Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Empirical research

  1. Chinese steel exporters show lagged responses to expected carbon costs
    Analysis of Chinese steel exporters' responses to anticipated EU carbon border policies, showing pricing serves as primary adjustment mechanism with significant lagged effects.
  2. Empirical expectations shaped intentions to adopt double surnames in Italy
    Study reveals how social norms influence Italian parents' double surname adoption decisions. Empirical expectations about prevalence prove more influential than normative approval in shaping.
  3. Assessment literacy in preservice teachers is shaped by multiple factors
    Systematic review of 39 studies on preservice teacher assessment literacy, examining measurement approaches and developmental factors across personal, institutional, and policy contexts.
  4. Environmental taxes show no robust link to sectoral eco-investments
    Analysis of seven EU countries reveals environmental taxes do not significantly drive sectoral eco-investments when controlling for economic scale, suggesting need for complementary policy mechanisms.
  5. Digital transformation and FinTech were linked to better environmental performance
    Empirical study showing digital transformation and FinTech adoption enhance green innovation and environmental performance in Jordanian manufacturing firms using structural equation modelling.
  6. Managers use multiple criteria to assess accounting systems and innovation
    Qualitative study exploring how managers evaluate management accounting systems and innovation performance measurement across five companies using semi-structured interviews and content analysis.
  7. Article outlines principles for integrative teaching in higher education
    Framework and principles for designing and implementing integrative teaching and learning to develop inter- and transdisciplinary competencies in higher education.
  8. AI market maturity is linked to lower banking system entanglement
    Quantum-inspired decision framework reveals how AI markets reshape Chinese bank performance structures, showing top performers integrate fintech while legacy systems constrain adaptation.
  9. Borrowed subgroup information improved mortality forecasts
    Framework that borrows mortality patterns across similar population subgroups to improve accuracy of long-term mortality rate forecasts using hierarchical clustering methods.
  10. Religion often reinforces traditional gender roles
    Literature review examining why women show higher religiosity than men and how religion influences gender norms, education, labor markets, fertility, and inequality across societies.
  11. Chefs’ beliefs shape use of plant-based meat dishes
    Sequential study identifies seven barriers preventing restaurant chefs from offering plant-based meat dishes, with chef education highlighted as the most effective strategy for menu adoption.
  12. Renaming was the only restructuring linked to better enrollment
    Longitudinal analysis of 1087 departmental restructuring cases in Taiwan's TVET institutions reveals differential efficacy of governance strategies under demographic decline.
  13. Pragmatism is presented as a way to bridge qualitative and quantitative methods
    Pragmatism as philosophical framework for integrating qualitative-quantitative methods in medical education research, transcending rigid paradigmatic dualism.
  14. Trade and migration frictions affect unemployment in opposite ways
    Study comparing how international trade and sectoral allocation frictions differentially affect employment reallocation and unemployment, emphasizing firm productivity sorting mechanisms.
  15. AI and machine learning reshape international business research
    Structured roadmap for integrating AI and machine learning into international business research, covering methods, applications to core IB constructs, and methodological challenges.
  16. Internal barriers drive green supply chain barriers in Egypt's petrochemical sector
    Study reveals internal barriers drive GSCM adoption obstacles in Egypt's petrochemical sector, with leadership and resources as foundational issues requiring organizational transformation before.
  17. Czech consumers' clothing disposal is shaped by gender and age
    Quantitative analysis of Czech consumer textile disposal behaviour by gender and age, identifying durability as primary disposal driver and consumer education as key policy intervention.
  18. Coastal city green development scores rose, but gaps remained wide
    Assess urban green development capacity in coastal eastern China using entropy weight-TOPSIS analysis, examining economic, technological, and governance factors driving sustainability transitions.
  19. Review finds little research on environmental provisions in peace agreements
    Systematic review of environmental provisions in formal peace agreements, identifying research gaps and the limited implementation of environmental clauses in conflict resolution frameworks.
  20. Smokers report continuing despite health and environmental risks
    Empirical study examining smoking behavior through biopsychosocial framework, revealing that individual attitudes and motivational factors override health risk perception in smoking persistence.