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DOI: 10.48688/g1vx-1k81
title: ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol for severe emerging infections UK: ISARIC WHO CCP-UK
title: IDDO_CVCCPUK

description: Infectious disease is the single biggest cause of death worldwide. New infectious agents require investigation to understand its characteristics and how infection with this pathogen results in a disease process. We need to understand risk factors for severe illness and how to best treat disease caused by this pathogen. In order to develop a mechanistic understanding of disease processes, such that risk factors for severe illness can be identified and treatments can be developed, it is necessary to understand pathogen characteristics associated with virulence, the replication dynamics and in-host evolution of the pathogen, the dynamics of the host response, the pharmacology of antimicrobial or host-directed therapies, the transmission dynamics, and factors underlying individual susceptibility.  This study is designed for the rapid, coordinated clinical investigation of patients with confirmed infection with a pathogen of public interest. The study has been designed to maximize the likelihood that as much data as possible is collected and shared rapidly in a format that can be easily aggregated, tabulated and analysed across many different settings globally. The study is designed to have some level of flexibility in order to ensure the broadest acceptance.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.30819971
title: Re-examining agency theory in analyzing conflict of interest in cash transfer’s influence on entrepreneurs’ welfare: theoretical review and emerging research agenda

description: Cash transfers (CT) play a critical role in improving recipients’ welfare in marginalized communities. However, conflict of interest affects CT effectiveness. Through a review of existing literature, the paper argues that personal financial challenges faced by CT program managers are an important factor that causes fund diversion. By drawing attention to this overlooked mechanism, the paper uncovers a critical yet insufficiently examined source of conflict of interest in CT implementation. The study proposes consideration of personal financial situation when reviewing the impact of such conflict on targeting entrepreneurs and its effect on program outcomes. This offers a fresh analytical lens that connects managers’ financial pressures to distortions in entrepreneurial targeting, thereby extending existing explanations that focus on deliberate malpractice. The study re-examines agency theory when applied to CT and makes a theoretical contribution by broadening agency theory to include non-malicious, economically motivated forms of diversion. Although, it creates a conflict of interest, the diverted funds may still contribute positively to community welfare. The study re-conceptualizes fund diversion as a multidimensional phenomenon influenced not only by opportunistic behavior but also by agents’ economic vulnerabilities, thereby providing a more comprehensive frame work for enhancing cash transfer governance.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.30819971.v1
title: Re-examining agency theory in analyzing conflict of interest in cash transfer’s influence on entrepreneurs’ welfare: theoretical review and emerging research agenda

description: Cash transfers (CT) play a critical role in improving recipients’ welfare in marginalized communities. However, conflict of interest affects CT effectiveness. Through a review of existing literature, the paper argues that personal financial challenges faced by CT program managers are an important factor that causes fund diversion. By drawing attention to this overlooked mechanism, the paper uncovers a critical yet insufficiently examined source of conflict of interest in CT implementation. The study proposes consideration of personal financial situation when reviewing the impact of such conflict on targeting entrepreneurs and its effect on program outcomes. This offers a fresh analytical lens that connects managers’ financial pressures to distortions in entrepreneurial targeting, thereby extending existing explanations that focus on deliberate malpractice. The study re-examines agency theory when applied to CT and makes a theoretical contribution by broadening agency theory to include non-malicious, economically motivated forms of diversion. Although, it creates a conflict of interest, the diverted funds may still contribute positively to community welfare. The study re-conceptualizes fund diversion as a multidimensional phenomenon influenced not only by opportunistic behavior but also by agents’ economic vulnerabilities, thereby providing a more comprehensive frame work for enhancing cash transfer governance.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.30832999
title: Sustainable business practices and firm performance: a systematic literature review

description: This study systematically reviews the relationship between sustainable business practices (SBP) and firm performance, with particular attention to financial and market outcomes. Anchored in the PRISMA 2020 protocol, we analysed 164 peer-reviewed articles published between 2023 and 2025 across business, management, accounting, and finance. Findings reveal that SBP generally enhance firm performance, though their effects are contingent on strategic alignment, industry context, ownership structure, and institutional environments. Social initiatives, particularly employee-oriented CSR, emerge as the most consistent drivers of productivity, resilience, and long-term firm value, while environmental practices provide cost savings and risk reduction but may face transitional profitability challenges. Economic and governance dimensions primarily strengthen efficiency, oversight, and risk control. Transparent sustainability reporting minimises information asymmetry and enhances credibility. The greatest financial advantages arise from voluntary, material, and assured disclosures, while mandatory, low-quality reports may lead to value erosion. Green innovation and corporate social responsibility (CSR) serve as crucial mediators, with CSR functioning as an ‘insurance-like’ safeguard during crises, while green innovation transforms sustainability efforts into advantages in products and processes. Importantly, their combined effect generates synergistic value creation by linking legitimacy and stakeholder support to technological and financial gains. The review highlights both complementarities and trade-offs across sustainability dimensions and underscores the importance of context-specific strategies.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.30832999.v1
title: Sustainable business practices and firm performance: a systematic literature review

description: This study systematically reviews the relationship between sustainable business practices (SBP) and firm performance, with particular attention to financial and market outcomes. Anchored in the PRISMA 2020 protocol, we analysed 164 peer-reviewed articles published between 2023 and 2025 across business, management, accounting, and finance. Findings reveal that SBP generally enhance firm performance, though their effects are contingent on strategic alignment, industry context, ownership structure, and institutional environments. Social initiatives, particularly employee-oriented CSR, emerge as the most consistent drivers of productivity, resilience, and long-term firm value, while environmental practices provide cost savings and risk reduction but may face transitional profitability challenges. Economic and governance dimensions primarily strengthen efficiency, oversight, and risk control. Transparent sustainability reporting minimises information asymmetry and enhances credibility. The greatest financial advantages arise from voluntary, material, and assured disclosures, while mandatory, low-quality reports may lead to value erosion. Green innovation and corporate social responsibility (CSR) serve as crucial mediators, with CSR functioning as an ‘insurance-like’ safeguard during crises, while green innovation transforms sustainability efforts into advantages in products and processes. Importantly, their combined effect generates synergistic value creation by linking legitimacy and stakeholder support to technological and financial gains. The review highlights both complementarities and trade-offs across sustainability dimensions and underscores the importance of context-specific strategies.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.29881246
title: AI and consumer behavior: Trends, technologies, and future directions from a scopus-based systematic review

description: This systematic literature review, conducted following the PRISMA 2020 guidelines, synthesizes 117 Scopus-indexed articles (2009–April 4, 2025) to address six research questions on artificial intelligence’s (AI) role in consumer behavior. The study examines research trends (RQ1), prevalent AI technologies (RQ2), key variables (RQ3), methodological approaches (RQ4), future research directions (RQ5), and AI’s transformative impact on consumer behavior (RQ6). Findings report exponential publication surges after 2020, driven by machine learning and natural language processing applications. Consumer attitudes (trust, privacy) and behavioral intentions emerge as primary mediators of AI adoption, while ethical concerns underline the need for open algorithmic architectures. Quantitative survey methods dominate, though longitudinal and cross-cultural investigations remain infrequent. Generative AI is a disruptive technology enabling hyper-personalization but also authenticity threats. Practical implications call for ethical imperatives of AI governance and hybrid human-machine processes to weigh innovation against consumer trust. In noting limitations of geographic coverage and linguistic bias, the review proposes future research agendas like cultural mediation of AI acceptance and longitudinal behavioral impact. By examining these dimensions systematically, the research enhances academic understanding of AI’s multifaceted influence and supports actionable insight to ethically grounded marketing practice in evolving technology contexts.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.29881246.v1
title: AI and consumer behavior: Trends, technologies, and future directions from a scopus-based systematic review

description: This systematic literature review, conducted following the PRISMA 2020 guidelines, synthesizes 117 Scopus-indexed articles (2009–April 4, 2025) to address six research questions on artificial intelligence’s (AI) role in consumer behavior. The study examines research trends (RQ1), prevalent AI technologies (RQ2), key variables (RQ3), methodological approaches (RQ4), future research directions (RQ5), and AI’s transformative impact on consumer behavior (RQ6). Findings report exponential publication surges after 2020, driven by machine learning and natural language processing applications. Consumer attitudes (trust, privacy) and behavioral intentions emerge as primary mediators of AI adoption, while ethical concerns underline the need for open algorithmic architectures. Quantitative survey methods dominate, though longitudinal and cross-cultural investigations remain infrequent. Generative AI is a disruptive technology enabling hyper-personalization but also authenticity threats. Practical implications call for ethical imperatives of AI governance and hybrid human-machine processes to weigh innovation against consumer trust. In noting limitations of geographic coverage and linguistic bias, the review proposes future research agendas like cultural mediation of AI acceptance and longitudinal behavioral impact. By examining these dimensions systematically, the research enhances academic understanding of AI’s multifaceted influence and supports actionable insight to ethically grounded marketing practice in evolving technology contexts.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.30283813
title: Typologies of contemporary ethnocentric consumers in a globalized marketplace

description: This study explores consumer ethnocentrism in the context of a globalized economy, reflecting on broader societal and marketplace shifts. Focusing on the Czech Republic as a case study, it employs a mixed-methods approach that integrates media discourse analysis of Czech press narratives with cluster analysis derived from data mining techniques. The research study identifies five distinct typologies of ethnocentric consumers, i.e. Ethno-Responsible Shoppers, Ethno-Quality Seekers, Ethno-Style Oriented, Ethno-Practical Shoppers, and Ethno-Heritage Explorers. These typologies reflect varying engagements with national, economic, social, political, cultural, moral, historical, and environmental discourses. This empirical study advances theoretical understanding by highlighting the interplay between macro-level media narratives and individual ethnocentric consumption patterns. Furthermore, the findings provide valuable insights for marketers and policymakers, identifying key characteristics of contemporary ethnocentric consumers. These insights can inform predictive marketing strategies, content creation, and alignment of policies and marketing campaigns.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.30283813.v1
title: Typologies of contemporary ethnocentric consumers in a globalized marketplace

description: This study explores consumer ethnocentrism in the context of a globalized economy, reflecting on broader societal and marketplace shifts. Focusing on the Czech Republic as a case study, it employs a mixed-methods approach that integrates media discourse analysis of Czech press narratives with cluster analysis derived from data mining techniques. The research study identifies five distinct typologies of ethnocentric consumers, i.e. Ethno-Responsible Shoppers, Ethno-Quality Seekers, Ethno-Style Oriented, Ethno-Practical Shoppers, and Ethno-Heritage Explorers. These typologies reflect varying engagements with national, economic, social, political, cultural, moral, historical, and environmental discourses. This empirical study advances theoretical understanding by highlighting the interplay between macro-level media narratives and individual ethnocentric consumption patterns. Furthermore, the findings provide valuable insights for marketers and policymakers, identifying key characteristics of contemporary ethnocentric consumers. These insights can inform predictive marketing strategies, content creation, and alignment of policies and marketing campaigns.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.29266536
title: An analysis of internal determinants of performance in rural social enterprises

description: Rural social enterprises are organizations that utilize market-oriented strategies to fulfill social objectives within regional and rural settings, particularly in addressing persistent issues like poverty and inequality. Their performance is inadequately researched in the rural context, particularly in developing countries where their contributions to overcoming intractable challenges are most needed. This study contributes to addressing these research gaps by developing a model for assessing internal critical success factors (CSFs) that influence social enterprise performance, and testing it in an empirical investigation of the influence of selected CSFs – entrepreneurial orientation, social salience and business planning on the performance of rural social enterprises. A survey of 521 Ugandan rural social enterprises provided data which was analysed using structural equation modelling and importance performance map analysis. Results reveal that entrepreneurial orientation and business planning are critical to rural social enterprises’ performance, and that business planning mediates the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and performance. For practitioners and policymakers, these findings suggest that entrepreneurial orientation, social salience, and business planning are critical to the performance of rural social enterprises. Further, findings support rural social enterprises’ use of their entrepreneurial orientation to improve financial performance while also advocating for and increasing social performance. We advance social entrepreneurship research by employing the CSF concept in conjunction with other frameworks, and by developing and quantitatively validating a concise model consisting of internal CSFs based on measurement scales. We assess the psychometric properties of these scales and analyse their influence on the performance of rural social enterprises. These findings provide direction for rural social enterprise scholars, practitioners, advocates, and policymakers.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.29266536.v1
title: An analysis of internal determinants of performance in rural social enterprises

description: Rural social enterprises are organizations that utilize market-oriented strategies to fulfill social objectives within regional and rural settings, particularly in addressing persistent issues like poverty and inequality. Their performance is inadequately researched in the rural context, particularly in developing countries where their contributions to overcoming intractable challenges are most needed. This study contributes to addressing these research gaps by developing a model for assessing internal critical success factors (CSFs) that influence social enterprise performance, and testing it in an empirical investigation of the influence of selected CSFs – entrepreneurial orientation, social salience and business planning on the performance of rural social enterprises. A survey of 521 Ugandan rural social enterprises provided data which was analysed using structural equation modelling and importance performance map analysis. Results reveal that entrepreneurial orientation and business planning are critical to rural social enterprises’ performance, and that business planning mediates the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and performance. For practitioners and policymakers, these findings suggest that entrepreneurial orientation, social salience, and business planning are critical to the performance of rural social enterprises. Further, findings support rural social enterprises’ use of their entrepreneurial orientation to improve financial performance while also advocating for and increasing social performance. We advance social entrepreneurship research by employing the CSF concept in conjunction with other frameworks, and by developing and quantitatively validating a concise model consisting of internal CSFs based on measurement scales. We assess the psychometric properties of these scales and analyse their influence on the performance of rural social enterprises. These findings provide direction for rural social enterprise scholars, practitioners, advocates, and policymakers.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.30305385.v1
title: Exploring the pathways to sustainable entrepreneurship – a meta-ethnographic synthesis

description: The study is a meta-ethnographic review of qualitative results on sustainable entrepreneurship antecedents aimed to (1) identify the drivers of this phenomenon, (2) understand the meaning of the factors by understanding their composition, and (3) identify research gaps for future studies. The study identified and reviewed 27 qualitative studies using a shortened version of Tranfield et al.’s 10-phased protocol. The study attempted to unite isolated related ideas into one, demonstrating their synergistic relationship and improving comprehension of antecedent variables. One of the key pull factors was stakeholder engagement, which the study defined as ‘stakeholder expectation, support and pressure’. The study also identified ‘motivation for personal gains’ as a key push factor, with ‘drives motivated by personality trait, personal circumstance, and desire for independence’ driving its meaning. The synthesis also found conceptual overlaps between motivation frameworks like the Push-Pull Model (PPM), Awareness-Motivation-Capability (AMC) and Motivation-Ability-Opportunity (MAO) models, and that developed economy literature dominates sustainable entrepreneurship. The complex interaction of internal and external variables as inputs in an input-outcome mechanism produced higher-level outcomes. Future research should examine how events unfold to create sustainable entrepreneurs.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.30437087
title: Determinants of insolvency in life insurance companies: a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis using Biblioshiny and VOSviewer

description: Life-insurer insolvency threatens policyholder protection and financial stability, particularly where supervisory capacity is limited. This study isolates insolvency in life insurance and combines a PRISMA-guided systematic review with bibliometric mapping to characterise the field’s intellectual and collaborative structure. Unlike performance-focused reviews that synthesise efficiency, accounting and market metrics, and ratings, we focus specifically on insolvency and map core sources (Bradford’s law), country collaboration networks, keyword co-occurrence, and thematic structure. We analyse peer-reviewed studies indexed in Scopus from 1990 through August, 2025; after deduplication and screening, 409 articles were retained and examined using Biblioshiny and VOSviewer. Grey literature is excluded to ensure methodological consistency, and the potential publication bias is acknowledged in the limitations. Across studies, macroeconomic tightening, inflation, recessions, and market volatility are generally associated with higher insolvency risk. Firm specific factors matter: thin capital, rapid growth, and aggressive underwriting raise risk, whereas stronger capitalisation, prudent growth, and sound governance mitigate it. Fundamental financial risk, including liquidity pressure, asset and liability mismatches, concentration risk, and mispriced reinsurance, increase vulnerability; effective asset and liability management and appropriately priced reinsurance reduce it. The findings clarify the field’s structure, highlight core and emerging themes, and provide theory driven guidance that is consistent with financial distress and early warning framework for supervisors and managers on early warning design, capital planning, liquidity and reinsurance management, and future research priorities.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.30437087.v1
title: Determinants of insolvency in life insurance companies: a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis using Biblioshiny and VOSviewer

description: Life-insurer insolvency threatens policyholder protection and financial stability, particularly where supervisory capacity is limited. This study isolates insolvency in life insurance and combines a PRISMA-guided systematic review with bibliometric mapping to characterise the field’s intellectual and collaborative structure. Unlike performance-focused reviews that synthesise efficiency, accounting and market metrics, and ratings, we focus specifically on insolvency and map core sources (Bradford’s law), country collaboration networks, keyword co-occurrence, and thematic structure. We analyse peer-reviewed studies indexed in Scopus from 1990 through August, 2025; after deduplication and screening, 409 articles were retained and examined using Biblioshiny and VOSviewer. Grey literature is excluded to ensure methodological consistency, and the potential publication bias is acknowledged in the limitations. Across studies, macroeconomic tightening, inflation, recessions, and market volatility are generally associated with higher insolvency risk. Firm specific factors matter: thin capital, rapid growth, and aggressive underwriting raise risk, whereas stronger capitalisation, prudent growth, and sound governance mitigate it. Fundamental financial risk, including liquidity pressure, asset and liability mismatches, concentration risk, and mispriced reinsurance, increase vulnerability; effective asset and liability management and appropriately priced reinsurance reduce it. The findings clarify the field’s structure, highlight core and emerging themes, and provide theory driven guidance that is consistent with financial distress and early warning framework for supervisors and managers on early warning design, capital planning, liquidity and reinsurance management, and future research priorities.