European Journal of Management and Business Economics , Open Access

The Coronavirus Shopping Anxiety Scale: initial validation and development

Ruchika Sachdeva

The purpose of this study is to develop a scale to measure coronavirus shopping anxiety. Numerous studies have developed a scale for measuring coronavirus anxiety and…

Human resource development and turnover intention: organizational commitment's role as a mediating variable

Adnan M. Rawashdeh, Malek Bakheet Elayan, Mohamed Dawood Shamout, Salima Hamouche

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of human resource development on turnover intention through the mediating role of organizational commitment.

Connectedness between cryptocurrencies, gold and stock markets in the presence of the COVID-19 pandemic

Achraf Ghorbel, Sahar Loukil, Walid Bahloul

This paper analyzes the connectedness with network among the major cryptocurrencies, the G7 stock indexes and the gold price over the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19…

Comparing efficiency in all-inclusive and bed and breakfast hotel businesses: a multi-period data envelopment analysis in Turkey

Yusuf Günaydın, Antónia Correia, Metin Kozak

This paper aims to understand the most efficient hotel system and why efficiency varies across years and between the two differing types of hotel businesses in Turkey.

Zooming into paternalistic leadership: evidence from high power distance culture

Talat Islam, Saleha Sharif, Hafiz Fawad Ali, Saqib Jamil

Nurses' turnover intention has become a major issue in developing countries with high power distance cultures. Therefore, the authors attempt to investigate how turnover…

Rule with an iron hand: powerful CEOs, influential shareholders and corporate performance in Russia

Marina Zavertiaeva, Tatiana Ershova

This study examines whether CEO power influences the book-based and market-based performance of Russian companies when it is restricted by the presence of essential…

How the response to service incidents change customer–firm relationships

Pedro Simões Coelho, Paulo Rita, Ricardo F. Ramos

This paper analyzes previously unmeasured effects of a response to a service incident called “benevolent” within the customer –firm relationship.

Corruption and corporate investment efficiency around the world

Xuan Minh Nguyen, Quoc Trung Tran

The paper investigates the effect of corruption on corporate investment efficiency around the world.

Saving the moral self: unethical leadership and employee behaviors – a moral cleansing perspective

Shakil Adnan Malik, Samina Nawab, Khurram Shafi

The purpose of this study is to investigate the concept of vicarious moral cleansing and scrutinize whether unethical behavior of leaders initiate moral cleansing in…

Environmental disclosures and corporate attributes, from the lens of legitimacy theory: a longitudinal analysis on a developing country

Fahmida Akhter, Mohammad Rokibul Hossain, Hamzah Elrehail, Shafique Ur Rehman, Bashar Almansour

The study seeks to evaluate the extent and quality of environmental reporting following a longitudinal analysis and covering a wide spectrum of industries in a single…

Can hotel employees arise internal whistleblowing intentions? Leader ethics, workplace virtues and moral courage

Ibrahim M. Mkheimer, Kareem M. Selem, Ali Elsayed Shehata, Kashif Hussain, Marta Perez Perez

This study investigates the relationship between leaders' ethical behaviors and internal whistleblowing among hotel employees through the mediation role of organizational…

The relationship between board characteristics and social responsibility with firm innovation

Hind Shafeeq Nimr Al-Maliki, Mahdi Salehi, Behzad Kardan

The present study aims to assess the potential impacts of board members' characteristics, including connectedness and independence, on the level of the firm's involvement…

Circular economy-based reverse logistics: dynamic interplay between sustainable resource commitment and financial performance

Yudi Fernando, Muhammad Shabir Shaharudin, Ahmed Zainul Abideen

The study aims to propose a circular economy-based reverse logistics (CERL) that emphasises the mediation effect of reverse logistics (RL) on sustainable resource…

The rise of online food delivery culture during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of intention and its associated risk

Wai Chuen Poon, Serene En Hui Tung

This study aims to understand consumer behaviour in the context of online food delivery (OFD), especially given the mandatory lockdown imposed in some countries that have…

Impacts of transformational leadership on organizational change capability: a two-path mediating role of trust in leadership

Thanh Thi Cao, Phong Ba Le

Given the important role of change capability for organizational development and competitive advantage, the purpose of this study is to clarify the influences of…

The learning effect on organizational performance during a crisis: a serial mediation analysis with knowledge creation, storage and sharing

Usman Ahmad Qadri, Mazuri Binti abd Ghani, Shumaila Bibi, Abdul Haseeb Tahir, Muhammad Imran Farooq, Abdul Rauf Kashif

The aim of this study is to investigate the serially mediating effect of knowledge management (KM) practices (namely, knowledge creation, storage and sharing) on the…

Earnings management by health insurance companies in Brazil

Antonio Lopo Martinez, Flávio Alves de Carvalho

This study examines whether Brazilian health insurance companies (HICs) engage in earnings management through discretionary accruals or operational decisions by refraining…

Economic policy uncertainty, value of cash and financial crisis

Quoc Trung Tran

This paper investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty on value of cash before and after the global financial crisis.

What colour are you? Smartphone addiction traffic lights and user profiles

Sonia San-Martín, Nadia Jiménez

The key concern nowadays is smartphone addiction and user profiles. Following the risk and protective factors framework, the authors aim to characterize smartphone users…

MCS package and entrepreneurial competency influence on business performance: the moderating role of business strategy

Shafique Ur Rehman, Hamzah Elrehail, Kiran Nair, Anam Bhatti, Abdallah Mohammad Taamneh

This paper draws on resource-based theory (RBV) to examine the impact of the management control system (MCS) package on business performance through the mediating role of…

The role of competitive environment and strategy in the supply chain's agility, adaptability and alignment capabilities

Pedro Garrido-Vega, Macarena Sacristán-Díaz, José Moyano-Fuentes, Rafaela Alfalla-Luque

This paper analyses the way that the industry's competitive environment and the company's strategy influence the implementation of the supply chain's (SC’s) triple-A…

Predicting intention to follow online restaurant community advice: a trust-integrated technology acceptance model

Aya K. Shaker, Rasha H.A. Mostafa, Reham I. Elseidi

This research investigates consumer intention to follow online community advice. Applying the technology acceptance model (TAM) to the context of online restaurant…

Managerial support, work–family conflict and employee outcomes: an Australian study

Phuong Anh Tran, Sadia Mansoor, Muhammad Ali

Derived from leader–member exchange theory, this study hypothesises the relationships between work–family related managerial support and affective commitment and job…

The route to well-being at workplace: examining the role of job insecurity and its antecedents

Sumera Saeed, Ibne Hassan, Ghulam Dastgeer, Tehrim Iqbal

The current study focuses on the role of antecedents to prevent perceived job insecurity and mitigate its negative impacts on work-related well-being. The study examined…

Linking human resources practices to employee engagement in the hospitality industry: the mediating influences of psychological safety, availability and meaningfulness

Md Karim Rabiul, Ahmad Edwin Mohamed, Ataul Karim Patwary, Tan Fee Yean, Siti Zaitun Osman

Drawing on self-concept theory, this study evaluates the mediating effects of employees' psychological states on the relationship between human resources (HR) practices…