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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,912 Views
25 Pages

11 November 2024

The 2017 COSO framework highlights the increasing need to incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into firms’ internal control and risk management practices. Top managers play a crucial role in risk management and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,998 Views
21 Pages

3 August 2019

This paper uses the data of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) performance of A-share listed companies in China from 2013–2017 as sample to study on the impacts of managerial shareholding on CSR performance. By dividing the sample into mandatory d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,754 Views
15 Pages

4 October 2022

This article presents the lessons learned from an online teaching experience in the field of managerial control. The study aims to identify the determinants which influence collaborative behaviors between students in management studies and more speci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,499 Views
18 Pages

4 June 2021

This article investigates why workers submit to managerial bullying and, in doing so, we extend the growing research on managerial control and workplace bullying. We employ a labour process lens to explore the rationality of management both engaging...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,994 Views
20 Pages

22 October 2020

International joint ventures (IJVs) have long been considered a vibrant venue for innovation, one source of sustainable competitive advantage. Nonetheless, there is a paucity of research that seeks to understand what determines their innovative perfo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,193 Views
20 Pages

5 November 2024

This paper explores the management of digitalization projects within the railway industry. It aims to increase and understand the opportunities presented by digitalization and automation in rail operations. Employing a scoping review methodology, thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,447 Views
21 Pages

Managerial Controls in Private Family Firms: The Influence of a Family’s Decision Premises

  • Daniel Magalhães Mucci,
  • Ann Jorissen,
  • Fabio Frezatti and
  • Diógenes de Souza Bido

17 February 2021

In most studies, the affiliation of the manager (family-affiliated or non-family affiliated) and supposedly related behavior (agent or steward) is considered the sole antecedent to explain a family business’ (non) professionalization of managerial co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
473 Views
19 Pages

Managerial Myopia and ESG Performance: Evidence from China

  • Yeung Ying,
  • Qianhui Ma,
  • Mini Han Wang and
  • Rui Yao

11 December 2025

Purpose: This paper draws on the Upper Echelon Theory and the Agency Theory to explore a special aspect of managers’ behavioral characteristics—managerial myopia—as a driving factor in firms’ ESG performance, a key metric for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,062 Views
18 Pages

Integrated Dental Practice Management in Romania: A Cross-Sectional Case–Control Study on the Perceived Impact of Managerial Training on Efficiency, Collaboration, and Care Quality Dental

  • Georgiana Ioana Potra Cicalău,
  • Liana Todor,
  • Roxana Alexandra Cristea,
  • Ramona Hodișan,
  • Olivia Andreea Marcu,
  • Ioan Andrei Țig,
  • Lucia Georgeta Daina and
  • Gabriela Ciavoi

Background/Objectives: The effective management of dental practices is increasingly recognized as a key factor in ensuring high-quality care, efficient operations, and interdisciplinary collaboration. While many dentists assume managerial responsibil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,337 Views
21 Pages

1 April 2025

This study examines how job demands, personal resources, and job resources influence work outcomes, focusing on the role of job autonomy and systems intelligence. Drawing on Job Demand–Resource and Job Demand–Control Models, we hypothesiz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,473 Views
19 Pages

Against the backdrop of tightened credit conditions, external financing constraints have increasingly become an important factor affecting enterprises’ high-quality development. This study focuses on the impact of financing constraints on the h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,808 Views
16 Pages

15 November 2023

This study investigates the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on leadership within infection prevention and control (IPC) units across public hospitals in Israel. Through qualitative interviews with ten IPC managers from nine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,769 Views
9 Pages

Management Control Systems and Clinical Experience of Managers in Public Hospitals

  • Rogério Joao Lunkes,
  • David Naranjo-Gil and
  • Ernesto Lopez-Valeiras

Healthcare authorities are encouraging managers in hospitals to acquire clinical experience and knowledge in order to better carry out and coordinate healthcare service delivery. The main objective of this paper is to analyse how the clinical experie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,045 Views
26 Pages

Integrated Management Approach Towards Sustainability: An Egyptian Business Case Study

  • Gianluca Vitale,
  • Sebastiano Cupertino,
  • Loredana Rinaldi and
  • Angelo Riccaboni

26 February 2019

Several studies have focused mainly on the following approach to tackle sustainable development issues at the management level: single sustainability managerial tools adoption (e.g., sustainable balance scorecard) and the “overlap” proces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,652 Views
25 Pages

28 December 2024

This study explores the influence of the accountability system on corporate green innovation. Using data on Chinese A-share-listed companies from 2013 to 2022, we found that the accountability system significantly promotes green innovations in state-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,822 Views
17 Pages

30 August 2022

Although the role of managers is crucial in shaping firm innovation, it also poses a dilemma. Because innovation is a complicated and long-term process that requires effort and attention, managers may reduce effort in innovation when faced with high...

  • Article
  • Open Access
564 Views
34 Pages

17 December 2025

This study examines the effects of firm characteristics on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance among A-share firms listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen. Drawing on the resource-based view, legitimacy theory, and agency theory, this stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
13,136 Views
23 Pages

11 July 2023

Digitization is a megatrend that shapes the economy and society, driving major transformations. Enterprises, as the most important microeconomic entities, are critical carriers for society in conducting digital transformation and practicing sustainab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
22,546 Views
25 Pages

22 February 2021

Management accountants have proven to be pivotal for introducing new forms of accounting and reporting in companies to support managers in their decision-making process. The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on the role management acc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
211 Views
34 Pages

Corporate fraud remains a persistent problem that highlights the need for improved internal control and governance. Research on corporate governance (CG) and forensic accounting (FA) has been largely performed as separate studies. Little has been don...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,196 Views
23 Pages

22 August 2025

The article examines the application of controlling in energy and heating (E&H) companies, with particular emphasis on diagnosing the extent to which reporting and management controlling are implemented, as well as identifying barriers that limit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,556 Views
18 Pages

Conceptual Comparison of Internal Audit and Internal Control in the Marketing Environment

  • Václav Kupec,
  • Přemysl Písař,
  • Michal Lukáč and
  • Gabriela Pajtinková Bartáková

12 June 2021

There is a conceptual problem in the adequate application of internal audit and internal control in the real business of the marketing environment. Although both of these managerial tools are theoretically defined, they are practically interchangeabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,650 Views
24 Pages

13 August 2025

This paper investigates whether and how managerial overconfidence affects firms’ environmental information disclosure. Using 32,191 firm-year observations from Chinese companies between 2008 and 2022, the study finds that managerial overconfide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,867 Views
15 Pages

28 November 2019

Open government data (open data) initiatives have been at the forefront of the strategy to make more transparent, responsive, and accountable government, and thereby lead to open innovation across the public and private sector. Governments around the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
171 Views
22 Pages

24 January 2026

Geothermal energy is a crucial component of climate adaptation and sustainability transitions, as it provides a dependable, low-carbon source of baseload power that can accelerate sustainable energy transitions and enhance climate resilience. Yet, in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,884 Views
21 Pages

8 July 2021

A recent stream of research has focused on tax aggressiveness, the downward management of taxable income through tax planning activities, and has analyzed its antecedents and consequences, mainly on public companies. Only very few studies, however, h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,680 Views
17 Pages

8 April 2020

The global financial crisis was decisive in reanalyzing the role of corporate governance based on the accountability and ethics of governance practices and its impact on sustainable development. The study aims to analyze the relevance of and the inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
10,493 Views
15 Pages

24 December 2020

Decriminalisation is arguably essential to protecting the human rights of sex workers. Nonetheless, there are suggestions that decriminalisation has less influence on sex workers’ experiences of working than many assume. This paper explores man...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,062 Views
26 Pages

3 September 2025

This study examines how managerial leadership styles influence the perceived effectiveness of compensation systems and employee performance. While prior research on organizational control has focused on optimizing compensation structures, it often ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
137 Citations
13,770 Views
35 Pages

12 March 2018

In the last 30 years, environmental sustainability has been receiving increasing attention by scholars and operators. All the seaport stakeholders, including port authorities (PAs), policy-makers, port users, any port stakeholders, and local communit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,366 Views
23 Pages

13 September 2019

An industrial system has positive and negative strategies to adapt to environmental regulations, which can be defined as natural disposability and managerial disposability. Meanwhile, the operational process of an industrial system can be divided int...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,036 Views
17 Pages

We analyze the association between managerial ability in banks and three different typologies of investments that demand significant resources: capital, research and development (R&D), and acquisition expenditures. We also analyze whether manager...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,719 Views
23 Pages

The primary objective of this study is to investigate the intricate relationship between different ownership structures, such as family, institutional, managerial, and foreign ownership, and tax avoidance practices. It also seeks to explore the moder...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,780 Views
17 Pages

Can People Be Managed through Fear? An Enquiry into Arab Culture

  • Abdulrahman Essa Al Lily and
  • Ahmed Ali Alhazmi

22 September 2022

This research scrutinises the fear-driven management of Arabs. It conceptualises fear as a structural component of Arab society through a sociological lens and, by drawing upon the reflections of 28 Arab experts, philosophises on the potential of fea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
19,295 Views
15 Pages

Corporate Governance and Agency Cost: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam

  • Anh Huu Nguyen,
  • Duong Thuy Doan and
  • Linh Ha Nguyen

This study examines the impact of corporate governance, reflecting a wide spectrum of board characteristics and ownership structure on agency costs in 281 listed companies on Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) in Vietnam in the period 2013–2018....

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,149 Views
15 Pages

Emotional Intelligence of Managers in Family Businesses in Slovakia

  • Martina Minárová,
  • Denisa Malá and
  • Filip Smutný

23 October 2020

This scientific paper deals with the issue of the global level of emotional intelligence of managers in family enterprises. The aim of this paper is to point out the importance and positive impact of skills of managers in the form of emotional intell...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,282 Views
24 Pages

30 September 2023

Being employed in a managerial position is often associated with maintaining high standards in many aspects of life. Many leaders pay attention to their physical activity, eating habits, and social skills. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,284 Views
23 Pages

27 June 2019

The Turkish Ministry of National Education has been implementing a new management model in the Turkish educational system. The structural features of state-run project schools are being developed with various innovations in terms of management and ed...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,351 Views
16 Pages

Nurse Manager Span of Control in Hospital Settings: An Integrative Review

  • Angel Boned-Galán,
  • Nieves López-Ibort and
  • Ana Gascón-Catalán

1 November 2023

Background: Nurse managers face great challenges in responding to organizational demands. There exists a general mismatch between managerial span of control and the demands of the job post, which can lead to overburdening and attrition. The aim of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,201 Views
16 Pages

Does Corporate Governance Influence Leverage Structure in Bangladesh?

  • Mohammad Nazim Uddin,
  • Mohammed Shamim Uddin Khan and
  • Mosharrof Hosen

This paper examines the regulation of corporate governance on leverage structure decision-making in Bangladesh from 2003 to 2017. Appropriate panel methods are employed to control the problems of serial correlation, heteroskedasticity, and the cross-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
540 Views
19 Pages

Patterns of Self-Reported Occupational Stress Experienced by Lithuanian Police Officers: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Birute Strukcinskiene,
  • Jonas Jurgaitis,
  • Rasa Grigoliene,
  • Dovile Karoblyte,
  • Erika Zuperkiene,
  • Dalia Martisauskiene,
  • Zydrune Gedvile,
  • Gintautas Virketis,
  • Linas Venclauskas and
  • Agnieszka Genowska

26 November 2025

Background/Objectives: Occupational stress among police officers has been widely studied internationally, yet little is known about how stressors manifest in smaller, post-transition European contexts such as Lithuania. The study aimed to identify ke...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,942 Views
25 Pages

This paper seeks to investigate how earnings quality is affected by related party transactions (RPTs). The research also examines the impact of ownership structure as a moderating variable on this relationship. Panel data with the firm fixed effects...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,771 Views
12 Pages

5 September 2018

The designation of protected areas (PAs) entails environmental, social, and economic effects to local stakeholders through access restriction to natural resources. We used a mixed methods research framework that combines time series analysis and stak...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,354 Views
24 Pages

Advances in Food Quality Management Driven by Industry 4.0: A Systematic Review-Based Framework

  • Fernanda Araujo Pimentel Peres,
  • Beniamin Achilles Bondarczuk,
  • Leonardo de Carvalho Gomes,
  • Laurence de Castro Jardim,
  • Ricardo Gonçalves de Faria Corrêa and
  • Ismael Cristofer Baierle

10 July 2025

Integrating Industry 4.0 technologies into food manufacturing processes transforms traditional quality management practices. This study aims to understand how these technologies are applied across managerial quality functions in the food industry. A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,134 Views
15 Pages

30 September 2021

This paper aims to examine whether and to what extent overconfident CEOs affect Australian real estate investment trusts’ (A-REITs) property investment activities during their tenure as the CEO of A-REITs, covering the period 2000–2019. A-REITs’ prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,162 Views
14 Pages

3 July 2019

This study investigates the effects of governance structure on the relationship between disclosure quality and credit ratings. Firms with greater control-ownership divergence are more likely to pursue their private interests because controlling share...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,609 Views
15 Pages

18 March 2022

Prior research on unethical controlling shareholder is limited. This study examines the effect of the evanishment of unethical controlling shareholders’ risk on firm value and how corporate governance moderates this effect from a principal&ndas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,439 Views
23 Pages

Factors Affecting Perceived Effectiveness of Multigenerational Management Leadership and Metacognition among Service Industry Companies

  • Yoshiki B. Kurata,
  • Ardvin Kester S. Ong,
  • Christienne Joie C. Andrada,
  • Mariela Nicole S. Manalo,
  • Errol John Aldrie U. Sunga and
  • Alvin Racks Martin A. Uy

25 October 2022

Workforce management has always been an essential consideration by businesses worldwide to improve organizational efficiency. The measurement of diversified labor present in modern Philippine companies has never been viable as generational and cultur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,288 Views
32 Pages

21 October 2025

In the pursuit of sustainable economic development, fostering new-quality productivity (NQP) is both an inherent requirement and a strategic priority for advancing a green economy, while digital transformation has emerged as a pivotal driver in recon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,828 Views
10 Pages

The purpose of this study was to examine how coaching styles affect athletes’ moral disengagement. To achieve our objectives, we examined the relationships among perceived coaching types, pride, and moral disengagement in the context of elite t...

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