This dissertation examines the challenges of balancing safety and productivity in high-risk environments, specifically in the mining industry of Tanzania. It explores how leadership credibility can mediate these tensions, integrating Paradox Theory and the Theory of Planned Behavior to offer actionable insights for sustainable organizational management.

This study explores the perspectives and expectations of Generation Z women as they enter the workforce. It highlights their views on workplace flexibility, work-life balance, and inclusivity while addressing apprehensions related to perceived inequalities and biases. Findings emphasize the importance of adapting workplace practices to attract and retain this demographic.

This study explores Gen Z women’s attitudes toward entering the workforce, focusing on their expectations, apprehensions, and workplace justice perceptions. Using a single-case study methodology with interviews of UMKC business students, it reveals themes around desired workplace culture, diversity, and organizational loyalty.

This paper explores how integrating live-streaming events into social commerce marketing strategies can enhance consumer repurchase intentions. It critically appraises five empirical studies, finding that trust, social connectedness, and customer engagement play pivotal roles in fostering repurchase motivation. The study emphasizes the importance of addressing consumer demographic differences and platform-specific dynamics in live-stream strategies for sustained growth.

The growing complexity and vulnerability of supply chains (SCM) have elevated logistics management to a matter of strategic and corporate governance relevance. Yet, although the literature suggests that boards of directors should play a key role in overseeing supply chain resilience and sustainability, a significant gap persists in the empirical evidence regarding how such oversight becomes visible in corporate governance documents. This study addresses this gap through the analysis of public corporate documents from 10 Mexican firms with high operational relevance, all included in the S&P/BMV IPC index. The study adopts an exploratory empirical design based on qualitative content analysis of a corpus of 29 official documents, including annual reports, sustainability reports, and investor presentations. Drawing on Resource Dependence Theory and Institutional Theory, the study employs a theoretically informed coding matrix to identify patterns of SCM oversight visibility. The findings suggest a phenomenon of "Logistical Blindness," characterized by a decoupling between strategic narrative and the documentary visibility of operational oversight. While SCM is presented as a pillar of growth, resilience, or sustainability, its public treatment in governance documents appears concentrated in silos of ethical compliance, sustainability, and risk management, with scarce presence of operational flow metrics. The study further identifies sectoral differences: consumer-sector firms exhibit greater institutional visibility of SCM, whereas infrastructure firms display a deeper documentary invisibility. These findings contribute to the corporate governance and supply chain management literature by showing that SCM gains public visibility primarily through legitimacy, compliance, and risk frameworks, while its operational dimension remains comparatively underrepresented. As a practical implication, the study proposes integrating flow indicators into the governance agenda to strengthen strategic resilience in the context of nearshoring.

Businesses with repeat customers often offer rewards programs to foster customer loyalty and engagement. Loyalty programs are designed to acquire and retain customers’ loyalty and, depending on their complexity, can require a substantial investment of resources. Utilizing the Critically Appraised Topic (CAT) approach, this article aims to investigate the impact of loyalty programs on overall customer consumption. Despite their prevalence, the study suggests limited evidence supporting the efficacy of loyalty programs. The findings indicate that loyalty programs may not consistently yield positive changes in purchase behavior or lead to increased demand directly.

This DBA study investigates which factors explain the apparent slowdown of the sustainable investment market in Spain, Portugal and Andorra, including misalignments between investors, borrowers and regulators and the effects of recent EU and national regulation. Drawing on stakeholder, agency, legitimacy, institutional and signalling theories, it adopts a mixed-methods design combining time-series analysis of ESG fund flows and issuance with Qualitative Comparative Analysis of practitioner interviews and regulatory documents. Preliminary insights from the literature point to interacting regulatory, market microstructure and investor behaviour factors.

This paper examines the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) as a dialectical process of professional and scholarly transformation. Drawing on Benson's (1977) dialectical theory, it explores how practitioner-researchers experience and integrate multiple tensions—identity (professional–academic), activity (working–studying), knowledge (practical–theoretical), growth (learning–doing), and argument (verbal–written)—throughout their doctoral journey. A qualitative systematic literature review of 33 peer-reviewed studies was conducted following Snyder's (2019, 2024) methodological framework. Using interpretive analysis, thematic coding, and AI assessment, the review identifies how these tensions function as generative forces that enable reflection, synthesis, and identity reconstruction. Rather than viewing tension as a barrier, the DBA is conceptualized as a process where professional experience and scholarly inquiry coalesce, producing ‘Mode 2’ knowledge that bridges theory and practice (Gibbons et al., 1994). The findings reveal that successful DBA candidates employ critical reflexivity to transform opposing demands into opportunities for integrated understanding and scholarly contribution (Farrell, Oerton, & Plant, 2018; Yourston & Bown, 2024). As a result, this paper contributes to the literature by framing the DBA as a living dialectical system in which tension fuels development, enabling professionals to become reflexive practitioner-researchers who unite action and reflection in the pursuit of meaningful organizational and academic impact.

This research explores the impact of post-merger resource reconfiguration on M&A success in high-tech companies within the United States. Utilizing the dynamic capabilities framework, the study identifies strategies and moderators for effective integration processes, combining quantitative and qualitative analyses to provide insights for successful post-M&A practices.

This study assesses the weak-form informational efficiency of the Lithium market, a critical mineral resource essential for the global energy transition, using the Global X Lithium & Battery Tech ETF (LIT) daily returns from 2010 to 2025. We apply the robust Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (MF-DFA) to detect long-range correlation and multifractality in this complex, non-stationary time series. Our results reveal a multifractal market structure and deviation from the random walk, indicating greater inefficiency compared to major global stock indices, similar to volatile markets. The generalized Hurst exponent confirms this multifractal structure, exhibiting asymmetric scaling behavior where small price fluctuations show persistent long-range correlation, while large price fluctuations exhibit anti-persistence, reflecting a mean-reverting mechanism. Through analysis of shuffled series, we confirm that the multifractality originates predominantly from temporal dependence (long-range correlation) rather than the heavy-tailed distribution of returns. This deviation from the Efficient Market Hypothesis underscores the need for reforms to enhance transparency and information flow in the Lithium market, fostering optimal capital allocation crucial for sustaining the global energy transition.