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The objective of this paper is to contextualize the recently developed process of toxic leadership (PTL) model to international business (IB) intercultural (IC) contexts. This is important because of the potential for cultural conflict to compromise organizational spiritual capital, a crucial driver for success defined by the bottom-line and employee satisfaction. Thus, the paper addresses the gap that is imperative for practical societal reasons of realizing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), because the bottom-line is an important driver for international partnerships, a crucial element of SDG 17 and inclusivity is a contributing element of SDG 8 that pertains to decent work.

A case study design was adopted to facilitate modification of existing theory. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in Japanese (IB/IC) contexts to understand the lived experience of Japanese business leaders and host country managers (followers) in the USA and India. A social constructivist thematic analysis was deployed to examine the data.

Our study illustrates the degree to which the PTL model ports to IB situations, with a refinement on the workarounds for resistance by host country employees. The findings suggest that policymakers seduced by IB business market opportunities also need to address the dark side of these activities by ensuring proactive measures, such as language training and cross-cultural awareness, to ensure decent work as perceived by the follower.

This research discusses implications for the evolving zeitgeist of human-centrism in organizations. Although the adopted subjectivist interpretivism presents a concomitant limitation of generalization, the research nevertheless successfully raises flags against the hegemonic positive assessment of the UN SDGs.

Connections to international subsidiary leadership selection are offered. Additionally, the research raises the specter of breach in leader–follower trust compromising organizational spiritual capital.

Our research shows that society should consider potential misalignments with human centricity when promoting international partnerships, such as in the name of the UN SDG 17.

The PTL model is relatively new to leadership scholarship. The present paper is novel in extending it to IB’s intercultural contexts. Moreover, as an exemplar of its application, it challenges and adds nuance through adjustment and ambiguity to the generally positive assessment of Japanese leadership in the conventional leadership literature.

This paper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current status and future research agenda of citizen journalism through a computational analysis lens. It explores how technological advancements and evolving media consumption patterns have shaped the rise of citizen journalism, democratizing news production via social media and digital technologies and impacting traditional journalism and societal discourse.

A bibliometric analysis was conducted on 1,325 peer-reviewed articles related to citizen journalism sourced from the Dimensions.ai database. The study used the Biblioshiny app of the bibliometrix software and VOSviewer for network visualization. The analysis examined publication trends, citation patterns, major contributors, influential journals and main research directions to map the intellectual landscape of citizen journalism research.

The analysis revealed significant growth in citizen journalism publications starting from 2004, with peak years in 2021–2023. Key researchers and journals were identified, highlighting both sustained and emerging contributions. Co-occurrence of keywords indicated a focus on qualitative methods and the credibility of citizen journalism. International collaboration varied, with robust intra-country publications in the USA and high intercountry collaboration rates in Austria and Australia. European and North American universities, particularly the University of Seville and the University of Vienna, were noted for their significant contributions.

To the best of the author’s knowledge, this study is one of the first to apply comprehensive bibliometric techniques to the field of citizen journalism, offering a quantitative assessment of global research trends.

This paper explores the ways women entrepreneurs in male-dominated industries do identity work in order to gain legitimacy. In particular, we consider such identity work as a process being prompted by their direct environment, while demonstrating the gendered structural power relations in these women’s entrepreneurial contexts. We use a postfeminist lens to show how, in their quest for more legitimacy, they seem to be interpellated by postfeminist discourse.

We have used a narrative approach to show how women entrepreneurs in masculinised contexts do identity work to acquire legitimacy, and moreover use a postfeminist perspective to reflect on this identity work as to demonstrate how these Dutch businesswomen consider their agency in specific feminist terms within these men-dominated industry environments.

We present empirical data of ten women entrepreneurs in the Netherlands and how they discursively and subjectively make sense of their surrounding gendered contexts, in order to illustrate how local gender regimes and individual actions may conspire to constrain as well as stimulate these women’s entrepreneurship. By reflecting on three different ways of identity work through a postfeminist lens, we show how these women are interpellated by postfeminist discourses when trying to gain legitimacy.

The rather small sample does not allow us to generalise our findings to the whole population of women entrepreneurs in men-dominated contexts, yet this was not our goal anyway.

Such a reflection might help policy makers and such women themselves realise how, after all, gender inequality is still persistant in the entrepreneurship field and drawing on postfeminism does not necessarily help to support these women entrepreneurs' work–life balance.

Our findings underline the importance of a more gender inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystem, in which women entrepreneurs in both masculinised ánd feminised sectors are seen and treated as legitimate entrepreneurs.

Postfeminism, to our knowledge, has hardly been applied to women entrepreneurs' experiences in men-dominated environments, and is in itself still a rather new field in entrepreneurship studies.