Mohammad Fakhrul Islam
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Publications - 14
Halal tourism research in Indonesian context: a bibliometric analysis
Publication Name: Discover Sustainability
Publication Date: 2025-12-01
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Page Range: Unknown
Description:
Halal tourism is a growing sector of tourism that has attracted considerable attention in recent years due to its potential for economic growth and the need to meet the demands of Muslim travelers. This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of halal tourism research in Indonesia through the utilization of bibliometric approach. The study utilizes Scopus database to analyze the publication trends, co-authorship, and thematic analysis, as well as the future research directions on this field in the context of Indonesia spanning the years 2017 to 2024. The findings indicate that there is a disparity in the involvement of authors and affiliations from Indonesia in terms of publications. The results show consistent growth in Indonesian publications, but emphasize the need for better quality and global dissemination. Moreover, the findings suggest that Indonesia plays a key role in the development of tourism in Indonesia due to its Muslim population and integration of Islamic principles in education and tourism. These findings highlight the importance of understanding Muslims tourists’ behavior, political economy influences, and service quality in different regions of Indonesia, thereby informing policy-making, industry practices, and future research agendas in this field.
Open Access: Yes
Innovative configurations for organizational resilience: Bridging the proactive and reactive capability in volatile environments
Publication Name: Sustainable Futures
Publication Date: 2025-12-01
Volume: 10
Issue: Unknown
Page Range: Unknown
Description:
A growing concern among academics and professionals has placed organizational resilience (OR) at the leading edge of their studies' catalysts because of its peripheral vulnerability to turbulent environments in organizational settings. This research demonstrates the value of competitive advantage and the practices of resilient firms, thereby strengthening organizational resilience in a disruptive environment. Organizational resilience has been established as a process for gaining a competitive edge and enhancing firms' performance in a volatile environment where disruptions, such as epidemics, political turmoil, and economic instability, threaten the sustainability of their operations. Adopting the Dynamic Capability View (DCV), this study investigates proactive (PRO) and reactive (REA) capability configurations in relation to organizational resilience through partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). The study develops the measurement items for organizational resilience to test the proposed hypotheses using PLS-SEM and fsQCA. PLS-SEM finds that flexibility, collaboration, response, and recovery are positive drivers for organizational resilience, whereas fsQCA reveals that flexibility, response, and recovery are sufficient for the same outcome. The combined results indicate that flexibility, responsiveness, and recovery are key conditions for predicting high organizational resilience in a disruptive environment. The combined findings confirm that the measurement items of proactive and reactive performance significantly better align with organizational resilience and meet the "capability" and "resources" suitable criteria of DCV. The combined findings of this research make both theoretical and practical contributions to the foundation of pre-disruptive and post-disruptive resilience.
Open Access: Yes
Factors and Health Effects of Excessive Smartphone Use: The Impact of Bedtime Delay on Young Adults in Developing Countries
Publication Name: International Journal of Community Well Being
Publication Date: 2025-07-01
Volume: 8
Issue: 2
Page Range: 383-416
Description:
This study investigates the factors that lead to smartphone addiction in young adults as well as the negative health effects of this addiction. This study used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the data from 430 online questionnaires of young adults aged between 15 and 55. The findings show that the association between smartphone addiction and health hazards is significantly mediated by bedtime procrastination, which links excessive usage of the device to negative mental and physical effects. The findings show that impulsivity, depression, gaming addiction, cyber-loafing, and other behavioral and psychological characteristics all play a major role in smartphone addiction, which has an adverse impact on both mental and physical health. Among the participants, 80% were single and 61.1% were female; these groups had greater rates of addiction and related health issues. The results have significant implications for psychiatrists, psychologists, parents, and anyone concerned about smartphone addiction and its associated health risks. The study highlights the crucial role of bedtime procrastination as a mediator in this context. This material will be particularly beneficial for therapists specializing in treating smartphone addiction in both children and adults.
Open Access: Yes
Harnessing the Green Spirit: The Impact of Spiritual Leadership on Employee Creativity in Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises
Publication Name: Ianna Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Publication Date: 2025-06-05
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page Range: 286-298
Description:
Background: Creativity, innovation, and learning behaviour are essential in accomplishing a competitive edge and the prerequisite of leadership in enhancing employee creativity and organisational growth. However, it is still unclear how team creativity and leadership are related. Objective: The research evaluates the effects spiritual leadership has on employee creativity, together with green human resource management (GHRM) practices within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The proposed framework explains the pathways through which spiritual leadership creates green workplaces that both engage employees and drive sustainable organisational expansion. Methodology: The study employed qualitative approach to attain its aim. The researchers collected data from 21 SME employees while the collected data were analysed using thematic analysis done with N-Vivo 14. Results: The outcomes of this research indicate that spiritual leadership encourages employee creativity and green HRM practices. This eventually enhances organisational performance and staff creativity, providing meaningful information to companies looking to elevate sustainability and overall performance. Conclusion: Leadership is an important requirement for effective management of small and medium scale enterprises. Unique Contribution: The outcomes present a new perspective on the relationship between spiritual leadership and employee results, escalating the value of creative strategies that help team members' personal and professional development. Key Recommendation: All organizational strategies and procedures must include environmental sustainability to create a unified HRM strategy. Leaders are important in advancing this integration by supporting eco-friendly projects and improving an environment that stimulates employee involvement and innovation.
Open Access: Yes
Driving Social Entrepreneurship Among Students: Investigating Through PLS-SEM and fsQCA Approaches in Emerging Economies
Publication Name: Emerging Science Journal
Publication Date: 2025-06-01
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Page Range: 1591-1609
Description:
This study aims to identify the relationship between social self-efficacy, social innovation, resilience, and proactive personality concerning university students’ behavioral intention to engage in social entrepreneurship, particularly in emerging economies, like Bangladesh. A structured questionnaire was utilized to collect quantitative data from 540 students in various disciplines of study as part of the study's quantitative research methodology using partial least squares-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) and fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA). The analysis reveals that proactive personality traits are associated with the social entrepreneurship intention (SEI) and that leadership orientation is also significant to SEI. The study also demonstrates that social entrepreneurial activities tend toward higher social self-efficacy and resilience, making it crucial to focus on such characteristics while facing social risk and bearing innovations. This study's novelty lies in its focus on the unique combination of psychological traits—social self-efficacy, social innovation, resilience, and proactive personality—and their impact on university students' intention to engage in social entrepreneurship in emerging economies. Additionally, the research emphasizes the importance of integrating leadership skills and social innovation into academic curricula and policy development to foster social entrepreneurship. Practical implications indicate that leadership skills and social innovation should be included in the curricula of educational institutions, and supportive policies should be developed to create available resources for prospective social entrepreneurs.
Open Access: Yes
The influence of hybrid leadership in sustainable women entrepreneurial performance
Publication Name: Sustainable Futures
Publication Date: 2025-06-01
Volume: 9
Issue: Unknown
Page Range: Unknown
Description:
In the contemporary era, strategic leadership style plays significant role in entrepreneurial performance. The key purpose of this study is to examine the influence of hybrid (self, shared and opinion) leadership in women entrepreneurial performance towards sustainable growth. This mixed method study investigated data in two ways. First, the study analyzed the data and measured the hypotheses employing the partial least squares structured equation model (PLS-SEM) in SmartPLS software 4 packages. Second, fsQCA explores multiple causal relationships between the constructs. The fsQCA results claim that the multiple causal relationships among the shared, self and opinion leadership have strong significant impact on women entrepreneurial performance. In particular, it is addressed that different entrepreneurial performances are positively associated with the extent of self, shared and opinion leadership. Theoretically, this study contributes to the understanding of women leadership behavior in entrepreneurial performance with a mixed statistical analysis. The study has valuable insights for the women entrepreneurs and concerned
Open Access: Yes
Effect of ethical leadership on emotional labor: evidence from Nigerian fast-food restaurant sector
Publication Name: Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality and Tourism
Publication Date: 2025-01-01
Volume: 24
Issue: 4
Page Range: 721-741
Description:
The enthronement of ethical leadership typology to enhance employee positive work behavior in the fast-food restaurant sector has generated serious debate amongst scholars and practitioners. To provide answers to the above, this research adopted a cross-sectional survey design with a population of one hundred and ninety-eight participants drawn from twenty selected fast-food restaurants sector, in south-eastern Nigeria. Social learning theory and social exchange theory were employed as the underpinning theories of the study. The study’s results demonstrated that ethical leadership dimensionalities predicted the measures of emotional labor. The research concludes that ethical leadership enhances employees’ positive emotional work behavior in the fast-food restaurant sector. One of the practical implications of this study is the prioritization of ethical leadership as an instrument to boost performance in the workplace through emotional labor by HR managers and the owners of fast-food businesses.
Open Access: Yes
Knowledge management and emotional labour in the Nigerian hospitality industry: moderating role of ethical leadership
Publication Name: International Journal of Learning and Change
Publication Date: 2025-01-01
Volume: 17
Issue: 2
Page Range: 205-229
Description:
The study investigated the moderating role of ethical leadership on the relationship between knowledge management and emotional labour in the Nigerian hospitality industry. The theories that underlined the work are the knowledge-based theory and emotional regulation theory. A cross-sectional research design was used, and primary data was obtained for the study, which was purposively drawn from 250 workers across a unit of hospitality firms. The data were analysed with partial least squares-structural equation modelling (PLSSEM) V4.1. The findings revealed that knowledge management correlated with emotional labour. However, it was also found that ethical leadership does not significantly moderate the relationship between the constructs. The study recommends that managers need to encourage the acquisition, sharing and application of knowledge to solving workplace problems.
Open Access: Yes
Organization learning and business resilience in developing hospitality industry
Publication Name: Discover Sustainability
Publication Date: 2024-12-01
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Page Range: Unknown
Description:
The study aims to investigate the effect of organizational learning on business resilience in developing the hospitality industry, specifically focusing on four-star hotels in the southeast region of Nigeria. One of the major reasons why this research was conducted is because of the vacuum that exists between organizational learning and business resilience in the hospitality industry. A cross-sectional survey design was employed because it supports using questionnaires to collect data from participants. A validated and reliable instrument was used to collect data from two hundred thirty one participants drawn from the selected hospitality industry in the southern part of Nigeria. The results demonstrate that organizational learning significantly positively affects business resilience. Organizational learning also affects crisis anticipation and recoverability which are crucial to be resilient in the industry. The results of this research supported prior empirical findings and supported both social learning theory and resilience theory. Regarding originality, the geographical scope and the industry where this research was conducted distinguish it from other prior empirical investigations. It was recommended that since the hospitality business is highly competitive, managers should utilize organizational learning as a strategy to overcome their competitors and remain sustainable in the industry. The findings of the research will contribute to the literature and hospitality industry in developing country contexts.
Open Access: Yes
Interplay of poverty, unemployment, education, and technology: Insights from Malaysia’s economic development strategies
Publication Name: Journal of Infrastructure Policy and Development
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Volume: 8
Issue: 10
Page Range: Unknown
Description:
Malaysia’s economic development strategies have evolved significantly since independence, focusing on reducing poverty, enhancing education, and integrating technology to foster sustainable growth. Despite substantial progress, challenges persist in achieving inclusive development across rural and urban sectors. This study examines the effectiveness of Malaysia’s New Economic Model (NEM) in addressing poverty and unemployment through technological and educational advancements. Employing a qualitative approach, it reviews literature on technology’s impact on economic growth, poverty alleviation, and the role of tertiary education in national development. Analysis reveals that while NEM initiatives have attracted foreign investment and improved infrastructure, gaps remain in educational access and technological self-reliance. The findings underscore the need for targeted policies that enhance educational outcomes, promote inclusive technology adoption, and address structural inequalities to achieve sustainable economic development. Recommendations include bolstering vocational training, enhancing rural infrastructure, and fostering public-private partnerships in technology innovation to ensure equitable economic progress.
Open Access: Yes
PROMOTING ORGANISATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOUR THROUGH CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Publication Name: Corporate Governance and Organizational Behavior Review
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Volume: 8
Issue: 2
Page Range: 103-112
Description:
Corporate governance is a major topic of debate among scholars from different parts of the world, but little has been empirically investigated on the impact of corporate governance on the discretionary work behaviour of employees in selected deposit money banks in Nigeria. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the impact of corporate governance on the organizational citizenship behaviour of employees in deposit money banks. A cross-sectional survey design was used, which supports the use of questionnaire to collect data from the participants. Data were collected from 224 participants from 18 deposit money banks operating in south-east Nigeria. The study employed frequency distribution and linear regression to analyse respondents’ profiles and research hypotheses. Results of the study revealed that corporate governance dimensions predicted organisational citizenship behaviour indicators. The practical significance of this study lies in the possibility of improving organizational citizenship behaviour in organizations by integrating the main recommendations of this study into the corporate governance of organizations. This study concludes that corporate governance (measured in terms of leadership quality, accountability, board size, board effectiveness, and board independence) influences and improves organizational citizenship behaviour that is driven by altruism, integrity, sportsmanship, courtesy, and civic virtue.
Open Access: Yes
An Analysis of Consumer Decision-Making in Digital Mobile Payment Adoption: Exploring Influencing Factors
Publication Name: Decision Making Applications in Management and Engineering
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Page Range: 651-675
Description:
Despite every one of the upsides of mobile payment services (MPs), they are unutilized by a sizable client base. This paper analyzes the central drivers of utilizing MPs for purchasing purposes from the consumers' point of view in Uzbekistan. Given the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the study built up a seven-figure model to uncover the determinants of customers' goals to utilize MPs. 300 respondents in Uzbekistan were selected, and 276 substantial responses were incorporated into the analysis. The structural equation model results applied that customers' goal to utilize MPs for purchasing purposes is impacted by trust, system usefulness, social influence, risk, hedonic motivation, and attitude. The factor, facilitating conditions was not significant interestingly which the most distinct finding of that study is. Considering the findings and discussion, the paper concludes with the notion that mobile payment as a digital innovative financial technology is influenced by most of the factors that mobile operators should look at closely.
Open Access: Yes
Building organizational resilience in emerging economies: Strategic insights from Bangladesh
Publication Name: Sustainable Futures
Publication Date: 2025-12-01
Volume: 10
Issue: Unknown
Page Range: Unknown
Description:
Organizational resilience is a key aspect for sustaining comparative benefit and performance amidst uncertainties such as pandemics, political volatility, and financial crises. Despite its significance, limited studies have explored the potential sufficient solutions to resilience-enabling constructs, especially in emerging economies. This research combines the Resource-Based View (RBV) and Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) to propose a theoretical framework for understanding and predicting organizational resilience. Using survey data from 348 respondents serving corporate industries in Bangladesh, we employ Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) and fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to identify causal configurations to predict organizational resilience. The findings reveal five configurations that are sufficient for achieving high resilience and four configurations associated with low resilience, highlighting the nuanced interplay between resources, costs, and adaptability. Specifically, flexibility, response, recovery, benevolence, and commitment must need conditions for achieving organizational resilience in NCA analysis. In fsQCA analysis, flexibility and commitment are core conditions, whereas response and information sharing are peripheral conditions for achieving high organizational resilience. This study strengthens resilient strategies by demonstrating the supplementary contributions of RBV and TCE. This combination offers policymakers actionable insights to develop resilient strategies that enhance organizational adaptability and performance in turbulent times.
Open Access: Yes
Enhancing sustainable performance through green human resource management: Green competencies building and green passion playing as a joint moderation
Publication Name: Acta Psychologica
Publication Date: 2025-10-01
Volume: 260
Issue: Unknown
Page Range: Unknown
Description:
This study aims to investigate the moderating effect of green competencies building (GCB) and green passion (GP) on the relationship between green human resource management (GHRM) and sustainable performance (SP). Moreover, it aims to find out the joint moderating effect of GCB and GP on the relationship between GHRM and SP. An online survey was used to gather 410 samples from various manufacturing organizations in Bangladesh, and the data was analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The study found that GCB and GP separately and jointly moderate the relationship between GHRM and SP. This study uniquely explores how green competencies and green passion, both individually and jointly, moderate the relationship between GHRM and sustainable performance.
Open Access: Yes
