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Agility in Supply Chains
The influence of the rapidly changing business environment due to the COVID-19 global pandemic presents an important organizational challenge to fresh produce export supply chains in developing countries such as Ghana. Such an inimical supply chain problem highlights the relevance of supply chain agility as a potent methodological framework to measure, monitor and evaluate these challenges in stable as well as turbulent times.
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  • 18 Nov 2022
Topic Review
The Advantages of Coaching
The definition of coaching has been applied in several fields, such as sport, life, and business. Even though coaching was first used in sport as a discipline that helps athletes maximize their performances, there is an increasing number of coaches who work for every kind of company as executive, team, or business coaches. Career coaching has become an important method of helping people expand their self-awareness, facilitate personal development, and increase their performance in the school-to-work transition.
  • 557
  • 03 Aug 2023
Topic Review
Green Servant Leadership and Pro-Environmental Behaviour of Employees
Pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) refers to the practices that are helpful in promoting the natural environment through different practices of recycling, reusable initiatives, reprocessing, rebuilding, and the applications of different ideas to implement practices that reduce the harmful effect of an organization towards the environment by adopting the practices of green products and processes. Organizations that are involved in PEB practices are in a better position to gain a competitive edge over their competitors, as pro-environmental practices reduce costs, generate revenue, and help create a positive image through certain practices towards sustainability.
  • 548
  • 17 Nov 2023
Topic Review
Corporate Social Responsibility for Organizational Resilience
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been found to be important in boosting organizations’ sustainability and resilience against crisis. An organization seeks to satisfy its shareholders as a primary concern, its success can be affected by other stakeholders. Organizational CSR programs should not only take into account customers, suppliers, and other external stakeholders but also include internal activities in which employees can participate.
  • 540
  • 27 Sep 2023
Topic Review
Supply Chain Leadership and Sustainable Innovation
The concept of leadership is typically  defined by the behaviour, capabilities, and characters of leaders. It revolves around group dynamics influenced by social factors and centers on shared goals, intentions, visions, or objectives. Supply chain leadership (SCL) contributes to the enhancement of functioning implementation, consumer-supplier relationships, and sustainability in innovation. SCL is therefore identified as a potentially significant concept due to its influence on sustainable innovation and competitiveness, but yet to emerge as a distinct field of scholarly research.
  • 535
  • 25 Mar 2024
Topic Review
Destination-Centric Wine Exports
With more than 40% of produced wine crossing borders, wine represents a truly global beverage. Wine export serves as a sales lever, especially for producers where home wine consumption diminishes but the global wine business is highly competitive. The literature tells that in competitive market innovation, customer centrism, and increasing sustainability are key. Wine export offerings need to meet the customer’s desires in the targeted foreign destinations. German wine providers have to catch-up in regard to destination-specific preferences so they can offer adaptation or suffer a competitive disadvantage in sustainability positioning.
  • 533
  • 18 Jul 2023
Topic Review
A Psychology of Sustainable Career Development
Sustainable career development is a great priority for organizations, governments and individuals alike. Facing the grand challenges of our global world, careers and their development have to be re-designed to incorporate more sustainable ways of living and working.
  • 530
  • 24 Jan 2024
Topic Review
Digital Technique-Enabled Container Logistics Supply Chain Sustainability Achievement
With the rapid development of digital technology, the smart sensor-based container equipment and intelligent logistics operations contribute to achieving the efficiency improvement and sustainability achievement of container supply chain under the IoT-based logistics 4.0 scenarios.
  • 527
  • 27 Nov 2023
Topic Review
Integrate Artificial Intelligence into Teaching
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer science fiction. It is so close to our daily life that there is even existing legislation and norming like in an ISO standard. But despite these developments, AI has barely entered the consciousness of ordinary users of IT. In an academic context, the importance of AI is well recognized and there are notable efforts to integrate AI into teaching and development of teaching, for example, in curricular development or even to pass an exam. 
  • 513
  • 11 Sep 2023
Topic Review
Understanding Perceptions of Leaders by Video Vignettes
Video vignettes are one form of virtualized vignettes that may build upon traditional text vignettes and enable research participants to see and experience a unique scenario that is better translated visually rather than through a written text. 
  • 494
  • 22 Dec 2023
Topic Review
Linking Informative and Factual CSR Communication to Reputation
The way corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication relates to corporate reputation has attracted an increasing amount of attention from communication and business researchers and practitioners. Informativeness and a factual tone in CSR communication were positively related to employee perceived intrinsic/other-serving motives of their organizations’ CSR activities. Employee perceived intrinsic/other-serving motives of their organizations’ CSR activities were positively associated with employee organizational identification. Employee organizational identification was positively related to corporate reputation. In addition, employee perceived intrinsic/other-serving motives of their organizations’ CSR activities and employee organizational identification turned out to be two significant mediators in the proposed model. 
  • 489
  • 29 Dec 2023
Topic Review
Employee Involvement in Sustainability Projects in Emergent Markets
Without a doubt, encouraging the behavior of employees in relation to sustainability is one of the most effective tactics that organizations can use to attain their sustainability goals. It is critical that employees take part in sustainability projects in order for organizations to be successful.
  • 481
  • 18 Oct 2023
Topic Review
Selection of Industrial Sites to Minimize Risks
Industrial sites are essential for the development of an area and they are even more crucial considering the increasing population, which results in an increasing demand for the supply of industrial products. The procurement of products requires a particular place, specifically set as an industrial site location, to produce different products that society needs. An industrial site is an area where industrial activities are centralized and supported by facilities and infrastructure that are developed and managed by industrial site companies with an industrial estate business license. The efficient selection of a perfect site for the development of an industrial site in spatial planning should consider the land condition and environmental factors to minimize the impacts and risks.
  • 466
  • 05 Dec 2023
Topic Review
Inter-Professional Communication in Complex IT Project Teams
Organizational IT projects are becoming more complex, not only because of the time-to-market pressure and increased complexity of the specific IT problems they have to solve, but also because of the diversity of their team members. Besides cultural (language) diversity in the global context, there are two additional types of diversity: diversity of organization management (linked to project versus organization tensions), which is common to all organizational projects, and the professional diversity in particular, proper to IT projects. Amid all advantages of varied standpoints, the diversity might come with seeds of misunderstandings in communication, tensions, and even latent conflicts, which (if not timely and properly addressed) may lead to escalating conflicts.
  • 427
  • 24 Jan 2024
Topic Review
System Dynamics-Based Interactive Learning Environment for Formative (Self-)Assessment
An online system dynamics-based interactive learning environment (ILE) can be designed to assess the trainees' capabilities, in accordance with the formative assessment paradigm. Through a simulated business environment, trainees have the opportunity to virtually manage their own company (system) while taking on various roles that mirror real-life scenarios related to the phenomenon analyzed by the ILE. The ILE has a feature that allows the assessment of such capabilities by measuring key indicators that determine the feasibility, effectiveness, and efficiency of their decision-making when running a firm within a specific operational context. From this standpoint, implementing a practical approach that enables trainees to confidently evaluate their capabilities in a protected environment (simulations) would produce the following different benefits for them: a) Personalized Learning: Interactive learning environments can adapt to suit trainees' individual learning styles, making the learning experience more personalized and effective; b) Interactive Learning Experience: Interactive learning environments offer learners the opportunity to engage actively in the learning process, facilitating better retention of knowledge; c) Real-time Feedback: Interactive learning environments provide learners with instant feedback, which helps them to identify gaps in their knowledge and improve immediately; d) Collaborative Learning: Interactive learning environments encourage learners to work collaboratively, which has proven benefits for memory retention and enhanced peer learning.
  • 415
  • 11 Jan 2024
Topic Review
Organizational Resilience in Prisons and Police Forces
The concept of organizational resilience (OR) is based on a common perception of the meaning of resilience, illustrated by its Latin etymology resiliere, ‘to bounce back’.
  • 401
  • 27 Feb 2024
Topic Review
Lumber Takeoff Services
The construction industry is characterized by its reliance on precise calculations and careful project management. One of the most crucial steps in construction planning is estimating the materials required to complete a project, particularly lumber for wooden structures. A lumber takeoff is the process of estimating the quantity of wood needed for a construction project, and the accuracy of this estimate can significantly impact both time and cost.
  • 363
  • 31 Oct 2024
Topic Review
Cargo Delivery Systems in Agglomeration Areas
Transport constitutes a key component of any city or agglomeration’s functioning and development. It is indispensable for the functioning of business entities (deliveries of raw materials and components, internal flows, distribution of finished products, provision of services) and public institutions (public services, administrative functions, regulatory and inspection activities), as well as for the functioning of the city and agglomeration’s residents and users (meeting the transport needs of the public—moving about to meet their work, education, entertainment, healthcare, and other needs).
  • 310
  • 30 Oct 2024
Topic Review Peer Reviewed
Digital Transformation in Port Logistics
Digital transformation in port logistics represents a profound and systemic shift in the way maritime trade and supply chain operations are designed, coordinated, and governed through the pervasive integration of advanced digital technologies and data-driven management practices. It extends beyond the mere digitization of paper-based documents into electronic formats and beyond the digitalization of isolated processes with IT tools. Transformation involves reconfiguring organizational structures, decision-making logics, and value creation models around connectivity, automation, and predictive intelligence. In practice, it includes the adoption of smart port technologies such as the Internet of Things, 5G communication networks, digital twins, blockchain-based trade documentation, and artificial intelligence applied to vessel scheduling and cargo planning. It also encompasses collaborative platforms like port community systems that link shipping companies, terminal operators, freight forwarders, customs, and hinterland transport providers into data-driven ecosystems. The purpose of digital transformation is not only to improve efficiency and reduce operational bottlenecks, but also to enhance resilience against disruptions, ensure sustainability in line with decarbonization goals, and reposition ports as orchestrators of trade networks rather than passive providers of physical infrastructure.
  • 40
  • 28 Jan 2026
Topic Review Peer Reviewed
Why Method Matters: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Marketing Capability–Performance Relationship
This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesises 88 effect sizes from 88 peer-reviewed journal articles to evaluate the association between marketing capability and firm performance. Studies were identified in Scopus and Dimensions for the period 2000–2025 and were eligible if they reported a construct identifiable as marketing capability, at least one firm performance outcome, and sufficient statistics to compute a correlation. Random-effects pooling indicates a positive and practically meaningful correlation between marketing capability and performance (r = 0.44, 95% CI [0.40, 0.48]), with a 95% prediction interval from 0.06 to 0.71, indicating that marketing capability is an important correlate of performance outcomes. Subgroup analyses show stronger correlations for reflective first-order models, weaker estimates for higher-order and formative specifications, and wider prediction intervals when confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is reported. Contextual differences are also evident: business-to-consumer samples exhibit the largest effects, business-to-business samples moderate effects, and mixed samples smaller effects. Small-study patterns were examined with funnel plots, Egger’s test and trim-and-fill, and sensitivity analyses using Restricted Maximum Likelihood (REML), Hartung–Knapp, and multilevel models produced similar pooled estimates. Most included studies were cross-sectional, which limits causal interpretation, so the findings should be read as consistent associations rather than proven effects. Taken together, the review shows that construct design, validation practice, and market setting systematically shape both the size and spread of the marketing capability–performance association and provides benchmarks and prediction intervals that future studies can use for theory development and research design.
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  • 23 Dec 2025
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