European Business Review: Volume 34 Issue 6

Dramatic social change (COVID-19) moderating complexity leadership and organisational adaptability in Zimbabwean SMEs

Tongesai Chingwena, Caren Brenda Scheepers

Major social changes, such as those induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, intensify the need for organisations in Africa to accelerate adaptation. Leadership plays an important role…

Organisational justice mechanisms’ mediating leadership style, cognition- and affect-based trust during COVID-19 in South Africa

Schalk Willem Jacobus Visser, Caren Brenda Scheepers

This study aims to investigate how different kinds of leadership styles (transformational and transactional leadership) influence different components of trust (affect-based and…

Businesses and their community in times of COVID-19: a stakeholder theory approach

David Wai Lun Ng, Abel Duarte Alonso, Alessandro Bressan, Oanh Thi Kim Vu, Thanh Duc Tran, Erhan Atay

The purpose of this study is to build an understanding of how firms operate under the COVID-19 crisis. Specifically, the study examines the significance of firms’ survival for…

Sustainability competencies and its link to innovation capabilities

Asha K.S. Nair, Som Sekhar Bhattacharyya

The purpose of this paper is to study individual sustainability competencies and its linkage toward building innovation capabilities. This study explores the interrelations…

The effect of talent management and leadership styles on firms’ sustainable performance

Dimitrios Kafetzopoulos, Katerina Gotzamani

This study aims to develop a framework that examines how different leadership styles influence talent management (TM) and how these leadership styles and TM influence firms’…

Corporate social responsibility and customer-citizenship behaviors: the role of customer–company identification

Mobin Fatma, Imran Khan, Vikas Kumar, Avinash Kumar Shrivastava

This study aims to analyse a proposed model depicting the direct and indirect relationship between consumer perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and customer…

Factors promoting customer citizenship behaviours and the moderating role of self-monitoring: a study of ride-hailing services

Estelle Van Tonder, Daniel J. Petzer

This study aims to broaden understanding of why customers engage in helping and feedback citizenship behaviours. Beyond traditional attitude–behaviour relationships, limited…

Effect of knowledge management and co-evolvement on green operations: the role of corporate environmental strategy

Chiranjit Das

This study aims to analyze the relationships between knowledge management and co-evolvement to green product and process design and green manufacturing and logistics. Besides…

Responsible leadership, job satisfaction and duty orientation: lessons from the manufacturing sector in Ghana

Abraham Ansong, Angelina Afua Agyeiwaa, Robert Ipiin Gnankob

This study aims to investigate the influence of responsible leadership on employee duty orientation in the manufacturing sector of Ghana by using job satisfaction as a mediating…

Circular economy in pharmaceutical industry through the lens of stimulus organism response theory

Kali Charan Sabat, Som Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Bala Krishnamoorthy

The purpose of this study is to explore circular economy (CE) initiatives and apply the stimulus-organism-response theory to find the socio-political drivers and enablers of CE in…