University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City

The association between work-life integration, job satisfaction, job stress, and innovative work behavior

Purpose The study investigates the association between work-life integration and innovative work behavior, while examining job stress and job satisfaction as mediating variables. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative survey was conducted among employees from various industri...

Embedding sustainability in higher education: a decade-long systematic review of global best practices, emerging trends and future pathways

Purpose This study systematically examines how higher education institutions have embedded sustainability across teaching, research, governance, operations and community engagement between 2015 and 2025. It seeks to analyze the organizational mechanisms, tensions and governance d...

Narcissistic leadership and counterproductive work behavior among Gen Z employees in Vietnam: a moderated serial mediation model

Purpose This study develops an indirect and conditional explanation of the association between narcissistic leadership (NL) and counterproductive work behavior (CWB) among Vietnamese Generation Z employees. It examines organizational cynicism (OC) and turnover intention (TI) as m...

From AI chatbot-enabled knowledge management to sustainable luxury consumption: the moderating role of need for uniqueness

Purpose This study investigates how AI chatbot-driven knowledge management, through knowledge acquisition, sharing, and application, influences sustainable luxury fashion consumption. It examines the psychological process from attitude formation to behavior and the moderating rol...

When awareness backfires: activation and attenuation in fast fashion ethics

Purpose This study aims to address a persistent paradox in sustainable fashion: why rising consumer awareness of fast fashion’s environmental and labour harms fails to produce durable attitudinal resistance, particularly in structurally high-saturation, high-exposure market envir...

Deep learning-based 3D forensic facial reconstruction: a volumetric morphological inference approach using a skull-conditioned U-Net

Forensic facial reconstruction (FFR) is an investigative aid used in cases where primary identifiers such as DNA, dental records, or fingerprints are unavailable or inconclusive. Rather than establishing identity, FFR aims to generate an anatomically plausible facial approximatio...

Responsible Leadership for Sustainable Agritourism: A Multilevel Causal Mechanism Analysis and the Facilitating Roles of Social Capital

ABSTRACT This study investigates the causal mechanisms by which responsible leadership (RL) promotes sustainable agritourism development in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Using focus groups and multiple case studies across five exemplary agritourism operations, we examine how RL oper...

Work–family conflict and psychological well-being: the roles of mindfulness, burnout and segmentation preference

Purpose This study aims to examine how work–family conflict is associated with psychological well-being through workplace mindfulness and burnout, and whether segmentation preference conditions these relationships. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 700 full-tim...

Changes in depressive symptoms and disordered eating attitudes and behaviors during antidepressant treatment among Vietnamese patients with major depressive disorder

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is linked to appetite and weight disturbances. While antidepressants (ADs) stabilize mood, their impact on psychological eating attitudes and behaviors remains underexplored. This study aimed to investigate longitudinal changes in mean EAT-26 total...

Collaborative approaches to reducing food loss and waste: a systematic literature review

Food loss and waste (FLW) remains a critical sustainability challenge across food supply chains (FSC), affecting resource efficiency, food security, and environmental outcomes. Although collaboration is frequently invoked in proposed FLW solutions, its role has not been systemati...

Determinants of intention to use AI for personal financial management among middle-aged and older adults: evidence from Vietnam and China

Purpose This study examines factors associated with older adults' intention to use artificial intelligence (AI) for personal financial management in China and Vietnam by integrating the technology acceptance model (TAM) and the knowledge–behavior gap (KBG) model. Design/methodolo...

Understanding Consumer Adoption of Phygital Services: An SEM–fsQCA Approach

This study investigates how seamlessness, personalization, compatibility, and perceived risk influence consumers’ usage intention toward phygital services and, in turn, their perceived value and customer engagement. Drawing on the stimulus–organism–response (SOR) framework and in...

Characterization of gut microbiota in Vietnamese children under 5 years of age with acute and persistent diarrhea

Gut microbiota alterations have been increasingly associated with diarrheal diseases, a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children under 5 years of age. However, explorations examining microbiota profiles across different diarrhea durations remain limited. Our study inv...

Digital capability, green orientation and innovation activities: evidence from firms in an emerging market

Purpose This study aims to examine how digital capability and green orientation shape firms’ innovation activities and objective innovation performance in an emerging-market context, and how export participation asymmetrically conditions these capability-conversion pathways. Desi...

Green technology commercialization: Drivers, barriers, and emerging directions

Green technologies are climate change mitigation technologies and central to decarbonisation, yet their societal benefits depend on whether innovations can be commercialised and diffused at scale amid policy uncertainty, financing frictions, and infrastructure constraints. To syn...

The nonlinear payoff of innovativeness under globalization: Environmental innovation, legitimacy, and customer loyalty

How does firm innovativeness translate into customer loyalty under globalization, when customer evaluations are nonlinear and shaped by legitimacy asymmetries? Prior research largely assumes linear innovation payoffs, overlooking how customers in globally competitive and institut...

Financial behaviour translates digital literacy financial knowledge and financial attitude into sustainable financial capability in Vietnam

Abstract This study examines how financial capability is formed in digitally mediated financial environments by testing whether financial behaviour mediates the effects of financial knowledge, financial attitude, and digital literacy on financial capability. The study advances a...

THE IMPACT OF INFLUENCER MARKETING ON DOMESTIC TOURISM DECISIONS AMONG HO CHI MINH CITY RESIDENTS IN VIETNAM: TESTING THE MODERATING ROLE OF INCOME

Abstract Influencer marketing has become an important source of information that influences domestic tourism decisions in emerging markets. However, there is limited research on the role of individuals’ economic conditions in explaining the translation of influencer attributes fr...

THE IMPACT OF INFLUENCER MARKETING ON DOMESTIC TOURISM DECISIONS AMONG HO CHI MINH CITY RESIDENTS IN VIETNAM: TESTING THE MODERATING ROLE OF INCOME

Abstract Influencer marketing has become an important source of information that influences domestic tourism decisions in emerging markets. However, there is limited research on the role of individuals’ economic conditions in explaining the translation of influencer attributes fr...

How AI-Based Recommendations on Short Video Platforms Drive Tourists’ Decisions: A Cross-Cultural Study of Destination Authenticity from Vietnam and France

This study examines factors influencing tourist perceptions and intentions toward artificial intelligence (AI)-recommended destinations on short-form video platforms, specifically how algorithmic characteristics and content attributes impact destination perceptions of authenticit...