INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (IJEMP)

CULTURE'S INFLUENCE ON INVESTMENT: A BIBLIOMETRIC REVIEW

2026-11-11T16:49:49+08:00

Culture is increasingly recognized as a determinant of investment behaviour, yet the literature connecting these two constructs remains fragmented across disciplines, cultural frameworks, and units of analysis, with no bibliometric synthesis clarifying its intellectual structure or growth trajectory. This study addresses that gap through a bibliometric review of culture's influence on investment. Using Scopus's advanced search analyser with the keywords culture and investment, records were retrieved yielding a dataset of 111 documents published between 2004 and 2026; refined through OpenRefine for cleaning and deduplication, and mapped using VOSviewer for co-authorship, keyword co-occurrence, and citation network analysis. Results show a modest but steadily growing publication trend, accelerating sharply after 2022 and peaking at fourteen publications in 2025. Citation analysis identifies a concentrated set of highly cited, cross-national studies, led by a 2013 study linking national culture to corporate investment with 194 citations, supported by a broader tier of substantively cited works across management, finance, psychology, and anthropology. The United States, China, and the United Kingdom emerge as the leading contributors, forming the core of a bifurcated co-authorship network alongside a secondary European–Commonwealth cluster. Keyword co-occurrence analysis reveals two thematic streams: an established stream on firm-level national-culture research, and an emerging stream on regional economic comparisons involving China. Overall, culture and investment research has grown from a relatively niche topic into an increasingly international and multidisciplinary field, although geographical imbalances and limited cross-cluster collaboration remain evident. These findings provide valuable insights into the intellectual structure and development of culture and investment research and highlight opportunities for future studies to examine underexplored cultural contexts, cross-country relationships, and emerging investment themes.

WORK-LIFE BALANCE RESEARCH IN DUAL-CAREER LIVES: A CHRONOLOGICAL REVIEW

2026-11-11T17:02:05+08:00

Work-life balance has become an important research domain as changes in employment structures, family roles, and career expectations have increased the complexity of man-aging work and non-work responsibilities, particularly among dual-career individuals and couples. Despite growing scholarly attention, the literature remains fragmented across different periods, contexts, and research perspectives, limiting understanding of how work-life balance research in dual-career lives has evolved. This study provides a chronological review to trace the field's development and identify major shifts in re-search focus. A systematic advanced search was conducted in the Scopus database, using “work-life balance” and “dual-career lives” as the main search concepts alongside related terms. The search and screening procedures produced a final dataset of 72 primary articles for chronological analysis. Based on publication patterns and shifts in research focus, the literature was organised into three temporal phases: Emergence and Early Development (2007-2013), Expansion and Consolidation (2014-2020), and Acceleration and Contemporary Development (2021-2025). The findings demonstrate a progression from early attention to changing family structures, work-family conflict, organisational flexibility, and career coordination to broader consideration of dyadic relationships, boundary management, workplace support, gender roles, and family well-being. Recent studies increasingly emphasise parenting and caregiving, partner-level transmission of work-family experiences, flexible work arrangements, post-pandemic changes, persistent gender inequalities, and sustainable careers. Overall, the review reveals that work-life balance in dual-career lives has evolved from a predominantly conflict-oriented perspective to a multidimensional field incorporating relational, organisational, family, and societal dimensions. This evolution provides a structured foundation for future research on changing dual-career realities.

DIGITAL FINANCE ADOPTION AND CONTINUANCE AMONG OLDER ADULTS: A CHRONOLOGICAL REVIEW

2026-11-11T17:28:23+08:00

Digital financial services have increased access to banking, payments, and other financial services. However, digital literacy, usability, trust, security, access, and vulnerability to fraud remain barriers for older adults. This study presents a chronological overview of studies on older adults' acceptance and continuance of digital finance, tracing the evolution of research priorities, determinants, and behavioural outcomes over time. The systematic advanced search was conducted in the Scopus database using four major concepts: digital finance, adoption, older adults, and continuance. Using predetermined eligibility criteria, the retrieved records were filtered for their relevance, and a final corpus of 63 primary journal articles from 2018 to August 2026 was selected. The literature was divided into three time periods based on annual publication volume and research emphasis. Nine articles (14.3%) were identified in the Emergence and Foundation phase (2018-2020), 17 articles (27.0%) in the Expansion and Transition phase (2021-2023), and 37 articles (58.7%) in the Acceleration and Consolidation phase (2024-2026). The results show that the research has moved from first generation – acceptance, usability, and barriers by age groups – to second generation – usage, customer experience, security, trust, digital financial literacy, accessibility, wellbeing, and continuance. Recent studies have begun to identify older adults as a diverse group and the importance of considering how services are designed, as well as social and in-institutional support and safeguards, can interact with individual's capability. The review concludes that research and practice should go beyond the intention to adopt digital-finance to explore how to establish an inclusive, secure, and age-appropriate environment.

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE ORGANISATIONAL RESILIENCE: A CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVE ON COLLABORATIVE FORESIGHT AND STRATEGIC ADAPTABILITY

2026-11-11T17:32:00+08:00

In an increasingly volatile global landscape characterised by brittle, anxious, non-linear, and incomprehensible (BANI) conditions, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face compounding disruptions—ranging from economic shifts to geopolitical conflicts—that threaten their long-term survival. This conceptual paper addresses the limitations of traditional, reactive crisis management by proposing an integrative framework designed to build Sustainable Organisational Resilience (SOR) and cultivate competitive advantage. Grounded in the Resource-Based Theory (RBT) and Dynamic Capability Theory (DCT), this study synthesises literature across strategic management, foresight, and adaptability to develop a theoretical model that positions Collaborative Foresight (CF) and Strategic Adaptability (SA) as mutually reinforcing dynamic capabilities. Rather than relying on isolated internal forecasting, the framework demonstrates how SMEs can leverage inter-organisational stakeholder collaboration and agile structural adaptations to continuously sense external trends and reconfigure core competencies. Through a systematic theoretical analysis, five core research propositions are developed, positing that CF and SA directly enhance organisational resilience, which in turn serves as a vital mediating mechanism driving SME competitiveness. The study concludes that transitioning from reactive damage control to proactive, foresight-driven adaptability enables resource-constrained SMEs to absorb environmental shocks, sustain value creation, and ultimately become "BANI-proof" organisations. By bridging the gap between static resource allocation and dynamic capability deployment, this paper offers significant theoretical contributions to RBT and DCT while providing practical guidance for SME owner-managers and policymakers seeking to foster resilient business ecosystems. Future empirical validation using quantitative structural equation modelling is recommended to test the proposed conceptual linkages.

NAVIGATING DISRUPTION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF SME ADAPTATION AND SURVIVAL

2026-11-11T17:41:09+08:00

The survival and adaptability of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are currently facing ongoing tests due to a modern business landscape frequently disrupted by market uncertainty and the rapid pace of technological change. Although SME resilience has received growing scholarly attention, the literature remains fragmented on the strategic and organisational mechanisms that enable SMEs to respond effectively to disruption. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA 2020) framework, an advanced search was conducted across the Scopus and Web of Science databases using combinations of the keywords SMEs, resilience, and strategic adaptability. The study included research published between 2024 and October 2026 and used established screening and qualifying criteria to identify relevant primary studies. After a thorough screening and quality assessment, 29 main papers were included in the final synthesis. The thematic analysis identified three interconnected themes: (1) Digital Transformation and Technological Innovation, highlighting the role of digital technologies and innovation in strengthening SMEs’ capacity to respond to disruption; (2) Leadership, Human Capital, and Strategic Preparedness, emphasising leadership capabilities, employee competencies, organisational readiness, and proactive preparation; and (3) Dynamic Capabilities, Bricolage, and Strategic Adaptation, demonstrating how SMEs reconfigure resources, improvise with available resources, and adapt strategies under changing conditions. Overall, the findings indicate that SME survival in disruptive environments is shaped not by a single resilience mechanism but by the interaction of technological, human, and strategic capabilities. The review provides an integrated foundation for understanding SME adaptation and identifies directions for future research on building more resilient and disruption-ready SMEs.