This study seeks to identify the factors influencing the implementation of Project Management Methodologies (PMM) in Local Government (LG) and identify the concepts, themes and characteristics that make up each of those factors. Semi-structured interviews were employed as the primary technique,...

This study reviews the topics and methods commonly employed in qualitative accounting research published in Scopus-indexed journals. We conducted a systematic literature review with bibliometric analysis, examining 149 articles from these journals. The study includes both articles and review...

Anomaly detection is an important research area in a diverse range of real-world applications. Although many algorithms have been proposed to address anomaly detection for numerical datasets, categorical and mixed datasets remain a significant challenge, primarily because a natural distance...

We revisit the puzzle of limited stock market participation using qualitative methods common in other social sciences but rare in economics. Through in-depth interviews with investors and non-investors in Germany—a high-income country with low market participation—we elicit open-ended...

Emotional well-being is a fundamental factor that directly influences individual productivity from an economic perspective. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a significant factor that has affected emotional well-being. It has had serious repercussions on economies and societies, as well...

Background: Digital transformation has emerged as an important theme in contemporary organisational studies, particularly within public sector institutions striving to enhance operational efficiency, improve service delivery, and foster innovation. This study aimed to explore the experiences of...

In the last few decades, the study of ordinal data in which the variable of interest is not exactly observed but only known to be in a specific ordinal category has become important. In Psychometrics such variables are analysed under the heading of item response models (IRM). In Econometrics,...

Background: A bibliometric analysis was conducted to investigate the prevalence of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in academic studies, revealing it to be one of the most widely used methods in multi-criteria decision-making. The AHP structures complex decisions in a hierarchy, facilitating...

This paper introduces Hybrid Reflexive Narrative Inquiry (HRNI), a novel methodological framework designed to address the complex interplay of organizational research's temporal, contextual, and reflexive dimensions, overcoming limitations inherent in traditional qualitative approaches.Drawing...

This study investigates gift giving, reciprocity expectations, and how 'success' in gift giving may be achieved. It is discussed in the literature that the success of gift-giving may depend on the ongoing relationship between the gift partners, the gift itself, and the gift-giving context,...

The human element in HR is challenging to replace. Although technology integration promises efficiency improvements, it also raises concerns about how it may affect employee engagement, interpersonal connections, and organisational culture. This study aims to shed insight into the complex...