Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi

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• PhD of Business Administration
• Reseacrh Professor at Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa

This study examined the congruence effect of CEO’s overconfidence and firm dynamic capability on firm performance. Grounded in the “person-environment fit” perspective, we predict that an overconfident CEO is more likely to enhance his/her firm’s performance when the firm has developed better dynamic capability. This “person-environment fit” effect...

We examine how two dimensions of CEOs’ political ideologies – social and economic – each influences top management team (TMT) decision-making processes and in turn corporate entrepreneurship. We theorize that CEOs’ social liberalism influences the amount and types of information used during TMT decision-making processes, while CEOs’ fiscal liberali...

There is a consensus among scholars that real options reasoning is crucial for improving project performance but there has been little empirical support thus far; hence, we explore how real options reasoning may influence project timeliness, efficiency, and effectiveness. Our longitudinal analysis of 110 electronic commerce projects, drawn from new...

Purpose In order to learn more about the antecedents of strategy at the top management team’s (TMT) level, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of TMT cultural intelligence on corporate entrepreneurship strategy. Then, the authors examine how TMT’s ambiguity tolerance mediates this relationship. Design/methodology/approach The...

Purpose This study explores social entrepreneurship as a viable career path for employees facing hostile workplace conditions in Peru. It examines the gender-specific effects of workplace challenges such as hostility, discrimination and sexual harassment on individuals’ aspirations for career transitions and entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/ap...

The objective of this research is to shift the narrative toward the impact of international sanctions against Iran and the ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic on the financial growth of the sports industry. Employing Importance‐Performance Analysis (IPA), we delve into the diverse factors influencing the financial dynamics of the sports sector in Iran. After...

Blockchain technology has a great potential to transform how businesses approach sustainability by offering transparency, efficiency , and accountability across various processes. By adopting blockchain, businesses can not only meet growing consumer and regulatory demands for sustainability but also create competitive advantages by promoting resour...

Innovation enables businesses to stay ahead of their competitors byoffering unique and superior products, services, or processes. It allowscompanies to differentiate themselves and attract customers, ultimately leadingto a competitive advantage in the market. This research investigates the impactof management innovation and a supportive innovative...

Nowadays, entrepreneurship is considered as an effective strategy and a milestone in multi-lateral development ofcountries. Preparing backgrounds for developing entrepreneurship requires presenting entrepreneurial teachingsand skills on one hand and necessitates understanding and removing its obstacles and challenges as well asestablishing appropri...

The present research paper studies “the relationship of types of culture and the execution of organizational excellencies based on the EFQM model in government organizations” in which its results are analyzed and interpreted generally. The required data for this research have been collected from 311questionnaires containing questions of personal de...

Nascent entrepreneurs, individuals in the initial stages of establishing new business ventures, play a crucial role in both the economy and society. By focusing on personality and workplace dynamics this study analyzes the antecedents of individual's intention to embark on entrepreneurship by using survey data from 1497 employees across nine Latin...

The pervasive impact of COVID-19 and economic sanctions has significantly influenced the well-being of Iranian athletes, leaving lasting imprints on both their physical and mental health. During this challenging time, this comprehensive study delves into the nuanced disparities among various cohorts of Iranian athletes across multiple dimensions, i...

Renewable energy and green technologies can enhance global sustainability by improving green business practices, fostering economic growth, and ensuring ecological safety. This chapter introduces cost-effective and eco-friendly simulation techniques for green supply chain design to enhance long-term sustainability in the post-COVID-19 era. The prop...

Logistics companies played a vital role in the supply and distribution of products in a timely and effective manner during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research sought to know how financial authorities in these companies managed the financial process and how they approached resolving issues due to the economic and financial problems experienced durin...

The adoption of environmentally and socially responsible practices, particularly in the form of low-emission supply chain management (LESCM), has become increasingly vital for businesses globally. Renewable energy-oriented LESCM practices are effective tools for proactive and leading manufacturing organizations, making them socially and environment...

This study investigates the interplay of attitude, learning environment, motivation, technological adaptability, and self-confidence with English language proficiency, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) tools within the context of the Business Education 4.0 era among university students in Bangladesh. Methodologically, a quantitative approach...

The political and economic sanctions, coupled with the COVID‐19 pandemic, have made work and life difficult for Iranians. In this adverse external work environment, this study aims to understand how internal adverse working conditions such as workplace bullying and a hostile work climate may affect workers' emotional exhaustion and socially respons...

Innovation enables businesses to stay ahead of their competitors by offering unique and superior products, services, or processes. It allows companies to differentiate themselves and attract customers, ultimately leading to a competitive advantage in the market. This research investigates the impact of management innovation and a supportive innovat...

Socio-emotional wealth has been considered the most important differentiator of the family firm as a unique entity. In this study, we examine the relationships between CEO personality (emotional stability, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience, extraversion), socio-emotional wealth, and family firms' competitiveness improvement u...

This study explores the complex relationships among environmental knowledge, green consumption values, green packaging, and the green purchase intentions of Generation Z consumers. Using a positivist research approach and structural equation modeling (SEM) with Smart PLS 4.0 and SPSS V.25, the study analyzed 496 valid responses obtained through sno...

This research aimed to identify critical success factors and challenges faced by non-technical female entrepreneurs during the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, it aimed to explore the strategic financial, marketing, and safety responses taken by these entrepreneurs to sustain their businesses. Data was collected through interviews and surveys from...

Emotion regulation is important for psychological health and can be achieved by implementing various strategies. How one regulates emotions is critical for maximizing psychological health. Few studies, however, tested the psychological correlates of different emotion regulation strategies across multiple cultures. In a preregistered cross-cultural...

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has grown exponentially. Technologies using artificial intelligence can sort through and decipher vast volumes of data from several sources to carry out a range of activities. The expansion of social production is facilitated by the development of artificial intelligence, but it also poses significant c...

Having sustainable businesses becomes priority for many Latin American countries these years. Socially responsible behaviors (SRBs) of employees in the workplace plays important roles in making businesses more sustainability oriented. The main aims of this research to identify those employees which involve less in two types of SRBs: societal behavi...

The key purpose of the present study is to investigate halal street food attributes which enhance tourist's intention to revisit those destinations and to discover whether these relationships are mediated by the tourist overall perception and overall satisfaction towards local street food in Bangladesh. The study employs a quantitative method, with...

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated and, somehow, forced the process of digital transformation within the higher education sector. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, online modes of course delivery have become the only available way of teaching in almost all parts of the world. We conducted a study in Mexico to know about students’ preferences for these f...

Having sustainable businesses becomes priority for many Latin American countries these years. Socially responsible behaviors (SRBs) of employees in the workplace plays important roles in making businesses more sustainability oriented. The main aims of this research to identify those employees, which involve less in two types of SRBs: societal behav...

The digital era is characterized by technological advancements that enhance the speed and breadth of information and knowledge turnover in businesses, markets, the economy, and society. The success of businesses in the digital era depends heavily on their access to sufficient knowledge and information about changes in the market and business enviro...

One of the types of entrepreneurships that has recently been considered by researchers is social entrepreneurship, which is aimed at solving social problems in society and carrying out social and humanitarian missions in business activities. Sport is among the most important areas of entrepreneurship. In this study, we are looking to identify the m...

The frequent interaction between customers and firms generates tie strength among them, which may be impaired due to service failures, as organizations are not exempt from such scenarios. With using survey-based data from 348 Ecuadorian costumers with service failure experience, this research aims to demonstrate the moderating effect of tie strengt...

Dear Friends and Colleagues, I would like to invite you to submit your manuscript to the Special Issue “Forced Digitization due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Shaping Working Conditions in the Post-Pandemic World” of the journal International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Impact Factor: 4.614, Scopus Q1). I sincerely hope this in...

The aim of this study is to examine the factors influencing ethical business decision-making on environmental issues, among employees of SMEs. To do so, a survey study was performed with 394 top managers of SMEs in the UAE using a questionnaire, and the data was statistically evaluated using SmartPLS 3.0. The results suggest that prior technology u...

This study investigates the variables affecting the adoption of blockchain technology (BT) among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with the application of artificial intelligence (AI) via the mediating lens of risk-taking behavior. As an initial sample, 150 owners/top managers from 150 SMEs (one informant from each) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, we...

A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00502-5

Precarious workers usually have some of the most unstable working conditions in any country. In this research, we firstly investigated the influence of organizational fairness on the emotional exhaustion and leave intentions of Peruvian precarious workers. Then, we tested the mediating role of anomie at work in the relationship between organization...

Background: Healthcare workers are under such a tremendous amount of pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic that many have become concerned about their jobs and even intend to leave them. It is paramount for healthcare workers to feel satisfied with their jobs and lives during a pandemic. Objective: This study aims to examine the predictors of job s...

Nowadays, technological innovation capabilities support competitive advantage, and the survival and development of modern organizations accordingly depend on the knowledge and applications of such innovations. Nevertheless, the link between various aspects of the dynamic technological capability of many organizations is not still clear. Meanwhile,...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the factors that influence the sustainable online purchase intentions of consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study also examines the role of relational benefit and site commitment in the study model. Design/methodology/approach Data were obtained from a survey of 356 Bangladeshi consumers who were vo...

The key purpose of the present study is to investigate halal street food attributes which enhance tourist’s intention to revisit those destinations and to discover whether these relationships are mediated by the tourist overall perception and overall satisfaction towards local street food in Bangladesh. The study employs a quantitative method, with...

Socially responsible behaviors (SRBs) in the workplace and in life more generally can positively contribute to the well-being of society and the environment at large. SRBs can benefit many people, especially in extreme contexts. In this article, we report on an investigation of the relationship between employees’ proactive personality and their eng...

COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on people worldwide. We conducted an international survey (n = 3646) examining the degree to which people's appraisals and coping activities around the pandemic predicted their health and well-being. We obtained subsamples from 12 countries—Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, India, Israel, the Netherlands,...

COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on people worldwide. We conducted an international survey (n = 3646) examining the degree to which people's appraisals and coping activities around the pandemic predicted their health and well-being. We obtained subsamples from 12 countries—Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, India, Israel, the Netherlands,...

The evidence on the predictors of mental health in the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed contradictory findings, which prevent effective screening for mental health assistance. This study aims to identify the predictors of mental health issues, specifically examining age as a nonlinear predictor. Based on a survey of 474 adults using snowball sampling...

Purpose Healthcare staff operate at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19 and hence face enormous physical and mental pressures. We aim to investigate healthcare staff’s mental health issues and the associated predictors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, this paper aims to identify some unique predictors of healthcare staff’s mental...

There is little research examining how individuals’ daily experience during a pandemic affects their daily mental health status and work performance. To address this knowledge gap, we invoke conservation of resources (COR) theory to propose a resource‐based framework explaining how individuals’ daily COVID‐19 intrusive experience affects their dail...

We integrate political psychology and upper echelons research to introduce an alternative conceptualization of executive political ideology by separating the two distinct ideologies: social and economic ideologies. We theorize and test how the two ideologies exert distinct effects on a critical strategic outcome—corporate entrepreneurship. We exami...

Background: Healthcare workers are under such a tremendous amount of pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic that many have become concerned about their jobs and even intend to leave them. It is paramount for healthcare workers to feel satisfied with their jobs and lives during a pandemic. Objective: This study aims to examine the predictors of job...

Objective: We aim to provide early evidence of mental distress and its associated predictors among adults one month into the COVID-19 crisis in Brazil. Methods: We conducted an online survey of 638 adults in Brazil on March 25–28, 2020, about one month (32 days) cross-sectionally after the first COVID-19 case in South America was confirmed in São P...

The environmentally responsible behavior of employees at the workplace can benefit business organizations in particular and society in general. According to previous studies, positive psychological capital has been used frequently for predicting employees’ work attitudes and behaviors. In this article, we are seeking to understand whether people wi...

Abstract: In the context of Turkey, this study looks to understand how reengineering and information management practices can affect a firms innovation capability and sustainable competitive advantage. Sustainable competitive advantage can be gained in situations that cant be applied simultaneously by competitors and cannot be copied by them, and a...

Nascent entrepreneurs are those peoples who are in the early stage of starting a new business. In this study, the researchers attempted to determine what factors trigger a nascent entrepreneur to adopt digital banking technologies (applications and services)? To answer this question, this research tested the direct relationship between perceived se...

Abstract: In the context of Turkey, this study looks to understand how reengineering and information management practices can affect a firm's innovation capability and sustainable competitive advantage. Sustainable competitive advantage can be gained in situations that can't be applied simultaneously by competitors and cannot be copied by them, and...

In today's highly competitive business environment, having and maintaining a competitive advantage is critical to the success and survival of small sized businesses. What types of small-sized enterprises have more capabilities to build competitive advantages? The main purpose of this research is to analyse how the internal capabilities of firms, e....

Background: This study aims to identify individuals' likelihood of being COVID negative or positive, enabling more targeted infectious disease prevention and control when there is a shortage of COVID-19 testing kits. Methods: We conducted a primary survey of 521 adults on April 1-10, 2020 in Iran, where 3% reported being COVID-19 positive and 15...

Normally every individual wants to lead a free life movement but sometimes could not possible due to external environmental effects. During and after the home quarantine, people are still scared by consistent death and infected news of the 2019-nCoV pandemic. Which is why most of the persons have been feeling insecure and nervous that significantly...

Purpose This study focuses on the adoption of wearable technologies in a context where care-providing organizations can offer, in collaboration with caregivers, better care. Drawing on dual-factor theory and from the caregiver perspective, this study identifies and examines factors of technology adoption in four developing countries. Design/method...

Managerial support for innovation plays an important role in improving the competitive positions of public and private companies. To determine the outcomes of managerial support for innovation, we conducted a survey among 333 senior staff working in 20 logistics companies in Turkey. The findings of the study show that managerial support for innovat...

Background: Healthcare staff are the forefront of fight against COVID-19 and they are under enormous pressure due to the fast growth in the number and severity of infected cases. This creates their mental issues such as distress, depression and anxiety. Exploring healthcare staff's mental health during the pandemic contributes to improving their pe...

We conducted a cross-sectional survey to assess the anxiety, distress, and turnover intention (likelihood to leave their current job) of healthcare workers in Peru during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results reported that 21.7% healthcare workers in Peru experienced severe anxiety, whereas 26.1% of them experienced severe mental distress. A higher le...

The laborer's physical and mental health, well‐being, and happiness are among the major indicators for measuring each nation's sustainable development. A conflictive and hostile external environment (war zone) poses considerable difficulty and psychological distress to workers and nonworkers. Therefore, working in such a physically dangerous busine...

Background: During the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, social media platforms have become active sites for the dissemination of conspiracy theories that provide alternative explanations of the cause of the pandemic, such as secret plots by powerful and malicious groups. However, the association of individuals' beliefs in conspiracy theorie...

The major concern of employees during times of war and conflict is apparently physical survival. But how are top managers of small‐sized companies enhancing the generation of novel and useful ideas by their employees in such physically dangerous business environments? In Afghanistan, as a war‐torn country, this research examined for the first time...

Which individual‐level factors motivate women to become a social entrepreneur? To answer this question, we examined the direct impact of problem‐solving skills, networking ability, and entrepreneurial knowledge with social entrepreneurial intention. Furthermore, we tested the indirect effects of these three factors through self‐efficacy. The study...

BACKGROUND Healthcare workers are under such a tremendous amount of pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic that many have become concerned about their jobs and even intend to leave them. It is paramount for healthcare workers to feel satisfied with their jobs and lives during a pandemic. OBJECTIVE This study aims to examine the predictors of job sa...

The emerging body of research on the predictors of mental health in the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed contradictory findings, which prevent effective psychiatry screening for mental health assistance. This study aims to identify the predictors of nonsomatic pain, depression, anxiety, and distress, especially focusing on age as a nonlinear predicto...

In the beginning of 2020, uncertainty has covered up the global economy due to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. This emerging issue is also tailing other indirect social problems like the food crisis, plummeting share prices, export and import delays. The uncertainty, because of the SARS-CoV-2 has begun from Wuhan, China in the last qua...

We examined the relationships between the perceived environmental uncertainty and firm strategies (innovation vs. imitation) with a sample of 143 Iranian entrepreneurs. By using longitudinal data, we hypothesized that perceived environmental state uncertainty increases the possibility of pursuing innovative strategies and that the perceived effect...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers are facing high workloads with resource constraints and risk of virus exposure, and healthcare organizations need to support their healthcare workers to reduce their anxiety. Based on a recent 8-point framework of COVID-19 specific organization support, we devised a measure of COVID-19 Organizational...

Objective: We aim to provide the first evidence of belief in conspiracy theory regarding the COVID-19 virus as a predictor of the mental health and well-being of healthcare workers. Methods: We conducted a survey of 252 healthcare workers in Ecuador from April 10 to May 2, 2020. Results: In Ecuador, 32.54% of the sampled healthcare workers experien...

BACKGROUND Social media are becoming hotbeds of conspiracy theories, which aim to give resolute explanations on the causes of COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, no research has investigated whether individuals’ belief in conspiracy theory about COVID-19 is associated with mental health and well-being issues. This association enables an assessable channel to i...

Background: Social media are becoming hotbeds of conspiracy theories, which aim to give resolute explanations on the cause of COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, no research has investigated whether individuals' belief in conspiracy theory about COVID-19 is associated with mental health and well-being issues. This association enables an assessable channel to...

Background Healthcare workers are under such a tremendous amount of pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic that many have become concerned about their jobs and even intend to leave them. It is paramount for healthcare workers to feel satisfied with their jobs and lives during a pandemic. Methods Between 10 to 30 April, 2020, 240 healthcare workers...

The published Covid-19 Peritraumatic Distress Index (CPDI) in English, Persian, Spanish and Portuguese doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2020.05.010

BACKGROUND The current COVID-19 pandemic and the severe shortage of testing kits in many countries pose a first and foremost problem in medical informatics—the information on the risk predictors of people who are at greater risk of contracting COVID-19 to enable more targeted infectious disease prevention, communication, testing, and control. OBJE...

This study provides the first attempt to identify people at greater risk of COVID-19 infection, enabling more targeted infectious disease prevention and control, which are especially important in the ongoing shortage of COVID-19 testing. We conducted a primary survey of 521 adults on April 1-10, 2020 in Iran, where the official infection rate was 0...

This study reports the physical health, mental health, anxiety, depression, distress, and job satisfaction of healthcare staff in Iran when the country faced its highest number of total active COVID-19 cases. In a sample of 304 healthcare staff (doctors, nurses, radiologists, technicians, etc.), we found a sizable portion reached the cutoff levels...

This study reports the physical health, mental health, anxiety, depression, distress, and job satisfaction of healthcare staff in Iran when the country faced its highest number of total active COVID-19 cases. In a sample of 304 healthcare staff (doctors, nurses, radiologists, technicians, etc.), we found a sizable portion reached the cutoff levels...

Objective: We aim to provide the first evidence of mental distress and its associated predictors among adults in the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in Brazil. Methods: We conducted a primary survey of 638 adults in Brazil on March 25-28, 2020, about one month (32 days) after the first COVID-19 case in South America was confirmed in Sao Paulo. Results: In...