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The primary aim is to identify and examine the critical success factors (CSFs) in FinTech that influence social responsibility (SR). This study aims to differentiate between internal factors (e.g. risk management, innovation, regulatory compliance, technology integration) and external factors (e.g. market conditions and regulatory changes) and offer insights into effective FinTech practices that enhance SR performance.

A comprehensive literature review using the Web of Science database analyzed 143 relevant articles. This review categorizes CSFs and assesses how FinTech practices impact SR.

The findings indicate that strategic FinTech practices, such as innovation in financial services, effective data management and stakeholder collaboration, are crucial for enhancing operational efficiency, fostering sustainability and improving responsiveness to social and environmental needs. This study also highlights current trends in FinTech and SR, emphasizing the integration of FinTech into broader SR strategies.

This study provides valuable insights for practitioners on how to leverage FinTech to enhance SR, including strategies for integrating innovative technologies and improving stakeholder engagement.

By advancing the understanding of how FinTech can contribute to SR, this research highlights the potential for FinTech to drive positive social and environmental outcomes, fostering greater corporate responsibility and sustainability.

This research provides a novel bibliometric analysis of FinTech’s role in advancing SR, offering a comprehensive overview of the CSFs and emerging trends in this field.

The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on Egyptian stock market returns and volatility between July 2018 and June 2021.

This study utilizes a generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model to examine the impact of COVID-19 on two basic stock market indices (EGX30 and EGX100). In addition, the heteroskedasticity corrected model (HCM) was employed to differentiate between the effects of each subsequent wave of the pandemic.

The results of the GARCH model revealed that all COVID-19 variables have a significant impact on the daily returns of EGX100, but an insignificant impact on that of EGX30. The mortality rate and transmission speed increased the market volatility of EGX30 daily returns. The results of the HCM confirmed that the Egyptian stock market reacted more nervously to the first wave than to the second, while the impact was not detected in the third wave.

This study provides useful insights to investors and policymakers in handling the negative influence of unanticipated events. To retain economic stability, the Egyptian government can impose fiscal stimuli and consider policies to combat the impact of the pandemic.

This study is one of the first attempts to differentiate between the effects of subsequent waves of the pandemic on the stock market in Egypt, one of the largest economies in Africa.

The paper aims to examine agrochemical traders’ tax morale in three Ghanaian regions.

Primary data were collected from 92 respondents using structured questionnaires. A multistage sampling technique was employed and used in selecting respondents.. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis and quantile regression analysis were used to analyse data obtained via the questionnaires.

The study found tax reporting knowledge, tax calculating knowledge and tax payment knowledge to be the keen factors influencing agrochemical traders’ tax knowledge. It was also revealed that age, religion and marriage positively influence the tax morale of traders. Inversely, gender, high level of education and monthly sales were found to affect tax morale negatively. Moreover, trust (respect, trustworthiness and expertise knowledge) negatively influenced tax morale. Authorities’ tax knowledge and power (sanction and lockdown) were revealed to impact tax morale positively. However, tax morale decreases amongst agrochemical traders with higher tax morale when sanction increases.

Unlike previous studies which focussed on tax morale amongst individuals and firms outside the agribusiness sector, this study examined the tax morale within the informal agrochemical trading sector, which has recently attracted colossal patronage due to the high usage of agrochemicals amongst farmers in Africa and Ghana. This study also assumed tax morale to be at different levels; hence the factors that affect the morale at different levels differ. Therefore, the study examined the factors influencing tax morale amongst agrochemical traders by segregating tax morale into quartiles. Relating to theory, the economic deterrence theory was used to ground the study, which is not usually used in most tax morale studies.

The main purpose of this study is to determine the factors affecting the adoption of telemedicine services as mobile health apps in the Jordanian context by extending the technology acceptance model (TAM).

A quantitative research approach with an online survey was used to collect data from 306 Jordanian respondents to achieve the main purpose. The partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) approach was used to analyze collected data.

The results mainly confirmed that the intention to use mobile health apps (otherwise known as AMAN apps in Jordan) is significantly influenced by social influence, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, trust in government and social media awareness. Next, contrary to what is expected, culture does not moderate the association between perceived ease of use and behavioral intention to use the AMAN app, and hence the related hypothesis was not supported. To conclude, the results show that the actual use of the AMAN app is significantly influenced by behavioral intention, and hence, the final hypothesis was supported.

The current research contributed to the literature on information technology (IT)/information systems (IS) acceptance and use by switching the investigation efforts from the acceptance of IT/IS to the adoption of protection technology in the crisis era.