Introduction: The challenge of restricting unethical behavior requires public companies to reinforce ethical practices among leaders through various instruments. Previous research suggests that the (un)ethical behavior of leaders can be influenced by many situational factors. This study aimed to investigate the influence of ethics training and education on unethical leadership behavior in the Algerian public companies.Methods: Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 15 leaders from public companies in Algeria. Data analysis was facilitated using ATLAS. ti 8 qualitative analysis software.Results: The findings show that public companies in Algeria suffer from several issues related to leaders’ ethics training and education. The findings also indicate that some of these unethical leadership behaviors are the result of ineffective training programs and poor ethics education within public companies.Discussion: The absence or ineffectiveness of ethics training and education within and outside organizational settings has a detrimental impact on leaders’ ethical character. This study is the first to explore how public companies in Algeria engage in ethical training and leadership education. The different sectors of the Algerian business can use the findings as a point of reference to embed the appropriate ethical climate in their respective organizations.

Adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility: Empirical Evidence from Malaysian SMEs

This study examines the factors influencing the adoption of smart retailing technologies in Malaysia, a developing retail market. Using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to analyze data from 391 valid questionnaires, the study highlights the significant role of perceived advantage, novelty, and risk in shaping consumer attitudes toward smart retailing. The results demonstrate that perceived advantage significantly and positively influences consumers' attitude toward smart retailing (β = 0.453, t = 7.461, p < 0.001). Similarly, perceived novelty strongly influences attitude (β = 0.286, t = 5.193, p < 0.001). In contrast, perceived risk has a negative effect on attitudes toward smart retailing (β = -0.152, t = 3.520, p < 0.001). Furthermore, the study reveals that the attitude toward smart retail significantly influences the acceptance of smart retail technologies (β = 0.780, t = 26.484, p < 0.001). Moreover, the mediating role of attitude is confirmed, mediating the relationship between perceived advantage, novelty, risk, and the acceptance of smart retailing. Specifically, perceived advantage (β = 0.353, t = 6.806, p < 0.001) and perceived novelty (β = 0.223, t = 5.131, p < 0.001) positively influence acceptance through attitude, while perceived risk has a negative indirect effect (β = -0.118, t = 3.456, p < 0.001). These findings underscore the critical importance of consumer attitudes in mediating the impact of perceived advantage, novelty, and risk on the adoption of smart retail technologies. The conclusions of this study hold significant implications for retail managers and policymakers seeking to promote the adoption and utilization of smart retail solutions in emerging markets.

The study examined the relationship between environmental attitude, environmental subjective norm, environmental perceived behavioural control, and school headteachers' environmental responsive behaviour. The population of the study consists of primary school headteachers in the northern region of Malaysia who are attached to the Ministry of Education (MoE), Malaysia. An online survey was used to collect the data of the study from 167 sampled respondents. While Theory of planned behaviour underpinned the study, the researcher employed explanatory, descriptive, and hypothesis testing quantitative strategies to explain the relationship. Smart PLS 3.0 and SPSS 21 were equally used to analyse the data. The result of the data analysis revealed that environmental attitude, environmental subjective norm, and environmental perceived behavioural control significantly influence school headteachers' environmental responsive behaviour.

The use of the technology acceptance model is the most common underpinning theory that helps scholars understand technology adoptions. However, limited bibliometric analyses are conducted to uncover the overall research progress of this theory. This study aims to review the TAM publications from 2011 to 2022 and summarise the TAM research status based on 2104 Scopus documents. Accordingly, this study highlighted keyword analysis, citation analysis and research trends. The findings indicated that education and medicine are two industries that scholars pay attention to. The United States of America contributed the most effort to developing TAM studies. In addition, the evolution of terms identified virtual reality as a growing subject area contributing to TAM research. Besides, PLS-SEM is the most appealing method that researchers use to assess the relationships derived from TAM and its theoretical integrations. TAM has the potential to integrate with TPB and UTAUT. From these findings, the theory is robust in determining consumer behaviours in the information and technology field. This study also summarises some limitations and future recommendations to explore the roles of TAM in education and healthcare sectors, including other databases in future bibliometric analyses. Three variables (perceived usefulness, ease of use, and trust) were excessively researched by previous scholars and need to be extended with new perspectives to understand the technology acceptance model further. By summarising this research area with two open-sourced computer software (e.g., Biblioshiny and VOS viewer), this study provides a new way to understand the publications of TAM in Scopus, which brings insights to both academicians and business decision-makers.

It has been observed that previous findings in this area of study are inconsistent. While some claimed significant relations others revealed insignificant and negative relations. A situation of this nature warrants a contingency relationship between the independent and dependent variables so as to clearly explain their relationship. Due to this therefore, this particular study investigates the moderating role of religious factor on the relationship between environmental factors and effective entrepreneurial awareness among the final year students of Crawford University, Igbesa. The study adopted a cross-sectional study research design with questionnaire research survey were 187 questionnaires were distributed. A systematic research sampling technique was employed to select 94 final year students who participated in the entrepreneurial awareness programme. The questionnaires data generated were analysed using SmartPLS 3.0 and the overall finding revealed that religious factors do not statistically and significantly moderate the relationship between environmental factors and effective entrepreneurial awareness among the final year students of Crawford University. The study then concludes that religious factors do not have the moderating power to moderate the influence of environmental factors on effective entrepreneurial awareness. The study also provides discussion on the findings as well as the limitation for future research.