Yashar Salamzadeh

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Senior Lecturer in Digital Business at University of Sunderland

Artificial intelligence is a dynamic and emerging form of technological innovation that has numerous ramifications for international business managers. The aim of this article is to obtain commentary from researchers about the role artificial intelligence will play in the global arena. This includes asking questions about how it will affect interna...

Purpose The current research aimed to investigate the external enablement role of Digital Infrastructures (DI) in the interplay of entrepreneurial cognitions and innovation. Design/methodology/approach Data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) were used for analyses. This yielded a sample of 8...

The mismatch of skills among youth graduates contributes towards existing social and economic challenges of poverty and unemployment especially among youths in most developing countries including Malaysia. Consequently, universities are mandated to transform into Entrepreneurial Universities as a third mission, driving state of the art knowledge, s...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the factors influencing consumer behavioral intention ( BI ) to use cryptocurrency as a medium of transaction. Constructs from the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model and an added variable, perceived risk ( PR ), are examined to predict BI . Age and gender as moderator...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate social capital's effect on family business development in selected family media firms. Design/methodology/approach The statistical population includes 100 individuals who run a family business in this industry. Eighty individuals are selected as the research sample through the stratified random s...

This chapter tries to share a clear and easy to understand view of “responsible consumption and production”. The first section of the chapter defines the importance of responsible consumption and responsible production and links it to SDG goals and sustainability. The second section of the chapter shares some main models of responsible consumption...

Purpose This study aims to examine the critical success factors of global virtual teams (GVTs) working in the information technology industry in the UK. It also focuses on the ranking of the success factors and shedding light on the perceived cause-and-effect relationship between the factors. Design/methodology/approach Data was collected from exe...

This research with Turkish working adults was initiated to compare the Personal Business Ethics Scores of respondents based on their culture, age, education, and management experience in Turkey. Ethical norms, expectations, and behaviors play important roles in the satisfaction, engagement, and workplace productivity of adults in all cultures. Turk...

This research aims to examine the influence of IHRMP, recruitment and selection, training, compensation, and performance appraisal on the productivity of Faculty Members (FM) productivity working in private universities in the UAE. The study also examines the mediating role of Organizational Commitment (OC) and the moderating role of the Entreprene...

Past research shows that most of the Fintech industry players are either big corporate banks or technological companies which have started their main business model on FinTech. However, it seems that many other businesses in digital ecosystem avoid entering this field as a new entrant. On the current research we started the study with an in-depth l...

The importance of digital leadership can be traced to the implementation of digital transformation within a business or an organization, alongside the process of digitizing the work environment and learning cultures. As various organisations are finding it difficult to transition due to traditional leadership processes, despite the growing adoption...

The objective of this study is to investigate the influence of e-Competencies on digital transformation, with a specific focus on the mediating role of digital leadership within the context of the Malaysian manufacturing industry. This paper employs a quantitative research approach, utilizing a structured questionnaire method to collect data. The d...

The current research plans to investigate the role of e-leadership qualities in managing innovation with dynamic capability as a mediator with the aim to assess and measure how the rapidly changing demands are fulfilled for business sustainability through innovation management. Data have been obtained from a quantitative survey of 145 respondents u...

The purpose of this study is to look at the Factors Influencing the Intention to Use Educational Management Information Systems (EMIS): Insights from Private Universities in the UAE. Since then, private universities in the UAE have struggled to manage their information systems. The research seeks to examine the factors influencing executive levels...

This article focuses on examining the impact of web skills, perceived usefulness, subjective norms, perceived web security, and perceived ease of use on online purchase intention. It was also designed to verify the moderating effect of trust among them. Required data was gathered from customers of insurance companies in Malaysia via an online quest...

The study analyses Thenextgen Advisory, an insurance intermediary located in Penang, Malaysia, with a specific emphasis on its franchise model and innovative sales strategies. The findings have shown five problematic areas-systems and processes, culture, human capital, leadership styles, and organisational climate-which require strategic decisions...

Over the last four decades, employees’ adherence to Islamic rules, even if they do not follow Islam, became necessary in Iran’s organizational environ-ment. As a result, Iranian employees, especially women, are required to conform to religious norms and regulations at work, despite their non- Islamic identity. In this study, we extend identity theo...

In order to improve their use of digital resources and maximize their potential for return on investment, several sectors are concentrating on developing better digital strategies. Companies must invest in digital reinventions in order to design their business processes for survival in a competitive market. The advancement of an organization’s digi...

Purpose: Due to the major impact of non-work-related presenteeism on employees’ work performance and ultimate productivity, the objective of this study is to investigate the impact of distributive justice and procedural justice on non-work-related presenteeism, with the moderating role of equity sensitivity. Design: Using convenient sampling, a tot...

The main idea of this chapter is to prepare a conceptual base for the link between employability skills and pre-professional identity of IT graduates in IR4.0 era. This framework and approach can shed light to the issue of lack of readiness in IT graduates in Malaysia to perform to the highest possible level on their jobs after graduating from univ...

Social enterprises have become a nascent concept in academia and have grabbed the attention of research scholars. They are deemed as an important predictor of economic growth, poverty alleviation, and solving social and economic issues. In the COVID-19 pandemic, many developed and developing economies accounted for a negative change in unemployment...

The purpose of this study is to examine empirically the effects of human resources practices (mainly rewards, training and development and work-life balance), Generation Y (Gen Y) employee commitment and leadership styles on Gen Y employees’ job performance. The study also investigates human resources practices on Gen Y employee job performance wit...

This study examined the relationship between public risk perception, public awareness, public knowledge and public adaptation towards climate change policies in Malaysia, with attitude towards climate change as the mediator. This study adopted self-administered online questionnaires to collect inputs from Malaysians across all states. A total of 20...

Industry 4.0 is revolutionizing the way companies work and integrate enabling technologies, including the internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, analytics, and AI and machine learning, to the production facilities and entire operations or on delivering their services. Advanced sensors, embedded software, and robotics are used in smart factories...

Industry 4.0 is revolutionizing the way companies work and integrate enabling technologies, including the internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, analytics, and AI and machine learning, to the production facilities and entire operations or on delivering their services. Advanced sensors, embedded software, and robotics are used in smart factories...

Within the scope of the study, the interactions of authentic leadership, information management, organisational identification, and emotional commitment to job performance were mentioned. Data obtained using IBM SPSS 25 and SmartPLS Package Programs were analysed. The positive effects of the factors on job performance, as well as the regression and...

Resilience is an emerging concept used to examine economic performance and responses to exogenous shocks such as the financial crisis and recession. Relying on a review of the literature on emerging academic articles in this field, the article explores how entrepreneurship is key to maintaining a dynamic economy and shows that it stands out in expe...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between ethical leadership and the quality of the manager-subordinate relationship, as well as the moderating effect of female employees’ psychological empowerment on this relationship. Design/methodology/approach This is quantitative research in which an online questionnaire was...

This study tried to shed light on the relationship between strategic orientations and sustainable competitive performance with the mediating effect of strategic flexibility of family-owned SMEs in an emerging economy. This study is significant because family firms need a more flexible and quick organizational structure to respond effectively to ext...

The wave of change for organizations in digital era is becoming a more than common experience. It is embedded in many different components of the organizations, mainly digitally. This transformation is building the digital future of the organizations. It influences organizations in many ways including changes in their culture, their thinking style,...

In this book, you can read about the link between digital transformation and topics like organizational communications, social media, digital applications, innovation, human-machine interaction, design thinking, culture, future of jobs, digital leadership, brand management and organizational structure

Government support plays a vital role to push the firms to gain sustainable competitive performance and economic development of an economy. Nevertheless, from the last decades, lack of government subsidies and incentives, especially in emerging economies, cuts owners networking roots at the international and national levels. Therefore, the current...

Geotourism is a profitable business that relies on different elements. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of geotourism on destination brand selection with social media as the moderating variable. This paper falls into the category of applied studies in terms of purpose and follows the descriptive-correlational methodology. The...

The research is conducted to study the outcome of digital leadership on dynamic capabilities, innovation capabilities, and alliances capabilities in manufacturing industries within the Malaysian context. Today, developing corporations and industries, at the least, require a virtual transformation to have greater organizational abilities in shaping...

This study investigates the impact of justice’s dimensions: distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice on performance appraisal satisfaction, and artificial intelligence utilisation to improve employee performance in Penang multinational companies (MNCs). They are grounded with Organizational Justice Theory as the theoretical f...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the impact of business process reengineering on organizational performance in the Malaysian electronics manufacturing industry during the coronavirus pandemic. It also studied the moderating effect of strategic thinking on the relationship between these two concepts. Design/methodology/approach Data of 103 sa...

The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the most important digital leadership competencies for managers in Malaysia and to develop the profile of digital leadership competencies among managers in Malaysia. This study adopted quantitative research method and cross-sectional study. In order to provide a better understanding of the digital leade...

This study develops and empirically tests a multilevel model of cross-level interactions between leadership style and ethical decision-making at the individual level. The study also examines the moderating role of strategic thinking support in the proposed cross-level relationships. Data were collected from 389 managers of electrical and electronic...

Employees can be authentic at work only if they work within an organization, where they can freely behave in line with their core values. Over the last four decades, adherence to Islamic rules became a necessity in Iran’s organizational environment. As a result, Iranian employees, especially women, continuously fail to enact their non-religious ide...

This research aims to explore the mediating role of innovation and moderating role of organizational climate in the relationship between e-HRM and employee productivity. Testing this relationship in Emirati context is considered as a great importance topic since it was confirmed that organizations are required to implement the innovation in order t...

Background: Since the spread of COVID-19 disease around the world, several practitioners have sought to the ways that hasten control of the pandemic. There is a gap in contemplation of governance system’s effect on compliance with prevention guidelines targeting decrease in the disease’s consequences. This article is aimed to clear this gap. Method...

This chapter addresses the impact of gendered social capital in developing countries to understand the barriers and opportunities to women's entrepreneurship with social capital development and also to examine factors influencing the development of social capital for women and how the identified factors benefit the creation of their entrepreneurial...

The use of social networking sites (SNSs) has become increasingly popular. Although several studies have been carried out on the addictive use of SNSs such as Twitter and Facebook, there is little research on Instagram addiction and its drivers. The present study investigated the association between students' needs and Instagram addiction by incorp...

The main objective of the underline study is to examine the influence of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on financial and non-financial performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with the moderating role of access to finance. Because SMEs—due to fair reasons such as lack of resources and lack of managerial skill—are often unable to s...

In the present era, women are recognized as successful entrepreneurs through their strong desire, qualities, and capabilities for robust economic development. Due to such an important contribution of women in economic development, we propose to investigate the factors which affect women entrepreneur's success in Pakistan. Data were collected throug...

Due to the importance of cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) in today's world on the one hand and the diversity of the research done in this field, a need for comprehensive frameworks about this practical phenomenon is felt. The main purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive view about drivers of cross-sector partnership to help all actors f...

The relevance of the study is due to the need to solve the problem of identifying participants in network relationships for the purpose of subsequent research. This study was carried out within the framework of a network methodology, the development of the provisions of which is carried out on the basis of stakeholder and institutional approaches,...

Climate change, due to its significant global impact, has been the focus of many recent researches. Many businesses adapt their activities to be more compliant with climate change control, and these efforts are disclosed to the stakeholders and society at large. This research is conducted on leading companies in the Asia-Pacific (APEC) region from...

This research objective is to examine the impact of Digital Leadership competencies on Virtual Team Effectiveness in MNC companies in Penang, Malaysia. The survey was conducted among 150 respondents who are working in MNC companies in Penang, with experience in a virtual team. The diversified range of respondents was chosen to predict the impact of...

The purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of the intention to stay for Gen-Y employees of multinational corporations (MNC) in Penang, Malaysia. Specifically, this research aims to assess the impact of ethical leadership as the independent variable on employees' intention to stay as the dependent variable. In addition, the influence o...

Authority (SMEDA). Structured questionnaires were employed and total 345 questionnaires were distributed among the top management and 217 responses were received. After excluding those responses which were missing and not correctly completed, the remaining 181 were used for final analysis. For hypothesis testing, AMOS was used. Hence, our findings...

In the context of optimization of state educational institutions, domestic universities need to make adjustments to graduates' training. The introduction of innovations and the digitalization of all sectors of the economy involve the acceleration of obtaining specialists with the necessary set of competencies that differ from the current level of k...

This chapter aims to share some ideas on how we can use Actor-Network Theory in business and management field. Authors are sharing a new and comprehensive conceptual model for networked organizations as a common organizational structure of close future. Networked organizations are among the most common organizational structures in industrial revolu...

In the present era, women are recognized as successful entrepreneurs through their strong desire, qualities and capabilities for robust economic development. Due to such an important contribution of women in economic development, we propose to investigate the factors, which affect women entrepreneur’s success in Pakistan. Data collected through str...

In the present era, women are recognized as successful entrepreneurs through their strong desire, qualities and capabilities for robust economic development. Due to such an important contribution of women in economic development, we propose to investigate the factors, which affect women entrepreneur’s success in Pakistan. Data collected through str...

Purpose-The purpose of this study is to examine the influences of ethical leadership and talent management on hotel front desk employees' performance. This study also tests the mediating effect of employee commitment in the relationship between ethical leadership, talent management and employee performance. Leader member exchange theory and social...

We know that saving lives of people is the most important issue during COVID-19 crisis, but we should not forget that due to this crisis, the quality of life for many people will change and new social needs will appear and we must be prepared for that. The main purpose of this research is to find out the areas, which are the most affected ones by t...

The realization of the various interests of students in the sports activities of universities requires educational institutions to have a diverse material and technical base: sports facilities of various specifics, qualified personnel, and methodological developments. At the same time, the capabilities of individual higher education institutions ar...

In today’s knowledge-based economy, organizations are progressively accumulating the knowledge, which they required for innovation, from outside their boundaries. Having accepted the important role of knowledge sharing in innovation performance, it is disappointing to note that the potential harmful impacts of accidental and intentional knowledge l...

This study aims to analyze the impact of green supply chain management on customers' green purchase intention in Iranian beverage industry. To this end, this study examines the role of brand equity as a mediator variable. The research paradigm is positivistic, its approach is deductive and its strategy is survey. A questionnaire sample consisting o...

This study aims to analyze the impact of green supply chain management on customers' green purchase intention in Iranian beverage industry. To this end, this study examines the role of brand equity as a mediator variable. The research paradigm is positivistic, its approach is deductive and its strategy is survey. A questionnaire sample consisting o...

Purpose The association between ethical leadership and employees’ ethical behaviors is well-established. But can ethical leadership go beyond this and drive employees’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagement? The purpose of this study is to examine the association between ethical leadership and employees’ perception of their engagement in...

Media entrepreneurship in Web 3.0 is focused on the entrepreneurial activities of individual entrepreneurs and small media firms. Web 3.0 and social media platforms have provided a unique opportunity for start-ups and small businesses, which enables them to propose value to the demanding customers (Labafi and Williams, 2018). The Web 3.0 concept de...

This article analyses the influence of a number of factors on the entrepreneurial activities of the countries around the world. Accordingly, a number of criteria are proposed that allow structuring the data depending on the specific indicators measuring them, which are especially valuable on assessing entrepreneurship. Currently, there are a large...

Green approaches are a ‘must’ in the current business environment given the importance of environmental issues in different aspects of business activities in different businesses such as electrical and electronics manufacturing firms. Green marketing strategies are one of the main green approaches in manufacturing industry influencing environmental...

Abstract: Green approaches are a ‘must’ in the current business environment given the importance of environmental issues in different aspects of business activities in different businesses such as electrical and electronics manufacturing firms. Green marketing strategies are one of the main green approaches in manufacturing industry influencing env...

In our dynamic era, observing the social responsibility has become an essence for each organisation. In addition, some researchers believe that observing social responsibility by the corporations is one of the perquisites of gaining profits, since today customers are very sensitive to ethical issues. The current study aims to examine a conceptual m...

Purpose: This research aims to identify the impact of strategic thinking of managers on organizational success. The essence and importance of this research represents the fact that the current organizations lack to respond the environment variations via the past or ordinary approaches; thus, having strategic thinking among the managers may be consi...

Purpose: The main Purpose of this study is to examine the correlation between Personal Beliefs (including Interactivity, Social Role and Image, Entertainment, Informativeness and Irritation) and attitude toward online advertising and to determine the influence of consumers' attitude towards online advertising on consumers' purchase intention. Addit...

Objective: The concept of strategic management is to keep pace with developments in management theory. Strategic business is combination of the concepts of entrepreneurship and strategic management in recent decades that is considered by many researchers. Since one of the major factors affecting the productivity of industries, is the approach of en...

Due to the rapid pace of changes in the world of business, which is inherently affected by managers’ attitudes as well as their ethical behaviour, we intend to examine the relationship between these two elements. To do so, a hundred managers of the Telecom companies are surveyed. The data is gathered through a standard questionnaire which is confir...

Despite its importance in development of firms, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is rarely studied in the literature of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Therefore, the present study aims at investigating the correlation between CSR and development of SMEs to find a way to develop SMEs in a more responsible manner. This study followed...

High knowledge and technology are rapidly becoming a competitive advantage in today’s world. Individual industries are considered one of the key sectors in the country’s industry. Ranking the factors that affect these industries makes us more familiar with their effectiveness and helps us take actions to improve such factors in knowledge-based comp...

s Employing appropriate and up to date Business models in Organizations is so important due to the fact that it is the strategy which shows the main logic of a corporation in creating values in organizations. It is important to the extent that not employing an appropriate and up to date business model will prevent the organizations fulfilling their...

El objetivo de este estudio fue investigar los efectos del uso de la escuela de aprendizaje en la mejora de los criterios de competencia de los gerentes en Bank Saderat Irán y determinar los efectos de cada criterio de la mencionada escuela. Utilizando la tabla de Morgan, asumiendo el tamaño ilimitado de la población y mediante el cálculo de la fór...

Nowadays, global economic activities are performed by medium and small-sized enterprises (SMEs). All these organizations seek success, knock the socks off rival companies and satisfy their customers' needs in a turbulent environment and a very competitive market. Strategic planning, in case of proper formulation and implementation, is an effective...

Network communications is one of the modern ideas in the field of organizational behavior. On the other hand, the ability to communicate with employees and understand the cultural differences between them in a multicultural environment is one of the key skills that managers and employees need them in the nowadays organizations. These skills are int...

After years of neglect, the concept of entrepreneurial universities is now well-elaborated as a more efficient and effective type of universities. A university, which not only considers its traditional missions, i.e., teaching, and research, but also pursues a third mission, i.e., entrepreneurship. Such institutions should take several issues into...

After years of neglect, the concept of entrepreneurial universities is now well-elaborated as a more efficient and effective type of universities. A university, which not only considers its traditional missions, i.e., teaching, and research, but also pursues a third mission, i.e., entrepreneurship. Such institutions should take several issues into...

In Today's competitive environment, organizations must evaluate the quality of their products or Service. If it is so bad, they enhance their quality of service and they maintain their customers and competitive position. This is more important in service organizations. One of these methods is the use of SERVQUAL model. The aim of this study was to...