Purpose -In the current highly commercialized environment, youth materialism is believed to be elevating. Given the adverse effects of materialism on society in general and on young consumers in particular, the purpose of this research is to gain a better understanding of youth materialism in Egypt along with parental influence in the transmission of materialistic values and hence building up recommendations and programs for impeding this phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach -The empirical investigation was conducted through pursuing a mix of qualitative and quantitative research methods. A deeper understanding of the problem at hand was generated by the qualitative research through conducting in-depth interviews with children, parents and educators; where the broader target was reached as well as a more comprehensive view was attained by quantitative research through self-administered surveys for parents and children. Findings -The results showed a positive correlation between parental materialism and child materialism. Concerning the relationships between family communication patterns, parental mediation practices and child materialism, the results indicated that indirect mediation was the strongest predictor for child materialism followed by restrictive mediation, while active mediation was not found as a significant predictor for child materialism.Research limitations/implications -The purpose of this research is tri-divided and limited to the following goals: first, capturing cultural differences for the manifestation of materialism in the Egyptian context. Second, examining the extent to which parents contribute and influence the transmission of materialistic values among young consumers. Third, proposing parents as a potential countervailing power against excessive youth materialism. Practical implications -The results of the study show that necessary steps should be taken by designing programs that involve parents as a potential countervailing power against excessive youth materialism. The results also showed a positive relationship between parents and child materialism. Furthermore, the results from the qualitative research indicated that parents are not really aware of the adverse effects materialism can have on their children. Moreover, the results indicated that there is a positive correlation between socio-oriented communication and restrictive mediation. At the same time and in line with the proposed conceptual model of the current research, restrictive mediation was found to be the second largest contributor to childhood materialism. Social implications -It is suggested that greater transparency about the consequences of materialism could work in favor of altering materialism (Abela). Hence, parents should be aware that excess youth materialism, as previously discussed in the literature, is associated with poor school performance, poor ethical behavior, shoplifting tendencies, unhealthy food consumption, and greater levels of life dissatisfaction. Originality/value -The research is unique in tha...

PurposeIn light of the role of religious coping as an alleviation mechanism, the COVID-19 pandemic presents a potential opportunity to build on the literature related to religious coping in a new context. Hence, the study aims to examine the potential role of religious coping in enhancing consumer well-being (CWB) during the pandemic.Design/methodology/approachA quantitative approach has been employed, with the use of web surveys, to investigate the relationship between CWB and religiosity among a global sample.FindingsResults showed that religiosity has a significant positive impact on satisfaction with life among females only. On comparing between Arabs and non-Arabs, there was a significant positive relationship between religiosity and satisfaction with life among Arabs.Originality/valueThe main contribution of this paper is extending the religiosity and spirituality literature by studying the potential role of religiosity in improving individual well-being during a novel contextual pandemic situation, an area that is still underresearched in the literature.

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and the German University in Cairo (GUC), Egypt co-hosted a global panel entitled "Grolar Bears in Responsible Management Education: Futurism, Hybridization and Sustainability in a Post-COVID-19 World" at the United Nations -Principles for Responsible Management Education (UN-PRME) Global Forum. The panel aimed at raising debatable questions around the future of responsible management education. The analogy of a "Grolar bear", which is a hybrid between Grizzly and Polar bear (Turner, 2021), was used to represent unusual hybridization that could present unique opportunities as a consequence of global mega trends, such as climate change. Hybridization could take the form of novel teaching methodologies or pedagogies in responsible management education that could match future occurrences (e.g. online tools and the use of artificial intelligence, amongst other methodologies). It could also take the form of innovative concepts in the responsible management education literature that are advocated by researchers as a result of foreseeing certain future trends affecting management scholarship (e.g. diversity and multiculturalism, spirituality, etc.). Another interesting hybridization as a necessary consequence of the global poverty, inequalities and climate change trends is sustainable business models (SBMs). Such SBMs are also a hybrid that blendpotentially conflictingcommercial and welfare institutional logics (i.e. a mix of purely profit-oriented and purely nonprofit, societal business model). The panel, therefore, linked the three important notions of futurism, hybridization and sustainability to the surfacing and stipulation of "Grolar bears" in responsible management education.According to Dixon (2019, pp. 205, 256), "sustainability will be a dominant theme for 300 years" where over $50 trillion will be invested in green technologies. In his book, The Future of (Almost) Everything (2019: 11), the six "faces" of the future are as follows: Fast with high-tech speed of change; Urban yet Tribal with social networks and nation brands; Universal with an ever-evolving globalization; Radical with trends like activism and sustainability and (fortunately) Ethical with good values and an increased spirituality (e.g. Smith, 2011;Amin, 2017). Despite this rather positive outlook, unfortunately, there are witnessed setbacks from the excessive evolution of technology for example such as the weakening of human relations, especially family (Dixon, 2019, p. 149). Whether or not there is a relationship between wealth and happiness, with "1% of humanity (owning) 65% of wealth", there will be an increased "search for purpose" (Dixon, 2019, pp. 64, 296). This research is relevant to what is now termed "the sustainability mindset" (Kassel et al., 2016;El-Bassiouny et al., 2022). This mindset, which represents a mode of thinking, being and doing toward sustainable living and a more sustainable future, requires concerted efforts from academia, the private sector, the third sector and the public sector. A question we had raised, but not yet...

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