bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Growth, trade, institutions, and geography: new empirical evidence
Authors: Fabris Thiago Rocha , Azevedo André Filipe Zago de , Reis Magnus Dos 
Published: February 2025

PurposeThis study investigates the implications of trade, institutional and geographical variables on economic growth. The proposed analytical framework extends the seminal works of Frankel and Romer (1999), Rodrik et al. (2004), Silva and Tenreyro (2006) and Squalli and Wilson (2011).Design/methodology/approachApplying a comprehensive panel database that includes 133 countries during the period 1996–2014. Our estimators encompass three dimensions (fixed effects) and use the Pseudo Poisson Maximum Likelihood (PPML) approach to create an instrument for trade. This approach effectively addresses the issues associated with endogenous regressors.FindingsFindings from this study demonstrate a significant correlation between economic growth and the variables of trade, institutions and geography, with trade surfacing as the most influential factor. Notably, the impact of these factors appears to be diminished in low-income countries, especially in the parameters that reflect the role of institutions on per capita income.Originality/valueThe originality of the study is underscored by four key aspects: the employment of a unique econometric approach, the use of a three-dimensional panel database with fixed effect estimators and PPML, the inclusion of a novel measure of trade openness diverging from the conventional literature in the bilateral trade equation, and finally, the implementation of robustness tests probing the sensitivity of per capita income to institutions, trade and geography.
Assessing digital transformation in SMEs: using the canvas model in China and Indonesia
Authors: Sultan Abdulsatar Abduljabbar , Riyadh Hosam Alden 
Published: February 2025

Purpose
This study aims to assess and analyse the phenomenon of digitalization, which is characterized by the regular emergence of new technologies and their continuous potential for development. It focuses on the selection of technologies that can sustainably enhance efficiency or confer competitive advantages for companies, particularly small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Design/methodology/approach
This study conducted a survey among 96 SMEs in the manufacturing industry. The survey is based on semi-structured interviews with SME management representatives. The authors then process the collected data by examining the average rate of digital transformation in each block, the mode and the median. The focus was on developments and changes in enterprise digital transformation.

Findings
The process model is a systematic framework for integrating new technologies in businesses, helping identify key technologies for sustainable efficiency and competitive advantage. This paper demonstrates the evolution of digital transformation in different building blocks of the BM Canvas for SMEs in the manufacturing industry. The average digital transformation rate has decreased for the Channels block, whereas other blocks have increased and will continue to grow.

Practical implications
The findings offer practical insights for SMEs looking to adopt digital transformation strategies. By using the technology evaluation canvas (TEC), businesses can make informed decisions about technology investments, ensuring a strategic approach to digitalization that aligns with their operational goals and capabilities.

Originality/value
This study presents an innovative approach to technology evaluation tailored for SMEs, addressing the challenges of limited resources and the need for strategic digitalization. The integration of the TEC into the process model enhances its applicability and value, providing a unique contribution to the field of business model development and digital transformation.
Evaluating video game moods and their separability based on user-generated reviews
Authors: Cho Hyerim , Lee Wan-Chen , Thach Heather , Hirt Juliana 
Published: February 2025

PurposeThe aboutness (a subject matter of resource) of information has been strongly emphasized when organizing and searching for different types of media resources. For video games, mood is one of the critical subjective elements that supports users in finding games of interest. The current study examines a previously developed video game mood controlled vocabulary (CV) to empirically test its applicability and evaluate the individual terms’ separability and distinctiveness.Design/methodology/approachThe research team collected user reviews from Steam, an online game database. Three different games were selected for triangulation to represent each of the 17 moods identified in the existing CV, resulting in the selection of 51 games. Collected reviews were tokenized and investigated from individual, terminological and categorical levels of text analyses.FindingsThrough the application of multiple analysis techniques (frequency, cluster and network), findings confirm the intuitiveness and usefulness of the existing CV. Additionally, opportunities for increased category separability and distinctness are identified for three moods: Aggressive, Quirky and Intense.Originality/valueThe current study adopts a user-centered perspective to evaluate the existing metadata framework created based on literature analysis. This study aims to complement the literature-based framework with users’ perspectives to enhance the metadata for interactive multimedia resources, such as video games.
The impact of economic factors on environmental degradation: price instability, monetary growth and renewable energy investments
Authors: Aydın Aslı 
Published: February 2025

PurposeThis study examines the complex relationship between price stability, monetary growth and renewable energy investments. The pursuit of environmentally sustainable economies is intertwined with the need to maintain price stability and poses a complex challenge for global policymakers.Design/methodology/approachThrough a comprehensive review, this study seeks answers to how price stability affects pollution, particularly carbon emissions, through various economic channels. Employing panel data analysis for 84 countries between 1999 and 2020, we find a multifaceted effect of price instability on carbon emissions.FindingsAccording to system-GMM estimation results, we find (1) price stability has no significant direct effect on carbon emissions. However, it emerges as a crucial environmental factor through consumption, investment and monetary policy channels. (2) Moreover, price stability reverses the positive effects of renewable energy investments on carbon emissions, and it slows down the carbon emissions-increasing effect of energy consumption. (3) Monetary expansion combined with price stability increases environmental pollution. These findings underscore the complexity of balancing economic stability and environmental sustainability and highlight the need for comprehensive policy approaches to address these global challenges effectively.Originality/valueThere is a significant gap in the existing literature examining the impact of price stability on carbon emissions. Most of the studies observe the impact of carbon emissions on inflation. However, the complex interaction between economic and environmental factors reveals inflation as a factor affecting pollution, particularly the amount of carbon emissions.
Driving firm performance with green intellectual capital: the key role of business sustainability in SMEs
Authors: Shahbaz Muhammad Hamid , Malik Shahab Alam 
Published: February 2025

PurposeThis study aims to explore the profound relationship between green intellectual capital (GIC) and firm performance, emphasizing the mediating role of business sustainability within food small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of Pakistan.Design/methodology/approachThe study assessed manufacturing enterprises across industrial cities of Punjab using a descriptive cross-sectional survey design. The purposive sampling technique was implemented for non-probability sampling. In this research, the 287 respondents encompassed a diverse cadre of managers, non-managers and employees of food manufacturing enterprises, providing a multi-perspective insight into the role of GIC in firm performance.FindingsThe study revealed a strong correlation between GIC and firm performance. GIC significantly enhanced firm performance, with business sustainability acting as a mediator. It underscores its vital role in the environmental stewardship of manufacturing enterprises. The study contributes unique insights into how manufacturing enterprises’ managers and employees in Pakistan can leverage GIC and sustainability to anticipate and manage potential issues, build trust, bolster reputation and enhance value proposition in the sustainable market.Originality/valueThis research reinforces the importance of cultivating and capitalizing on GIC for bolstered performance while underscoring the essence of sustainable practices within the competitive landscape of Pakistani food manufacturing enterprises. It provides a novel perspective on GIC a robust tool for enhancing performance and environmental credentials.
Using sustainable enclothed cognition and envisioning sustainable learning to enhance relational capital in the fashion industry
Authors: Cegarra-Navarro Juan-Gabriel , Martínez-Martínez Aurora , Cegarra-Sánchez Jorge , Muñoz Faus Jaume 
Published: February 2025

PurposeExternal relational capital is the value created by an organization’s relationships with outside stakeholders, such as customers. This study introduces and examines the concept of sustainable enclothed cognition to support it, aligning rational reasons, personal values and emotions with sustainable clothing choices not only fosters envisioning sustainable learning from a user perspective but also holds the potential to help companies quickly adapt and find alternative solutions, thereby minimizing production impacts on the environment and promising the future for sustainable fashion in the industry.Design/methodology/approachThis study aims to explore how sustainable enclothed cognition, combined with envisioning sustainable learning, can enhance external relational capital in the fashion industry by fostering deeper connections between fashion brands and environmentally conscious consumers. Data collection took place between May and September 2021. A survey of 211 young workers was conducted, and the data were analyzed using partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM).FindingsThe findings demonstrate that prioritizing sustainable enclothed cognition can satisfy consumer demands, strengthen customer relationships and enhance competitive positioning in the fashion industry. Furthermore, the study provides actionable strategies for implementing envisioning sustainable learning, highlighting its transformative role in turning consumer alignment into external relational capital. This insight inspires a new perspective on the potential of sustainable learning in the fashion industry.Originality/valueThis research offers a deeper understanding of how companies can strategically manage their external customer relationships by using sustainable enclothed cognition to drive eco-innovation and enhance relational capital in the sustainable fashion industry. Findings support that textile companies provide fresh insights into their innovative capacity by aligning consumer rational reasons, values and emotions with learning practices. The study also underscores the pivotal role of envisioning sustainable learning in embedding sustainability into the core of fashion industry practices, delivering both theoretical and practical guidance on achieving long-term business success through sustainability.
The essence of geographic information systems (GIS) in sustainable tourism, public leadership and inclusive community participation in remote-African rural societies
Authors: Ramaano Azwindini Isaac 
Published: February 2025

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine the probable role of geographic information systems (GIS) in sustainable tourism, rural community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) and inclusive community development and participation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa naturally and many rural areas elsewhere abroad.

Design/methodology/approach
The study uses narrative literature and document reviews to assess African and global environmental and rural tourism resource management procedures. The data analysis was done manually from the narrative and general literature reviews of the older and latest research. It links CBNRM, GIS and conjoining tools to sustainable tourism, public leadership, subsistence and local community empowerment applications.

Findings
This examination displays a possible association between tourism and rural and agricultural enterprises that GIS, its associative procedures and tools, and the concept of CBNRM can strengthen while enhancing public leadership and sustainability and spurring livelihoods, especially in remote areas. Therefore, it underscores the need for a reputable and myriad tourism strategy to develop and empower the relevant environs in many rural and marginalized areas within the continent.

Originality/value
Numerous remote rural neighborhoods in Sub-Saharan Africa, southern Africa and Africa usually live in low-income areas with meager socioeconomic programs. However, such localities thrive on natural biodiversity, including tourism destination sites. Information systems and information technology, such as GIS and remote sensing, with sustainable tourism, CBNRM and inclusive public leadership can synergize local community development schemes within their settings.
Unlocking environmental management accounting and environmental performance: a mediated moderation model through green technology innovation and environmental strategy
Authors: Thanh Thuy Ngoc Tran 
Published: February 2025

Purpose
This study aims to examine the intricate connections between environmental management accounting (EMA) and environmental performance (ENP) through the mediating and moderating roles of green technology innovation, including green process innovation (GSI), green product innovation (GPI) and environmental strategy (EST). The study uses a mediated moderation model with the lenses of legitimacy theory and the natural resource-based view to explore how these constructs interact. It then offers insights into how organizations can improve ENP by integrating EMA, green technology innovation and EST.

Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a quantitative approach and collects data from a survey of 325 senior managers and chief accountants of manufacturing firms in Vietnam. The author conducts validation and reliability assessments using SmartPLS4 software and uses partial least squares structural equation modeling to validate the research hypotheses.

Findings
The results indicate significant positive correlations between EMA, GSI, GPI and ENP. Additionally, the findings reveal that two forms of green technology innovation, namely, GSI and GPI, mediate the relationship between EMA and ENP. Finally, this study confirms that EST moderates the connections between GSI and ENP, as well as GPI and ENP.

Originality/value
This study offers novel perspectives on how organizations address the effective harmonization of diverse green assets, such as EMA, GSI, GPI and EST, to enhance ENP. Therefore, the findings of this research provide a valuable understanding of the correlations between EMA, GSI, GPI, EST and ENP for the manufacturing sector in the emerging economy.
Customized Robo-Advisor: analysis of the inclusion of cash assets
Authors: Rico-Perez Hector , Arenas-Parra Mar , Quiroga-García Raquel 
Published: February 2025

Purpose
A Robo Advisor (RA) is a fully automated investment advisory service. Its development in recent years has been very relevant within the financial industry. Although most RAs comply with most investment principles (diversification, cost efficiency, personalization and contextualization of investment opportunities to the current environment), their need for standardization reduces their ability to find portfolios that fit the investors’ constraints or needs. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the possibility of eliminating this shortcoming of the RA by including new types of financial instruments or generating different investment portfolios.

Design/methodology/approach
This study performs a bottleneck analysis of all activities related to the management of financial instruments to detect the most affected activities when incorporating new types of instruments. This study also presents a case study on including fixed-income bonds to increase RA personalization and proposes two types of investment portfolios to promote personalization.

Findings
The bottleneck analysis has allowed us to identify that “instrument data validation” and “order management” are the most affected activities if new types of instruments are incorporated. In addition, the liquidity level of financial instruments is a critical variable that must be integrated into an RA.

Originality/value
The results indicate the possibility of designing a new RA with a higher level of personalization. This study helps to understand the difficulties and opportunities when customizing an RA.
Medical tourism research in Poland: a scoping review
Authors: Lubowiecki-Vikuk Adrian , Białk-Wolf Anna 
Published: February 2025

PurposeThe interest in medical tourism is due to the increasing number of scholarly publications on the subject. Polish researchers are progressively contributing to this discourse, shedding light on various research contexts within one of the prominent medical tourism destinations in Central and Eastern Europe. This article is aimed at mapping the knowledge of and outlining the directions for developing medical tourism research in Poland.Design/methodology/approachThe study was conducted in the form of a bibliometric review, including performance analysis and science mapping. The analysis included texts by Polish researchers indexed in the international Web of Science and Scopus databases and the Polish BazEkon database. In addition, publications found in Google Scholar, Nauka Polska (Polish Science) and Biblioteka Nauki (Library of Science) were included. VOSviewer was used for the bibliometric analysis.FindingsA total of 97 scientific publications from 2003–2023 were studied. The analysis provided an insight into the main themes of Polish researchers from the perspective of the discipline they represent. Five clusters were identified: (1) “global aspects of medical tourism,” (2) “medical tourist,” (3) “development of medical tourism,” (4) “Poland as a medical tourism destination” and (5) “medical tourism destinations worldwide.” On the one hand, an interdisciplinary approach to medical tourism makes it possible to gain broader knowledge that goes beyond one scientific discipline. On the other hand, the results show the diversity of medical tourism research and the dilemmas involved.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitation of this article is the analysis chosen, which does not consider the scientific quality of the articles studied. Instead, we identify leading and future issues that should be of interest to researchers and used by practitioners and managers of medical tourism destinations.Originality/valueThe review and subsequent mapping of scientific output made it possible (1) to understand the different perspectives on the definition of medical tourism, (2) to assess the 20-year contribution of Polish researchers to the development of medical tourism research and (3) to identify key contexts for further research.
Significance of Cattaneo–Christov model on the systematic flow of Williamson nanofluid in a porous medium
Authors: Tharapatla Gladys , Tharapatla Glory , Kumar Jaladi Rajendra 
Published: February 2025

Purpose
This paper aims to explore the numerical simulation of MHD flow of Williamson hybrid nanofluid over a porous stretched sheet. Cattaneo–Christov thermal and specie fluxes were used in the model. Partial differential equations are exploit to model the underlying physics of the situation (PDEs).

Design/methodology/approach
Using an acceptable similarity functions, these equations were changed into total differential equations (ODEs). The spectral relaxation method (SRM) was used to solve the linked and nonlinear altered ODEs. The Gauss–Seidel procedure is used to figure out how to use Chebyshev pseudospectral techniques in SRM. This is an iterative process.

Findings
Increasing the heat relaxation flow increases temperature distributions; increasing the mass relaxation flux increases concentration distributions. A higher value of thermal radiation heat generation and Eckert number was noticed to improve temperature and velocity distributions. Due to the imposed electromagnetic force, a higher magnetic field is detected to cause an elevation in the velocity distribution. Also, a higher thermal radiation is observed to upsurge the velocity in company with temperature distributions.

Originality/value
This research benefits from biomedical engineering, biological sciences, astrophysics and geophysics. The rheological applications of Williamson fluid finds usefulness in biological sciences. The nanoparticles as considered in this study finds applications in the field of biomedical engineering. Also, the application of the imposed electromagnetic field and magnetic field strength is very useful in the area of astrophysics. A good agreement may be found in the literature on this study’s findings.
Integration of geological and geophysical techniques in groundwater mapping within Lokoja – Jakura schist belt, North Central, Nigeria
Authors: Musa Kizito Ojochenemi , Ibrahim Abdulbariu , Aigbadon Godwin Okumagbe , Akudo Ernest Orji , Akakuru Obinna , Akpah Fabian Apeh , Jimoh Jacob Bolaji , Adegbola Moses , Baba Aminu Mu’awiya 
Published: February 2025

Purpose
This study aims to employ an integrated approach of geology, aeromagnetic and electrical resistivity techniques to evaluate the potential causes of abortive or low groundwater yield in most boreholes.

Design/methodology/approach
The process involved mapping geology and acquiring and processing aeromagnetic and vertical electrical sounding (VES) data. Oasis Montaj software was used for tasks like Reduction to the Equator (RTE), Upward Continuation (UC), Residual Magnetic Anomaly (RMA) and Euler Deconvolution (S. I = 1.0 and S. I = 2.0). VES utilized the Schlumberger array method, and field data underwent iterative analysis using Resist2Win software.

Findings
Total magnetic intensity (TMI) and RMA values range from −209.2 nT/m to 150.4 nT/m and −61.0 nT/m and 20.6 nT/m, respectively. High amplitude magnetic anomalies are observed in the northern and southwestern areas, indicating potential groundwater zones. Depth estimates for SI = 1.0 and 2.0 range from 11.1 m to 76.1 m and 16.4 m to 112.9 m, respectively, indicating varying overburden thickness and rock boundaries. Lineament reveals NE-SW and NW-SE trends, with hydro-lineament density ranging from low to very high. VES data identifies layers with resistivity and thickness values: topsoil (15.5–523.2 Om, 0.4–12.3 m), weathered basement (93.3–1655.7 Om, 19.0–54.7 m), fractured basement aquifer (242.7–9413.0 Om, 20.3–42.7 m) and fresh basement (62.8–935.3 Om).

Practical implications
Maps and conclusion generated from the study will serve as a baseline to solving completely the perennial problem of abortive and low groundwater yield.

Social implications
Insecurity and other vices suffered during the acquisition of data.

Originality/value
The geophysical data correlates with geological mapping, verifying that areas with dense hydro-lineaments like porphyritic granites and granite gneiss are promising aquifers. This suggests that groundwater presence is influenced by structural factors, offering valuable insights for future groundwater exploration in the study area.