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Digital policy narratives: addressing grand challenges or exacerbating digital inequalities? (2025)
Journal Article
Zamani, E., & Sara, V. (online). Digital policy narratives: addressing grand challenges or exacerbating digital inequalities?. Information Technology for Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2025.2525348

Like many countries, the UK has been exploring digital technologies to address grand challenges, such as unemployment and climate change. In this paper, we study UK policy-generated narratives of the past 10 years to explore the role of said inequali... Read More about Digital policy narratives: addressing grand challenges or exacerbating digital inequalities?.

An ‘EDGES’ framework for navigating MNE strategy in a fragmented world: A systematic literature review on anti-globalization and deglobalization (2025)
Journal Article
Shi, X., Qian, H., & Chen, W. (2025). An ‘EDGES’ framework for navigating MNE strategy in a fragmented world: A systematic literature review on anti-globalization and deglobalization. Journal of Digital Economy, 4, 29-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdec.2025.05.006

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are navigating a new landscape due to disruptions in global supply chains and escalating geopolitical tensions in various regions. These challenges arose from a worldwide pandemic, along with the emergence of new digi... Read More about An ‘EDGES’ framework for navigating MNE strategy in a fragmented world: A systematic literature review on anti-globalization and deglobalization.

Crisis as a catalyst: how the pre-existing values of entrepreneurs shape strategic crisis responses (2025)
Journal Article
Tomlinson, O., Sinkovics, N., Sinkovics, R. R., & Fath, B. (online). Crisis as a catalyst: how the pre-existing values of entrepreneurs shape strategic crisis responses. Small Business Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-025-01080-9

This study contributes to theorizing efforts on how social and environmental considerations integrate into crisis preparedness, crisis response, and resilience. Specifically, we explore how the strategic crisis response of small and medium-sized ente... Read More about Crisis as a catalyst: how the pre-existing values of entrepreneurs shape strategic crisis responses.

The role of regional policy for Industry 4.0 adoption: A study of Finnish South Karelia (2025)
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Igboanua, C. O., Sinkovics, R. R., & Kuivalainen, O. (online). The role of regional policy for Industry 4.0 adoption: A study of Finnish South Karelia. European Management Journal, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2025.06.005

This paper explores the critical role of regional policy in facilitating the adoption of advanced technologies, focusing on Industry 4.0 in the South Karelia region of Finland. Drawing on diverse perspectives from managers and regional development ex... Read More about The role of regional policy for Industry 4.0 adoption: A study of Finnish South Karelia.

Integrating UTAUT and social exchange theory to decipher knowledge-sharing in crowdsourcing (2025)
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Xie, H., Zamani, E., Mazumdar, S., & Checco, A. (in press). Integrating UTAUT and social exchange theory to decipher knowledge-sharing in crowdsourcing. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12(1), Article 756. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-05105-2

Microtask crowdsourcing platforms enable rapid, large-scale completion of simple tasks by a globally distributed workforce. This study investigates the factors influencing knowledge-sharing behaviours among crowdworkers, integrating the Unified Theor... Read More about Integrating UTAUT and social exchange theory to decipher knowledge-sharing in crowdsourcing.

Unveiling the Charisma of Artificial Intelligence: How Voice Assistants Captivate Users and Emotionally Influence User Experience (2025)
Journal Article
Basu, B., Roy, S., & Apostolidis, C. (online). Unveiling the Charisma of Artificial Intelligence: How Voice Assistants Captivate Users and Emotionally Influence User Experience. Psychology and Marketing, https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.22233

Although studies have explored user experience (UX) with artificial intelligence (AI)‐powered voice assistants (VAs), the cognitive, psychological, and emotional factors affecting user engagement and experience with VAs have yet to be investigated in... Read More about Unveiling the Charisma of Artificial Intelligence: How Voice Assistants Captivate Users and Emotionally Influence User Experience.

Strengthening quantitative research in international business: best practices for methods and results sections (2025)
Journal Article
Miller, S., & Lengler, J. (online). Strengthening quantitative research in international business: best practices for methods and results sections. Critical Perspectives on International Business, https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-01-2025-0018

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to discuss best practices for the methods and results sections in quantitative international business (IB) studies, with emphasis on data collection, analytical techniques and additional robustness tests to impro... Read More about Strengthening quantitative research in international business: best practices for methods and results sections.

Fostering an environment for social entrepreneurship: a comparative analysis across economic development levels (2025)
Journal Article
Plata, G., Scott, S., & Aparicio, S. (online). Fostering an environment for social entrepreneurship: a comparative analysis across economic development levels. Review of Managerial Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-025-00887-w

Social entrepreneurship has been lauded for its positive contributions to global economic and social development goals. Yet, how and in what ways varying institutional environments and economic development levels have spurred social entrepreneurial v... Read More about Fostering an environment for social entrepreneurship: a comparative analysis across economic development levels.

Exponential Concentration in Stochastic Approximation (2025)
Journal Article
Law, K. J. H., Walton, N., & Yang, S. (online). Exponential Concentration in Stochastic Approximation. Operations Research, https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2023.0425

We analyze the behavior of stochastic approximation algorithms where iterates, in expectation, progress towards an objective at each step. When progress is proportional to the step size of the algorithm, we prove exponential concentration bounds. The... Read More about Exponential Concentration in Stochastic Approximation.

Customer Orientation and Stock Resilience During Adversity Periods (2025)
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Andreou, P., Lambertides, N., Trigeorgis, L., & Tuneshev, R. (2025). Customer Orientation and Stock Resilience During Adversity Periods. Journal of Corporate Finance, 93, Article 102780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2025.102780

Customer orientation reflects the organizational culture and climate that promote behaviors enabling the firm to create superior value for its customers. Using a textual measure of customer orientation (Custor) constructed from 10-K filings, we docum... Read More about Customer Orientation and Stock Resilience During Adversity Periods.

Optimal Scheduling in a Quantum Switch: Capacity and Throughput Optimality (2025)
Journal Article
Bhambay, S., Vasantam, T., & Walton, N. (in press). Optimal Scheduling in a Quantum Switch: Capacity and Throughput Optimality. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review,

With a growing number of quantum networks in operation, there is a pressing need for performance analysis of quantum switching technologies. A quantum switch establishes, distributes, and maintains entanglements across a network. In contrast to a cla... Read More about Optimal Scheduling in a Quantum Switch: Capacity and Throughput Optimality.

Financial education and spillover effects (2025)
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Kallenos, T., Milidonis, A., Nishiotis, G., & Zenios, S. (online). Financial education and spillover effects. Empirica: Journal of European Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10663-025-09647-1

Using a newly introduced, semester-long university course on financial education in Cyprus, a country of low financial literacy, we find evidence of financial knowledge spillovers from university students to their parents. We measure the financial kn... Read More about Financial education and spillover effects.

Do green bonds provide diversification benefits? The need for tax incentives (2025)
Journal Article
Papavassiliou, E., Topaloglou, N., & Zenios, S. A. (online). Do green bonds provide diversification benefits? The need for tax incentives. Annals of Operations Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-025-06501-2

We examine whether, or under what conditions, green bonds offer diversification benefits when included in broad investor portfolios alongside assets from other financial markets. Using stochastic spanning non-parametric tests without any distribution... Read More about Do green bonds provide diversification benefits? The need for tax incentives.

AI-Capable Relationship Marketing: Shaping the Future of Customer Relationships (2025)
Journal Article
Roy, S., Tehrani, A., Pandit, A., Apostolidis, C., & Ray, S. (2025). AI-Capable Relationship Marketing: Shaping the Future of Customer Relationships. Journal of Business Research, 192, Article 115309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115309

This study explores the interlinkages between artificial intelligence (AI), dynamic capabilities, and relationship marketing (RM) outcomes. Drawing upon insights from dynamic capabilities and RM theory, this study delineates the strategies and initia... Read More about AI-Capable Relationship Marketing: Shaping the Future of Customer Relationships.

Empowering Radical Innovation: How Digital Technologies Drive Knowledge Transfer and Co‐Creation in Innovation Ecosystems (2025)
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Zheng, J., Zhang, J., Kamal, M., Wang, H., Yang, Y., Dey, B., & Apostolidis, C. (online). Empowering Radical Innovation: How Digital Technologies Drive Knowledge Transfer and Co‐Creation in Innovation Ecosystems. R&D Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12764

This study investigates the impact of digital technologies on firm radical innovation and explores the mediating mechanisms of knowledge transfer and knowledge co‐creation. Utilizing a sample of 152 high‐technology entrepreneurial firms, we present c... Read More about Empowering Radical Innovation: How Digital Technologies Drive Knowledge Transfer and Co‐Creation in Innovation Ecosystems.

Carbon Capture and Utilization for Sustainable Supply Chain Design of Intermediate Chemicals: The Formate Factory (2025)
Journal Article
Silveira Sbrice Pinto, A., Gulpinar, N., Liu, F., Gibson, E., Fuller, L., & Souter, P. (online). Carbon Capture and Utilization for Sustainable Supply Chain Design of Intermediate Chemicals: The Formate Factory. ACS Sustainable Resource Management, https://doi.org/10.1021/acssusresmgt.4c00472

Carbon capture and use technologies (CCUt) to valorize industrial flue gases into products is the key to a circular economy. Risks related to technology readiness level (TRL) and supply chain design challenges still lack clarity, however, which might... Read More about Carbon Capture and Utilization for Sustainable Supply Chain Design of Intermediate Chemicals: The Formate Factory.

Bridging the Healthcare Gap: Understanding Continued Telemedicine-Usage Behaviour in Emerging Economies (2025)
Journal Article
Singh, A., Padhy, R., Sahu, A. K., & Chaudhuri, A. (online). Bridging the Healthcare Gap: Understanding Continued Telemedicine-Usage Behaviour in Emerging Economies. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, https://doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-05-2024-0308

Purpose
This study aims to analyse the role of factors responsible for continued telemedicine usage in emerging economies.

Design/methodology/approach
A sequential mixed-methods approach was used to analyse the data. This included in-depth inter... Read More about Bridging the Healthcare Gap: Understanding Continued Telemedicine-Usage Behaviour in Emerging Economies.