This study examines the short-term and long-term effects of various important determinants such as financial inclusion (FI), information and communication technology (ICT), renewable energy (RE), globalization (GOB), and economic growth (EG) on CO₂ emissions in the top 10 emitter countries in the OBOR region based on the collected data for the years 2004 to 2019. This study employed the CS-ARDL technique. Findings demonstrate a strong relationship between FI, ICT, and CO₂ emissions in both the long-term and short-term. Renewable sources of energy have been found to have a CO₂ emission reduction effect, both in the long and short term. In the long run, there is a negative connection between globalization and CO₂ emissions; however, in the short run, this connection is inconsequential, while economic growth (EG) has a positive association with CO₂ emission. The development of ICT infrastructure carries the potential to directly mitigate the detrimental effects of CO₂ emissions while also playing an important role in raising people’s environmental consciousness. OBOR countries should welcome and encourage clean and green foreign investment that provides technical skills, environmental technology development, and carbon-free processes.

Although mobile shopping is a new norm after the pandemic, its proliferation is still not very mature in developing nations. Drawing on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model, this research employs the SEM technique to examine the effect of mobile shopping frequency and repurchase intent among 198 young mobile shopping consumers in Pakistan. Our findings suggest that purchase frequency is a key variable in consumer behavior and plays a significant role in building mobile shopping repurchase intentions. Findings further suggest that effort expectancy, unlike the performance expectancy, also strongly affects the relationship between purchase frequency and repurchase intention as an intervening mechanism, while a strong interaction effect from the social influence is also noted. This research offers insightful implications for researchers and marketers in the realm of e-commerce and mobile shopping domains.

The growing uncertainty and turbulence in global markets have intensified the need for resilient supply chains capable of withstanding disruptions. Digital technologies are increasingly recognized as key enablers of supply chain resilience because they enhance visibility, coordination, flexibility, and responsiveness across networks. Grounded in the diffusion of innovation theory and dynamic capability theory, this study examines how firms’ adoption of digital technologies strengthens supply chain resilience. Specifically, it investigates the roles of relative advantage, technology compatibility, and complexity as antecedents of digital technology usage. The study also explores the moderating role of top management support in shaping technology adoption. Data were collected from 132 firms operating in Pakistan across diverse industries. Structural equation modeling was conducted using SmartPLS 4 to test the hypothesized relationships and assess the model. Findings show that relative advantage, technology compatibility, and complexity significantly influence digital technology usage, which in turn positively affects supply chain resilience. These results underscore the importance of technological readiness and the reduction of perceived barriers to adoption when seeking to build resilient supply chains. The moderating effect of top management support demonstrates that leadership role is considered crucial for innovation since its influence strengthened the tested relationships in this context. This research contributes to the literature by extending diffusion of innovation theory to digitalization and supply chain resilience. For practitioners, the study highlights the need to focus on clear technological benefits, system compatibility, and simplicity to drive adoption and resilience.

The quest for sustainability has compelled the leadership of many firms to embrace pro-environmental practices. Environmental Management Accounting helps lower environmental impacts through informed decisions made on costs related to materials and energy. This study is grounded in an Institutional perspective that is utilized to empirically test the environmental management accounting practices adopted by the manufacturing firms operating in China. Structural equation modeling is employed to test the path model relationships among various constructs of the study. The framework employs the three institutional forces, normative pressure, coercive pressure, and mimetic pressures, as antecedents of environmental management accounting directly and through the mediating mechanism of environmental strategy. The moderating impacts of top management support and environmental uncertainty are also taken into account. Survey data was collected from 249 Chinese manufacturing firms. The results demonstrated the significant central role of environmental strategy that fully mediates the relationships between institutional pressures and EMA implementation with the maximum impact of coercive pressures. The central role of leadership in curtailing superficial efforts was revealed through the moderating results of top management support, and the sparingly tested environmental uncertainty over mimetic pressures was also confirmed. The findings present sound and interesting practical and theoretical implications for the management and leadership of the organizations.