European Business Review: Volume 35 Issue 2

The effect of formal financial accessibility on love money investment

Cristian Pinto-Gutierrez, Gianni Romaní, Miguel Atienza

This paper aims to analyse whether the degree of formal financial access in a country affects love money investment, defined as capital provided to entrepreneurs from family and…

A dynamic capabilities approach of Industry 4.0: the experiences of managers operating in two emerging economies

Oanh Thi Kim Vu, Abel Duarte Alonso, M. Alejandra Buitrago Solis, Samuel Goyzueta, Trung Nguyen, Robert McClelland, Thanh Duc Tran, Ngan Nguyen, Hoa Thi Ngoc Huynh, Erhan Atay

The purpose of this study is to examine the implementation of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) through the lens of the dynamic capabilities framework. Contrary to most existing research, this…

Authentic leadership’s influence on strategic corporate social responsibility in South Africa: mediated by participative decision-making

Bradley Majil’andile Nqumba, Caren Brenda Scheepers

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of authentic leadership on strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) in a less researched environment. This study…

Linking hotel environmental management initiatives and sustainable hotel performance through employees’ eco-friendly behaviour and environmental strategies: a moderated-mediated model

Shafique Ur Rehman, Hamzah Elrehail, Dana Alshwayat, Blend Ibrahim, Rachid Alami

The purpose and current research objective is to determine sustainable hotel performance through hotel environmental management initiatives (HEMI) with the mediating influence of…

The effectiveness of sustainability social marketing use of fear and guilt appeals to influence the behavioural intention of millennials

Lise van Breda, Marlize Terblanche-Smit, Theuns Pelser

This study aims to understand if the appeals often used in social marketing, namely, fear and guilt, are effective in changing South African millennials’ intention to behave more…

Internationalisation of firms in the digital economy. Analysis of tenants of Polish technology parks

Mateusz Błaszczyk, Karolina Maria Olszewska, Marek Wróblewski

This paper aims to discuss the relationship between the digital economy and the model of internationalisation followed by companies resident in technology parks – institutions…

Paradoxical leader behavior and leader effectiveness: moderating role of structural and job-related uncertainty

Uzma Batool, Muhammad Mustafa Raziq, Naukhez Sarwar, Sharjeel Saleem, Asfia Obaid

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of paradoxical leader behavior (PLB) on leader effectiveness (LE). The authors propose an underlying mechanism of this…