PUBLISHED PAPERS FEBRUARY 2026 – CONGRATULATIONS

Thirteen new peer-reviewed journal publications for February 2026
Congratulations to our professors & PhD Students for the acceptance of their papers:
Dr. Hayford Amegbe:
“Sustainability Orientation and Entrepreneurial Performance in Resource-Constrained Contexts” in Business Strategy and the Environment.

PhD student Salma Garra, Dr. Amine Belhadi, and Dr. Fedwa Jebli:
Modern Slavery as Tail Risk: An Extreme Value Theory Analysis of ESG, Agrifood, and Financial Sectors” in Journal of Business Research.

Dr. Muzhar Javed:

  • “Tyrannical Leadership as a Tough Love Boss: How Leader Career Mentoring and Tough Love Labeling Shape Employee Career Optimism?” in Journal of Managerial Psychology.
  • “Reclaiming Time, Reclaiming Space: Decolonial Feminist Leadership in the Creative Industries of Post-Soviet Kazakhstan” in Gender, Work and Organization.

Dr. Yasin RAHEEL:

  • “Authentic Leadership as an Energy Booster for Service Creativity: The Mediating Role of Access to Strategic Information and the Moderating Role of Work Passion” in International Journal of Hospitality Management.

Dr. Lamiae Benhayoun:

  • “Managing the complexities of informal female entrepreneurship” in Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development.


PhD student Elhoussaine Wahyana and Dr. Lamiae Benhayoun:

  • “Orchestrating Blockchain for Sustainability-oriented Supply chains: Empirically exploring the strategic role of technology providers in emerging countries” in International Journal of Production Economics.

    PhD student Bouchra Oukhayi:
  • “Immersive Luxury Branding: Exploring Consumer and Brand Dynamics in the Metaverse Through the AIDA Framework” in Journal of Consumer Behaviour.


Dr. Waheed Akhtar, Dr. Fauzia Syed, and Dr. Nacef Mouri:

  • “Linking strategic leadership to innovation and competitive advantage: The roles of strategic choices and organizational culture in SMEs” in Journal of Business Research.

Dr. Waheed AKHTAR:

  • “Responsible Leadership and Front-Line Employees’ Career Commitment: The Roles of Status Striving and Perceptions of Developmental HRM Practices” in International Journal of Human Resource Management.
  • “From service to strain: The dual-edged sword of organizational citizenship behavior directed towards customers and its impact on employee outcomes” in International Journal of Hospitality Management.

Dr. Shoaib ALI:

  • “Financial Market Determinants of Dynamic Herding in North American Energy Equity Market” in International Journal of Finance and Economics.
  • “Analysing spillovers between green cryptocurrencies and U.S. equity sectors: measurements, spillover networks and driving factors” in Applied Economics.
  • “ESG stock markets and clean energy prices prediction: Insights from advanced machine learning” in International Review of Financial Analysis.