Last-mile delivery (LMD) has become a visible sustainability interface through which consumers evaluate firms’ environmental commitment, service value and price justification in logistics-service contexts. This study examines how Perceived Environmental Effort (PPE) influences La...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i72324
Background: Global index providers such as MSCI influence international investment decisions by assessing market accessibility and classification, which may affect investor expectations and stock-price movements. Aims: This study examines the reaction of the Indonesian stock mar...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i72325
Aims: To quantify industrial green development efficiency across 30 Chinese provinces from 2010 to 2024 and examine how digital inclusive finance affects this efficiency, with particular attention to the underlying mechanisms, heterogeneity across regions and firm types, and key...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i72326
This study examined the role of artificial intelligence governance in balancing innovation, ethics, and business growth. It adopted an exploratory research design and analysed secondary data from 10 purposively selected scholarly publications retrieved through Google Scholar usin...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i72327
Background: Behavioural finance challenges the assumption of fully rational investment decisions by showing that cognitive biases can shape how retail investors evaluate risk, information and market opportunities. In this context, integrating behavioural biases with the Theory of...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i72323
Regional industrial growth depends partly on the efficiency with which labour and capital are used in the production process. This study examines the factors associated with labour productivity in the industrial sector across 21 Indian states. Using secondary data from published...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i72322
Background: Social media has become an important communication and relationship-management channel for banks, particularly in-service contexts where trust, responsiveness and customer engagement influence behavioural outcomes. In India, however, limited empirical evidence explain...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i72320
This study presents a systematic literature review of greenwashing within Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices of business entities. The aim is to map the conceptual evolution of greenwashing in the ESG context, identify detection patterns used in empirical resea...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i72321
This study examined the moderating role of innovation in the relationship between supply chain management practices and sustainability performance among manufacturing firms in the North Rift Region of Kenya. The study focused on lean, resilient and green supply chain management p...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i72319
This study examined the socioeconomic determinants of poverty levels in Kenya using annual time-series data for 1990-2024. Poverty was measured using the poverty headcount ratio at the international poverty line of $2.15 a day in 2017 purchasing power parity. The analysis focused...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i72318
Payroll fraud remains a significant concern in United States public sector payroll systems because it may lead to financial loss, weaken accountability, and reduce public trust in public financial management. This scoping review maps available evidence on the application of artif...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i72317
Sustainability performance has become a key concern for multinational enterprises operating in emerging economies, where firms face economic constraints, social expectations and environmental risks. This study examines how explorative and exploitative entrepreneurship influence t...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i72315
This study aims to map the development of research on storytelling in marketing communications related to the expansion of market reach for digital MSMEs. This study uses a bibliometric analysis approach to identify research trends, thematic structures, and relationships between...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i72316
The relationship between corporate governance mechanisms, research and development (R&D) investment, and firm performance occupies a central but contested position in contemporary financial economics, accounting, and management research. This article provides a comprehensive...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i72314
This study examines the relationship between foreign capital flows and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa using panel data covering 32 countries over the period 2000–2023, yielding 766 country-year observations. The analysis focuses on four key external financial flows: foreig...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i72313