This study presents an all-inclusive analysis of the literature on the augmentation of financial inclusion through fintech. Ninety-six papers were selected from the 2951 articles in the Web of Science, Scopus, and EBSCO databases. This study uses bibliometric and content analysis techniques to...

This study offers a comprehensive review of the environmental crime literature to identify emerging research topics and propose avenues for future investigation. Drawing on bibliometric coupling and content analysis, 91 articles from the Scopus database were examined to map thematic streams and...

Background Productivity in the healthcare sector has evolved as an appealing research topic in the last few years. Despite the growing interest, the extant scientific literature mostly concentrates on methodologies rather than theoretical and practical insights. Although diverse methodologies...

Domain-specific dictionaries have prevailed, when conducting the dictionary-based approach to measure the sentiment of textual data in finance. Through the contributions of Bannier et al. (2019a) and Pöferlein (2021), two versions of a dictionary suitable for analyzing German finance-related...

This study investigates the CSR communication and reporting practice of professional football clubs to examine the range, variety, and visibility of their CSR information communicated to stakeholders. Adopting a case study strategy, this study focuses on Juventus football club (hereby Juventus)....

Purpose: Making investment decisions has become more difficult for women investors in recent decades due to the prevalence of irrational behaviour. This research aims to use bibliometric analysis to fill a gap in the current literature on women's investing aspirations. This analysis will offer a...

The rapid digitalization of financial services in the European Union (EU) has not only enhanced convenience and inclusion but also increased exposure to sophisticated online financial fraud. Digital financial literacy (DFL) is widely promoted as a key tool for empowering consumers and reducing...

Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to...

Background The growing complexity of logistics and supply chain management, particularly in third-party logistics (3PL) providers, highlights the need for effective competency models tailored to evolving operational demands. Current frameworks often lack the technical depth and global...

Digital transformation, defined as the adoption and application of emerging digital technologies, is becoming a growing trend. However, the academic literature still lacks a comprehensive understanding of the impacts of these technologies in human resource management (HRM) at organisational and...

The diffusion of solar energy initiatives is shaped by a dynamic interplay of actions supporting and opposing them, influenced by governance structures, socio-economic conditions, environmental concerns, and public perception. This systematic review synthesizes findings from 150 studies...

Bioenergy is increasingly recognized as a cornerstone of the global transition to sustainable energy systems. Given the field's rapid expansion and interdisciplinary scope, this study conducts a meta-level bibliometric analysis of 14,859 review papers indexed in the Scopus database. Using...

In this epoch of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), digital advancement, technological initiatives, and advancements, as well as their imperative role, have improved universities' performance and transformed business models, practices, and processes. This study aimed to systematically...

The purpose of this research is to analyze research trends related to banking liquidity creation, the factors influencing this process, the impact of created liquidity, and the direction for further research. Bibliographic sources were obtained from the Scopus database spanning from 2013 to...

We map the intellectual structure of teamwork in project management (PM) using a triangulated bibliometric design to interrogate 16,320 Scopus records (1966-November 2023). Three complementary lenses-keyword co-occurrence (topical cohesion), bibliographic coupling (research front), and...

This study investigates board characteristics, including board leadership structure, which explain the human capital disclosure (HCD) provided by companies. It uses a self-constructed disclosure index to quantify the level of human capital information using content analysis. Generalized method...

Curricula impart knowledge, instill values, and shape collective memory. Despite growing public funding for religious schools through U.S. school choice programs, little is known about what they teach. We examine textbooks from public schools, religious private schools, and home schools,...

Visualizations are ubiquitous in today's manufacturing operations, whether in the form of time series, scatter plots, flow charts, or dashboards. Managers, engineers, and shop-floor workers use visualizations to understand and act on production data for monitoring, problem solving, decision...

This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric and systematic literature review analysis of the literature on the Big Mac Index (BMI) to identify its foundational aspects and summarize key findings. The BMI, an informal measure of purchasing power parity, has garnered scholarly interest in...

This study systematically reviews the literature that quantifies the economic benefits of weather observations and forecasts in four weather-dependent economic sectors: agriculture, energy, transport, and disaster-risk management. The review covers 175 peer-reviewed journal articles and 15...

Despite the recognized importance of agricultural extension approaches and farmers' innovation in addressing challenges within the agrifood sector, the existing literature on how these extension approaches influence farmers' innovativeness remains fragmented. This fragmentation provides limited...