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This study examines the social acceptance and potential for residential solar integration in Abu Dhabi to support sustainable urban innovation and prosperity. A survey of 216 Abu Dhabi residents analyzed four scenarios for incentivizing household solar panel adoption. Results demonstrate high interest and preference for governmental financial support mechanisms to spur solar integration. This research contributes an assessment framework and citizen engagement insights that could inform smart city development strategies focused on renewable energy transformation across the Gulf region. As urban centers like Abu Dhabi strive to enact their visions for economic diversification and environmental sustainability, understanding citizen perspectives on innovations like distributed solar will be critical to align technology advancement with societal needs and values. The methodology and findings of this Abu Dhabi case study provide a model to catalyze stakeholder buy-in for new energy solutions, with potential applications for other Gulf cities aiming to transition their energy systems and build integrative renewables infrastructure to power next-generation smart development. This solar integration acceptance research lays the groundwork for continued scholarly discourse and policymaker collaboration around smart cities in the Gulf that realize multidimensional progress for society, economy, and environment.

The emergence of smart cities, metropolises that integrate physical infrastructure, digital technology, and data analytics, and that focus on urban sustainability, have profoundly changed urban development. In the modern digital era, robust infrastructure has become an indispensable catalyst for urban advancement. Kuwait is dedicated to the integration of diverse renewable energy technologies in the development of smart cities that enhance energy security, promote innovation, and contribute to global climate change mitigation efforts. Focusing on smart cities within Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, a review is presented of how successfully they have effectively combined technology, infrastructure, and sustainability to serve as models for new global and regional developments. Insights into what makes a city smart are provided in different settings.

This study examines the decision-making processes and coping mechanisms of mumpreneurs (entrepreneurs who are mothers) as they navigate complex environments characterized by uncertainty and competing goals that are heightened by their circumstances and marginalization.

In-depth interviews were conducted with 26 female entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom who are raising young children.

The research develops a new framework based on regulatory focus theory. It uncovers multiple layers of uncertainty facing mumpreneurs, including traditional business-focused uncertainties such as global crises, market volatility and financial risks, but including uncertainties derived from the challenge of balancing business growth with family responsibilities. Despite these complexities, mumpreneurs pursue multiple competing goals related to their businesses, families and societal contributions. The study identifies four key coping and decision-making mechanisms employed by mumpreneurs in complex environments: intuition, adaptability, confidence and a dynamic interplay between promotion and prevention regulatory focus.

This study contributes to entrepreneurship literature by providing a nuanced understanding of how mumpreneurs are required to navigate uncertainty and competing demands and the key coping and decision-making mechanisms they use to achieve this. It challenges the binary view of regulatory focus theory and offers insights into the unique stress dynamics experienced by mother entrepreneurs. The findings underscore the need for tailored support systems, including coaching and mentoring programs for mumpreneurs with young children. Moreover, the research highlights the importance of policy interventions, such as increased childcare subsidies, to support parental entrepreneurship and advance gender equality goals.

The purpose of this paper is to review how knowledge transfer, including knowledge integration, absorptive capacity and reverse knowledge transfer (RKT) in cross-border acquisitions, is examined in existing research work. The authors also propose directions to advance research in cross-border acquisitions.

A systematic literature review is conducted, and related propositions are advanced based on scientometric and bibliometric analysis of 146 papers published over 10 years about tacit knowledge transfer, innovation activities, industrial policy effect on merger decisions, top management experience and value creation in cross-border acquisition. First, the authors searched major themes with the help of Scopus, and later, the authors analysed all received literature with the help of VOS Viewer.

This review facilitates us to identify six clusters and main author keywords. These six clusters are the underlying six research streams, including RKT, cultural distances, value creation, absorptive capacity, innovation and reference to India and China.

Despite knowledge transfer constituting important antecedents and critical factors for the success of cross-border acquisitions, knowledge management in the acquired company through proper knowledge transfer and knowledge integration is not given enough attention. Current literature still fails to provide a holistic picture of how firms strategically manage knowledge post-acquisition. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to analyse the dynamics of knowledge transfer in cross-border acquisitions. The study is a novel attempt to relate current research themes to emerging areas of cross-border acquisitions.

Materials with negative Poisson’s ratio are known show improved performance properties. By designing woven fabric structures with auxetic properties, it would be possible to add many functional features to the structure in a single step compared to conventional fabric structures. This study investigated the weave designs for forming auxetic woven fabric structures and also the effects of using elastane yarns on Poisson’s ratio and possible auxetic performances.

Weave pattern designs consisting of re-entrant honeycomb and re-entrant zigzag forms, created by long floats and one-to-one intersections of yarns, were included in fabric structure. In addition, fabrics were woven by inserting weft yarns with and without elastane component to evaluate the effect of using elastane component on the auxetic performance. For this purpose, fabrics were woven with 100% polyester warp and weft yarns. Measurement of air permeability and % wetting area of fabrics under different elongations were carried out.

Results showed that NPR could be obtained from the designed patterns creating re-entrant honeycomb and re-entrant zigzag geometrical forms on the fabric surface. Also, it was found that the use of elastane yarn had an improving effect on auxetic performance of the woven fabrics.

By designing auxetic structured woven fabrics could be preferred in areas of use where clothing comfort was desired, due to the transverse expansion behavior as a result of the auxetic effect due to tension and the resulting pore opening effect.

The purpose of this study is to deploy the psychological lens of “expectancy violation” to examine the effects of social media influencers’ (SMIs) sponsorship disclosure on social media users’ (SMUs) behavioral outcomes (i.e. influencer avoidance, influencer switching and brand avoidance) and whether these relationships are moderated by SMIs’ honesty declaration and SMU cynicism.

A 2x2 between-subjects experimental design was used across four studies. Data collected across four online experiments were analyzed.

Study 1 found that sponsorship disclosures increased influencer avoidance, influencer switching and brand avoidance. Study 2 found that SMUs’ psychological contract violation with SMIs mediated these relationships. However, SMIs’ effective honesty declaration statements (vs no declaration) subdued SMUs’ negative behavioral outcomes. Study 3 elucidated that SMUs’ cynicism (vs no cynicism) accentuated the effects of sponsorship disclosures on influencer avoidance, influencer switching and brand avoidance. Studies 2 and 3 supported moderated mediation effect through SMUs’ psychological contract violation for honesty declaration but not SMU cynicism.

This study elucidates SMUs’ evaluation of brand-sponsored SMI posts and provides managers with tools such as honesty declaration statements and tags to offset the negative effects on consumer behavioral outcomes.

This is one of the initial studies investigating SMUs’ psychological contract violation and the effects of SMUs’ cynicism in SMIs’ sponsorship disclosure context. Also, this study conceptualizes a novel construct, influencer switching, as one of the consequences of sponsorship disclosure.

Hyperinflation is a rare form of macroeconomic crisis that often results from extreme political events, such as revolution or regime change. The 1989–1990 Argentine hyperinflation is puzzling because it occurred in the absence of such an event. Moreover, conventional fiscal mechanisms linking political processes to hyperinflation do not sufficiently explain the Argentine case. Previous theories emphasizing distributional conflict and institutional weakness contain key elements of an explanation of the Argentine hyperinflation but do not capture the range of mechanisms that produced extreme financial instability. This chapter offers an elite theory approach that subsumes elements of these approaches within a broader theory of elite fragmentation, competition, and conflict. Elite fragmentation inhibits collective action in both economic and state elites, resulting in deficits in policymaking capacity. Fragmentation among state policy elites leads to policy volatility and incoherence, while fragmentation among politically mobilized economic elites results in elite stalemates constraining the options of policy elites. These policymaking patterns lead to prolonged delays in the adjustment of unsustainable organizational structures, resulting in explosive forms of crises.

The combination of previously unassociated terms in a metaphor can helpfully illustrate particular characteristics of a person, phenomenon or practice. However, it can also obfuscate because the focus on some elements may come at the expense of others. The metaphor of the landscape is somewhat ubiquitous in academic literature, and this paper is specifically interested in the ‘higher education landscape’, which is widely used in scholarly – as well as media and policy – writing. By applying thematic analysis to a sample of publications which invoke the term, this paper comprises what Haslanger calls a descriptive and ameliorative approach to investigate both how and why this metaphor is used. By considering these publications cumulatively, we can identify that the higher education landscape enables scholars to simultaneously acknowledge higher education's temporal, social and political positioning, its state of what can feel like permanent and wide-ranging flux, and its diverse cast of interrelated actors. In this way, it serves as a useful and evocative container metaphor for higher education's activities and constituents and the interrelationships and tensions between them. At the same time, its somewhat indiscriminate and indeterminate use can conflate and mask the detail and nature of these dynamics, and it is possible to discern in its application a collective sense of nervousness and uncertainty about higher education more generally.

This study aims to make the case for real-time rights-based recordkeeping governance as a new foundation for the regulation and systemisation of multiple rights in recordkeeping for the Alternative Care of children and young people.

This article aims to make the case for real-time rights-based recordkeeping governance as a new foundation for the regulation and systemisation of multiple rights in recordkeeping for the Alternative Care of children and young people. It investigates this concept using the Australian context as a critical case study to highlight some of the current limitations in Australian Alternative Care systems in the way recordkeeping rights are represented in existing regulatory frameworks and monitored in practice. This paper will argue for the need for systemic transformations in child protection and information legislation and regulatory systems to better represent and enact alternative care recordkeeping rights.

This analysis of the legislative provisions for participation in recordkeeping and access to records of Care experiences against the Australian Charter of Lifelong Rights in Childhood Recordkeeping in Out-of-Home Care reveals a number of limitations. While the direct provision of rights to access records and the strengthening of principles of participation in some of the jurisdictions are welcome, it illustrates how the risk-oriented focus of the legislation on child protection investigations and substantiations encodes opaque recordkeeping practices and works against the provision of the full suite of childhood recordkeeping rights envisaged by the charter. Furthermore, without provisions for systemic and dynamic oversight, those with Care experiences are left to pursue individual outcomes against significant bureaucratic odds.

In line with international recognition that active participation and proactive provision of rights are a protective factor, this article contends that governance frameworks need to be proactively designed to respect and enact recordkeeping rights, along with requiring mechanisms for real-time monitoring and oversight if the records problems of the past are not to be perpetuated.

The study’s proposal for the need for a real-time, rights-based recordkeeping governance seeks to address the systemic recordkeeping problems that have been identified in research and public inquiry related to Alternative Care systems in Australia as well as in the UK.

Adopting a governance model that prioritises real-time, rights-based principles will ultimately impact how the Alternative Care system approaches records and their value in the processes of care.

Placing real-time rights-based governance at the foundation of a reimagining of the Alternative Care recordkeeping model offers the potential to create a system that places rights in recordkeeping and ethics of care at its core. This has highly transformative potential for the overall Alternative Care system and its relationship with children in out-of-home care.