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Organizations increasingly use knowledge arbitrage to stimulate innovation and achieve competitive advantage. However, in knowledge management its use in startups is yet unexplored. This study aims to examine the utilization of knowledge arbitrage by startups, specifically during COVID-19.

This study employed an open-ended essay methodology to explore the drivers and barriers that startups face in utilizing knowledge arbitrage. We collected data from 40 participants to understand the role of knowledge arbitrage in startups’ knowledge management practices.

This study’s findings highlight the significance of knowledge arbitrage for startups. The benefits identified include organizational benefits such as building networks, innovating new products and achieving competitive advantage and financial benefits such as cost reduction and sales growth. The study also identifies several technological and organizational drivers and barriers that startups confront during knowledge arbitrage.

This study contributes to the existing literature on knowledge management by extending our understanding of knowledge arbitrage’s role in startups. Additionally, it sheds light on the importance of knowledge arbitrage for startups and the challenges they face, particularly in a disrupted environment reared by COVID-19. The study provides insights for the scholars and practitioners interested in effective knowledge management in startups.

The aim of this article is to produce alternative solution suggestions at a conceptual level, by utilizing technologies in the field of Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), to address the increasing personnel shortages encountered in the tourism and hospitality industry. The discussion is based on a review of the literature.

This article presents a qualitative study investigating the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies on the workforce turnover rate in the tourism and hospitality industry in general.

Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies have both positive and negative aspects for the hospitality and tourism industry and its employees, these technologies can be used to reduce the factors that cause employee turnover. In particular, it leads to improvements in job satisfaction, job commitment and career opportunities of sector employees, reduction of job stress, and selection and retention of the right employees.

This study examines the factors that tourism sector employees encounter in the sector and that cause the workforce turnover rate to increase, and emphasizes the importance of the possible benefits of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies in reducing these factors that cause the workforce turnover rate.

This paper aims to provide insights into the environment needed for advancing a digitally enabled circular plastic economy in Africa. It explores important technical and social paradigms for the transition.

This study adopted an interpretivist paradigm, drawing on thematic analysis on qualitative data from an inter-sectoral engagement with 69 circular economy stakeholders across the continent.

The results shows that, while substantial progress has been made with regard to the development and deployment of niche innovations in Africa, the overall progress of circular plastic economy is slowed due to relatively minimal changes at the regime levels as well as pressures from the exogenous landscape. The study highlights that regime changes are crucial for disrupting the entrenched linear plastic economy in developing countries, which is supported by significant sunk investment and corporate state capture.

The main limitation of this study is with the sample as it uses data collected from five countries. Therefore, while it offers a panoramic view of multi-level synergy of actors and sectors across African countries, it is limited in its scope and ability to illuminate country-specific nuances and peculiarities.

The study underlines the importance of policy innovations and regulatory changes in order for technologies to have a meaningful contribution to the transition to a circular plastic economy.

The study makes an important theoretical contribution by using empirical evidence from various African regions to articulate the critical importance of the regime dimension in accelerating the circular economy transition in general, and the circular plastic economy in particular, in Africa.