This study examines the short- and long-term challenges faced by underrepresented groups in healthcare. It explores the effects of inadequate cross-cultural leadership on training and workplace experiences, and evaluates support systems to enhance training and development programs tailored to international workforce needs.

This study explores the scientific literature on agricultural credit granting to farmers in order to identify elements and mechanisms that could support sustainable credit provision. Using a bibliometric co-occurrence analysis of authors’ keywords from 719 Scopus documents (1914–2025) processed with Bibliometrix, it builds strategic diagrams for four time periods to trace how thematic clusters have emerged, persisted, transformed or declined. Preliminary results show the field has grown and diversified, with themes such as gender, credit risk, climate change adaptation and food security gaining prominence, and future work will examine the identified clusters through co-word networks.

Examines market acceptance of the DBA degree, focusing on existing literature, accreditation requirements, and qualifications.

This document critically appraises Electronic Performance Monitoring (EPM) systems and their nuanced effects on task performance, job tension, and organizational trust. It uses a PICO framework to explore if EPM enhances performance without increasing job tension, highlighting the impact of ethical and cultural factors. Recommendations for ethical and transparent implementation of EPM strategies are provided.

This work-in-progress study aims to develop a grounded, process-oriented theory of how AI integration evolves from pilot to sustained use in a legacy, high-compliance organization, and how governance practices and policy adoption emerge in daily work. Grounded in sociotechnical systems theory, levers of control, the Cynefin framework and systems analysis, it uses insider action research with constructivist grounded theory, treating each AI integration episode as the unit of analysis and drawing on interviews, internal documents, observations and indices of adoption, productivity, governance maturity and trust. It aims to produce an integration framework, a governance playbook and a decision-support model for leaders in regulated industries.

This research investigates the systemic mechanisms and dynamics through which teams evolve to reach high performance, using an Input-Mediator-Output framework and qualitative methodologies.

Public school facilities represent a critical yet persistently undervalued dimension of educational quality and equity. While prior research has established that the physical environment influences student achievement and teacher outcomes, less attention has been given to the financial mechanisms that produce disparities in facility conditions. This study advances the argument that district-level financial capacity functions as a foundational driver of infrastructure quality and, by extension, educational outcomes. Grounded in Strategic Facilities Management and Environmental Psychology, this research proposes a pathway-based conceptual model linking financial capacity and strategic financial management to facility conditions, and facility conditions to educational outcomes. Using publicly available secondary data, the study applies a comparative case-study design across selected New Jersey public school districts representing urban, suburban, and affluent contexts. Using publicly available data from the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE), the Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) database, and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the study finds that urban, high-need districts such as Newark, Camden, and Paterson consistently exhibit lower bond ratings, lower per-pupil maintenance investment, older facilities, and graduation rates 20–35 percentage points below affluent districts such as Princeton, Ridgewood, and West Windsor–Plainsboro. Importantly, variation among mid-wealth suburban districts indicates that strategic financial management moderates the relationship between funding and infrastructure quality. These results support the argument that school facilities serve as the physical manifestation of financial decision-making and reinforce the need to treat infrastructure investment as a strategic and equity-relevant policy domain. The study provides a foundation for subsequent statewide quantitative analysis and contributes to a more integrated understanding of how financial systems shape educational environments.

This study explores how collegiate women athletes navigate Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) opportunities, focusing on personal branding, entrepreneurial initiatives, and leveraging their identities. Utilizing a qualitative approach, it examines the ripple effect of NIL deals on athlete identity, the NIL support system, and the growth of women's sports.

Bread waste remains a persistent sustainability challenge in industrialised food systems despite increasing environmental awareness and technological optimisation. Existing research typically examines food waste from isolated behavioural, retail, or manufacturing perspectives, thereby overlooking the cross-level dynamics through which surplus is structurally reproduced. This paper reconceptualises bread waste as a systemic coordination problem emerging at the retail–consumer interface, shifting the analytical focus from actor-specific deficits to cross-level misalignment. Building on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (Ajzen, 1991), Institutional Theory (DiMaggio and Powell, 1983; Scott, 1995), and Information Processing Theory (Galbraith, 1973), the study develops the Systemic Alignment Framework. The framework explains how retail promotional volatility generates demand fluctuations, how manufacturers respond through structural buffering and conservative forecasting, and how consumers make disposal decisions under bounded rationality within abundance-oriented choice architectures. The interaction of these internally coherent yet unsynchronised logics systematically reproduces surplus. Methodologically, the study adopts an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, combining a representative survey of German consumers with qualitative interviews across retail and manufacturing actors. By triangulating behavioural, institutional, and informational lenses, the study identifies key mechanisms of misalignment and outlines conditions under which alignment across actors becomes possible. The findings provide actionable insights for aligning demand generation, production planning, and consumer decision environments, thereby enabling more effective and systemically coordinated waste reduction strategies.

This extended abstract reconceptualises bread waste in Germany as a cross-level coordination problem at the retail–consumer interface rather than a deficit of any single actor, and develops a Systemic Alignment Framework integrating an extended Theory of Planned Behaviour for consumers, Institutional Theory for retailers and Information Processing Theory for manufacturers. It proposes an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design combining a representative consumer survey with semi-structured interviews with retailers and manufacturers, followed by an integrative phase. The study argues that durable waste reduction requires behavioural, strategic and communicative alignment across consumers, retail practices and production systems.