Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to examine the role of technology paradoxes, including technology anxiety, insecurity and forced usage, to understand consumer adoption behavior towards self-service technology. The present study also investigates the moderating effect of gender and...

Purpose: This study tries to identify the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the similarity of banks' loan portfolios. Design/methodology/approach: Using the entire firm-level bank loan data from 2009 to 2020 in the Korean market, this study analyzes the cosine similarity in terms of credit...

Purpose: This paper examines the relationship between corporate reputation, managerial overconfidence, and the cost of equity in the context of Vietnam - a fast-growing emerging market. Design/methodology/approach: The paper employs Pooled Ordinary Least Square, Fixed Effect Model and Random...

Purpose: This research examines the effects of collaboration with external firms on innovation performance, with a specific focus on the mediating influence of business process innovation. The objective is to explore how external collaborations contribute to improving innovation performance by...

Purpose: This study investigates how public debt affects economic growth in eleven new EU member states in Central and South-Eastern Europe from 2000 to 2021. These countries are categorized into the Balkan, Baltic, and Visegrad groups based on their economic characteristics....

Purpose: This study's primary goal is to examine the relationship between Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance and profitability in ASEAN-6 commercial banks amid digital transformation. Design/methodology/approach: To reach this purpose, the paper uses linear regressions to...

Purpose: This research evaluates two views of the effect of income smoothing on stock overvaluation. There is a view that income smoothing impairs the usefulness of profit information by distorting the economic substance of a company. While another view is income smoothing can serve as a means...

Purpose: This study examines the impact of Industry 4.0, blockchain adoption, and sustainability on operational excellence within the Thai finance sector. Key variables include relative advantage, top management support, openness to use innovation, blockchain technology adoption, industry 4.0...

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine the moderating effect of gross domestic product on the relation-ship between share ownership and strategic risk-taking of airlines. Theoretical foundation of this work is upper echelon theory and contingency theory. Design/methodology/approach:...

Purpose: We examined how ESG disclosure and its sub-dimensions impact holding period returns, profitability, and company value. Design/methodology/approach: Utilizing Bloomberg panel data, the research investigates the effects of ESG dis-closures and their sub-dimensions on financial metrics...