Institute of Business Management

Happiness, religiosity and economic hardship: cross-national evidence on household financial position

Purpose This study examines how happiness, religiosity and recent economic hardship are jointly associated with household financial position across countries. It addresses limited cross-national evidence on how subjective well-being and religiosity relate to household financial p...

Data-driven supply chains: the interplay of innovation, adaptive capability, and resilience

Supply chains are becoming more volatile and complex, and firms increasingly depend on data-driven capabilities to innovate, adapt and withstand disruption. Drawing on the Resource-Based View and Dynamic Capability Theory, this study examines how supply chain data analytics (SCDA...

Is AI adoption a pro-environmental choice? Integrating value-belief-norm theory and theory of planned behavior

Purpose Artificial intelligence (AI) could be essential to helping organizations improve efficiency and enable quick, accurate decision-making. This study investigates the adoption behavior of AI technology from an ecological perspective. Using the value-belief-norm (VBN) and the...

Forecasting the PKR–USD exchange rate using recurrent neural networks: a comparative analysis of LSTM, GRU and CNN

Purpose This study investigates the forecasting of the PKR/USD exchange rate by employing three deep learning architectures: Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Gated Recurrent Units (GRU) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). For the first time in PKR/USD exchange rate literature,...

Unmasking the dark side: how does fossil fuel financing hurt the carbon neutrality targets?

The significance of carbon neutrality objectives in global climate mitigation efforts cannot be underestimated. Fossil fuels are widely believed to be a major culprit behind global climate change, and top polluting economies are still heavily investing in fossil fuels. Thus, the...

Decoding Innovation in Circular Economy: Investigating Policy Pathways for the European Union

The transition from a linear to a circular economy has become a strategic priority for achieving sustainable development, resource efficiency, and economic resilience. However, empirical evidence on the determinants of circular economy innovation (CEI) remains limited, particular...

Magnetic Macro Drivers of Trade Openness: A Study of MENA Countries

ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to systematically scrutinise the influence of macro determinants on trade openness, through the lens of various trade theories, with a particular focus on the economies of the Middle East North African countries from 1995 to 2023. The anal...

Fostering Circularity Through Digital Leadership: Mediation of FinTech and Moderation of Environmental Turbulence and Organizational Agility

ABSTRACT Unsustainable consumption and production practices threaten global economic stability and ecosystems, creating an urgent need for circular economy ( CE ) adoption. However, implementing CE practices remains challenging, especially for small and medium enterprises (SMEs)....