International Journal of Management Practice (14 papers in press)

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• 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
   
  
• Information security disclosures in healthcare: the impact of the 2018 SEC guidance  
  by Lorenz Bohn, Dirk Schiereck 
  Abstract: This study aims to analyze the impact of the SEC guidance from 2018 on information security risk disclosures in the healthcare sector and determine factors that influence disclosure practices. We show a big shift in disclosure practices following the SEC guidance. While the overall level of similarity across the entire sample remains stable, there is a clear industry specific convergence of information security risk disclosures. Additionally, results reveal that analysts play a key role in shaping disclosure behavior. A higher number of analysts covering a given firm cause it to provide more detailed and extensive information security risks disclosures. At the same time, this increased level of disclosures does not go hand in hand with a high level of similarity which indicates that these disclosures are company specific and likely of higher informational value.
  Keywords: information security; disclosures; healthcare; information security risk; disclosure practices; SEC guidance; similarity.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10068884
   
  
• A mixed method approach to investigating how the local government negotiates its policy with the central government in developing countries: the case of Jordan  
  by Anan M. Abuhummour 
  Abstract: This research is concerned with bargaining power at the local administration level, with specific attention to the situation in Jordan. In response, this research paper tries to answer the question of how much bargaining power governments exercise in Jordan and the factors that determine bargaining power in central-local government relations in Jordan. Concerning research methodology, this study uses a mixed-method approach (MMR), drawing on the experiences of questionnaires and interviews. The findings showed that, while negotiating with the central government, the local administration prefers a cooperative bargaining strategy, but the competitive bargaining method is the most common technique used in the Jordanian setting. Local administrations typically negotiate over policies to a certain extent, depending on a variety of factors, including economics, experience in local administration, and financial and fiscal conditions. Findings from qualitative interviews in addition to the quantitative data revealed conflicting opinions about how the local elites in the four governorates perceived the central governments deployment of a competitive bargaining strategy and how to respond to it.
  Keywords: policy-making; public policy analysis; bargaining power; inter-governmental negotiations; mixed methods research; MMR; Jordan.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10068885
   
  
• Leadership in crisis periods: a bibliometric analysis and future research agenda  
  by Md Asadul Islam  
  Abstract: Business organisations are facing frequent crises in recent years; therefore, the managers have to adopt and apply different leadership styles to cope with the crises. There are few studies that provide a holistic overview of leadership in crisis periods. To fill this gap, a comprehensive analysis of 621 Scopus-indexed publications relating to leadership in crisis periods from 1992 to 2024 was conducted. Seven distinct themes emerged based on the keywords of the clusters that include digital leadership and performance during crisis, servant leadership during crisis, crisis leadership for resilience, transactional, transformational and virtual leadership, building trust in leadership through communication and ethics, ethical leadership and organisational outcomes and political leadership and crisis communication for resilience. The study contributes to the existing knowledge by providing an up-to-date overview of leadership in crisis research and showing potential areas for future research.
  Keywords: leadership; crisis periods; bibliometric analysis; co-occurrence analysis; Scopus database.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10069192
   
  
• Empowering future entrepreneurs: the impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention of BBS final year students in Sunsari, Nepal  
  by Umesh Khadka 
  Abstract: This study investigated the role of entrepreneurship education in shaping students’ entrepreneurial intentions, including knowledge, understanding, skill, and confidence as moderation and family support as a moderator. The research uses primary data from 311 students by using systematic random sampling. The relationship between entrepreneurship education and students’ entrepreneurial intention is measured using the partial least square model (PLS-SEM) technique. The findings reveal that entrepreneurial education (β = 0.014, p < 0.05) is insignificant with entrepreneurial intention, but it is significant through motivation (β = 0.124, p < 0.05). Moreover, the study found that entrepreneurship education positively affects the confidence (β = 0.417, p < 0.05) to start a business, motivation (β = 0.620, p < 0.05), required skill (β = 0.415, p < 0.05) for business and, understanding (β = 0.514, p < 0.05). This study concluded that entrepreneurship education is insufficient to foster youth entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurship courses should focus on enhancing motivation towards entrepreneurship alongside knowledge and skill development.
  Keywords: entrepreneurship education; entrepreneurial intention; PLS-SEM; undergraduate students; Nepal.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10069374
   
  
• Authentic leadership, social support and employee voice: the mediating role of psychological safety  
  by R. Monica , V. Srividya 
  Abstract: The study examined the influence of authentic leadership and social support on employee voice as well as the mediating effect of psychological safety on authentic leadership - employee voice and social support- employee voice. The study data collected from 251 product manager specialists employed in a TIDEL park in Coimbatore City, India. The results indicate that authentic leadership and social support have a significant impact on employee voice with a mediating impact of psychological safety. This infers that psychological safety plays an imperative role in explaining the influence authentic leadership and social support has on employee voice among the product manager specialists.
  Keywords: authentic leadership; social support; employee voice; psychological safety; employee.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10069423
   
  
• Consumer intentions and digital financial literacy: a new perspective on fintech payment product adoption  
  by Dilpreet Kaur, Mohd Mohsin Khan, Sujood Sujood 
  Abstract: This evaluation intends to explore determinants of consumer intentions through the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) (Davis, 1989) by integrating Digital Financial Literacy (DFL) into a holistic framework. The convenience sample method was used to conduct the survey, 499 responses to the questionnaire were received, and the SEM was exploited to interpret the data. The examination exhibited that the determinants of TAM (SI, SQ, SE, and FC) have a substantial sway on consumers' inclinations to adopt FPPs for digital financial inclusion. The outcomes of this research will serve Fintech industry players and policymakers in designing FPPs that should place a high priority on DFL employing all-encompassing promotional techniques and deepen the understanding of Indian consumers' intentions. To the extent of our knowledge, this is the fundamental research to integrate DFL and TAM with its determinants to forecast the intentions of Indian consumers’.
  Keywords: financial technology; fintech; fintech payment products; digital financial inclusion; digital financial literacy; DFL; technology acceptance model; TAM.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10069644
   
  
• Connecting customer-engagement, and attitude with brand preference: a strategic input for marketing of financial products  
  by Laxmikant Pattnaik , Saroj Kumar Sahoo, Bidhu Bhusan Mishra, Valavadra Sahu 
  Abstract: This research delves into examining the strategic connection between customer-engagement, attitude, and brand preference. This study follows experimental research design with a sample of 406 individual investors (financial customers), where stratified sampling method is adopted for a structured questionnaire. Structural relationship of customer-engagement, and attitude with the target construct of ‘brand preference’ is examined utilising ‘structural equation modelling’. The study finds that customer-engagement, and attitude show significant direct effects on their brand preferences for financial products, where customers’ attitude carry the significant mediating effect. Customers’ demographic variables moderate the structural relationship that justifies novelty of this research-work. Practical implications refer that the above insightful outcomes unfold the strategic relationships among above-mentioned constructs to tailor the engagement strategies for fostering positive attitude, and brand preference of financial customers. Public planners can make strategic plans to aware the financial customers regarding their adequate and well-informed involvement in the transactions of financial products.
  Keywords: customer-engagement; attitude; brand-preference; BP; financial products.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2026.10070361
   
  
• How green marketing tools affect customers purchase behaviour? An exploration from Indian market  
  by Ravinder Kaur, Shivani Yadav, Suyash Mishra 
  Abstract: Environmental issues have been extensively debated throughout history. Natural resources are being depleted at an alarming rate for the unethical advantage of economic prosperity, necessitating the development of alternative measures. The preservation of the earth for future generations has become a crucial aspect of sustainable development. This study aims to examine the efficacy of environmentally conscious marketing strategies in shaping customer behaviour towards sustainable products. Based on analysis of 310 responses collected via a survey method, it was discovered that proposed green marketing tools have an influence on customer buying decision. Understanding the complicated customer behaviour is one of this researchs useful implications for social and green marketers, which would ultimately assist in creating more valuable green marketing campaigns in India. Studys three-dimensional strategic framework consisting green marketing tools would enable marketing professionals to effectively traverse the changing terrain of customer preferences and societal norms while promoting sustainable goals.
  Keywords: green products; green marketing tools; sustainable development eco-label; green marketing environmental advertisement; environmental knowledge; green purchase behaviour; consumer behaviour.
  DOI: 10.1504/IJMP.2025.10070561