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The purpose of this study is to contribute to empirical research on individual ambidexterity drivers. This paper analyzes the relationships between inclusive leadership, team knowledge acquisition, team knowledge sharing, digital tools usage and individual ambidexterity.

This study conducted a questionnaire survey of high-tech and manufacturing enterprises in China and obtained 75 leader questionnaires and 365 employee questionnaires. The hypotheses were tested using hierarchical and cross-level regressions.

The research indicates that inclusive leadership improves team knowledge acquisition and sharing. However, only team knowledge sharing significantly boosts individual ambidexterity, and not team knowledge acquisition. Thus, inclusive leadership fosters individual ambidexterity primarily through team knowledge sharing. Digital tools usage strengthens the impact of inclusive leadership on team knowledge sharing, thereby intensifying its effect on individual ambidexterity. However, digital tools usage weakens the effect of inclusive leadership on team knowledge acquisition.

First, this study addresses the call for research on ambidexterity at different levels, revealing the heterogeneous impact of team knowledge acquisition and sharing on individual ambidexterity. Second, this study developed a theoretical model to explore how leadership affects individual ambidexterity. Third, this study responds to the question that digitalization has won, but has leadership lost by investigating the role of digital tools usage in the relationship between inclusive leadership and team knowledge integration.

This study aims to analyse the role of factors responsible for continued telemedicine usage in emerging economies.

A sequential mixed-methods approach was used to analyse the data. This included in-depth interviews with telemedicine users to identify the factors influencing their continued telemedicine usage, followed by quantitative analysis to empirically validate the relationship postulated within the research model.

The primary findings show that attitude, social influence and satisfaction directly impact users’ continued intention to use telemedicine services. These factors underscore the importance of both individual perceptions and external influences in shaping intention to continue to use telemedicine services.

The results show that factors such as satisfaction, attitude and social influence impact the continued usage of telemedicine services in emerging economies. Specific policy initiatives and awareness programs can be implemented to promote long-term telemedicine usage. In addition, improving apps with user-friendly interfaces, local language options and voice commands, alongside enhanced security measures, would serve to build trust in, and improve accessibility to, telemedicine.

The study’s findings can be used to improve health-care services in areas where facilities are inaccessible.

This research explains the intention to continue telemedicine usage through a multi-theoretic perspective that combines technology continuance theory and the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology.

Environmental emissions are increasing in the urban areas. Much of the emissions arise from public procurement activities given that public sector firms are major customers to many supplying firms. Given the tremendous contribution, this study aims to examine the adoption of environmentally friendly urban freight logistics practices among public sector firms through assessing the impact of urban environmental governance, government environmental communication and organizational environmental governance.

Data for the study were collected in a single time period from central procuring and disposing entities (public sector firms) in the urban areas. A sample of 105 public sector firms in were used. One procurement officer and one member of the contracts committee were the key informants in the study. AMOS SPSS version 26 was used to obtain the results for the structural model and measurement model, respectively.

The findings indicate that the adoption of environmentally friendly urban freight logistics practices among public sector firms is significantly influenced by government environmental communication, organizational environmental governance and urban environmental governance. Urban environmental governance significantly influences organizational environmental governance. Urban environmental governance fully mediates the relationship between government environmental communication and public sector firms’ adoption of environmentally friendly urban freight logistics practices. Also, urban environmental governance and organizational environmental governance mediate the relationship between government environmental communication and adoption of environmentally friendly urban freight logistics practices.

This study examined the adoption of environmentally friendly urban freight logistics practices among public sector firms. However, the study was conducted in a public procurement setting rather than a private sector procurement setting. Also, the study examined the impact of government environmental communication on public sector firms’ adoption of environmentally friendly urban freight logistics practices ignoring the impact of internal communications made within the public sector firms on environmental issues.

This study examined the adoption of environmentally friendly urban freight logistics practices among public sector firms. Freight logistics in public sector procurement has not been given significant attention in earlier research. Emphasis is placed on sustainable public sector procurement ignoring other aspects that would help curb environmental emissions that may arise during and after the delivery of public procurement requirements.

Despite the fact that entrepreneurs often tackle environmental, political and social causes, in the entrepreneurial literature the focus is most often on entrepreneurial self-efficacy. However, the role of other task-specific skillsets in entrepreneurial intention and the relationship of these skillsets with entrepreneurs’ social identity have been largely ignored in the literature. As entrepreneurial success requires strong interpersonal skills and the dominant aim of some entrepreneurs is to tackle social causes, we theoretically and empirically investigate for whom and why social self-efficacy can be an important predictor of entrepreneurial intention.

We examined the mediating role of entrepreneurial and social self-efficacies in the relationship between entrepreneurial social identity and entrepreneurial intention. The empirical analyses of this study are based on a sample of 1,006 Hungarian individuals. An online questionnaire was used to gather the data. PROCESS macro v4.1 (bootstrap samples 5,000) for Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was applied with models 4 and 6 to test whether social and entrepreneurial self-efficacies mediate the relationship between entrepreneurial social identity and entrepreneurial intention.

The findings indicate that the effect of Darwinian social identity on entrepreneurial intention is fully mediated by entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Both social and entrepreneurial self-efficacies fully explain the association between Communitarian social identity and entrepreneurial intention. However, future Missionaries anticipate the need for other task-specific skills beyond social and entrepreneurial skills to become an entrepreneur and achieve entrepreneurial success.

The study extends the entrepreneurship literature by showing that individuals’ entrepreneurial social identity and task-specific self-efficacies are intertwined in influencing the intention to create different values through entrepreneurial activities. The results also indicate that following the proliferation of the roles entrepreneurs undertake, next to entrepreneurial self-efficacy, other task-specific self-efficacies should be considered when studying the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention.

The implementation of smart maintenance (SM) has greatly benefited facility managers, construction project managers and other stakeholders within the built environment. Unfortunately, its actualization for stakeholders in the built environment in the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) era remains a challenge. To reduce the challenge, this study aims at conducting a bibliometric analysis to unearth the critical success factors supporting SM implementation. The future direction and practice of SM in the construction industry were also explored.

A bibliometric approach was adopted for reviewing articles extracted from the Scopus database. Keywords such as (“smart maintenance“) OR (“intelligent maintenance”) OR (“technological maintenance”) OR (“automated maintenance”) OR (“computerized maintenance”) were used to extract articles from the Scopus database. The studies were restricted between 2006 and 2021 to capture the 4IR era. The initial extracted papers were 1,048; however, 288 papers were selected and analysed using VOSviewer software.

The findings revealed that the critical success factors supporting the implementation of SM in the 4IR era are collaboration, digital twin design, energy management system and decentralized data management system. Regarding the future practice of SM in the 4IR era, it was also revealed that SM is possible to evolve into maintenance 4.0. This will support the autonomous maintenance of infrastructures in the built environment.

The use of a single database contributed to the limitation of the findings from this study.

Despite the limitations, the findings of this study contributed to practice and research by providing stakeholders in the built environment with the direction of SM practice.

Stakeholders in the built environment have clamoured to implement SM in the 4IR era. This study provided the critical success factors for adopting SM, guaranteeing the 4IR era. It also provides the research trends and direction of SM practice.