1097 papers
This study utilizes survey data from 2023 to reveal that while salary, housing, and training significantly boost worker well-being in Ethiopia's apparel sector, Kenyan managers, constrained by stronger labor institutions, rely more heavily on non-financial incentives to enhance satisfaction.
This study argues that for African economies, economic complexity—specifically in trade and technology—acts as a critical structural precondition for pro-poor development, where the preservation of existing complexity is more vital for inclusive welfare than marginal expansion due to significant asymmetric losses from deterioration.
This study analyzes U.S. acute care hospitals from 2019 to 2022 and concludes that physician-hospital integration is not a necessary condition for broad financial success, with only trivial and narrow effects observed on specific financial metrics.
This study analyzes tourism-linked ETFs from March 2020 to November 2025 using advanced risk and time-series methods to reveal that the sector faces significant, non-linear volatility spillovers and high dynamic connectedness across all market conditions, rendering it highly vulnerable to systemic risks and extreme losses during crises.
This study addresses terminological fragmentation in ageing research within business and management by analyzing 3,673 articles to map four thematic clusters, interpret them through diverse theoretical lenses, and propose a standardized search string to improve evidence retrieval consistency.
Based on survey data from 1,059 hired agricultural workers in China, this study demonstrates that low-cost non-monetary recognition significantly boosts labor efficiency in high-value crop production, with on-site verbal praise primarily enhancing work quality through emotional benefits and digital platform display increasing work quantity via reputational pressure.
This paper empirically analyzes the determinants of international reserve currency shares from 2016 to 2024, identifying currency usage inertia as the most critical factor while finding that trade volume and currency appreciation positively influence shares, and subsequently proposes policy recommendations to guide the internationalization of emerging market currencies.
This paper challenges the common belief that wine tourism drives export demand by analyzing Madeira wine shipments and finding no stable statistical evidence that overnight stays by visitors lead to increased wine purchases in their home countries.
This paper presents a novel QUBO-based framework using Japanese municipal data to model and optimize social indicator configurations for working-age population growth, demonstrating that quantum and classical annealing methods can identify optimal policy scenarios while capturing nonlinear indicator interactions in an interpretable manner.
This study utilizes the DREAMpy model to demonstrate that the ex-ante adoption of genetically engineered sorghum in Elgeyo Marakwet County is a highly profitable investment, yielding an estimated net present value of USD 9.69 million and significantly enhancing both producer incomes and consumer welfare.