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Adaptive Performance as a Pathway to Human Capital Readiness: The Roles of Digital Readiness and Organizational Resilience

This study demonstrates that learning agility and change self-efficacy enhance human capital readiness through adaptive performance, a pathway that is asymmetrically shaped by organizational resilience but not significantly moderated by digital readiness.

Prasetyo Yuli Usaid, Ramoti Stevan Carlos Pakpahan, Muhammad Rais Arifin, Siti Nadiya Hajati, Andi Fitrianto, Fredy Jaye (…)2026-10-22
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Infrastructural Embedding: How Domestic Institutional Configurations Shape Divergent Cross-Border Infrastructure Packages

This article employs a historical-institutionalist framework and process tracing of the Benguela-Lobito rail-logistics system to demonstrate how domestic institutional configurations drive "infrastructural embedding," causing different international providers to deliver divergent cross-border infrastructure packages based on their pre-existing mandates, capacities, and the specific entry-stage tasks assigned by host nations.

Shuai Qin2026-10-22
📈 economics

The Invisible Cost: Contemporary Economic Valuation of Unpaid Care in Epidermolysis Bullosa Across Six European Countries

This multicentre study across six European countries quantifies the substantial time and economic value of unpaid family caregiving for Epidermolysis Bullosa, revealing that caregivers of children and those with severe subtypes dedicate significant weekly hours to care, generating annual replacement costs equivalent to 1.3 to 3.0 times the national minimum wage.

Christine Bodemer, Ritu Jain, Verónica Alonso-Ferreira, May El-Hachem, Christina Has, Áron Hölgyesi, Vinzenz Hubl, Georg (…)2026-10-22
📈 economics

Price insurance or cash-flow insurance? Energy subsidies and targeted transfers in a heterogeneous-agent economy

Calibrated to Morocco, this paper demonstrates that in a heterogeneous-agent economy, replacing generalized energy subsidies with targeted cash transfers significantly enhances consumption and welfare stabilization against oil-price shocks by directing fiscal resources toward high-marginal-propensity-to-consume households, despite increasing short-run inflation pass-through.

Elhoussin Ouassou, Oguzhan Ozcelebi, Zhuhua Jiang, Rim El Khoury, Seong-Min Yoon2026-10-22
📈 economics

Coordinating Replenishment and Dynamic Pricing for Perishable Omnichannel Retail: A Fixed-Point Dynamic-Programming–Reinforcement-Learning Framework

This paper proposes a hybrid fixed-point dynamic programming and reinforcement learning framework that coordinates long-term replenishment planning with real-time dynamic pricing for perishable omnichannel retail, demonstrating that such integration primarily enhances waste control in binding supply regimes while revealing that the optimal freshness guarantee for online customers is the operational minimum.

Ayad Hendalianpour, Mehdi Abbasi2026-10-22
📈 economics

Designing Stable ESG Grade Bands: Cut-Point Optimisation and a Quantisation Perspective

This paper demonstrates through computational optimization and stability analysis that the incumbent equal-width ESG grade scale offers superior stability against score perturbations compared to non-uniform alternatives, while establishing a framework showing that optimal boundary design depends jointly on score distribution and the magnitude of expected revisions.

Hira Mahmood, Minh N. Dao, Claudio Conversano2026-10-22
📈 economics

E-Business Adoption and Customer Loyalty Among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria

This study demonstrates that the adoption of e-business, particularly through online presence and digital accessibility, significantly enhances customer loyalty among small and medium enterprises in South-East Nigeria by integrating multiple digital capabilities rather than relying on single technological investments.

Obiegeri loretta Oduh, Chinwe Chosen Ndukwe-Tochi, Kelvin Obinna Nwankpa, Paul Chinedu Agu, Roseline Chinasa Agbaraevoh2026-10-22
📈 economics

Beyond Persistence: Understanding Forecastability of Weekly Potato Prices Across Multiple Market Centres

This study of weekly potato prices across 17 Indian markets reveals that while simple persistence models outperform complex algorithms at short horizons, Exponential Smoothing becomes the superior method for longer forecasts, demonstrating that price predictability depends more on forecast horizon and seasonal strength than on model complexity.

Muktinath Vishwakarma, Manish Kurhekar2026-10-22