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Author-Name: Seyyed Jamaledin Zonouzi
Author-Name: Pegah Aminpour Ghahramani
Title: Do Industrial Robots Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition? Evidence From High Geopolitical Risk Countries
Abstract: Industrial robot adoption can facilitate the renewable energy transition by improving production efficiency, lowering energy intensity, and fostering technological innovation. This study examines the role of industrial robot deployment in shaping renewable energy adoption in countries exposed to heightened geopolitical risks. Using a balanced panel of eight economies, China, Italy, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, India, and Turkey, over the period 2011–2023, the analysis employs a gamma log‑link Generalized Linear Model (GLM) to account for the positive and right‑skewed distribution of renewable energy shares. The empirical results show that industrial robot density, labor participation, and research and development (R&D) expenditure have positive and statistically significant effects on renewable energy adoption. In contrast, geopolitical risk, carbon intensity, and real GDP per capita constrain the expansion of renewable energy, indicating persistent structural and institutional barriers. Overall, the findings suggest that technological upgrading through automation can support the energy transition even under adverse conditions, but only when accompanied by complementary innovation‑driven and risk‑mitigation policies.
Keywords: Geopolitical Risk,Generalized Linear Model (GLM),industrial robots,R&‌‌D,Renewable Energy Transition
Journal: International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Pages: 1081-1108
Volume: 13
Issue: 9
Year: 2026
DOI: 10.22034/ijmae.2026.573554.1946
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Author-Name: Abdul Yoosuf
Author-Name: Ismail Nizam
Author-Name: Noor Hanif
Title: Why Public Service Underperforms: Behavioural Governance, Misconduct, and Administrative Inefficiency in a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) Administration
Abstract: Despite repeated waves of public service reform, administrative inefficiency remains a persistent challenge across many public administrations. Existing explanations commonly emphasize institutional design, implementation failure, or capacity limitations, yet these perspectives only partially account for why reforms frequently underperform in practice. This study investigates how administrative systems shape behavioural incentives that sustain inefficiency despite continuous reform efforts. It advances a behavioural governance perspective, arguing that inefficiency persists where systems fail to regulate behaviour credibly through incentives, accountability, fairness, and enforcement. Misconduct, understood broadly as rule-bending, selective compliance, strategic delay, avoidance of responsibility, and opportunistic administrative behaviour, is conceptualised not merely as an ethical deviation, but as a systemic mechanism through which inefficiency is reproduced. Using a theory-informed documentary case study of the Maldives as an illustrative Small Island Developing State (SIDS), the article analyses civil service legislation, human resource regulations, remuneration frameworks, integrity instruments, decentralisation arrangements, and oversight reports. The findings identify six interrelated drivers of inefficiency: performance systems lacking credible consequences, inconsistent human resource governance, perceived organisational injustice, symbolic integrity management, fragmented authority, and strategic proceduralism. These conditions generate self-reinforcing patterns in which formal compliance substitutes for substantive accountability. The study contributes to public administration scholarship by reframing inefficiency as a behavioural governance outcome and by integrating administrative ethics into explanations of reform underperformance. AI-assisted visualisation tools were used to generate the conceptual framework figure presented in the article. The findings offer practical insights for strengthening efficiency, fairness, and accountability in contemporary public administration systems.
Keywords: Administrative inefficiency,Behavioural governance,Misconduct,Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Journal: International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Pages: 1109-1141
Volume: 13
Issue: 9
Year: 2026
DOI: 10.22034/ijmae.2026.578722.1955
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Author-Name: Endah Karimah
Author-Name: Lilik Handajani
Author-Name: Ayudia Sokarina
Title: The Moderating Role of Environmental Performance in the Relationship between Green Banking and Green Banking Investment
Abstract: This study examines the relationship between Green Banking and Green Banking Investment and the moderating role of Environmental Performance (PROPER) among banks listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) during 2020–2024. This quantitative study uses secondary data obtained from banks’ annual reports and sustainability reports. The sample comprises 39 banks, resulting in 195 firm-year observations. Panel data regression was conducted using the Random Effects Model (REM), with Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA) employed to examine the moderating effect of Environmental Performance (PROPER). The results show that Green Banking is positively and significantly associated with Green Banking Investment, indicating that banks with stronger Green Banking practices tend to allocate a greater proportion of their assets to sustainable investment and financing. However, Environmental Performance (PROPER) does not significantly moderate the relationship between Green Banking and Green Banking Investment. This finding suggests that higher environmental performance (PROPER) does not necessarily strengthen or weaken the relationship between Green Banking practices and green investment allocation. The insignificant moderating effect may be related to the limited variation in Environmental Performance (PROPER) ratings and the different dimensions captured by environmental management performance and sustainable financing allocation. The findings contribute to the Green Banking literature by showing that Green Banking practices are associated with green investment allocation, while Environmental Performance (PROPER) does not necessarily reinforce this relationship. Practically, banks should strengthen the integration of sustainability principles into credit policies, environmental risk management, sustainable financing targets, and investment decisions.
Keywords: Environmental performance (proper),ESG,Green banking,Green Banking Investment,Sustainable Banking
Journal: International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Pages: 1142-1175
Volume: 13
Issue: 9
Year: 2026
DOI: 10.22034/ijmae.2026.583448.1999
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Author-Name: Maede Aghvamipanah
Author-Name: Abbasali Rastgar
Title: Designing a Black Ocean Strategy Model and the Role of Human Resource Management Architecture in Achieving Competitive Advantage
Abstract: This study aims to design a Black Ocean Strategy model and examine the role of human resource management (HRM) architecture in achieving competitive advantage in Golrang Industrial Group. This study is classified as exploratory in nature and applied in its practical scope. The research design utilizes a mixed-methods approach, specifically adopting an exploratory sequential strategy. In the initial qualitative phase, thematic analysis was utilized to examine data gathered from semi-structured interviews with 11 university professors in the field of management, identified via purposive sampling. Through the systematic coding and categorization of these interviews, three primary indicators, nine main themes, and 53 sub-themes were extracted. The core elements of the Black Ocean Strategy were defined as environmental scanning, strategic resilience, and strategic innovation. HRM architecture was operationalized through four dimensions: culture and leadership, talent and competence, agility and resilience, and training and development. Competitive advantage was measured by evaluating value creation and the competitive landscape. During the subsequent quantitative phase, ISM was applied to develop a hierarchical model. This model was then empirically validated using a survey distributed among Golrang’s senior managers base. A sample of 169 respondents was determined using G*Power, and the resulting data were analyzed via Smart PLS software. The outcomes indicated that the three pillars of the Black Ocean Strategy environmental scanning, strategic innovation, and strategic resilience have a statistically positive and significant impact on all HRM dimensions mentioned above. Further analysis demonstrated that "culture and leadership" along with "training and development" significantly bolstered the Intensity of competition. However, the impact of "talent and competence" and "agility and resilience" on the Intensity of competition lacked statistical significance, resulting in the dismissal of these hypotheses. Similarly, while "culture and leadership" and "agility and resilience" did not show a substantial influence on value creation, "talent and competence" and "training and development" were found to have a meaningful positive effect on this variable.
Keywords: Black Ocean Strategy,Competitive advantage,Human Resource Management Architecture,Organizational Culture
Journal: International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Pages: 1176-1210
Volume: 13
Issue: 9
Year: 2026
DOI: 10.22034/ijmae.2026.586221.2028
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Author-Name: George Babune
Author-Name: Ignas Chonya
Title: Assessing Achievements of Secondary Education Management During Devolution Era in the City Council of Dodoma, Tanzania
Abstract: Decentralization by devolution in Tanzania has long lived such that it was expected to contribute to its anticipated practical outcomes. This study investigates the achievements of secondary school management in the era of devolution in the city council of Dodoma. The study employed a cross-sectional design, integrating both quantitative and qualitative research approaches. The sample comprised student leaders from six public secondary schools, City Director, City Secondary Education Officer, heads of schools, teachers, School Board Chairpersons, school academic teachers, and Ward Executive Officers sampled by purposive (administrators) and convenient methods (students and teachers). Data were collected through interviews, questionnaire survey, and documentary analysis. These were analyzed by descriptive statistics using Statistical Package for Social Sciences, and thematic analysis. Findings indicated that good governance has been improving. There was 77% of participants reported fair teachers’ appraisal and 78.8% reported fair promotion systems among participants. There was also strong cooperation indicated as 45% as evidence of good cooperation between parents and school actors. There was provision of school meals (70.8% agreed) and good working environment (71.4%). The study concludes that there has been an improving school management during devolution era in the study area. There is enhanced parents-schools cooperation in secondary schools in this era of devolution. There is close supervision practices of school actors including teachers and students and linkage with external stakeholders. It recommends that the government strategically continue investing in secondary education particularly in teachers’ welfare, teaching and learning resources, and school facilities to strengthen the effectiveness of devolved education management.
Keywords: Community participation,Decentralization by Devolution,Educational Governance,Secondary School Management,Teacher Appraisal,Tanzania
Journal: International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Pages: 1211-1233
Volume: 13
Issue: 9
Year: 2026
DOI: 10.22034/ijmae.2026.575514.1952
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Author-Name: Nina Burra
Author-Name: Joseph Mhando
Author-Name: Aginiwe Nkwama
Author-Name: Yusuph Kalinga
Author-Name: Lydia Yilima
Title: Systematic Review on Resource Mobilisation Strategies and Financial Sustainability of Public Higher Education Institutions
Abstract: This systematic review explores resource mobilization approaches and financial sustainability of public higher education institutions. This review employs the PRISMA framework and evaluates peer-reviewed articles on the matter found in databases, namely SCOPUS and Google Scholar, within the period from 2000 till 2024. There were 341 articles identified but only 4 satisfied all the requirements set for the literature selection. Some initial conclusions drawn from the selected studies show that public higher education institutions tend to be highly dependent on traditional financial resources namely student tuition fees and donors' contributions along with new sources including earnings from research and consultancy, partnership between the public and private sectors and financial investments. In addition, three recurrent obstacles to financial sustainability in higher education institutions including problems associated with institutional governance as well as dependency on government subvention. Thus, inclusion of all aforementioned factors would be a remedy towards financial sustainability across public higher education institutions.
Keywords: Financial Sustainability,higher education resources,Resource mobilisation strategies
Journal: International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Pages: 1234-1250
Volume: 13
Issue: 9
Year: 2026
DOI: 10.22034/ijmae.2026.579231.1962
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