International Journal of Management Practice (14 papers in press)

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• Team innovation: the role of team absorptive capacity and team decision-making  
  by Anjali Singh, Sumi Jha 
  Abstract: Drawing on the team-member exchange theory, we examine the perceived relationship between team absorptive capacity dimensions and team innovation in Indian organisations and the mediating role of team decision-making. It is a current research context mainly studied at the organisational/firm level that is highly relevant for corporate practise but has been neglected in management literature until now. The article developed and tested a moderated mediation model to examine the relationship between absorptive capacity dimensions, team decision-making, team member exchange, and team innovation using data from 65 teams and 263 team members working in diverse Indian organisations. Data were analysed using PROCESS Hayes’s macro in SPSS. The findings reveal the impact of external knowledge transformation and exploitation capacity on team innovation only when there is effective team decision-making. However, in the case of acquisition and assimilation of external knowledge, it is not contingent on effective team decision-making.
  Keywords: team innovation; team absorptive capacity; team decision-making; TDM; team-member exchange theory.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10062895
   
  
• Revisiting consumer ethnocentrism using thematic cluster analysis  
  by Govind Nath Srivastava, Daviender Narang 
  Abstract: Globalisation and economic integration impacted the world economy like a tidal wave. The lesson of the pandemic and post-COVID effect forced the countries to rethink about consumer ethnocentrism as local retailers/small vendors helped the customers in the most difficult time. The pandemic transformed the global economy into a closed economy, and only those countries which were self-reliant and sustainable countered the pandemic effectively. This study is conducted to perform a systematic, structured, and comprehensive review of consumer ethnocentrism using bibliometric analysis. The present study examines the relationship between the research constituents and proposes a research proposition to carry forward the study. The result of bibliometric analysis brought four clusters: ethnocentrism, country of origin, cosmopolitanism and CET Scale and ethnicity. This study is significant and distinct as we found insignificant studies which used integrated methods SLR, bibliometric and content analysis to analyse the intellectual structure of the domain.
  Keywords: consumer ethnocentrism; bibliometric analysis; content analysis; systematic literature review; SLR; country of origin.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10063361
   
  
• Determinants of integrated reporting quality: a case study from India  
  by Suman Devarapalli, Lalita Mohan Mohapatra, Ranjitha Ajay 
  Abstract: This study investigates the impact of financial and other factors, including profitability, firm value, board size, firm size, and the influence of COVID, on the quality of integrated reporting (IR). The sample comprises 46 listed Indian corporates observed over a three-year period (2019-2021). A scoring system was devised to assess IR quality through content analysis of annual reports. Empirical estimation employed pooled ordinary least square, fixed effect, and random effect models. The findings revealed no significant relationship between profitability, firm value, and IR quality. However, board size, firm size, and the COVID dummy variable exhibited a positive impact on IR quality. Robustness checks provided further support to the panel regression estimates.
  Keywords: integrated reporting; profitability; firm value; Tobin Q; COVID dummy; India.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10063729
   
  
• Providing support for employee autonomy, relatedness, and competence in a remote work environment  
  by Donna Sennott, Susan Stewart 
  Abstract: During the COVID-19 pandemic, organisations transitioned their operations to remote work. To better understand the effects of remote work, this paper reviews research on employee well-being before and during the pandemic and provides post-pandemic recommendations. Studies utilising the job demands-resources model and self-determination theory were examined as a framework for exploring remote employees’ fulfilment of the psychological needs of autonomy, relatedness, and competence. The focus is on remote work in a variety of industries to better understand its past, current, and future use. Practical implications are provided and include the specific actions that human resource professionals and managers can take to support and develop employee well-being in a remote work environment.
  Keywords: employee well-being; autonomy; relatedness; competence; remote work; pandemic.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10063740
   
  
• A systematic literature review and bibliometric evaluation of the use of analytics in organisations  
  by Shanti Devi Chhetri, Devesh Kumar 
  Abstract: This systematic review and bibliometric analysis aim to utilise a rigorous approach to convey qualitative and quantitative knowledge on the constantly developing subject of analytics due to the dearth of comprehensive descriptions in the literature currently available. Seventy-two research records were found using a keyword search in the Scopus bibliometric databases. The report finds three research clusters in which academics are driven to advance analytics research using Biblioshiny’s factorial analysis software. The need of top-level management support for the deployment of analytics within a company is emphasised in the first notion, which is related to data analytics. The importance of new strategies for the successful operation of supply chain management firms is highlighted in the second notion, which is related to supply chain management. Last but not least, research on learning analytics and small and medium-sized enterprises shows how analytics are being adopted more quickly.
  Keywords: analytics; PRISMA; Biblioshiny; systematic literature review; content analysis.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10063836
   
  
• Is blockchain worth it? Value drivers of stock market returns to corporate blockchain announcements  
  by Timo Rogalski, Dirk Schiereck 
  Abstract: In the era of emerging technologies many firms explore the role of blockchain technology and its business value impact. Research on firm value has shown that companies benefit from executing blockchain projects, but little is known about specific value drivers. Theoretically founded, we demonstrate under which conditions blockchain provides additional firm value. Utilising the event study methodology, we examine investors’ reactions to companies announcing blockchain initiatives and apply the theoretical lens of signaling to explain factors that lead to positive stock market reactions. Based on an international sample of 606 blockchain announcements, our study shows that stock markets react more positively to blockchain projects if the project has been successfully finished, relates to the company’s business processes, or is announced by firms based in the USA. Moreover, announcements during blockchain- and cryptocurrency hypes lead to higher stock market returns.
  Keywords: blockchain; event study; market value; signalling.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10063856
   
  
• Does wellbeing impact the employee moonlighting and their intentions to quit the organisation? Analysing the mediating role of employee engagement  
  by Swati Sisodia, Sumaira Jan 
  Abstract: With the introduction of customised working styles, the human resource management area is changing rapidly. Due to exponential growth of hybrid, virtual and work from home culture, moonlighting, e-lancing and gig working have seen incredible growth in the IT industry. There is a wide range of reasons/motivators why people choose to moonlight, and these reasons ultimately determine whether their moonlighting is going to be permanent or temporary. In this present study, our aim is to examine the contributors/motivators of moonlighting which further lead to employee intention to leave. Based on responses from 430 IT professionals we evaluated five hypotheses to estimate the relationships between the latent dimensions of employees’ we being, employee engagement, moonlighting intentions and intention to quit among IT professionals at a subset of Indian businesses. The results reveal that employee wellbeing significantly influences moonlighting intentions negatively. Also moonlighting intentions influence employees’ intention to quit positively as per the study. The study also revealed that employee engagement partially mediates the relationship between employee wellbeing and their moonlighting intentions. This posits that employees’ wellbeing is crucial for increasing productivity, job satisfaction, engagement level which in turn reduces alternative job search.
  Keywords: employee wellbeing; employee engagement; moonlighting intentions; intention to quit; IT professionals.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10065018
   
  
• Environmental, social and governance research: a bibliometric analysis  
  by Mehak Upveja, Kapil Choudhary, Simran Kalra, Sakshi Mehta 
  Abstract: This comprehensive research study aims to bring attention to the theoretical foundations, key findings and identify the fertile research streams in ESG by providing quantitative and qualitative insights. Environmental, social, and governance integration into strategies, processes, and financial instruments are gaining recognition to drive value. This analysis evaluates 1,561 studies published between 1973-2022. The study uses a combination of VosViewer and biblioshiny to discover the most significant research studies, leading journals, citation analysis, and prominent authors. The broader categorisation of studies is aided by cluster analysis as well. Further, a rigorous investigation of these research studies reveals numerous loopholes, provides researchers, practitioners, policymakers, shareholders, employees, and business people interested in ESG with a goldmine of valuable data, and proposes a framework of actionable themes for future generation research.
  Keywords: ESG; bibliometric analysis; sustainability; PageRank analysis; VOSviewer; biblioshiny; Gephi.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10065622
   
  
• Harmonising sustainability through green human capital management: an Indian perspective  
  by Pankaj Agarwal, Rajesh Kumar Upadhyay, Megha Sharma, Anuj ., Harish Kumar, Vishal Sagar, Kapil Ahalawat, Sachin Chauhan 
  Abstract: This research objects to scrutinise the mantle of ‘green human resource management’ (GHRM) on the HEI’s ‘environmental performance’ (EP). Besides, this study also centres on the mediating influence of ‘corporate social responsibility’ (CSR) on the above relationship. The paper chose a quantifiable design expending the convenience sampling skill by accumulating the data via a structured questionnaire on 396 pharmaceutical manufacturing sector employees, currently employed in Garhwal Province of Uttarakhand State, India. The data were collected from June 2023 until November 2023. The present investigation outcomes give empirical discernments that show how GHRM lead to EP at a significant level in the pharmaceutical background. Further, fallouts also demonstrate that CSR mediates the liaison amid GHRM and EP. The direct sway amid GHRM and EP was shown to be substantial even when a mediating variable (CSR) was present. The inventiveness of this work seals the cavity in how CSR intercedes the liaison of GHRM and EP in a pharmaceutical setting. The inference of the existing research was proficient in corroborating the positive disquiets of GHRM and CSR for EP.
  Keywords: green human resource management; GHRM; corporate social responsibility; CSR; environmental performance; EP; pharmaceutical sector; PS.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10067326
   
  
• Impact of transformational leadership on quality of work life: the mediating effect of organisational justice  
  by Kaniz Marium Akter, Swee Mei Tang, Zurina Adnan 
  Abstract: Working life is an important part of people’s overall lives. Research on service employees’ working life is essential due to the nature of the job. This study aimed to investigate the impact of transformational leadership (TL) on the quality of work life (QWL) and test the mediation effect of organisational justice (OJ), based on the social exchange theory. Three hundred twenty-three full-time operational employees of Bangladeshi hotels participated in a questionnaire survey. Employing a PLS-SEM approach, a measurement model tested the data, and a structural model tested the research hypotheses. Results found a strong impact of TL on the operators’ QWL, and a significant mediating effect of OJ in the aforementioned relationship. The implications of hotels’ TL and OJ for operators’ QWL are tremendous that contributed to QWL, TL, and OJ literatures. Although the results may not be generalised, they offer some fascinating insights that point to potential directions for future research.
  Keywords: quality of work life; QWL; transformational leadership; organisational justice; hotel industry.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10068096
   
  
• Nurturing affective commitment among nurses through perceived organisational support: a moderated-mediation model  
  by Mahi Uddin, Nazamul Hoque, Nazim Uddin , Abdullahil Mamun 
  Abstract: This study aims to investigate the role of perceived organisational support (POS) on affective commitment among nursing employees in the private healthcare sector in Bangladesh. The study also examined the mediation of work engagement between POS and affective commitment and the moderation of perceived family support in the relationship between POS and engagement. The study with a survey instrument collected data from 228 nurses employed private hospitals located in Dhaka and Chittagong. This research utilised PLS-SEM approach to analyse data and test proposed hypotheses. The findings reveal that POS directly influenced work engagement and affective commitment, and indirectly via work engagement influenced affective commitment significantly. The results also demonstrated that the positive role of POS on work engagement would be greater when there is a high level of family support than a low level of family support. By integrating the organisational support theory and job-demand resource theory, this study contributes to the existing literature of POS and affective commitment in a developing perspective. The findings help professionals and policy makers the mechanism to understand how POS and family support foster work engagement and affective commitment of nursing employees.
  Keywords: work engagement; affective commitment; perceived organisational support; POS; perceived family support; PFS; moderated mediation model.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10068385
   
  
• Demographic diversity in companies’ boards and the relationship to companies’ financial performance: a systematic literature review  
  by Daniel Tubik, Tim Alexander Herberger 
  Abstract: Demographic diversity in top management boards and its relationship to companies’ financial performance is a well-documented research area, however, with diverse empirical results. In our systematic literature review, we focus on empirical work examining this relationship. We analyse the distribution of various demographic diversity dimensions and corresponding variables in literature, various applied heterogeneity measures, considered relationship outcomes, and the identified cross-citations between papers. We consider research from 1990 to 2022 for our sample of 152 publications. Our contribution uniquely combines a broader theoretical overview with an analysis of differences in existing literature between various demographic diversity dimensions tested, diversity and financial performance measurement types utilised, and ultimate empirical relationship outcomes. Our analysis concludes that there are more positive than negative relationship findings regarding the relationship of top management diversity and financial performance, irrespective of the variables utilised in empirical research designs, but with significant variability in relevance between diversity dimensions.
  Keywords: diversity; heterogeneity; financial performance; board of directors; top management team.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10068715
   
  
• Exploring the synergies between enterprise resource planning and the internet of things  
  by Rohini Jha, Aveek Basu 
  Abstract: Nowadays, the Internet of Things (IoT) is employed in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) business management application, which makes it easier to transmit the information with another system. It is highly beneficial for both customer satisfaction and managerial satisfaction. Besides, incorporating IoT with ERP, information helps management to grow fundamental business insights immediately. Therefore, the present review paper has explained ERP software which enabled IoT in active management like supply chain (SC), financial, manufacturing industries, etc. Moreover, the discussed management strategies are widely explained in the figure and tabular demonstration. Thus, the main aim of this review paper is to compose a broad consideration of the IoT in the ERP system to improve the management system in modern applications. Subsequently, the performance of IoT in the ERP framework is accepted based on its every software or application.
  Keywords: internet of things; IoT; enterprise resource planning; ERP; supply chain; product life cycle; blockchain.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10068856
   
  
• Boosting engagement: the motivational drivers of female millennials in Kolkata’s IT hub  
  by Subhajit Pahari, Munmun Patra Pahari, Chittaranjan Behera, Aruna Polisetty 
  Abstract: This study explores the factors driving motivation among female millennial employees in IT organisations in Kolkata, India, and examines the link between motivation and employee engagement (EE) through the lens of self-determination theory. Using a mixed-method approach, primary data from 532 female employees in five major IT firms were analysed. Results highlight that non-monetary factors, including psychological safety, working environment, change leadership, job design, and well-being, significantly boost employee motivation. Notably, psychological safety and well-being emerge as the most influential, strongly enhancing employee engagement. This research contributes to the existing literature by offering both theoretical insights and practical strategies to motivate and engage female millennials, thereby addressing the high attrition rates in the IT sector.
  Keywords: employee motivation; female millennials; IT industry; psychological safety; working climate; change leadership; job design; wellbeing; emotional attachment; employee engagement.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10068867