Frontiers in Management Science

Investigating the Strategic Behavior of Competitive Intelligence on Green Marketing Performance in a Strategic Industry

Farzad Kazemi — 2025-03-14

Iran, as the world’s second largest producer of natural gas and a key player in the Middle East energy sector, has a prominent role in the development of the oil and gas industry. However, the environmental challenges arising from the activities of this industry highlight the need for an innovative and sustainable approach. This study examines the role of Competitive Intelligence (CI) in enhancing Green Marketing (GM) in a gas refinery in Iran. This study, using a descriptive-survey method and using a questionnaire as a data collection tool, attempts to examine the importance of CI in realizing green marketing. Non-probability sampling is used, and 73 refinery experts were selected as the sample. Data analysis is conducted using SPSS and PLS software. The results show that CI has a positive and significant effect on GM and in the areas of marketing strategy, internal marketing, green products, and communications. These findings identify CI as a key tool for enhancing sustainable performance in the oil and gas industry, and refineries should implement the GM approach at strategic, semi-strategic, and tactical levels to succeed in greening. This study also faced limitations such as limited access to accurate data and sampling adjustment to a specific refinery. Finally, it is suggested that refinery managers, in addition to paying attention to CI, fully believe in the importance of GM in resource management and pollution reduction. This study, by providing new findings, contributes to a deeper understanding of how CI and GM interact in the oil and gas industry and can be used as a foundation for future studies in this area.

Influence of Human Resource Practices on Employee Behaviour in Federal Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria — Multivariate Approach

Eni Naomi Isang — 2025-03-25

Knowledge sharing has become a panacea for organizations to gain and to sustain a competitive advantage in this fast-growing technological era in education sector. Learning institutions are faced with how to manage their employees; motivating people to share knowledge, identifying the key people to share their knowledge, organizing existing knowledge and making knowledge easily accessible. Evidence from literatures review has shown that negligence and inadequate implementation of human resource management variables are responsible for poor employee knowledge sharing behaviour in federal universities. This study was carried out, using Multiple Regression Analysis, to examine the effect of human resource management variables and employee knowledge sharing behaviour in University of Uyo in Akwa Ibom and University of Calabar in Cross River States, Nigeria and to identify gaps relating to compensation practices, performance appraisal, and supervision and employee knowledge sharing behaviour. Survey research design was used in the study. A sample size of 364 was selected for the study using Taro Yamane formula while Bowler’s Proportionate Allocation Formula was used to determine each sample size of 139 and 225 for UNIUYO and UNICAL respectively. The data collected were analysed using SPSS version 28. Results from the test of hypotheses showed that compensation practices had a significant positive effect on employee knowledge sharing behaviour in UNIUYO and UNICAL in Nigeria. Also, it was found that supervision had a significant positive effect on employee knowledge sharing behaviour UNIUYO and UNICAL in Nigeria. Whereas performance appraisal has a positive coefficient but no significant positive effect on employee knowledge sharing behaviour. Based on the results, it was recommended that management of the universities should provide adequate compensation in order to complement workers efforts, boost performance and inspire positive knowledge sharing behaviour. It also suggested that management should ensure suitable and appropriate staff supervision to enhance and strengthen the knowledge capacity of the employees.

Empowering Healthcare Leadership Through Facilitators of Evidence-Based Management: A Narrative Review and Proposed Conceptual Framework

Dr. Mohammed Sallam — 2025-03-25

Decision-making in healthcare leadership often relies on subjective experiences rather than structured, evidence-based approaches, leading to inefficiency, missed opportunities for improvement and ineffective control over rising healthcare costs. This narrative review examined key facilitators that enhance the adoption of Evidence-Based Management (EBMgt) in healthcare, focusing on leadership effectiveness, operational efficiency, and strategic decision-making. A comprehensive literature search was conducted across PubMed, ABI/INFORM, Google Scholar, Emerald, ResearchGate, Harvard Business Review, ProQuest, and Health Business Elite, covering studies from 2015 to 2025. After applying inclusion criteria, 37 studies were analyzed to identify enablers supporting EBMgt implementation. The most common study designs were quantitative cross-sectional studies (n=11), systematic literature reviews (n=6), and qualitative studies with semi-structured interviews (n=5), with most studies conducted in the United States (n=9), Iran (n=6), and Australia (n=4). The findings showed that leadership commitment, organizational culture, access to high-quality evidence, professional development, stakeholder engagement, and digital solutions are crucial in fostering an EBMgt culture. Healthcare organizations that effectively leverage these facilitators demonstrate improved adaptability, better resource utilization, and more informed leadership decisions. This review introduced the EBMgt Implementation Pentagon Model, a new conceptual framework encompassing ‎five key constructs — Implementation Intentions (II), Knowledge Management (KM), Implementation Science (IS), Organizational Culture (OC), and Stakeholder Engagement (SE) to evaluate EBMgt adoption and increase awareness of its importance. Assessment ‎included four statements per construct, evaluated using a five-point Likert scale. EBMgt ‎adoption was weighed through a structured scoring system, with higher percentages (≥80%) ‎signifying stronger integration, leadership commitment, and organizational alignment, ‎while lower percentages (<40%) indicate minimal or no adoption.‎
Strengthening EBMgt through research-based evidence-informed decision-making ‎‎(EIDM), data transparency, managerial training, economic evaluation, cost management, ‎and digital transformation is essential for sustaining evidence-based decision-making. ‎Future research should focus on refining measurement tools, addressing implementation ‎barriers, and assessing long-term outcomes of EBMgt adoption while leveraging health ‎systems science to promote sustainable healthcare systems.‎

Does Control of Corruption Sand or Grease the Wheel of Human Development? Evidence from Panel Threshold Analysis

Giyoh Gideon Nginyu — 2025-03-25

This paper applies the panel threshold regression analysis to investigate the potential non-linear relationship between control of corruption and human development. Pass studies fail to investigate the dynamics in the corruption-human development relationship. Using a sample of 163 countries from 2000 to 2017, the results indicate that a decline in corruption initially improves human development but after a threshold level of human development, control of corruption reduces human development. Explicitly, the results suggest that control of corruption might grease the wheel of human development in countries with low HDI and sand the wheel in countries with high HDI. We also find that political stability, government effectiveness role of law, regulatory quality, research and development and urbanisation improve human development whereas an increase in the prevalence of anaemia and smoking reduces human development.

Waste Management Strategy to Save Environment and Improve Safety of Humanity

Haradhan Kumar Mohajan — 2025-03-25

Wastes are defined as the generation of valueless substances that are thrown away after their use that result negative impacts on human health as well as increased pollution of land, air, and water. Some major causes of increased wastes are local and global economic development, urbanization, and improving living standards in cities. Waste management (WM) is a comprehensive type of activities that encompass the collection, handling, transportation, treatment, storage, processing, recycling, and disposal of wastes efficiently. Ineffective and inefficient WM results in greenhouse gas (GHG) and toxic emissions, and the loss of precious materials and resources. It creates an unhealthy and unhygienic living environment, and it is responsible for the spread of diseases, and pollution of lakes and water bodies leading to loss biodiversity. An integrated WM approach is a crucial part for sustainable development strategies and for saving environment, and maintaining proper healthcare. This study takes an attempt to discuss WM policy to reduce the dangerous effects of wastes on the environment and human health.

Leadership Styles and Performance of Service Industry

Lebo Monica Peter — 2025-03-25

The study examined leadership styles and performance of service industry. A study of FCMB, Ecobank, Fidelity in Calabar. The study employed primary sources of data. The study was conducted using primary data which involves the use of questionnaire. The statistical method used for the validation of the research hypothesis formulated was Pearson product moment correlation. Based on the analysis of the results, the findings revealed that transformational leadership style, democratic leadership style, and laissez faire leadership style had a significant relationship with organizational performance. The study recommended that management should adopt the best leadership style to enhance effective performance. Finally, management of the organizations should be encouraged of their performance by given them the necessary incentives.

Competency Characteristics of Management Positions in Foreign Trade Under the Digital Economy: Based on a Survey of Manufacturing Enterprises in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

Fangyan Feng — 2025-03-25

This research was to explore the digital literacy, leadership competence, and professional quality possessed and expected to be possessed by management personnel in the manufacturing enterprises carrying out foreign trade in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) of Guangdong province, China. A literature review was conducted to review the definition, concepts and related empirical research of digital literacy, leadership competence and professional quality. A set of interview questions were designed based on the literature review, and interviews were conducted involving 10 management personnel of the manufacturing enterprises in the GBA with foreign trade businesses. The findings showed that the interviewees held themselves possessed basically satisfying digital literacy, leadership competence, and professional quality. However, all of them held that they needed to further enhance their competence characteristics in these aspects. Two conceptual models were designed to illustrate interviewees’ existing competence characteristics, as well as the gaps between existing and expected capabilities.

Research on the Driving Factors and Pathways of Discontinuous Change in China’s Emergency Management Policies: A Clear Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis Based on 20 Cases

Shuting Chen — 2025-03-25

The change in China’s emergency management policies is largely influenced by emergencies, but not all emergencies drive policy changes. Based on the Punctuated Equilibrium Theory, this paper employs the Clear Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (csQCA) method to study 20 cases of emergencies in China, categorized into natural disasters, accident disasters, public health incidents, and social security incidents. Combining the actual context of Chinese policy decision-making, the paper focuses on analyzing the driving elements and configuration pathways that lead to discontinuous changes in emergency management policies. The study finds that the shift in high-level attention is a necessary prerequisite for changes in emergency management policies. There are two configuration pathways for policy change, which can be classified into macro-political push type and focal event-induced type. By using the qualitative comparative analysis method to explore and reflect on the mechanisms of emergency management policy change, we can better grasp the inherent laws of policy change from the perspective of condition combinations, providing theoretical insights for the future optimization and adjustment of emergency management policies.