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(Techno)stress and subsequent burnout: how job autonomy enables working professionals to regulate demands with control

This paper focuses on how technostress relates to job stress, and subsequently results in burnout in digitised workplaces. We also propose that job autonomy can buffer the negative effect of technostress.

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  • Aldijana Bunjak, University of Stavanger, Business School
  • Sut-I Wong, BI Norwegian Business School

Year

2025

Context Effects on Importer Dependence in Export Business Relationships: The Fire Smolders Under the Ice

This study examines importer dependence and challenges the dominant view that firm dependence primarily yields beneficial outcomes in exporter–importer relationships. Using identity theory and bilateral deterrence theory, we show that in the presence of information asymmetry, psychic distance, high import market growth, and exporter trust, the expected beneficial effects of importer dependence morph into importer opportunism.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-025-00589-1 (Opens in a new window)

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  • Claude Obadia, ESCE International Business School, Paris

Year

2025

Returning to work in the digital age: why smartphone interventions must go further

Returning to work after a long absence due to illness or other reasons is a complex process, one that digital interventions could help to ease. This study explores how smartphone applications can support employees in this transition, highlighting that existing solutions often fail to meet all needs, lack sufficient personalisation, and are not well integrated into real workplace settings.

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-025-01894-7 (Opens in a new window)

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  • Conor Wall, Northumbria University
  • Andrej Kohont, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Alan Godfrey, Northumbria University

Year

2025

The Missing Window of Opportunity and Quasi-Experimental Effects of Institutional Integration: Evidence from Ukraine

What’s the cost of staying out? This study reveals how Ukraine’s absence from European Union integration has hindered institutional quality across its provinces. Using machine learning and Bayesian analysis, the findings expose serious governance setbacks compared to Central and Eastern European countries that pursued EU accession.

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https://doi.org/10.1515/rle-2024-0056 (Opens in a new window)

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  • Chiara Natalie Focacci, University of Oxford, Institute of Population Ageing

Year

2025

Dark Sides of Digital Asset Consumption and Consumer Well-Being: Impact of Psychological Ownership

The research reveals that perceived psychological ownership is positively related to both digital piracy and digital hoarding. Digital hoarding increases consumer anxiety and indirectly lowers perceptions of well-being. Digital piracy increases anxiety; however, for highly collectivistic consumers, it also enhances perceptions of well-being, while lowering them for more individualistic consumers.

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https://doi.org/10.1002/cb.70011 (Opens in a new window)

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  • Monika Kukar-Kinney, University of Richmond, Robins School of Business

Year

2025

AI meets IA: A typology of generative-AI-supported work through individual ambidexterity

The study develops a typology of GenAI-supported work grounded in individual ambidexterity (IA), which highlights employees’ capacity to balance exploration and exploitation while navigating competing demands.

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2025.06.006 (Opens in a new window)

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  • Nikolina Dragičević Rogge, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business
  • Saša Batistič,Tilburg University, School of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Year

2025

The exact region determined by Blomqvist’s beta, Spearman’s footrule and Gini’s gamma

In this paper we study the ternary relation between three well-known (weak) concordance measures, namely Blomqvist’s beta, Spearman’s footrule and Gini’s gamma. In other words, given the values of Blomqvist’s beta and Spearman’s footrule, we determine the degree of freedom a copula has at taking the value of Gini’s gamma.

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2025.116861 (Opens in a new window)

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Year

2025

Marketing communications of brand-related stereotypes and consumer responses: a mixed-method approach

This is the first study using the SCM that simultaneously investigates brand-related stereotypes from a company (i.e. supply-side) and a consumer (i.e. demand-side) perspective. The findings offer insights into how communicated stereotypes (in terms of warmth and competence) of the brand origin, the brand itself and the buyer/user of the brand differentially influence consumer attitudes toward the focal brand.

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https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBM-10-2024-5562 (Opens in a new window)

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  • Maja Arslanagić-Kalajdzić, University of Sarajevo, School of Economics and Business
  • Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, University of Vienna
  • Adamantios Diamantopoulos, University of Vienna

Year

2025

Demand-Side Perspective on the Informal Economy: A Review and Research Agenda

This study presents a focused and cohesive investigation into the demand side of the informal economy through a systematic literature review. While previous research has predominantly addressed supply-side dynamics, this study shifts the focus to consumer related factors within informal markets.

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https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcs.70084 (Opens in a new window)

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  • Agnieszka Małecka, University of Economics in Katowice
  • Maciej Mitręga, University of Economics in Katowice

Year

2025

Asymmetry of copulas with a given opposite diagonal section

In this paper we investigate bivariate copulas with a given opposite diagonal section. We determine the exact lower bound for all such copulas and derive an explicit formula for the maximal asymmetry for copulas with a given opposite diagonal section.

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fss.2025.109496 (Opens in a new window)

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  • Nik Stopar, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering

Year

2025

Customer prioritization: conceptualization to international application

The study explores how international firms understand and implement customer prioritization – the strategy of allocating resources based on customer value. Drawing on interviews with managers from Slovene export-oriented companies, it shows how market context, industry traits, and headquarters–subsidiary dynamics shape prioritization practices.

The article is freely accessible at:

https://doi.org/10.15458/2335-4216.1353 (Opens in a new window)

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  • Maria Gracner, University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, PhD Student
  • John William Cadogan, University of Liecester

Year

2025

Revolutions as structural breaks: the long-term economic and institutional consequences of the 1979 Iranian Revolution

The aim of the study was to analyse the long-term economic and institutional consequences of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which marked one of the most profound political turning points in the country’s modern history. Our findings indicate that the 1979 Revolution had a lasting and significantly negative impact on Iran’s economic development and institutional quality. According to our model-based estimates, Iran would have been considerably more economically prosperous today had the revolution not occurred, with per capita GDP between 46% and 54% higher.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-025-09471-6 (Opens in a new window)

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  • Nuno Garoupa, George Mason University, Fairfax

Year

2025

The Role of Personality Traits and Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy in SME Sustainability

The study contributes to the growing body of research on sustainability in entrepreneurship by clarifying how personality determinants relate to sustainability efforts in SMEs through the lens of Social Cognitive Theory. These findings emphasize the importance of fostering entrepreneurial self-efficacy and the personality traits that drive sustainable behaviors in business to promote sustainable entrepreneurship.

The article is freely accessible at:

https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.3261 (Opens in a new window)

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Year

2025

Daily deal distribution and local destination characteristics: data-driven analysis of upmarket Italian hotel online sales practice

This paper examines hotels’ use of niche daily deal websites (flash sales) through the lens of external, destination characteristics, aiming to establish relationships between the two. Using web scraping techniques, spatial and census data combined with quantitative analysis, the paper analyses 2741 niche daily deal offerings of 4-and 5-star Italian hotels against destination characteristics.

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccedu.2025.100966 (Opens in a new window)

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  • Katarzyna Minor, Cardiff Metropolitan University
  • Dario Bertocchi, University of Udine Giancarlo Fedeli, University of Bergamo
  • Miha Bratec, University of Primorska

Year

2025

Digital innovation in management and business: A comprehensive review, multi-level framework, and future research agenda

The objective of the study was to conduct a comprehensive review of the literature in the field of digital innovation in management and business, and to synthesise the topics addressed into a coherent multi-level framework. This framework elucidates how digital innovation impacts individuals, organisations, and industries.

The article is freely accessible at:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115475 (Opens in a new window)

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Year

2025

Conceptualizing consumer resistance in global consumer culture: framework and research agenda

The study proposes a conceptual framework for understanding consumer resistance within global consumer culture. Drawing on a review of 110 academic studies, it identifies a range of resistance behaviours – from passive to active – shaped by identity, cultural, and socio-economic factors, advancing consumer culture theory and international marketing.

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https://doi.org/10.1108/IMR-03-2025-0143 (Opens in a new window)

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  • Agneszka Małecka, University of Economics in Katowice

Year

2025

“For the Benefit of my Countrymen”: Cultural Context and Lemma Choice in Early 20th-Century Dictionaries for Immigrants

An immigrant dictionary has been defined as a reference work specifically designed for an immigrant audience. The need for dictionaries with this audience has increased, given the movement of peoples in the 21st century. Lexicography requires a deeper understanding of the nature of such dictionaries. In the present study, we investigate examples from four Slovenian–English and English–Slovenian dictionaries of the early 20th century, analyzing the cultural context and usefulness for immigrant users.

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https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecaf009 (Opens in a new window)

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  • Marjeta Vrbinc, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
  • Donna M. T. Cr. Farina, New Jersey City University

Year

2025

The nexus of technological innovation, green product/process innovation and environmental strategy: The path towards sustainability-based competitive advantage

The research explores how technological innovation relates to the greening of processes and products, leading to a stronger competitive market position, and how a formal environmental strategy influences these relationships. Findings thus provide a clear and practical framework for integrating technological innovations, green product and process innovations, and environmental strategies into business processes.

The article is freely accessible at:

https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2025.2486010 (Opens in a new window)

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Year

2025

Drivers of income inequality in OECD countries: testing the Milanovic's TOP hypothesis

This paper examines the drivers of rising income inequality in OECD countries between 1980 and 2018, testing Milanovic’s TOP hypothesis. It finds that while globalisation and technological progress increase inequality, policies such as public spending on education and income taxes can mitigate these effects and promote a more equal distribution.

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2025.04.004 (Opens in a new window)

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  • Danijela Lazović Vuković, University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, PhD student

Year

2025

Generational Perspective of Digital Technologies at Work: A Topic Modelling Approach

This paper examines cross-generational perspectives on digital technologies at work, employing topic modelling (LDA) to analyse an extensive body of academic literature. Our aim is to uncover the intellectual structure of the field and explore how different generations engage with digital technologies, highlighting shared and unique experiences, challenges, and opportunities.

The article is freely accessible at:

https://doi.org/10.5559/di.34.1.02 (Opens in a new window)

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Year

2025