Hussam Al Halbusi

Ethical leaders can influence followers' ethical behaviors by establishing an ethical climate. However, followers' responses to an ethical climate may also differ according to the amount of attention they devote to moral questions. This study analyzes whether moral attentiveness augments the positive effect of an ethical climate on employees' ethic...

This book, Country of Origin Effects and Consumer Ethnocentrism: Insights from the African Marketplace, provides an extensive and multidisciplinary exploration of the relationship between country-of-origin effects (COO) and consumer ethnocentrism across the diverse economic, social, and cultural landscapes of Africa. With contributions from over 60...

This study addresses the environmental impact of industries by focusing on increased resource consumption and waste generation that lead to ecosystem degradation. It advocates sustainable practices and a circular economy (CE) as strategies to mitigate these effects. Thus, the study examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities directly aff...

A review of the literature indicated that the country of origin of a product or service is a factor that cannot be ignored in consumers’ purchasing behavior intentions . Hundreds of academic studies have been written in this field about countries from different continents of the world, but this book is the first to focus on Asian consumers percepti...

The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is a widely used self-report measure of subjective well-being, but studies of its measurement invariance across a large number of nations remain limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset – with data collected between 2020 and 2022 – to assess measurement invariance of the SWLS across...

A sense of purpose is generated when individuals perceive an authentic connection between their work and a broader transcendent life purpose beyond the self. Academics have shown significant positive effects of this driving force in life for employees and organizations, and thus the literature demands studies that analyze its antecedents, i.e., the...

Detachment from nature is contributing to the environmental crisis and reversing this trend requires detailed monitoring and targeted interventions to reconnect people to nature. Most tools measuring nature exposure and attachment were developed in high-income countries and little is known about their robustness across national and linguistic group...

This review explores the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)—a technology capable of autonomously creating new content, ideas, or solutions by learning from extensive data—on psychology. GenAI is changing research methodologies, diagnostics, and treatments by enhancing diagnostic accuracy, personalizing therapeutic interventions, a...

Livestreaming commerce research has grown amazingly and gained tremendous attention; however, a comprehensive model that explains and reveals customers’ trustworthiness in livestreaming commerce is still absent and rarely studied. The present study seeks to capture the critical determinants that affect customers’ trustworthiness in livestreaming co...

E-entrepreneurship is crucial for economic development, driving innovation and new business creation. Understanding the motivations of young individuals in this domain is vital for regional and global expansion. Thus, this chapter aims to investigate the mediating effect of self-perceived creativity on the relationship between opportunity evaluatio...

Purpose Green innovation, digitization and sustainability have attracted considerable attention in recent years due to their transformative potential in organizations. This study, grounded in the resource-based view, explores the intricate relationship among green entrepreneurial orientations, sustainability-oriented innovation, and the circular ec...

Organizational justice is influenced by interpersonal relationships in the workplace. This study investigates the moderating role of ethical leadership on the relationship between justice dimensions (distributive justice, procedural justice, interpersonal justice, and informational justice) and employees’ ethical behavior. We identified a sample of...

This study focused on the relationships between organizational justice dimensions (distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational) and employee ethical behavior through the mediator of ethical climate. We found that in a sample of 271 Iraqi employees, all four justice dimensions had a positive effect on employee ethical behavior. This i...

This study examines the capabilities of Generative artificial intelligence (AI), particularly GPT-4, in transforming research scale development, a process traditionally characterized by extensive time requirements and the potential for human bias. The research aims to clarify whether AI can match and enhance the efficiency and objectivity of resear...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the factors influencing the adoption of online pharmacies in Qatar using the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology-2 (UTAUT-2) framework. Specifically, this study examines the impact of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, hedonic motivation, habit, technology trust, percei...

This study aims to empirically investigate the effect of blockchain technology (BCT) adoption on supply chain resilience (SCR), with the mediating role of supply chain integration (SCI) and the crucial effect of environmental dynamism (ED) as a moderator. Based on data collected from firms operating in the automotive industry in India, the proposed...

The prevailing narrative of AI rendering research obsolete overlooks its immense potential as a collaborative tool with the capacity to revolutionize scientific exploration. This paper critically examines the relationship between AI and human intelligence, advocating for a synergistic approach that harnesses the unique strengths of both. By weaving...

Detachment from nature is contributing to the environmental crisis and reversing this trend requires detailed monitoring and targeted interventions to reconnect people to nature. Most tools measuring nature exposure and attachment were developed in high-income countries and little is known about their robustness across national and linguistic group...

This study ventures into the crossroads of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and economic development, employing advanced AI models for economic forecasting in Iraq, a quintessential rentier state. Harnessing OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 and Google’s Gemini, it explores potential economic trajectories through rentier state theory and diversification strategies. T...

This research examines the intricacies of street-level bureaucracy, focusing on how bureaucrats' discretionary powers affect their enforcement strategies during face-to-face interactions with clients. The study constructs an in-depth theoretical framework that blends elements from street-level bureaucracy theory and implementation studies. Structur...

This manuscript critically examines the adoption of generative AI tools, notably ChatGPT and Bard, within public administration research, especially in street-level bureaucracy. While these tools offer revolutionary insights into bureaucratic behaviors and decision-making, they pose significant ethical dilemmas, including potential biases and data...

In the looming shadow of artificial intelligence, this research unveils a chilling truth: university students, ensnared by the allure of chatbots, are sinking into a digital abyss. Lured by instant feedback and the siren call of virtual connections, who can resist these cunning digital entities? But as students' intrinsic needs and risk perceptions...

Amidst the buzz of technological advancement in education, our study unveils a more disconcerting narrative surrounding student chatbot interactions. Our investigation has found that students, primarily driven by intrinsic motivations like competence and relatedness, increasingly lean on chatbots. This dependence is not just a preference but border...

Purpose Building on the theories of social learning and social information processing, this paper aims to examine the effect of green servant leadership (GSL) on green voice behavior among staff working in Qatari higher education. In this relationship, the climate for green initiative (CFGI) was used to act as a mediating mechanism. Design/methodo...

Dynamic capabilities embody various capabilities that drive the organization’s adaptiveness and are studied from disciplines including management, organizational sciences, and information systems. However, the impact of dynamic capabilities manifested through management system adaptability, adaptive capability, and improvisa-tional capabilities on...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is relentlessly infiltrating our lives. Academia is now debating the application of AI models, like ChatGPT and Bard, to the peer review process in scholarly journals. This article explores the potential enhancements AI offers to the review process and the significant challenges and ethical dilemmas accompanying this no...

Purpose Many entrepreneurs often struggle with the fear of failure, which can be detrimental to both their business and personal well-being. To better understand the factors that contribute to this fear, the authors conducted research on the impact of various obstacles, such as limited financial resources, risk aversion, stress and hard work avoida...

This study intended to examine the relationships between empowerment leadership, psychological empowerment, and affective commitment on work engagement. Importantly, this study aimed to examine the moderating role of self-efficacy on the relationship between psychological empowerment and affective commitment on work engagement. The data were collec...

This article investigates the influence of a novel construct, Empathic Resonance and its three dimensions—helping behavior, empathic concern, and perspective-taking—on street-level bureaucrats’ discretion. Mental health factors’ effect on bureaucrats’ behavior during implementation and enforcement through the moderating role of Artificial Intellige...

This study explores the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and economic development in Iraq, a notable rentier state. Utilizing AI models like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's AI Bard, the research forecasts various economic paths for Iraq, focusing on the impacts of global oil market trends, the socio-economic effects of public dissatisfact...

Venturing into the crossroads of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and economic development, this study employs AI models for economic forecasting within the context of Iraq, a quintessential rentier state. Drawing on the theoretical underpinnings of rentier state theory and diversification strategies, it harnesses OpenAI's advanced language models, Cha...

The Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) is a widely used measure of a core facet of the positive body image construct. However, extant research concerning measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across a large number of nations remains limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset – with data collected between 2020 and 2022 – to asse...

Technology and its continuous advancement facilitate human beings to get rid of their criticality and limitation. Applied artificial intelligence (AAI) is one of the latest forms that delimited the limitation of human beings. Smartwatch acts as an applied artificial intelligence to assist various patients to check medical care without going to hosp...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has revolutionized how we interact with information and entertainment, with ChatGPT, a language model developed by OpenAI, being among its prominent applications. However, knowledge regarding the psychological impact of interacting with ChatGPT is limited. This study investigated the relationships between tru...

In the ever-evolving landscape of academia, artificial intelligence (AI) presents promising opportunities for enhancing the academic review process. In this study, we evaluated the proficiency of Bard and GPT-4, two of the most advanced AI models, in conducting academic reviews. Bard and GPT-4 were compared to human reviewers, highlighting their ca...

In the ever-evolving landscape of academia, artificial intelligence (AI) presents promising opportunities for enhancing the academic review process. In this study, we evaluated the proficiency of Bard and GPT-4, two of the most advanced AI models, in conducting academic reviews. Bard and GPT-4 were compared to human reviewers, highlighting their ca...

The dominant media ideology argues that the successful application of social media engagement in commercial marketing has the potential to influence customers buying decisions by X percentage. This can equally play a pivotal role in voters` voting decisions. Political marketing research scholars have proposed the need to study the role of social me...

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence and natural language processing, particularly in developing powerful Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, have piqued the interest of social psychology researchers. The potential of ChatGPT to revolutionize the field by analyzing vast amounts of textual data, modeling social interactions, and providing...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has revolutionized how we interact with information and entertainment, with Chat- GPT, a language model developed by OpenAI, being among its prominent applications. However, knowledge regarding the psychological impact of interacting with ChatGPT is limited. This study investigated the relationships between t...

E-entrepreneurial intention is a new perspective of entrepreneurship that leverages the creative use of internet technologies as a foundation for new business ventures. Using the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) as a framework, this research examines the impact of each of its dimensions (attitude towards entrepreneurship, subjective norms, and...

Environmental pollution has been a major concern for researchers and policymakers. A number of studies have been conducted to enquire the causes of environmental pollution which suggested numerous policies and techniques as remedial measures. One such major source of environmental pollution, as reported by previous studies, has been the garbage res...

While the issue of business intelligence is rapidly gaining popularity across a wide range of domains, the majority of research treats it as a single capability or technique, such as big data analytics capability. However, as a tool for Big Data Decision-making or technique for enhancing operational research technique, there is still a low amount o...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has revolutionized how we interact with information and entertainment, with ChatGPT, a language model developed by OpenAI, one of its prominent applications. However, there is limited knowledge of the psychological impact of interacting with ChatGPT. This study investigates the relationships between trust in...

The COVID-19 pandemic developed new challenges for global consumers. In response to this disaster, digital technology users have faced the necessity to adopt and use specific technology apps for online shopping. This article examines how contingencies disrupt existing theoretical models and their implications for the post-COVID-19 era for online pu...

Background Social media has been a common platform to disseminate health information by government officials during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, little is known about the determinants of public engagement in officials’ posts on social media, especially during lockdown. Objectives This study aims to investigate how the public engages in official...

Purpose The goal of this study is to examine the factors (e.g. enjoyment, skills, challenge, telepresence and flow) that influence players’ purchase intention toward Dota 2 virtual in-game as well as examine the effect of flow toward purchase intention of Dota 2 through the critical mechanism (i.e. continuous intention). Notably, the analysis of th...

Ethical scandals, as well as unethical behaviour, are becoming major concerns in recent times. Thus, this study focused on the role of ethical climate and employees’ moral identity. Specifically, this study examined the mediation effect of ethical climate on the relationship between ethical leadership and employees’ ethical behaviour. Also, the stu...

Green innovation, digitization, and sustainability have garnered significant attention in recent years due to their potential to transform organizations. This study examines the relationship between green innovation and sustainable performance and the role of green digital learning orientation and big data analytics in that relationship. Grounded i...

As we live in the age of the technology revolution as well as COVID-19, the trends toward mobile adoption in commerce increased. Many practitioners and academics consider mobile adoption in commerce as a key vital concept for improving the commerce sector. However, there are many doubts about the adoption of mobile commerce by customers because of...

Entrepreneurship has attracted much attention to both research and practice in the last two decades. Particularly, with the advent of new information and communication technologies, research into electronic entrepreneurship (e-entrepreneurship) is experiencing much interest. For instance, social media platforms have introduced new market dynamics a...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused overwhelming levels of medical waste, resulting in constant threats to environmental pollution. Furthermore, many environmental issues related to medical waste have emerged. This study aims to propose an application that allows the identification and classification of hospitals that generate overwhelming levels of m...

Innovation resistance research remains in its early stages. Efforts to define and comprehend consumer resistance to innovation necessitate in-depth studies that consider the contextual factors of resistance to innovation. To address this challenge, this research explored consumer resistance to innovation in a low-income population, namely, universi...

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) can communicate with their consumers and provide them with relevant information on cost-effective goods or services with the help of social media technologies. Thus, this study investigated the factors influencing social media technologies on SMEs' performance. In addition, this study also tests the capabil...

Green core competence theory proposes that green core competence is needed for green innovation performance and, in turn, firm performance. We demonstrate that this theory applies in post‐conflict Iraq where green innovation performance was conditional on commitment to sustainable management and development of green technology and skills. Data from...

Dynamic capabilities embody various capabilities that drive the organization’s adaptiveness and are studied from management and information systems perspectives. However, the impact of specific dynamic and organizational capabilities, i.e., management system adaptability and improvisational capabilities, on business model innovation under tumultuou...

Dynamic capabilities embody various capabilities that drive the organization’s adaptiveness and are studied from management and information systems perspectives. However, the impact of specific dynamic and organizational capabilities, i.e., management system adaptability and improvisational capabilities, on business model innovation under tumultuou...

The COVID-19 pandemic developed new challenges for global consumers. In response to this disaster, digital technology users have faced the necessity to adopt and use specific technology apps for online shopping. This article examines how contingencies disrupt existing theoretical models and their implications for the post-COVID-19 era for online pu...

The COVID-19 pandemic developed new challenges for global consumers. In response to this disaster, digital technology users have faced the necessity to adopt and use specific technology apps for online shopping. This article examines how contingencies disrupt existing theoretical models and their implications for the post-COVID-19 era for online pu...

Corruption devours profits, people, and the planet. Ethical leaders promote ethical behaviors. We develop a first-stage moderated mediation theoretical model, explore the intricate relationships between ethical leadership (member rated, Time 1) and employee ethical behaviors (leader rated, Time 3), and treat ethical climate and organizational justi...

Sustainable economic growth is a top priority for Oman, aiming to lessen reliance on oil and increase economic diversification. The government sees entrepreneurship and innovation as vital players in creating jobs, diversifying the economy, and transforming the economy from a traditional to a knowledge-based economy. Under the Visions 2020-2040, th...

This paper will explore the intentional and unintentional impacts of street-level bureaucrats’ discretion. Precisely, it provides an understanding of how street-level bureaucrats’ discretion shapes their enforcement style during personal encounters with the public and how that enforcement style defines bureaucrats’ perception of their clients. The...

This study examines street-level bureaucrats’ discretion as it informs their enforcement style during personal encounters with clients and considers how that style defines bureaucrats’ perceptions of their clients. A conceptual model is developed based on street-level bureaucracy theory and existing implementation literature and is tested using fie...