Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4035904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asghar Afshar |
| FAMILY NAME | Jahanshahi |
| SIGNATURE | JAHANSHAHI A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2241-9913 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Toward sustainable agrientrepreneurship
Purpose This study aims to investigate the behavioral drivers influencing rural family business agrientrepreneurs’ intention to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) for sustainable agrientrepreneurship, addressing a significant gap in understanding technology adoption in resource-constrained and emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach Using a positivist approach with hypothetical deductive observation, data from 392 rural Bangladeshi family…
When the Boss Is Always Right
Leadership profoundly shapes team communication and sustainability engagement. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory (UET), this study examines how leaders' dark personality traits, Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy, influence team sustainability‐related behaviors through promotive and prohibitive voice and how leader–team gender similarity conditions these relationships. Using multisource data from 76 team leaders and 228 team members acr…
The Dual Faces of Leadership
When Darkness Dims the Social Light
Causation processes and innovation strategy in small- and medium-sized firms in emerging countries
In the dynamic and resource-constrained environment of emerging countries, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face unique challenges in pursuing innovation strategy. This study addresses a critical gap in understanding how founder-CEOs' causation processes interact with human capital to shape SMEs' innovation strategy. While previous research has separately explored the impact of causation processes on innovation and the influence of foun…
Brain Drain in Sport
The global sports landscape has witnessed a significant rise in athlete migration, shaped by complex socio‐cultural and economic factors. This study employs a qualitative research design based on grounded theory, specifically utilizing situational analysis (SA), to examine the migration dynamics of Iranian athletes. SA was selected for its capacity to provide a comprehensive analytical framework that captures the historical context, social arenas…
Financial Growth of Sport Industry in the Extreme Context
The objective of this research is to shift the narrative toward the impact of international sanctions against Iran and the ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic on the financial growth of the sports industry. Employing Importance‐Performance Analysis (IPA), we delve into the diverse factors influencing the financial dynamics of the sports sector in Iran. After an extensive review of the research literature, we identify pivotal elements affecting the financia…
Mental Resilience in Crisis
The pervasive impact of COVID‐19 and economic sanctions has significantly influenced the well‐being of Iranian athletes, leaving lasting imprints on both their physical and mental health. During this challenging time, this comprehensive study delves into the nuanced disparities among various cohorts of Iranian athletes across multiple dimensions, including insomnia severity, psychological distress, anxiety, depression, intrusive thoughts, life sa…
Prevention and control of violence and aggression in football fans
This research was conducted to design an interpretive structural model of factors affecting the prevention and control of violence and aggression in football fans. The statistical population of this study was entirely composed of sport experts, executive managers, sociologists, and management professors in Iran. Thirteen individuals were accordingly selected as the research sample using non-probability purposeful sampling. The effective factors w…
Towards sustainable businesses in Latin America
Having sustainable businesses becomes priority for many Latin American countries these years. Socially responsible behaviors (SRBs) of employees in the workplace plays important roles in making businesses more sustainability oriented. The main aims of this research to identify those employees, which involve less in two types of SRBs: societal behaviors and sustainability‐oriented behaviors at the workplace by considering their Dark Triad personal…
Emotion regulation strategies and psychological health across cultures
Emotion regulation is important for psychological health and can be achieved by implementing various strategies. How one regulates emotions is critical for maximizing psychological health. Few studies, however, tested the psychological correlates of different emotion regulation strategies across multiple cultures. In a preregistered cross-cultural study ( N = 3,960, 19 countries), conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, we assessed associations b…
The Outcomes of Organizational Fairness among Precarious Workers
Precarious workers usually have some of the most unstable working conditions in any country. In this research, we firstly investigated the influence of organizational fairness on the emotional exhaustion and leave intentions of Peruvian precarious workers. Then, we tested the mediating role of anomie at work in the relationship between organizational fairness and the emotional exhaustion and leave intentions of precarious workers. To identify the…
Appraisal and coping predict health and well‐being during the Covid ‐19 pandemic
COVID‐19 has had a devastating impact on people worldwide. We conducted an international survey ( n = 3646) examining the degree to which people's appraisals and coping activities around the pandemic predicted their health and well‐being. We obtained subsamples from 12 countries—Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, India, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Turkey and the United States. For each, we assessed appraisals and coping s…
A dual-factor theory of WTs adoption in aged care service operations – a cross-country analysis
Purpose This study focuses on the adoption of wearable technologies in a context where care-providing organizations can offer, in collaboration with caregivers, better care. Drawing on dual-factor theory and from the caregiver perspective, this study identifies and examines factors of technology adoption in four developing countries. Design/methodology/approach This study was undertaken using a quantitative approach. A survey was distributed amon…
The Relationship Between Age and Mental Health Among Adults in Iran During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Succumbing to the Covid-19 Pandemic—Healthcare Workers Not Satisfied and Intend to Leave Their Jobs
Sustainable development challenges in a war‐torn country
The laborer's physical and mental health, well‐being, and happiness are among the major indicators for measuring each nation's sustainable development. A conflictive and hostile external environment (war zone) poses considerable difficulty and psychological distress to workers and nonworkers. Therefore, working in such a physically dangerous business environment may hurt worker's well‐being and happiness that in turn may reduce the workers' produ…
The effects of individual characteristics on women intention to become social entrepreneurs
Which individual‐level factors motivate women to become a social entrepreneur? To answer this question, we examined the direct impact of problem‐solving skills, networking ability, and entrepreneurial knowledge with social entrepreneurial intention. Furthermore, we tested the indirect effects of these three factors through self‐efficacy. The study hypotheses were tested using a sample of 234 Bangladeshi women. In this research, Smart PLS 3.0 has …
Managerial support for innovation as the source of corporate sustainability and innovative performance
Managerial support for innovation plays an important role in improving the competitive positions of public and private companies. To determine the outcomes of managerial support for innovation, we conducted a survey among 333 senior staff working in 20 logistics companies in Turkey. The findings of the study show that managerial support for innovation and financial innovation improve the corporate sustainability and innovation performance of comp…
The shadow economy and sustainable development
This paper provides fresh evidence concerning the threshold relationship between the shadow economy and financial development. Shadow economy is quoted as an obstacle to sustainable development and therefore the role of financial development is examined in this paper to tackle the issue of shadow economy. It is based on panel data of 29 developed and developing countries over the period of 1975–2015 and use of panel threshold model. Three proxies…
The way to sustainable development through income equality
The main aim of this paper is to examine the threshold impact of financial development and trade liberalization on income inequality as a measure of sustainable development in a sample of developed and developing countries using panel threshold analysis. Two major dimensions of financial development are considered: liquid liabilities and stock market capitalization. The empirical results revealed that financial development reduces income inequali…
Competitiveness improvement in public sector organizations
What types of public sector organizations have more capabilities to build competitive advantages? Ability to achieve a unique advantage over the competitors is a way to explain why some of the firms are more successful than others, and it is important to the survival of both public and private businesses in the present day's highly competitive business world. Concentrating on the role of employees, the current study analyzes how internal marketin…
Anomie at public organizations
Will enhancing the quality of work life impact the reduction of anomic behaviors at work in public sector organizations? To answer this question, we examined the impact of three structural, managerial, and social dimensions of the quality of work life, including the employees' anomie behaviors at the workplace. A cross‐sectional survey data were collected from 250 employees working in the public sector organizations located in the Kerman Province…
Sustainable development in Iran post‐sanction
Embracing green innovation is one of the most common elements for improving the firm's environmental performance. In a business environment with high level of bureaucratic corruption, companies can easily neglect their environmental accountability. Therefore, strong motivations are needed to prompt or force companies to acknowledge their environmental responsibility. To discover which types of companies embrace green practices, this study explore…
Antecedents of Corporate Environmental Commitments
The management of natural environments has become a fundamental issue for companies in recent years. A firm’s environmental commitment affects all levels of its operation. In this study, we investigated whether having an effective and constant relationship with customers over time (customer capital) makes a difference to firms with a high environmental commitment compared with less environmentally committed firms. We found support for our idea by…
Emotion regulation strategies and psychological health across cultures
Emotion regulation is important for psychological health and can be achieved by implementing various strategies. How one regulates emotions is critical for maximizing psychological health. Few studies, however, tested the psychological correlates of different emotion regulation strategies across multiple cultures. In a preregistered cross-cultural study ( N = 3,960, 19 countries), conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, we assessed associations b…
The shadow economy and sustainable development
This paper provides fresh evidence concerning the threshold relationship between the shadow economy and financial development. Shadow economy is quoted as an obstacle to sustainable development and therefore the role of financial development is examined in this paper to tackle the issue of shadow economy. It is based on panel data of 29 developed and developing countries over the period of 1975–2015 and use of panel threshold model. Three proxies…
The way to sustainable development through income equality
The main aim of this paper is to examine the threshold impact of financial development and trade liberalization on income inequality as a measure of sustainable development in a sample of developed and developing countries using panel threshold analysis. Two major dimensions of financial development are considered: liquid liabilities and stock market capitalization. The empirical results revealed that financial development reduces income inequali…
Sustainable development in Iran post‐sanction
Embracing green innovation is one of the most common elements for improving the firm's environmental performance. In a business environment with high level of bureaucratic corruption, companies can easily neglect their environmental accountability. Therefore, strong motivations are needed to prompt or force companies to acknowledge their environmental responsibility. To discover which types of companies embrace green practices, this study explore…
Sustainable development challenges in a war‐torn country
The laborer's physical and mental health, well‐being, and happiness are among the major indicators for measuring each nation's sustainable development. A conflictive and hostile external environment (war zone) poses considerable difficulty and psychological distress to workers and nonworkers. Therefore, working in such a physically dangerous business environment may hurt worker's well‐being and happiness that in turn may reduce the workers' produ…
Anomie at public organizations
Will enhancing the quality of work life impact the reduction of anomic behaviors at work in public sector organizations? To answer this question, we examined the impact of three structural, managerial, and social dimensions of the quality of work life, including the employees' anomie behaviors at the workplace. A cross‐sectional survey data were collected from 250 employees working in the public sector organizations located in the Kerman Province…
The effects of individual characteristics on women intention to become social entrepreneurs
Which individual‐level factors motivate women to become a social entrepreneur? To answer this question, we examined the direct impact of problem‐solving skills, networking ability, and entrepreneurial knowledge with social entrepreneurial intention. Furthermore, we tested the indirect effects of these three factors through self‐efficacy. The study hypotheses were tested using a sample of 234 Bangladeshi women. In this research, Smart PLS 3.0 has …
Antecedents of Corporate Environmental Commitments
The management of natural environments has become a fundamental issue for companies in recent years. A firm’s environmental commitment affects all levels of its operation. In this study, we investigated whether having an effective and constant relationship with customers over time (customer capital) makes a difference to firms with a high environmental commitment compared with less environmentally committed firms. We found support for our idea by…
Competitiveness improvement in public sector organizations
What types of public sector organizations have more capabilities to build competitive advantages? Ability to achieve a unique advantage over the competitors is a way to explain why some of the firms are more successful than others, and it is important to the survival of both public and private businesses in the present day's highly competitive business world. Concentrating on the role of employees, the current study analyzes how internal marketin…
Anomie at public organizations
Will enhancing the quality of work life impact the reduction of anomic behaviors at work in public sector organizations? To answer this question, we examined the impact of three structural, managerial, and social dimensions of the quality of work life, including the employees' anomie behaviors at the workplace. A cross‐sectional survey data were collected from 250 employees working in the public sector organizations located in the Kerman Province…
Sustainable development in Iran post‐sanction
Embracing green innovation is one of the most common elements for improving the firm's environmental performance. In a business environment with high level of bureaucratic corruption, companies can easily neglect their environmental accountability. Therefore, strong motivations are needed to prompt or force companies to acknowledge their environmental responsibility. To discover which types of companies embrace green practices, this study explore…
Sustainable development challenges in a war‐torn country
The laborer's physical and mental health, well‐being, and happiness are among the major indicators for measuring each nation's sustainable development. A conflictive and hostile external environment (war zone) poses considerable difficulty and psychological distress to workers and nonworkers. Therefore, working in such a physically dangerous business environment may hurt worker's well‐being and happiness that in turn may reduce the workers' produ…
The effects of individual characteristics on women intention to become social entrepreneurs
Which individual‐level factors motivate women to become a social entrepreneur? To answer this question, we examined the direct impact of problem‐solving skills, networking ability, and entrepreneurial knowledge with social entrepreneurial intention. Furthermore, we tested the indirect effects of these three factors through self‐efficacy. The study hypotheses were tested using a sample of 234 Bangladeshi women. In this research, Smart PLS 3.0 has …
Managerial support for innovation as the source of corporate sustainability and innovative performance
Managerial support for innovation plays an important role in improving the competitive positions of public and private companies. To determine the outcomes of managerial support for innovation, we conducted a survey among 333 senior staff working in 20 logistics companies in Turkey. The findings of the study show that managerial support for innovation and financial innovation improve the corporate sustainability and innovation performance of comp…
The shadow economy and sustainable development
This paper provides fresh evidence concerning the threshold relationship between the shadow economy and financial development. Shadow economy is quoted as an obstacle to sustainable development and therefore the role of financial development is examined in this paper to tackle the issue of shadow economy. It is based on panel data of 29 developed and developing countries over the period of 1975–2015 and use of panel threshold model. Three proxies…
The way to sustainable development through income equality
The main aim of this paper is to examine the threshold impact of financial development and trade liberalization on income inequality as a measure of sustainable development in a sample of developed and developing countries using panel threshold analysis. Two major dimensions of financial development are considered: liquid liabilities and stock market capitalization. The empirical results revealed that financial development reduces income inequali…
A dual-factor theory of WTs adoption in aged care service operations – a cross-country analysis
Purpose This study focuses on the adoption of wearable technologies in a context where care-providing organizations can offer, in collaboration with caregivers, better care. Drawing on dual-factor theory and from the caregiver perspective, this study identifies and examines factors of technology adoption in four developing countries. Design/methodology/approach This study was undertaken using a quantitative approach. A survey was distributed amon…
The Relationship Between Age and Mental Health Among Adults in Iran During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Succumbing to the Covid-19 Pandemic—Healthcare Workers Not Satisfied and Intend to Leave Their Jobs
The Outcomes of Organizational Fairness among Precarious Workers
Precarious workers usually have some of the most unstable working conditions in any country. In this research, we firstly investigated the influence of organizational fairness on the emotional exhaustion and leave intentions of Peruvian precarious workers. Then, we tested the mediating role of anomie at work in the relationship between organizational fairness and the emotional exhaustion and leave intentions of precarious workers. To identify the…
Appraisal and coping predict health and well‐being during the Covid ‐19 pandemic
COVID‐19 has had a devastating impact on people worldwide. We conducted an international survey ( n = 3646) examining the degree to which people's appraisals and coping activities around the pandemic predicted their health and well‐being. We obtained subsamples from 12 countries—Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, India, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Turkey and the United States. For each, we assessed appraisals and coping s…
Prevention and control of violence and aggression in football fans
This research was conducted to design an interpretive structural model of factors affecting the prevention and control of violence and aggression in football fans. The statistical population of this study was entirely composed of sport experts, executive managers, sociologists, and management professors in Iran. Thirteen individuals were accordingly selected as the research sample using non-probability purposeful sampling. The effective factors w…
Towards sustainable businesses in Latin America
Having sustainable businesses becomes priority for many Latin American countries these years. Socially responsible behaviors (SRBs) of employees in the workplace plays important roles in making businesses more sustainability oriented. The main aims of this research to identify those employees, which involve less in two types of SRBs: societal behaviors and sustainability‐oriented behaviors at the workplace by considering their Dark Triad personal…
Emotion regulation strategies and psychological health across cultures
Emotion regulation is important for psychological health and can be achieved by implementing various strategies. How one regulates emotions is critical for maximizing psychological health. Few studies, however, tested the psychological correlates of different emotion regulation strategies across multiple cultures. In a preregistered cross-cultural study ( N = 3,960, 19 countries), conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, we assessed associations b…
Mental Resilience in Crisis
The pervasive impact of COVID‐19 and economic sanctions has significantly influenced the well‐being of Iranian athletes, leaving lasting imprints on both their physical and mental health. During this challenging time, this comprehensive study delves into the nuanced disparities among various cohorts of Iranian athletes across multiple dimensions, including insomnia severity, psychological distress, anxiety, depression, intrusive thoughts, life sa…
When Darkness Dims the Social Light
Causation processes and innovation strategy in small- and medium-sized firms in emerging countries
In the dynamic and resource-constrained environment of emerging countries, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face unique challenges in pursuing innovation strategy. This study addresses a critical gap in understanding how founder-CEOs' causation processes interact with human capital to shape SMEs' innovation strategy. While previous research has separately explored the impact of causation processes on innovation and the influence of foun…
Brain Drain in Sport
The global sports landscape has witnessed a significant rise in athlete migration, shaped by complex socio‐cultural and economic factors. This study employs a qualitative research design based on grounded theory, specifically utilizing situational analysis (SA), to examine the migration dynamics of Iranian athletes. SA was selected for its capacity to provide a comprehensive analytical framework that captures the historical context, social arenas…
Financial Growth of Sport Industry in the Extreme Context
The objective of this research is to shift the narrative toward the impact of international sanctions against Iran and the ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic on the financial growth of the sports industry. Employing Importance‐Performance Analysis (IPA), we delve into the diverse factors influencing the financial dynamics of the sports sector in Iran. After an extensive review of the research literature, we identify pivotal elements affecting the financia…
Toward sustainable agrientrepreneurship
Purpose This study aims to investigate the behavioral drivers influencing rural family business agrientrepreneurs’ intention to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) for sustainable agrientrepreneurship, addressing a significant gap in understanding technology adoption in resource-constrained and emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach Using a positivist approach with hypothetical deductive observation, data from 392 rural Bangladeshi family…
When the Boss Is Always Right
Leadership profoundly shapes team communication and sustainability engagement. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory (UET), this study examines how leaders' dark personality traits, Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy, influence team sustainability‐related behaviors through promotive and prohibitive voice and how leader–team gender similarity conditions these relationships. Using multisource data from 76 team leaders and 228 team members acr…
The Dual Faces of Leadership
Psychology (13 works) · Business (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Marketing (6 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)