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Department of Economics and Management, South Ural State University, 454080 Chelyabinsk, Russia

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Journal article
Published: 12 July 2021 in Sustainability
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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) elaborately encompass a global goal for sustainable consumption and production (Goal 12: SDGs), thus providing potential drivers and/or pathways to attaining sustainable consumption. In view of this global goal, this study examined the role of real income per capita, urbanization and especially inbound tourism in domestic material consumption for the panel of OECD countries. The study is conducted for the period of 1995 to 2016 by employing the panel quantile approach. Interestingly, an inverted U-shaped relationship between outbound tourism and domestic material consumption is established across the quantiles, thus indicating that sustainable domestic consumption is achievable after a threshold of domestic material consumption is attained. In addition, achieving sustainable consumption through economic or income growth is a herculean task for the OECD countries because the current reality indicates that income growth triggers higher consumption of domestic materials. However, the results suggest that urbanization is a recipe for sustainable domestic consumption since there is a negative and significant relationship between the two parameters across the quantiles. Nevertheless, the study presents relevant policy for efficient material and resources utilization and that is suitable to drive the SDGs for 2030 and other country-specific sustainable ambitions.

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Taiwo Lasisi; Kayode Eluwole; Uju Alola; Luigi Aldieri; Concetto Vinci; Andrew Alola. Do Tourism Activities and Urbanization Drive Material Consumption in the OECD Countries? A Quantile Regression Approach. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7742 .

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Taiwo Lasisi, Kayode Eluwole, Uju Alola, Luigi Aldieri, Concetto Vinci, Andrew Alola. Do Tourism Activities and Urbanization Drive Material Consumption in the OECD Countries? A Quantile Regression Approach. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (14):7742.

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Taiwo Lasisi; Kayode Eluwole; Uju Alola; Luigi Aldieri; Concetto Vinci; Andrew Alola. 2021. "Do Tourism Activities and Urbanization Drive Material Consumption in the OECD Countries? A Quantile Regression Approach." Sustainability 13, no. 14: 7742.

Research article
Published: 20 February 2021 in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
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Beyond the anticipated experience associated with tourism destinations, the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has further tasked (especially the destination countries) on the importance of tourism to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). From this dimension, this study employed the ecological footprint of the 10 most visited countries (France, Spain, United States, China, Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom, Turkey, Germany, and Thailand) over the period 1995–2016. Specifically, the study employed an econometric approach and found that increase in tourism arrivals and globalization is detrimental to the attainment of sustainable environmental quality in a long term. Precisely, a 1% increase in international arrivals and globalization is responsible for a 0.18 and 0.89% increase in ecological footprint in the long-run. These impacts of tourism activities and globalization are detrimental to the environmental quality of the destination countries. Meanwhile, the real income per capita and biocapacity in the destination countries improve the environmental quality of the panel of destination countries in the long-run. In addition, the study found significant evidence of Granger causality from tourism and real income to ecological footprint without feedback, the globalization-ecological footprint Granger causality nexus is with feedback. Moreover, potentially effective policies for government and other stakeholders especially toward attaining Global goals were proffered in the study.

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Andrew Adewale Alola; Kayode Kolawole Eluwole; Taiwo Temitope Lasisi; Uju Violet Alola. Perspectives of globalization and tourism as drivers of ecological footprint in top 10 destination economies. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2021, 28, 31607 -31617.

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Andrew Adewale Alola, Kayode Kolawole Eluwole, Taiwo Temitope Lasisi, Uju Violet Alola. Perspectives of globalization and tourism as drivers of ecological footprint in top 10 destination economies. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 2021; 28 (24):31607-31617.

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Andrew Adewale Alola; Kayode Kolawole Eluwole; Taiwo Temitope Lasisi; Uju Violet Alola. 2021. "Perspectives of globalization and tourism as drivers of ecological footprint in top 10 destination economies." Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28, no. 24: 31607-31617.

Research article
Published: 21 October 2020 in Business Strategy and the Environment
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The race to gain competitive advantage through the formulation of a sustainable business strategy is key for the survival in the global business sphere. Even more importantly is the quest to deploy an effective green strategy to combat the numerous negative impact industrialization has on the environment. Researches pointed out the role of leaders and stakeholder's engagement in bringing about reform. This research focuses on how to build a robust psychological capital within an organization through the leader's transformative ability in combating environmental issues. This is necessary because research related to green transformational leadership and the effect on green team resilience has not been considered in literature. Drawing from the combination of three theories; broaden‐and‐build theory, job demand–resource theory, and conservation of resource theory, this study contributes to the extant literature by testing the effect of green transformational leadership via the mediating role of green work engagement to green team resilience. Using Amos 20 version to analyze 351 questionnaires that were collected from employees in four and five star hotels in Turkey, the result reviews that green transformational leadership has a positive effect on green work engagement and green team resilience, and green work engagement fully mediates the relationship between the variables. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Serdar Çop; Victor Oluwafemi Olorunsola; Uju Violet Alola. Achieving environmental sustainability through green transformational leadership policy: Can green team resilience help? Business Strategy and the Environment 2020, 30, 671 -682.

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Serdar Çop, Victor Oluwafemi Olorunsola, Uju Violet Alola. Achieving environmental sustainability through green transformational leadership policy: Can green team resilience help? Business Strategy and the Environment. 2020; 30 (1):671-682.

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Serdar Çop; Victor Oluwafemi Olorunsola; Uju Violet Alola. 2020. "Achieving environmental sustainability through green transformational leadership policy: Can green team resilience help?" Business Strategy and the Environment 30, no. 1: 671-682.

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Published: 08 October 2020 in Environment, Development and Sustainability
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Since its first report in the USA on 13 January 2020, the novel coronavirus (nCOVID-19) pandemic like in other previous epicentres in India, Brazil, China, Italy, Spain, UK, and France has until now hampered economic activities and financial markets. To offer one of the first empirical insights into the economic/financial effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the USA, this study utilized the daily frequency data for the period 25 February 2020–30 March 2020. By employing the empirical Markov switching regression approach and the compliments of cointegration techniques, the study establishes a two-state (stable and distressing) financial stress situation resulting from the effects of COVID-19 daily deaths, COVID-19 daily recovery, and the USA’ economic policy uncertainty. From the result, it is assertive that daily recovery from COVID-19 eases financial stress, while the reported daily deaths from COVID-19 further hamper financial stress in the country. Moreover, the uncertainty of the USA’ economic policy has also cost the Americans more financial stress and other socio-economic challenges. While the cure for COVID-19 remains elusive, as a policy instrument, the USA and similar countries with high severity of COVID-19 causalities may intensify and sustain the concerted efforts targeted at attaining a landmark recovery rate.

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Andrew Adewale Alola; Uju Violet Alola; Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie. The nCOVID-19 and financial stress in the USA: health is wealth. Environment, Development and Sustainability 2020, 23, 9367 -9378.

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Andrew Adewale Alola, Uju Violet Alola, Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie. The nCOVID-19 and financial stress in the USA: health is wealth. Environment, Development and Sustainability. 2020; 23 (6):9367-9378.

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Andrew Adewale Alola; Uju Violet Alola; Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie. 2020. "The nCOVID-19 and financial stress in the USA: health is wealth." Environment, Development and Sustainability 23, no. 6: 9367-9378.

Academic paper
Published: 05 October 2020 in Journal of Public Affairs
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The call for tourism sector to contribute its quota to a cleaner and a greener environment is gaining momentum. Organization's green initiative and training are mainly on employee's contribution to the environment and its sustainability. Research related to green human resource management especially green training (GT), environmental performance, and behaviors have been given little attention in the hospitality industry. The particular examination of GT and its effect on organizational citizenship behavior (OCBE) and perceived behavioral control (PBC), the mediation effect of OCBE in the above relationship is the main aim of the study. Adopting the Ability‐Motivation‐Opportunity theory to explore the direct and indirect effect of GT on PBC, this study surveyed 306 respondents from employees in the hotel industry. The data were analyzed using AMOS 23 version. GT stands as an important implementation to directly stimulate employee organizational citizenship behavior towards the environment (OCBE) and PBC. The practical and theoretical implication is included; also suggestions for further research are listed below.

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Uju V. Alola; Serdar Cop; MaryMagdaline EnowMbi Tarkang. Green training an effective strategy for a cleaner environment: Study on hotel employees. Journal of Public Affairs 2020, 1 .

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Uju V. Alola, Serdar Cop, MaryMagdaline EnowMbi Tarkang. Green training an effective strategy for a cleaner environment: Study on hotel employees. Journal of Public Affairs. 2020; ():1.

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Uju V. Alola; Serdar Cop; MaryMagdaline EnowMbi Tarkang. 2020. "Green training an effective strategy for a cleaner environment: Study on hotel employees." Journal of Public Affairs , no. : 1.

Academic paper
Published: 09 September 2020 in Journal of Public Affairs
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The tourism industry is the fastest growing industry in the world amidst the increase in terrorism, climate change, political instability, and other indirect negative effects on tourism. In order to survive this vulnerable, evolving, and competitive market, it is important that employees put effort into ensuring the provision of satisfactory services to satisfy customers' demand. For this purpose, this research determines the effect of personality traits on career competency (career control, reflection on motivation, networking, work exploration, self‐profiling, and reflection on qualities) with the mediating role of career adaptability (curiosity concern, confidence, and control) and moderating role of gender identification. Career construction theory and social identity theory were used to justify these relationships. A total number of 330 questionnaires were filled and after discarding incomplete ones, 311 were retained for analysis, yielding a response rate of 94.2%. Using Analysis of Moment Structure 22.0 and Statistical Packages for Social Sciences 20.0, to analysis the study, the findings aid managers and policymakers in designing the organizational roles and on‐the‐job training for employees. Moreover, the relationship between personality traits and career adaptability can serve as a blueprint in employee recruitment and provide a new insight into employee selection. Theoretical and practical implications were provided in the concluding part.

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Serdar Çöp; Uju Violet Alola; Taiwo Temitope Lasisi. Does my personality affect my competency? The role of gender identification and career adaptability among hotel employees. Journal of Public Affairs 2020, 1 .

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Serdar Çöp, Uju Violet Alola, Taiwo Temitope Lasisi. Does my personality affect my competency? The role of gender identification and career adaptability among hotel employees. Journal of Public Affairs. 2020; ():1.

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Serdar Çöp; Uju Violet Alola; Taiwo Temitope Lasisi. 2020. "Does my personality affect my competency? The role of gender identification and career adaptability among hotel employees." Journal of Public Affairs , no. : 1.

Research article
Published: 27 August 2020 in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
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Although the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries are largely regarded as a high human development index and high-income economies, evidence has continued to reveal the existential gap among the member countries drive toward achieving environmental sustainability. Giving this motivation, this research employed a panel quantile approach to examine the role of square of per capita income (the environmental Kuznets curve–EKC hypothesis) and per capita income, tourist arrivals, energy consumption, and urbanization on environmental quality in the panel of (31) selected OECD countries over the period 1995–2016. A handful of vital results were presented in the study. First, the evidence of EKC (inverted U-shaped) proposition is establish just for the lower quantiles while a no EKC (U-shaped) hypothesis is found from the 0.25th to 0.90th quantile. In specific, environmental quality starts to improve when the per capita real income peaked at 11, 271.13 USD (0.05th quantile) and 8, 604.15 USD (0.10th quantile) while the environment becomes damaged after income per capita becomes 89, 321.72 USD (0.25th quantile) and 36, 315.50 USD (0.50th quantile). Moreover, the effect of international tourism arrivals, urbanization, and energy consumption are all significant and damaging to environmental quality across the quantile but with a slightly minimized impact toward the upper quantile. Furthermore, there is statistical significant evidence of Granger causality at least from tourism development, energy consumption, urbanization, and per capita income to carbon emissions. Considering the aforementioned results, the study outlined relevant policy mechanism that is poised to guide the OECD member countries on the sustainable development path.

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Andrew Adewale Alola; Taiwo Temitope Lasisi; Kayode Kolawole Eluwole; Uju Violet Alola. Pollutant emission effect of tourism, real income, energy utilization, and urbanization in OECD countries: a panel quantile approach. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2020, 28, 1752 -1761.

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Andrew Adewale Alola, Taiwo Temitope Lasisi, Kayode Kolawole Eluwole, Uju Violet Alola. Pollutant emission effect of tourism, real income, energy utilization, and urbanization in OECD countries: a panel quantile approach. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 2020; 28 (2):1752-1761.

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Andrew Adewale Alola; Taiwo Temitope Lasisi; Kayode Kolawole Eluwole; Uju Violet Alola. 2020. "Pollutant emission effect of tourism, real income, energy utilization, and urbanization in OECD countries: a panel quantile approach." Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28, no. 2: 1752-1761.

Academic paper
Published: 23 July 2020 in Journal of Public Affairs
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Workplace incivility is continuously seen as a stressor for the employee and the organization. No organization prospers in an uncivil environment. The high level of turnover intention that results from an uncivil working environment threatens the organization's reputation and sustainability. Adopting from Bagozzi's Appraisal‐Emotional Response, this study tested the relationship between workplace incivility, turnover intention, and job satisfaction via the mediating role of emotional exhaustion, using AMOS version 22. The findings reviews that workplace incivility harms both the employees and the organization. Also, workplace incivility has a positive impact on emotional exhaustion and turnover intentions while a negative influence on job satisfaction. Human resource managers are advised to train both supervisors and customers to curtail uncivil behaviors. Both theoretical and practical implications were given. In conclusion, the study suggests further research presenting the limitations of the study.

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Uju V. Alola; Turgay Avcı; Ali Öztüren. The nexus of workplace incivility and emotional exhaustion in hotel industry. Journal of Public Affairs 2020, 1 .

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Uju V. Alola, Turgay Avcı, Ali Öztüren. The nexus of workplace incivility and emotional exhaustion in hotel industry. Journal of Public Affairs. 2020; ():1.

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Uju V. Alola; Turgay Avcı; Ali Öztüren. 2020. "The nexus of workplace incivility and emotional exhaustion in hotel industry." Journal of Public Affairs , no. : 1.

Research article
Published: 22 July 2020 in Business Strategy and the Environment
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By employing a more comprehensive environmental sustainability and behavioral practices and framework, organizations' green human resources, production process among other processes, are also situated at addressing the rising challenge of global warming. To an extent, the gear toward improving the sustainable organization or production entails the environmental sustainability practices, green initiatives, and environmentally friendlier methods against the business‐as‐usual and the traditional patterns. In so doing, the current study is aimed at examining the effect of green training on organizational citizenship behavior and environmental commitment via the mediating role of perceived behavioral control. By applying the theory of planned behavior, this paper also tests the mediating effect of perceived behavioral control in the organization and the environment. Data from 306 employees working in four and five‐star hotels in Istanbul were analyzed using AMOS statistical version 20. The result revealed that green training positively affects environmental commitment and organizational behavior and that perceived behavioral control fully mediates the link. In essence, the investigation equally revealed that it is important to engage employees in environmental sustainability training and related information, especially in compliance with the global drive for the Sustainable Development Goals. The findings and implications of the study are further revealed to serve effective policy tools to organizations, governance, and other stakeholders.

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Serdar Cop; Uju Violet Alola; Andrew Adewale Alola. Perceived behavioral control as a mediator of hotels' green training, environmental commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior: A sustainable environmental practice. Business Strategy and the Environment 2020, 29, 3495 -3508.

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Serdar Cop, Uju Violet Alola, Andrew Adewale Alola. Perceived behavioral control as a mediator of hotels' green training, environmental commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior: A sustainable environmental practice. Business Strategy and the Environment. 2020; 29 (8):3495-3508.

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Serdar Cop; Uju Violet Alola; Andrew Adewale Alola. 2020. "Perceived behavioral control as a mediator of hotels' green training, environmental commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior: A sustainable environmental practice." Business Strategy and the Environment 29, no. 8: 3495-3508.

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Published: 29 May 2020 in Current Psychology
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As the main communication platforms for today’s competitive air transportation market expands, airline websites need to be user friendly to trigger positive electronic word of mouth. Website quality constitutes an influencing factor in consumer behavior and decision-making. Therefore the purpose of this study is to test informarion-task-fit on etetronic word of month, purchase intention and website quality. The study tested the effect of information-task-fit on website quality, electronic word of mouth and purchase intention of users of Turkish Airlines. A total of 604 questionnaires was obtained online within six months, using a quantitative and cross-sectional approach. The proposed above relationships were evaluated via structural equation modeling. Results were as hypothesized, with the perception that the availability of information required by users on the website influence website quality, electronic word of mouth and purchase intention. The website quality also influenced users’ intention to purchase and electronic word of mouth. These results offer insights into improving and maintaining website quality by making the website user friendly so as to attract greater audience. This study’s comprehensive model is lacking in service airline literature, thus this is an added research on the influence of information-task-fit web information and design on supposed quality of service and intention to purchase. Managers should also maintain high standards by hiring professional website builders so as to increase their usage. This study provides implications for airline website quality. A conclusion and further studies are presented below.

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MaryMagdaline EnowMbi Tarkang; Uju Violet Alola; Ruth Yunji Nange; Ali Ozturen. Investigating the factors that trigger airline industry purchase intention. Current Psychology 2020, 1 -12.

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MaryMagdaline EnowMbi Tarkang, Uju Violet Alola, Ruth Yunji Nange, Ali Ozturen. Investigating the factors that trigger airline industry purchase intention. Current Psychology. 2020; ():1-12.

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MaryMagdaline EnowMbi Tarkang; Uju Violet Alola; Ruth Yunji Nange; Ali Ozturen. 2020. "Investigating the factors that trigger airline industry purchase intention." Current Psychology , no. : 1-12.

Academic paper
Published: 08 May 2020 in Journal of Public Affairs
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The impact of recruitment and training on employees increases psychological state, commitment, and employee attachment to the organization. Several researchers have continuously, for several decades, investigated the effect of recruitment and selection and the robust impact on employees; nevertheless, the effect of human resources practices on both the employees' satisfaction and retention as parameters of the organization performance cannot be overemphasized. Drawing from Social Exchange Theory (SET), the study identifies the significance of human resource practices (selecting and recruitment, training, and development) on employees. 277 questionnaires were collected from six private airline employees in Jordan. The hypotheses, validity, and reliability were tested through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The findings indicate that proper selecting and recruitment and training have a significant impact on organization. Also, Employee Engagement (EE) plays a mediating role on model variables. The study further indicates that employee engagement partially mediates the relationship between variables. Cross‐sectional data collection was employed; therefore, generalizing the findings should be done with caution. This study is of importance to human resources managers and policymakers to understand the significant impact of HR practices, attracting effective and efficient employees.

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Uju V. Alola; Rawan Alafeshat. The impact of human resource practices on employee engagement in the airline industry. Journal of Public Affairs 2020, 21, 1 .

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Uju V. Alola, Rawan Alafeshat. The impact of human resource practices on employee engagement in the airline industry. Journal of Public Affairs. 2020; 21 (1):1.

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Uju V. Alola; Rawan Alafeshat. 2020. "The impact of human resource practices on employee engagement in the airline industry." Journal of Public Affairs 21, no. 1: 1.

Research article
Published: 27 April 2020 in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
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In addition to the adverse effect of extreme weather and weather variation across the globe, the ecological deficit accounting associated with the USA is perceived to have further worsen the country’s environmental quality. Considering the aforementioned motivation, this study examined the effects of cooling degree days, heating degree days and ecological footprint on environmental degradation in the USA over the period of 1960 to 2016. While employing the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and Bounds testing to cointegration approaches, the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is further incorporated in the estimation model to avoid estimation bias thus enhancing a robust estimate. The result overwhelmingly found that the cooling degree days, the heating degree days and the ecological footprint accounting aggravates the country’s environmental degradation. Worse still, the study further presents that there is short-run adverse impacts of the heating and cooling degree days, and the short-run and long-run ecological footprint on the country’s environmental sustainability. Moreover, there is statistical evidence that the income growth in the USA especially in the long run will not also improve the environmental quality. Irrespective of the income-environmental degradation long-run relationship, the relieving impact of income growth on environmental degradation is observed in the short run. In general, the study presents relevant policy pathway for implementation.

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Seyi Saint Akadiri; Andrew Adewale Alola; Uju Violet Alola; Chioma Sylvia Nwambe. The role of ecological footprint and the changes in degree days on environmental sustainability in the USA. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2020, 27, 24929 -24938.

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Seyi Saint Akadiri, Andrew Adewale Alola, Uju Violet Alola, Chioma Sylvia Nwambe. The role of ecological footprint and the changes in degree days on environmental sustainability in the USA. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 2020; 27 (20):24929-24938.

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Seyi Saint Akadiri; Andrew Adewale Alola; Uju Violet Alola; Chioma Sylvia Nwambe. 2020. "The role of ecological footprint and the changes in degree days on environmental sustainability in the USA." Environmental Science and Pollution Research 27, no. 20: 24929-24938.

Research article
Published: 08 April 2020 in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
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The impacts of the increasing human activities mostly through socio-economic and environment interactions have continued to generate more scientific studies and contemporary discussion on issues ranging from the climate change to income and gender gap. Accordingly, the current study employed the cointegration and a two-step (system) SYS-Generalized Method of Moments to examine the environmental sustainability effects of income, international tourism arrivals, and labour force vis-à-vis gender unemployment in the panel of (32) Organization for Economic Development and Corporation (OECD) for the period 1995–2016. The study revealed that income growth in the OECD countries and increase in the inflow of international tourists into the OECD member countries are significant endangering factors for the bloc’s environmental sustainability. More striking is the environmental impact of labour force in the panel countries. Intuitively, a positive labour force-environmental degradation nexus is expected; the negatively desirable labour force-environmental degradation nexus in the current study is a justification of (1) the prevailing gender employment/unemployment classifications in the OECD member countries, and (2) the increasing adoption of more environmental friendlier working conditions or operation among the member countries. Moreover, the current study strongly posits a significant policy framework for the governments and stakeholders of the OECD member countries.

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Taiwo T. Lasisi; Andrew A. Alola; Kayode K. Eluwole; Ali Ozturen; Uju V. Alola. The environmental sustainability effects of income, labour force, and tourism development in OECD countries. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2020, 27, 21231 -21242.

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Taiwo T. Lasisi, Andrew A. Alola, Kayode K. Eluwole, Ali Ozturen, Uju V. Alola. The environmental sustainability effects of income, labour force, and tourism development in OECD countries. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 2020; 27 (17):21231-21242.

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Taiwo T. Lasisi; Andrew A. Alola; Kayode K. Eluwole; Ali Ozturen; Uju V. Alola. 2020. "The environmental sustainability effects of income, labour force, and tourism development in OECD countries." Environmental Science and Pollution Research 27, no. 17: 21231-21242.

Academic paper
Published: 12 December 2019 in Journal of Public Affairs
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This study investigates the nexus between tourism development and house prices in the Republic of Cyprus over the period spanning from 2005Q1 to 2016Q4. Tourism indicators vis‐à‐vis tourism arrivals along with other explanatory variables (the domestic credit, the land area per person, and the consumer price index) are employed in a multivariate autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL)‐bound test model. The empirical results indicate a significant evidence of cointegration. Indicatively, an observed adjustment of about 44% from short‐run to long‐run implies that the model is not relatively slow to adjust to disequilibrium. Importantly, a percent increase in tourism arrivals is observed to cause a rise in house price by about 37%. Expectedly, it is statistically observed that as the land area per person decreases, it is accompanied by a hike in house price. Also, the impacts of domestic credit offered to private enterprises and the consumer price index are different from the results in previous studies. As a policy guide, the government of Cyprus and stakeholder in the tourism and housing sectors should outline a strategy that will ensure the social welfare of people such that housing availability is not hampered by tourism activities.

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Andrew A. Alola; Simplice A. Asongu; Uju V. Alola. House prices and tourism development in Cyprus: A contemporary perspective. Journal of Public Affairs 2019, 20, 1 .

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Andrew A. Alola, Simplice A. Asongu, Uju V. Alola. House prices and tourism development in Cyprus: A contemporary perspective. Journal of Public Affairs. 2019; 20 (2):1.

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Andrew A. Alola; Simplice A. Asongu; Uju V. Alola. 2019. "House prices and tourism development in Cyprus: A contemporary perspective." Journal of Public Affairs 20, no. 2: 1.

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Published: 10 November 2019 in Journal of Public Affairs
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In this research, the logistic regression model was employed to develop a classifier that measures psychological capital of workers in organization. Psychological capital (PsyCap) is the positive state of an individual, comprising of self‐efficacy, optimism, hope, and resilience. Employees with high psychological capital contribute positively to objectives and business strategy of an organization. An experimental dataset comprising of the psychological capital information of 329 employees in an organization was used to fit a data mining classification model. To ensure model accuracy, 220 observations were used as training set, whereas 109 were set aside to validate the model. Various statistical tests for goodness of fit and predictive accuracy were deployed to test model performance. The model has the ability to classify an individual's psychological capital into either high or low class with a predictive accuracy of 93%. The classification model is expected to serve as a tool in human resource management when measuring psychological capital of employees during recruitment interviews and promotion appraisals.

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Uju Violet Alola; Donald Douglas Atsa'am. Measuring employees' psychological capital using data mining approach. Journal of Public Affairs 2019, 20, 1 .

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Uju Violet Alola, Donald Douglas Atsa'am. Measuring employees' psychological capital using data mining approach. Journal of Public Affairs. 2019; 20 (2):1.

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Uju Violet Alola; Donald Douglas Atsa'am. 2019. "Measuring employees' psychological capital using data mining approach." Journal of Public Affairs 20, no. 2: 1.

Journal article
Published: 13 August 2019 in Science of The Total Environment
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Beyond employing the cooling and heating degree days variables for evaluating the climatic conditions and the expected energy needs in the United States, a subtle concern is the underpinning role of the environmental sustainability amidst socio-economic activities. As such, the current study is design to examine the role of fossil fuel energy consumption, ecological footprint, and urban population on the degree days viz-a-vis the cooling and heating days in the United States over the period 1960–2015. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag bound testing model employed reveals the importance of the ecological footprint, fossil fuel energy consumption, and urban population on the cooling and heating degree days of the United States. Result posits that each of fossil fuel and the urban population plays a positive and negative role as regard the cooling degree days and the heating degree days respectively, especially in the long run. Importantly, the empirical results support the argument that the increase in the consumption of the fossil fuel sources of energies are responsible to cause more cooling degree days, thus resulting to longer and hotter periods in the United States but vice versa for the heating degree days. Similarly, the investigation outcome draws from the argument that the increase in the urban population is a potential cause of high environmental temperature, thus responsible for lengthy heat periods (cooling degree days) and resulting in more energy needs and technologies for cooling. As expected, the reverse is the case for the heating degree days, especially in the long-run. As a policy standpoint, policymakers are to further adopt improved and effective guideline for housing and building constructions that are weather specifics. In formulating policy vehicle for each of the seasonal dynamics, the economic benefits of each of the climatic measurements should be considered especially for both the short- and long-run environmental sustainability.

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Andrew Adewale Alola; Seyi Saint Akadiri; Ada Chigozie Akadiri; Uju Violet Alola; Ayodeji Samson Fatigun. Cooling and heating degree days in the US: The role of macroeconomic variables and its impact on environmental sustainability. Science of The Total Environment 2019, 695, 133832 .

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Andrew Adewale Alola, Seyi Saint Akadiri, Ada Chigozie Akadiri, Uju Violet Alola, Ayodeji Samson Fatigun. Cooling and heating degree days in the US: The role of macroeconomic variables and its impact on environmental sustainability. Science of The Total Environment. 2019; 695 ():133832.

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Andrew Adewale Alola; Seyi Saint Akadiri; Ada Chigozie Akadiri; Uju Violet Alola; Ayodeji Samson Fatigun. 2019. "Cooling and heating degree days in the US: The role of macroeconomic variables and its impact on environmental sustainability." Science of The Total Environment 695, no. : 133832.

Journal article
Published: 25 June 2019 in Energy Policy
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A major challenge facing humans in the 21st century is how to strike a balance between the mitigation of environmental degradation and the achievement of sustainable economic growth. On this note, this investigation applies an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) methodology to a panel data of 28 European Union (EU-28) countries over the period 1995–2015. The study confirms the existence of positive and significant long-run nexus among environmental sustainability, renewable energy consumption and economic growth in the EU-28 countries. In addition, empirical results indicate that real gross fixed capital formation, carbon emissions and other environmental factors are principal determinants of long-run growth in the EU. Using Dumitrescu and Hurlin (2012) Granger non-causality in heterogeneous panel, results show long-run bidirectional causal relationships among renewable energy consumption, economic growth and other growth determinants. Based on these results, we infer that the exploitation of renewable energy sources in the EU-28 countries is a reliable pathway toward environmental pollution mitigation. Consequently, achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) by the year 2030 through renewable energy consumption and carbon emission mitigation is very much achievable in the EU-28 countries, and should also be adopted by all countries as an effective global policy.

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Seyi Saint Akadiri; Andrew Adewale Alola; Ada Chigozie Akadiri; Uju Violet Alola. Renewable energy consumption in EU-28 countries: Policy toward pollution mitigation and economic sustainability. Energy Policy 2019, 132, 803 -810.

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Seyi Saint Akadiri, Andrew Adewale Alola, Ada Chigozie Akadiri, Uju Violet Alola. Renewable energy consumption in EU-28 countries: Policy toward pollution mitigation and economic sustainability. Energy Policy. 2019; 132 ():803-810.

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Seyi Saint Akadiri; Andrew Adewale Alola; Ada Chigozie Akadiri; Uju Violet Alola. 2019. "Renewable energy consumption in EU-28 countries: Policy toward pollution mitigation and economic sustainability." Energy Policy 132, no. : 803-810.

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Published: 13 April 2019 in Science of The Total Environment
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In spite of the continued deployment of technologies, innovations toward addressing the challenges of global warming, forecasting and sustaining quality environment have remained the herculean endeavour of the advanced states. Also, being migrants' destinations, resulting from the availability of economic opportunities, the target of attaining low-carbon, energy efficiency, and the cleaner atmospheric environment by these advanced economies is further bewildered. In that light, we investigate the impact of renewable energy consumption and migration on the carbon dioxide emissions of the panel of European Union's largest economies of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom over the period of 1990–2016. The consistency of the group fully modified least square and dynamic ordinary least square presents elasticity of −0.13 and −0.14 respectively for the nexus of renewables and carbon emissions. Similarly, 0.04 and 0.05 are the respective elasticity of the two models for the nexus of migration and carbon emissions. In support of extant literature, the nexus of carbon emissions with gross domestic product and consumer price index are significant, and respectively positive and negative. In addition, the study reveals evidence of Granger causality with feedback between renewable energy consumption and carbon emissions, and between consumer price index and carbon emissions. On the other hand, a unidirectional Granger causality running from migration to carbon emissions is observed. In practical term, the study presents policy frameworks for the examined countries and other advanced nations. The implementation of the presented policy pathways are potentially geared toward a forecastable, sustainable environmental quality and energy efficiency targets.

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Andrew Adewale Alola; Kürşat Yalçiner; Uju Violet Alola; Seyi Saint Akadiri. The role of renewable energy, immigration and real income in environmental sustainability target. Evidence from Europe largest states. Science of The Total Environment 2019, 674, 307 -315.

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Andrew Adewale Alola, Kürşat Yalçiner, Uju Violet Alola, Seyi Saint Akadiri. The role of renewable energy, immigration and real income in environmental sustainability target. Evidence from Europe largest states. Science of The Total Environment. 2019; 674 ():307-315.

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Andrew Adewale Alola; Kürşat Yalçiner; Uju Violet Alola; Seyi Saint Akadiri. 2019. "The role of renewable energy, immigration and real income in environmental sustainability target. Evidence from Europe largest states." Science of The Total Environment 674, no. : 307-315.

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Published: 19 October 2018 in Tourism Management Perspectives
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A logical position emphasized by the service-oriented organizations that ‘the customer is always right’ and the organizational policies that requires employees to make customer happy, even in situations involving customer uncivil behavior has continued to be one of the antecedents of employees' negative outcomes. Applying the conservation of resources theory (COR), the current study develops and tests a research model that investigates the relationships between customer incivility (CIVT), emotional exhaustion (EEXT), turnover intentions (TINT) and job satisfaction (JSAT). A total of 328 customer-contact employees in 4 and 5 star hotels in Nigeria participated. Using structural equation modeling, the findings demonstrate that CIVT increases EEXT and TINT, but has no direct influence on JSAT. The findings demonstrate that EEXT partially mediates the effect of CIVT on TINT while it fully mediates the effect of CIVT on JSAT. Implications of the findings for the literature and limitation are discussed.

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Uju Violet Alola; Olusegun A. Olugbade; Turgay Avci; Ali Öztüren. Customer incivility and employees' outcomes in the hotel: Testing the mediating role of emotional exhaustion. Tourism Management Perspectives 2018, 29, 9 -17.

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Uju Violet Alola, Olusegun A. Olugbade, Turgay Avci, Ali Öztüren. Customer incivility and employees' outcomes in the hotel: Testing the mediating role of emotional exhaustion. Tourism Management Perspectives. 2018; 29 ():9-17.

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Uju Violet Alola; Olusegun A. Olugbade; Turgay Avci; Ali Öztüren. 2018. "Customer incivility and employees' outcomes in the hotel: Testing the mediating role of emotional exhaustion." Tourism Management Perspectives 29, no. : 9-17.

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Published: 25 July 2018 in Sustainability
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The hotel business is globally acknowledged to significantly contribute to the tourism industry. Over time, supervisor’s incivility continues to be a serious issue where cases of the uncivil act are known to be costly to the organization and creating negative effects on employees’ health and organizational continuity. Human capital has also been highlighted as one of the key variables to organizational sustainability. Using convenience sampling method, this study adopted a total of 329 respondents’ perception to test the study variables. The effect of supervisor’s incivility was assessed against employee’s self-efficacy, turnover intention, emotional exhaustion, and job satisfaction. The study employed data gathered from four and five stars hotels in Nigeria using Analysis of a moment structures (IBM AMOS) software to analyze the hypothesized relationships. Empirical evidence shows that self-efficacy mediates the relationship between supervisor incivility, turnover intention, and job satisfaction. The results show that evidence of supervisor’s incivility negatively affects hotel employee.

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Uju Violet Alola; Turgay Avci; Ali Ozturen. Organization Sustainability through Human Resource Capital: The Impacts of Supervisor Incivility and Self-Efficacy. Sustainability 2018, 10, 2610 .

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Uju Violet Alola, Turgay Avci, Ali Ozturen. Organization Sustainability through Human Resource Capital: The Impacts of Supervisor Incivility and Self-Efficacy. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (8):2610.

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Uju Violet Alola; Turgay Avci; Ali Ozturen. 2018. "Organization Sustainability through Human Resource Capital: The Impacts of Supervisor Incivility and Self-Efficacy." Sustainability 10, no. 8: 2610.