The COVID-19 phenomenon led to an increase in the digitalization of the tourism sector, reducing the demand for services and affecting business performance. There is no doubt that leadership plays a fundamental role in the management of organizations. Therefore, it is necessary to delve deeper into the study of the collaborative style to build social capital and measure the impact it can generate on the performance of tourism companies. The influence of collaborative leadership, in its dimensions of resources and work environment, as well as the mobilization of interest groups, on financial and non-financial performance was analyzed, in addition to the mediation of social capital in this relationship. It was carried out under a quantitative approach, not experimenting in the design, taking the data only once, the sample was made up of 782 representatives of Peruvian tourism companies, using self-administered questionnaires and SEM for the analysis. The results indicate that resources and the work environment positively impact financial performance, but not social capital. Furthermore, stakeholder management influences both non-financial performance and social capital. Likewise, it is confirmed that social capital positively affects both dimensions of organizational performance. A partial mediation of social capital was found, as stakeholder management was associated with non-financial performance, with no mediation in the relationship between resources and work environment on financial performance. These findings highlight the need to strengthen collaborative leadership to improve the performance levels of companies that provide tourism services.

The previous research relating to CSR and mindfulness leadership, for the purposes of this study, provides an intersection where both backgrounds come together to invite an opportunity for collaboration. The most critical factor in the implementation of CSR is the development of leaders for a sustainable global society as mindfulness should be relevant to the achievement of organizational and leadership objectives. It is here that we find the inspiration for the current study and the relevance of the research query endeavoring to discover if the framework of mindfulness leadership could prove an effective driver for CSR? For this reason, 20 in-depth interviews were conducted from the middle level managers working in an emerging economy - Pakistan. The conceptual framework of leadership theory guided this study’s investigation as it brought to the forefront certain challenges facing organizational leaders endeavoring to facilitate CSR objectives; and explored if the application of mindfulness leadership could prove an effective leadership framework for successful CSR engagement. This supporting data coupled with the study’s interview of executive leaders, across industry lines, familiar with CSR initiatives, lent to certain analytical insight that identified mindfulness leadership as a framework for organizations to facilitate the accomplishment of CSR objectives.

This study investigates the impact of green innovation strategy on project management performance in the food sector of Saudi Arabia, examining the mediating roles of strategic quality planning and strategic leadership. Using a cross-sectional quantitative approach, data were collected in January 2025 from 341 employees through a convenience sampling technique. Structural equation modeling via SmartPLS was employed to analyze the data. Results indicate that green innovation strategy positively influences strategic quality planning (β = 0.655) and strategic leadership (β = 0.541), which in turn significantly enhance project management performance (β = 0.566 and β = 0.657, respectively). Additionally, strategic quality planning (β = 0.456) and strategic leadership (β = 0.505) partially mediate the relationship between green innovation strategy and project management performance. These findings highlight the critical role of green innovation and strategic management practices in improving project outcomes within Saudi Arabia’s food industry.

Current study aims to examine the relationship between knowledge management and performance excellence through the effect of knowledge management (KM) on technological vigilance within pharmaceutical manufacturing organizations in Jordan. Depending on quantitative approach, 270 questionnaires were distributed among employees and leaders of 49 pharmaceutical manufacturing organizations in Jordan to examine the effect of KM and its chosen variables, Organizational Culture, Leadership, Organizational Processes, Organization's Politics and Strategies, on delivering organization to performance excellence through the mediating role of technological vigilance. Results of the study indicate a positive influence of KM on delivering organization to excellence; this influence was attributed to mainly leadership as the basic driver. The results also indicate that technological vigilance mediates the relationship between knowledge management and delivering the organization to the state of performance excellence. Moreover, the study results indicate that KM enhances the organization's ability to retain and improve organizational performance and helps deliver it to excellence based on experience and knowledge. Knowledge management allows the institution to define the required knowledge, document, develop, share, apply and evaluate this knowledge and it is an approach for excellent performance. Study recommends increasing efforts towards providing the requirements of applying knowledge management, and the need for organizational structures to be horizontal and flexible, and there must be conscious and eager leadership to apply knowledge management and encourage the exchange of information, and the need for organizational culture to be conducive to the application of knowledge.

A good performance potentially creates competitive advantage for any organization. Performance is determined by the role of leaders who influence all members of organizations through clear directions. Likewise, employee satisfaction in improving the performance of an organization also depends on the leader. This study investigates the role of leadership and job satisfaction on employee’s performance. Sample of this research includes 160 employees in a public organization in Indonesia. They are analyzed by descriptive and inference statistics for the linearity and regression analysis. The results of the study show that leadership had a significant impact on employee’s performance and job satisfaction. They are recommended to be considered when performance needs to be improved.

This study aims to analyze and examine the effect of leadership on small and medium enterprise (SMEs) green supply chain performance, the effect of organizational pressure on SMEs’ green supply chain performance and the effect of the environment on green supply chain performance of the SMEs. The research method is a quantitative method, data analysis uses structural equation modeling (SEM) with SmartPLS 3.0 software tools. The population of this study is internal auditors who have experience in cyber security and information technology. The sample for this study was 490 respondents of SMEs owners who were determined by the snowball sampling method. The research data was obtained from an online questionnaire which was distributed via social media. The questionnaire was designed using a Likert scale of 1 to 6. The stages of data analysis were validity test, reliability test and significance test. The results indicate that leadership has a positive and significant effect on the performance of the green supply chain of SMEs, organizational pressure has a negative and significant effect on the green supply chain and the environment has a positive and significant effect as well. Improving SMEs' green supply chain performance requires increased leadership, reduced organizational pressure and an improved work environment. This study generates a leadership relationship model on green supply chain performance, organizational pressure on green supply chain performance and environment on green supply chain performance.

There is a lot of evidence regarding air flight accidents caused by human error, especially air traffic controllers (ATC). On the other hand, the principle of work safety through safety performance can help organizations reduce the number of work accidents and create zero accidents in the aviation industry. This research aims to analyze the effect of leadership on safety culture and safety performance by investigating the mediating role of Safety Based Dynamic Uncertainty Reduction (SDUR) as an integral aspect in safety research. A total of 214 respondents were involved in this research. The analysis technique used in this study is Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The results showed significant effects of leadership on safety culture and safety performance. The mediating analysis also reveals the significant effects of SDUR in strengthening the impact of leadership to safety performance. As implications, SDUR can be considered as an effective strategy in improving Safety Performance in the workplace.

Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are important in driving a country’s economy and cover the entire manufacturing sector. Therefore, entrepreneurs with specific characteristics are needed for MSMEs to be successful. This study analyzed the exploratory components of entrepreneur characteristics in sustainably successful MSMEs. Data from interviewing 500 entrepreneurs who successfully operated MSMEs were analyzed using descriptive, referential, and multivariate statistics. Analysis of the entrepreneur characteristics’ exploratory components revealed that their Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin index was 0.969, and eigenvalues after axis rotation were 6.545–8.899. Four components were extracted: leadership, personality, management skills, and morality/ethics. Entrepreneurs’ characteristics in sustainably successful MSMEs include the ability to prioritize tasks appropriately, punctuality, people management skills, consideration of non-violation of rights, and non-imitation of others.

Little research has been devoted to focus on women’s leadership styles in particular especially in Kuwait. The aim of this study is therefore twofold: (i) to identify the different leadership styles of women in the public sector in Kuwait, and (ii) to examine if the identified leadership styles of wom-en vary in terms of the demographic characteristics of their subordinates. A quantitative study (questionnaire with 263 employees) is conducted in order to achieve the study objectives. The re-sults of the study show that women in public sector in Kuwait frequently displayed various leader-ship styles as perceived by their followers such as inspirational motivation, idealized influence (at-tribute) styles. Some other styles were displayed fairly often such as management by exception (ac-tive), idealized influence (behavior). Moreover, the dominated leadership styles that displayed fre-quently by women was the transformational style. The study found that the transformational leader-ship style of women varied in terms of the educational level and job title of their followers. Several recommendations were suggested based on these findings that may improve the effectiveness of women leadership in the public sector.

Drawing from research on despotic leadership, employee engagement, employee trust and employee task performance using conservation of resource theory and social exchange theory, this study investigated the three-way interaction of mediating effects of employee engagement (EE) and employee trust (ET) in the link between despotic leadership (DL) behavior of supervisor and employee task performance (TP). Data collected from 310 employees reflected that despotic leadership had negative effect on follower’s task performance, yet the role of employee trust and employee engagement provided the evidence of mediation. The study has explored the rarely addressed area of destructive leadership in the cultural setting of a developing country. The findings of the study have significant implications for future research and practice.