Nidhi Sahore

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Publications - 6

Decoding Cybervetting Through the Lens of Information Management: A Qualitative Study on Recruiter Practices in Digital Talent Acquisition

Varun Chotia Norah Albishri Nidhi Sahore Aradhana Galgotia Pap Martin Felicián

Publication Name: Journal of Global Information Management

Publication Date: 2025-01-01

Volume: 33

Issue: 1

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

Cybervetting practices are witnessing an exponential increase in its application across industries, however, the scholarly literature on the concept is limited. The present qualitative study seeks to synthesize the definition and concept of cybervetting in the talent acquisition landscape. There is limited holistic understanding about the cybervetting process model and its various stages followed by organizations. Further, the study seeks to identify from recruiters the kind of information extracted from the Internet and social media platforms and the consequent positive and negative cues inferred to assess the suitability of job seekers. To address these issues, a longitudinal qualitative study was undertaken, involving two waves of data collection from recruiters (HR professionals) to understand these dynamics.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.4018/JGIM.387413

Cybervetting and Digital Footprints in Talent Acquisition: A Media Narrative Perspective on Information Management in Recruitment

Varun Chotia Norah Albishri Nidhi Sahore Aradhana Galgotia Pap Martin Felicián

Publication Name: Journal of Global Information Management

Publication Date: 2025-01-01

Volume: 33

Issue: 1

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

Cybervetting is an evolving phenomenon and has witnessed a significant surge in its application across industrial sectors. It can be regarded as the practice of scrutinizing the database of the digital footprints of job candidates found on the Internet and social media platforms for drawing inferences about the eligibility of a prospective employee. The deliberations and debates in the news articles and media platforms are a rich source of data that represent the real time views and thoughts of experts and public on a particular theme. The study intends to identify the various dimensions of the use of cybervetting by recruiters and job seekers, the two most important stakeholders in the talent acquisition space. Also, the study identifies the important motivators for the use of this practice, the pertinent concerns, and suitable remedies for resolving them. The findings of the study offer valuable insights and evidence for cybervetting from the perspective of a recruiter and the job aspirant, in comprehending the complexities and intricacies of the digital identities.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.4018/JGIM.388745

Consumption patterns in urban sophisticate branding. A qualitative perspective on its psychological foundations

Ebtesam Abdullah Alzeiby Dhruv Galgotia Eszter Szabó-Szentgróti Nidhi Sahore

Publication Name: Acta Psychologica

Publication Date: 2026-02-01

Volume: 262

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

The emergence of the urban sophisticate consumer has led to changing consumption patterns in the global retail landscape. While there has been a surge in academic literature examining various aspects of urban sophistication, empirical studies examining the attributes of the urban sophisticated consumer in the context of fashion apparel, fashion accessories, and grooming products still need to be included. This study investigates the concept of ‘urban sophisticate’ consumers in the context of marketing, branding, and retailing for the first time. It has proposed a conceptual framework for retailing to urban sophisticates through a qualitative inductive method based on the empirical analysis of the open essay-based responses collected from working men in the UK. The factors making this consumer segment lucrative for retailers include high spending power, focus on appearance, desire for quality, and the availability of unique products as per their preferences. Urban sophisticate consumers prefer modern, high-end fashion items and have shown displeasure towards unsustainable fast fashion. The study's findings will benefit grooming product companies, fashion apparel and accessories marketers, and retailers by providing insights into the behaviour of urban sophisticate consumers. Furthermore, this study could be a turning point to elicit marketers' experimentation in designing new products and expanding their product base to include additional product offerings that could interest urban sophisticates.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.106049

Experiential learning and governance in the socio-technical era: Modeling responsible AI performance via explainability and adaptability

Varun Chotia Intesar Almugren Attila Kurucz Nidhi Sahore Ming Liu

Publication Name: Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Publication Date: 2026-06-01

Volume: 227

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

The concept of artificial intelligence (AI) is altering the way organizations operate. AI systems will deliver more intelligent results in a shorter period of time, starting with decision-making up to innovation. However, the more it is adopted, the more issues to do with fairness, transparency, and accountability are raised. Most organizations are finding it difficult to reconcile innovation and ethical responsibility. This study discusses the role of internal capabilities in making firms govern AI responsibly. The study proposes a model linking four key organizational capabilities, i.e., explainable AI capability, contextual learning adaptability, experiential learning orientation, and organizational ethical alignment to responsible AI performance. The impact of these capabilities on user interpretability and trust, responsible AI governance maturity, and decision transparency is also examined in this study. The results show that explainable AI capability and learning adaptability enhance user trust, while experiential learning orientation and organizational ethical alignment significantly improve governance maturity. Governance maturity and decision transparency lead to stronger responsible AI performance. Interestingly, not all expected paths held as user interpretability trust and governance maturity did not directly predict decision transparency. The findings show that building technical and cultural capabilities inside firms is essential not just to deploy AI effectively, but to do it responsibly. For leaders, this means moving beyond checklists and toward meaningful governance rooted in learning, transparency, and ethical alignment.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2026.124624

Psychological foundations of solo dining experience in tourism and hospitality industry. A mixed methods study

Priyanka Malik Lata Bajpai Singh Ebtesam Abdullah Alzeiby Attila Kurucz Nidhi Sahore

Publication Name: Acta Psychologica

Publication Date: 2026-06-01

Volume: 266

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

Solo dining has gained substantial recognition in the restaurant business worldwide. Considering the growing trend of solo dining, it has attracted increasing interest from academia and industry. Since the current stage of knowledge on solo dining practices and their management is limited and scattered, it requires integration to provide scholars with an outline of the current state of knowledge in this field, as well as the industry expert insights. To address this issue, the current study applies a mixed-method approach to first gather insights from the existing literature by conducting a systematic literature review (SLR). Subsequently, in order to substantiate SLR findings, a qualitative study is designed to garner industry expert views on solo dining experience, enhancing restaurant practices and strategies. The SLR has revealed three distinct thematic areas, such as solo dining antecedents, solo diner's experience while dining, and the solo diner's outcome behaviour. Based on these insights, it was necessary to identify the practical takeaways for the restaurants in the hospitality industry; therefore, a qualitative study was designed following the mixed-method approach of research design. The empirical results present solo dining strategies implemented by restaurant owners and staff. The Gioia technique of qualitative analysis of data brought forward four solo dining aggregate dimensions presenting the solo diner's profile, adaptive comfort, human touch, and restaurant strategies. This study makes a novel contribution to the solo dining literature by identifying psychophysiological aspects of solo dining and offering managerial insights for restaurant industry professionals.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.106760

Understanding the psychology of knowledge sharing and experience in digital service ecosystems

Ankit Mehrotra Attila Kurucz Rsha Alghafes Nidhi Sahore Jaskirat Singh Rai

Publication Name: Acta Psychologica

Publication Date: 2026-07-01

Volume: 267

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

Drawing on service-dominant (SD) logic, which conceptualizes value as emerging through resource integration and use rather than direct technological outputs, the study examines how technology-mediated knowledge-sharing platforms (TMKSP) influence employee and employee-perceived customer experience using the DART (dialogue, access, risk assessment, transparency) framework of value co-creation. Employing a mixed-method approach, a pre-hoc qualitative study (Study A) identified key TMKSP features relevant to value co-creation, which informed the development of a DART-based survey for the quantitative phase (Study B). Data from retail employees were analyzed using PLS-SEM with two-tailed bias-correct bootstrapping. The findings show that TMKSP significantly improves employee experience via platform access and reduced perceived risk, while enhancing employee-perceived customer experience through employee-customer dialogue and platform transparency. Mediation analysis confirms the explanatory role of DART-based constructs in linking TMKSP with experience outcomes, although the mediating role of perceived platform risk was not supported. The study contributes theoretically by operationalizing SD logic within an internal service ecosystem and demonstrating how value-in-use is shared through employee-perceived co-creation conditions rather than through direct technological effects. It offers practical guidance for managers aiming to design employee and customer-centric knowledge-sharing ecosystems.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.106974