Vaishnavi Krishnamurthi, Ruwini Edirisinghe, Sam E John, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Magdalena Plebanski
{"title":"Designing evaluation rubrics for the development of virtual human twins in healthcare.","authors":"Vaishnavi Krishnamurthi, Ruwini Edirisinghe, Sam E John, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Magdalena Plebanski","doi":"10.1093/jamia/ocag174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocag174","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Smart healthcare innovations driven by Virtual Human Twin (VHT) technology enable continuous patient monitoring. However, standards to assess their stage of development or a unified framework for performance comparisons are still lacking. This study aims to quantitatively analyze VHT-related studies, evaluate their development levels, and align them to the VHT roadmap.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>A systematic review guided by the PRISMA methodology was conducted, in which 26 studies representing different stages of VHT development were systematically analyzed. Articles were evaluated against an established 5-level roadmap and classified according to their closest alignment with black box, grey box, or surrogate VHTs.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A rubric system was developed to assess VHT models to date, and their maturity was analyzed relative to the established roadmap. Among the 26 studies, all 5 roadmap levels were represented. Level 2 (Deductive stage) was the most frequently represented. Levels 4 and 5 (Evolutionary and Explainable stages) were represented only in 3 studies each.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Among the included studies, VHT development appears fragmented, with significant hurdles in building VHTs with advanced functionality.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The proposed rubric system may serve as an assessment tool to evaluate progress, encourage discussion, and improve experimental approaches for future VHTs, helping address challenges in advancing VHT development along the established roadmap.</p>","PeriodicalId":50016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149225198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How much greenery matters: effects on visual attention, guest perceptions and brand outcomes","authors":"Jisun Lee,MiRan Kim,Eunsil Lee","doi":"10.1108/ijchm-10-2025-1504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-10-2025-1504","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose This study aims to investigate how varying levels of indoor greenery capture visual attention and affect guest perceptions and brand outcomes. It also examines the mediating roles of fascination and perceived aesthetic quality in linking greenery to brand outcomes. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-design experiment exposed participants to two virtual hotel lobbies: a control with no greenery and one of three greenery conditions (low: 2% coverage, medium: 16% or high: 30%). Eye tracking captured gaze behavior during exposure, while post-exposure surveys measured fascination, aesthetic quality, brand love and willingness to pay more. Findings Indoor greenery attracted greater visual attention than the no-greenery condition, as indicated by generally higher fixation counts and longer dwell times. Even low greenery enhanced fascination, aesthetic quality, brand love and willingness to pay more, with medium and high conditions producing progressively stronger effects. Fascination and aesthetic quality increased brand love, which subsequently strengthened willingness to pay more. Practical implications The findings highlight the strategic value of indoor greenery as a visually salient hospitality servicescape feature that enhances guest perceptions and supports brand outcomes. Furthermore, this study suggests that indoor greenery can serve as a strategic brand-signaling cue that helps align guest perceptions with desired market positioning. Originality/value By combining eye tracking and self-reported measures across four experimental conditions, this study provides objective evidence of greenery’s visual salience and identifies the perceptual pathways linking it to brand outcomes.","PeriodicalId":13744,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management","volume":"16 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hamed Mohammad Esmail Mohammad, Karim Mahran, Osama Abouelela, Eyad Abutheeb
{"title":"Employing Content Analysis in ESG Research: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda","authors":"Hamed Mohammad Esmail Mohammad, Karim Mahran, Osama Abouelela, Eyad Abutheeb","doi":"10.1002/bse.71679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.71679","url":null,"abstract":"This study systematically reviews the application of content analysis in environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure research. Although content analysis is widely employed to examine ESG reporting, methodological approaches, disclosure channels and analytical practices remain fragmented, limiting methodological coherence and the cumulative development of knowledge. To synthesise this evolving field, 170 peer‐reviewed articles published in ABS 3, 4 and 4* journals were systematically reviewed following the PRISMA guidelines. Using bibliometric and thematic analyses, the study examines publication trends, methodological developments, disclosure channels and emerging research directions. The findings reveal substantial growth in ESG content analysis research alongside increasing methodological diversification, while also identifying important gaps relating to computational methods, disclosure channels and methodological standardisation. Building on these findings, the study develops an integrative framework grounded in the Ontology–Epistemology–Methodology (OEM) perspective to explain how methodological choices shape the interpretation of ESG disclosures. In addition, a Theory–Context–Characteristics–Methodology (TCCM)–based future research agenda comprising eight research propositions is proposed to guide future scholarship. By providing a conceptually integrated synthesis of methodological developments and future research priorities, this review advances understanding of ESG content analysis and offers practical guidance for researchers investigating corporate sustainability communication.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"482 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149218343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lean‐Green Effects and Digital Transformation: Unpacking the Role of Incremental and Radical Green Innovation in Driving Sustainable Performance","authors":"Ândrea Neves, Arnaldo Coelho, Catarina Proença","doi":"10.1002/bse.71657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.71657","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of an increasingly dynamic industrial landscape, manufacturers are presented with a promising opportunity to enhance their competitive edge while advancing sustainability objectives. This study explores the effects of lean management (LM) and green management (GM) as strategic drivers of sustainable performance (SP), emphasizing the mediating role of incremental (IGI) and radical green innovation (RGI). Grounded in the dynamic capabilities framework, this study examines how LM and GM foster innovation and how digital transformation (DT) moderates these relationships. Using survey data from 310 Portuguese firms and structural equation modeling (SEM), the findings show that both LM and GM significantly contribute to IGI and RGI, which, in turn, enhance economic, environmental, and social sustainability outcomes. DT further strengthens the effects of GM, whereas its interaction with LM enhances the positive effect on IGI but weakens the effect on RGI. The study contributes to innovation and sustainability literature by demonstrating that innovation capabilities are essential conduits through which operational and environmental strategies translate into measurable performance. Practical implications highlight the need for organizations to balance efficiency with strategic innovation and invest in digital tools to scale sustainability efforts.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149218348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Imane El Ouadghiri, Jonathan Peillex, Federico Platania, Celina Toscano Hernandez
{"title":"The Media Freedom Paradox: A Global Study of Corporate Greenwashing","authors":"Imane El Ouadghiri, Jonathan Peillex, Federico Platania, Celina Toscano Hernandez","doi":"10.1002/bse.71699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.71699","url":null,"abstract":"Media freedom is widely regarded as a disciplining force that constrains corporate misconduct. We challenge this view in the environmental domain by developing the concept of <jats:italic>the media freedom paradox</jats:italic> . While a free media environment may deter greenwashing by raising the expected costs of exposure ( <jats:italic>the watchdog effect</jats:italic> ), it simultaneously amplifies normative pressures on firms to appear environmentally responsible, incentivizing symbolic disclosure over substantive action ( <jats:italic>the symbolic compliance effect</jats:italic> ). Using a sample of 3956 publicly listed firms across 46 countries over 2015–2025, we show that higher media freedom is associated with significantly higher levels of corporate greenwashing, supporting <jats:italic>the symbolic compliance effect</jats:italic> . This counterintuitive finding reflects the fact that media freedom intensifies normative pressure on firms to appear responsible faster than it improves the verifiability of their claims. This effect is amplified where environmental regulation is weak and where media markets are more privatized. A free press appears as a necessary but insufficient condition for credible environmental governance.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149221369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rupak Rauniar,Ray Qing Cao,Steve Bin Zhou,Amaani Rauniar
{"title":"Corporate ethical and responsible AI (CERAi) and AI trustworthiness: a lifecycle perspective and empirical insights","authors":"Rupak Rauniar,Ray Qing Cao,Steve Bin Zhou,Amaani Rauniar","doi":"10.1108/jeim-05-2026-0911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jeim-05-2026-0911","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose This study develops and empirically validates a Corporate Ethical and Responsible AI (CERAi) lifecycle framework. The framework comprises three interdependent stages: design and development, testing and training, and deployment and usage. The study aims to move the research beyond abstract principles and policy analyses toward empirically grounded, lifecycle-integrated artificial intelligence AI governance theory. It positions ethical AI and responsible AI governance as the two constitutive components of the CERAi construct, and AI trustworthiness as a conceptually and empirically distinct downstream outcome anchored in stage-specific organizational governance mechanisms. The CERAi framework is scoped broadly to encompass governance of both conventional/traditional machine learning models and autonomous AI agents operating within organizational settings. Design/methodology/approach We administered a large-scale survey to 500 attendees at a national AI conference in the United States in early 2026, yielding 143 useable responses from AI professionals across healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, retail and energy sectors. We developed and validated multi-item scales for each CERAi lifecycle stage using established ethical AI and AI governance frameworks. Structural equation modeling was employed to assess the measurement model and to test both direct path hypotheses and mediation hypotheses. Findings Both CERAIi design and development and CERAi deployment and usage have significant positive direct effects on AI trustworthiness, whereas CERAi testing and training do not. Our results also indicate a significant serial mediation pathway in which CERAi deployment and usage enhance AI trustworthiness through testing and training, followed by design and development. Conversely, testing and training alone do not mediate the relationship between deployment and usage and AI trustworthiness, indicating that design-stage ethics serve as an intervening (mediating) mechanism through which governance activity enacted at later lifecycle stages is associated with perceived AI trustworthiness. This is consistent with testing and training's association with trustworthiness operating indirectly, mediated by the ethical architecture established during the design and development stage. Originality/value Findings of this study demonstrate that AI trustworthiness reflects differentiated perceived salience across AI lifecycle stages, whereby stakeholders appear to weight visible, deployment-stage governance more heavily than upstream design and testing stage governance in forming trustworthiness judgments, rather than reflecting a definitive validation that governance effects accumulate uniformly across all stages in isolation. This study makes a distinctive contribution by providing empirical evidence for a governance-sequencing mechanism, whereby design-stage ethics function as a mediating pathway shaping the effectiveness of governance activity at late","PeriodicalId":47889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Enterprise Information Management","volume":"39 1","pages":"1-30"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jean‐Pierre Imbrogiano, Tiina Onkila, Elizabeth Nichols, Lauri‐Matti Palmunen
{"title":"Conceptual Change and Sustainable Business Transformation: A Phenomenon‐Driven Review","authors":"Jean‐Pierre Imbrogiano, Tiina Onkila, Elizabeth Nichols, Lauri‐Matti Palmunen","doi":"10.1002/bse.71687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.71687","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we ponder profound questions of societal sustainability transitioning through the concept of <jats:italic>conceptual change</jats:italic> —a category of change that, compared with other scientific domains, has so far received little attention in scholarship of business. We take a phenomenological stance on conceptual change to broach its relevance for the literature on sustainable business transformation. Through a phenomenon‐driven review of when and how such change occurs in for‐profit organizations—which yielded 16 empirical articles—we demonstrate both this relevance and how it is being overlooked to date. Based on the available evidence and following phenomenon‐driven interests for theoretical renewal, we outline a framework and pathways for paying greater attention to intricacies of conceptual change among business organizations as well as its interplay with other dimensions of societal sustainability transitioning.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149218346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heart work for empowerment: how subordinate emotional labor influences leader empowering behavior","authors":"Xin Liu,Zhibin Lin,Shi Xu,Yongzi Mo,Ji Wen","doi":"10.1108/ijchm-10-2025-1458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-10-2025-1458","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose This study aims to examine how subordinates’ emotional labor strategies (deep acting versus surface acting) toward supervisors influence leader empowering behavior, with leader–member exchange (LMX) as a mediating mechanism and leader emotional intelligence as a moderating condition. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted two complementary studies. Study 1 used a scenario-based experiment (n = 222 hotel and restaurant managers) to establish causal relationships. Study 2 used a two-wave, multisource field survey (n = 229 supervisor-subordinate dyads in hotels and restaurants) to examine mediating and moderating mechanisms. Findings Deep acting (genuinely experiencing expected emotions) increases leader empowering behavior, whereas surface acting (feigning emotions) decreases it. LMX partially mediates both relationships, and leader emotional intelligence strengthens both effects. Practical implications Empowerment decisions should be based primarily on employees’ competence, performance and task readiness rather than emotional conformity. Organizations should develop employees’ emotion-regulation resources while training supervisors to distinguish emotional impressions from task-relevant evidence. Originality/value This study challenges the assumption that empowerment flows solely from leaders. The authors demonstrate that subordinates actively shape empowerment through emotional labor, with effects contingent on leader emotional intelligence. This reveals emotional labor as an LMX antecedent and shows that empowerment in hospitality organizations results from interactions between subordinate emotional capabilities and leader perceptual skills, not leader characteristics alone.","PeriodicalId":13744,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management","volume":"73 1","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":11.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Le Phuong Thao Quynh, Vincent Muller, Laurent Scaringella, Morgane Scaringella
{"title":"Perceived Green Innovation Ambidexterity as a Strategic Signal in By‐Product Recycling: Employee Green Behavior, Environmental Consciousness, and Job Satisfaction","authors":"Le Phuong Thao Quynh, Vincent Muller, Laurent Scaringella, Morgane Scaringella","doi":"10.1002/bse.71653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.71653","url":null,"abstract":"In by‐product recycling businesses, pursuing green innovation ambidexterity is important, but its benefits depend on how employees enact this strategic orientation. Drawing on signaling theory, we conducted two studies to examine how perceived green innovation ambidexterity is related to employee green behavior and job satisfaction, and investigate the role of individual environmental consciousness in these relationships. For Study 1, we used survey data from 308 by‐product recycling workers in six countries and found that employee green behavior mediated the relationship between perceived green innovation ambidexterity and job satisfaction. Individual environmental consciousness strengthened the effect of perceived green innovation ambidexterity and employee green behavior on job satisfaction. For Study 2, we conducted a scenario‐based experiment with 204 participants, providing supplementary evidence in an experimental setting. Overall, we show how employees interpret green innovation ambidexterity as a strategic signal and translate it into green behavior and job satisfaction, with responses varying according to environmental consciousness.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149218344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}