Purpose: This study aims to examine the factors affecting caregivers’ acceptance of the use of wearable devices by patients with dementia by extending the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model with 2 additional constructs: resistance to change (RC) and technology anxiety (TA). Methods: A structured online questionnaire was developed and distributed to caregivers who have either dealt previously with or were currently taking care of patients with dementia in sub-Saharan Africa. The selection of countries for the study was purely based on the availability of caregivers of patients with dementia and their readiness to take part in the survey. Questionnaire data from 350 respondents were analyzed and the hypothesis tested using partial least squares based on structural equation modeling. Result: The results of the extended model show that social influence, effort expectancy, facilitating conditions, and behavioral intention (BI) all had P < .05, thus were statistically significant in explaining the perceived BI and actual use of health-care wearable devices among patients with dementia as reported by caregivers. However, P value for RC and TA was greater than .05, hence were insignificant.

This paper aims to draw on the resource-based view (RBV) to examine the effect of transformational leadership (TL) on innovation and marketing performance in SME service firms. The paper further investigates the extent to which transformational leadership influences the effect of innovation on marketing performance and how such an effect could be managed for SME development. Cross-sectional survey data were collected from 437 SME service firms of an emerging economy with a fast-growing service sector. The quantitative methodologies were used in which partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) with bootstrap procedures was adopted to test the hypotheses. The findings suggest that innovation has a positive effect on marketing performance; transformational leadership has a moderating effect on the relationship between innovation and marketing performance. The study's results show that these effects are robust in the firm's marketplace. The current study examined the TL effect based on each rating. Therefore, it would be useful to study the effects of TL and other variables that can be manipulated by team level dynamics (or groups) such as trust in the team, team creativity, and team innovative performance in the future. For SME to be highly competitive in emerging economies, this study deepens the effect of innovation on firm performance and as such managers/owners should consider the vital role of transformational leadereship as a predictor of the relationship between innovation types and marketing performance. This current study contributes to the literature by assessing a valid model that describes the relationships between transformational leadership on innovation and marketing performance concurrently. This is the first empirical study to focus on SME marketing performance concerning types of innovation and marketing performance in an emerging economy with a moderated effect of transformational leadership.

This study aims to investigate how a Psychological contract breach can mediate the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and job attitudes and how political skill and work ethic can influence the negative association between perceptions of organizational politics and job attitudes. A systematic sampling method was used with a sampling size of 310 faculty members of public sector universities of Pakistan. Data were analyzed by using partial least squares structural equations modeling PLS-SEM to test the hypotheses by Smart PLS software. The findings revealed that the perception of politics is significantly and negatively related to job attitudes and indirectly through psychological contract breach. Moreover, the results indicated a significant moderating effect of work ethic on the relationship between the perception of politics and job attitudes. However, political skill did not moderate the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and job attitudes. Moreover, research implications and limitations are elucidated.

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This paper presents a survey study of how social innovation moderates social and economic value from the perspective of shared value creation. Specifically, the study addresses the following questions: Does economic value lead to social value creation in shared value creation? Does social innovation moderate social and economic value in the creation of shared value? The questions are addressed through an empirical investigation of 250 social enterprise organizations that apply social objectives and a market-based approach to attain social and economic goals in Ghana. The study used SmartPLS software version 3.0 to evaluate the data collected. The results indicated that economic value influences the creation of social value in shared value creation. Study results also revealed that social innovation is a driver of shared value creation via social value in the educational sector of Ghana. However, social innovation could not play a moderating role in economic value to shared value creation.