to support organisational efficiency, effectiveness and profitability and fostering the development of new business models. Furthermore, the study highlighted various influencing factors, challenges and the role of stakeholders impacting the digitalisation of procurement functions and supply chains.

This article examines how foreign nationals have been represented in the disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy discourse in Japan in recent decades and analyses the consequences these representations have had for foreign nationals’ DRR there.

The article reports on a monolingual, corpus-based, critical discourse analysis of 23 years of White Papers on Disaster Management in Japan to assess the discourse representations of foreign nationals in the policy texts over three chronological periods: 2001–2008, 2009–2016 and 2017–2023.

The article finds that the way the Government of Japan has communicated to stakeholders about foreign nationals through its policy has increasingly included them into a “whole community” discourse of DRR. This is significant because research has shown that foreign nationals have long gone un- or under-recognised in relevant DRR policies and have been insufficiently considered at local levels. If they are now better represented in policy as local community members, there is hope that their risk of negative consequences in times of disaster will truly be reduced.

This contribution is novel in that it addresses a nexus between discourse, policy communication and a social problem of inclusion and engagement of foreign nationals in DRR that has not been published elsewhere, but that nonetheless engages with ongoing academic conversations about inclusivity, vulnerability and community-based DRR approaches.

This paper aims to investigate the lubrication characteristics of siliconized graphite with a wavy-tilt-dam (WTD) pattern applied to the hydrodynamic face seals.

It focuses on two friction pairs, carbon graphite versus tungsten carbide (CG-TC) and siliconized graphite versus siliconized graphite (SG-SG), through a three-dimensional elastic hydrodynamic lubrication numerical model that integrates finite difference method and finite element method. The consequence of axial elastic deformation of sealing pair materials on film thickness, film pressure, cavitation and sealing performance for a WTD mechanical face seal under full working conditions of ΔP = 0.8, 5.3 and 15.8 MPa are analyzed theoretically.

The nuclear hydrodynamic WTD face seal generates a convergent gap and exhibits a dual-characteristic behavior of hydrodynamic and hydrostatic effects under various ΔP. Compared to the CG-TC, the SG-SG shows a lower minimum film thickness, decreasing by 3.9%, 17.3% and 35.1%. The flow leakage rate decreases by 47.8%, 52.1% and 75.4%. In addition, the film stiffness increases by 46.8%, 49.8% and 97.8%. Thus, the SG-SG better deals with the dynamic tracking problem, and the sealing performance is stable. The strength and hardness of siliconized graphite enhance WTD sealing performance and improve cavitation control in high-pressure applications.

The lubrication characteristics of the siliconized graphite with a WTD pattern could inform the future design of hydrodynamic shallow groove wavy seals in boiler feedwater engineering implements under high-pressure conditions for the nuclear power industry.

The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/ILT-10-2024-0382/

This study aims to investigate how the effectiveness of green advertising can be improved by matching benefit appeals (self vs other) and message sidedness (one-sided vs two-sided) in consumer evaluations of green products.

Four scenario experiments and one field experiment were conducted to investigate the interaction effects of benefit appeals and message sidedness on green consumption. It aims to verify the psychological mechanisms that promote green consumption when benefit appeals and message sidedness are matched and to explore the persuasiveness of this matching on consumers with different power states engaging in green consumption.

Studies 1 and 4 provide evidence that when advertising conveys self-benefit appeals (vs other-benefit appeals), two-sided messages (vs one-sided messages) positively promote green consumption. Importantly, Study 2 concluded that perceived manipulative intent was the psychological mechanism underlying the interaction effects of green advertising benefit appeals and message sidedness. Studies 3 and 5 confirm that the power state plays a moderating role in these effects.

This study contributes to the growing research on green marketing, especially green advertising, and advances the theoretical knowledge of how to match benefit appeal with message sidedness to promote green consumption effectively.

This study provides a more comprehensive understanding of consumer evaluations of green products under the influence of benefit appeals and message sidedness. The match between benefit appeal and message sidedness can promote green consumption. These findings can help marketers and policymakers promote green consumption by designing advertisements that match benefit appeal with message sidedness. When considering the power state’s impact, marketers should consider consumers’ high- or low-power states when selecting appropriate advertisement designs. Alternatively, they can manipulate the power state to optimise the effectiveness of advertisements.

Although previous research has focused on the difference in persuasiveness between self-benefit and other appeals, little is known about how to match green benefit appeals and message sidedness to heighten the persuasiveness of green advertising to consumers. Therefore, in this study, this paper attempts to fill this research gap by exploring how green benefit appeals and message sidedness match and how green advertising may produce better persuasion effects on green consumption.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the integrated ICT-based library services at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) from the users' perspectives. By evaluating these services, the study seeks to know how ICT integration enhances academic access, user satisfaction and overall library functionality.

The research employed a survey approach with a questionnaire as the primary data collection tool, involving a sample of 277 participants, determined through the Cochran sample size formula, with a 95% confidence level and a ±5% margin of error, drawing upon 25% of the population using a stratified random sampling technique. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS software version 23, applying statistical tests including T-tests, ANOVA and multivariate MANOVA, along with Tukey’s post hoc analysis.

The findings revealed that the library is equipped with a state-of-the-art ICT infrastructure facility, which significantly impacts users' academic performance. Research scholars (RS) perceived the highest impact with a mean score of 60.01, followed by postgraduates at 50.04 and undergraduates at 39.83. In terms of ICT-based library services, RS exhibit the highest usage. Additionally, the results indicate a high overall satisfaction level among users regarding library resources and services, with a mean satisfaction score of 4.10. However, 28.5% (N = 79) of respondents reported issue “in locating specific information.”

The study demonstrates how the integration of ICT can significantly enhance service delivery, support academic advancement and improve user satisfaction in an increasingly digital and networked environment. These findings and strategies are valuable for libraries around the world, providing a roadmap for using technology to satisfy their users' changing requirements and encouraging an atmosphere of innovation and constant development for library services.

By focusing on user perspectives, the study provides actionable recommendations for library administrators and policymakers aiming to optimize library services in the digital age. The findings can serve as a benchmark for similar academic institutions striving to enhance academic access through technological advancements.