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  • Stakeholder Integration, Ethical Orientation, and Environmental Performance: Evidence From SMEs in Ghana
    Amegbe, Hayford; Addrah, Dafleen; Adomako, Samuel (John Wiley & Sons, 2026)
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    This paper offers a novel theoretical account of how and when stakeholder pressures translate into environmental performance. Building on the Natural Resource-Based View, we develop a moderated-mediation model showing (a) stakeholder integration mediates the effect of primary and secondary stakeholder pressures on environmental performance (how) and (b) organizational ethical orientation moderates this mediated effect (when). We tested our model in the context of Ghanaian manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A time-lagged survey of 367 firms showed that both primary and secondary stakeholder pressures positively influence environmental performance via stakeholder integration, and this mediated effect is stronger when ethical orientation is high rather than low. Our study advances research in three ways. First, it highlights the role of stakeholder integration as a relational capability distinct from traditional technical environmental capabilities. Second, it demonstrates the contingent role of ethical orientation in shaping sustainability outcomes. Third, it provides context-sensitive insights from SMEs operating in institutionally fragile environments.
  • Cultural humility in agile work practices
    Mergel, Ines (Taylor & Francis, 2026)
    Artikkeli
    Cultural humility shows when we stay open to learning and adapt to unfamiliar administrative environments. Humble people reflect on themselves accurately and value unfamiliar bureaucratic cultures. I demonstrate how being inclined to this way influences how innovation fellows align or clash as they introduce agile work practices in government settings. Drawing on qualitative interviews with innovation fellows and their government partners, I identify two dimensions of cultural humility: First, when people continue to stereotype bureaucrats, they create tension in their interactions with public servants. Second, when they reflect on their role, recognize inter-sectoral differences, understand workarounds, and engage deeply with the public-sector context, they can support effective agile learning. I present a cultural humility framework for researchers to test and validate. It can also guide practitioners successfully onboard consultants, improve how they interact with other external service providers, and support public bureaucracies in organizational change efforts.
  • Resolving the Performance Feedback Puzzle: CEO Psychopathy, Heterogeneous Emotional Responses to Aspiration Gaps, and Risk-Taking
    Gözübüyük, Remzi; Burkert, Steffen; Tenhiälä, Aino; Kock, Carl J.; Partanen, Jukka (Academy of Management, 2026)
    Artikkeli
    Theoretical perspectives provide conflicting predictions regarding how firms adjust risk-taking in response to performance–aspiration gaps. The behavioral theory of the firm attributes increased risk-taking to problemistic search under negative gaps, whereas threat–rigidity theory predicts a reduction in risk-taking. Under positive gaps, the behavioral theory of the firm’s satisficing logic implies decreased risk-taking, while slack search theory indicates the opposite effect. We integrate these competing theoretical logics through trait activation theory by introducing CEO psychopathy as a source of heterogeneity in responses to performance feedback. We argue that performance–aspiration gaps function as situational cues that activate differences in CEOs’ sensitivity to threat and reward cues, generating distinct emotional responses. The relationship between performance–aspiration gaps and risk-taking shifts from negative at lower levels of CEO psychopathy to positive at higher levels. Using fixed effects models on a longitudinal dataset of Finnish firms and a population-scale psychometric measure of CEO psychopathy collected independently of firm outcomes, we find empirical support for these predictions. Our theory reconceptualizes satisficing, threat–rigidity, problemistic search, and slack search as conditionally activated behavioral regimes rather than competing predictions tied solely to the valence of the performance–aspiration gap.
  • SYNAPCITY-DT: AI-Driven Urban Energy Intelligence for Smart Cities: A Decision Oriented Digital Twin Framework for Uncertainty Aware Renewable Urban Energy Management
    Shikdar, Tareq Anwar; Laaksonen, Hannu (VisualCOM Scientific Publications, 2026)
    Artikkeli
    This study presents SYNAPCITY-DT, an AI-driven urban energy digital twin framework for adaptive renewable energy operation under uncertainty. The framework integrates probabilistic photovoltaic forecasting, risk-aware battery energy storage optimization, and operational intelligence within a unified digital twin environment. Using real operational data from a utility-scale PV–BESS system in Finland, the framework evaluates uncertainty propagation across forecasting, planning, and operational decision-making. Results show that adaptive risk-aware control improves operational resilience, flexibility utilization, and decision robustness under varying forecast horizons. The study demonstrates the potential of AI-enabled digital twins as scalable urban energy intelligence systems supporting resilient and sustainable smart cities.
  • Multi-timescale flexibility for low-carbon Nordic energy systems: comparative roles of batteries, district heating, and hydropower
    Shikdar, Tareq Anwar; Laaksonen, Hannu (Elsevier, 2026)
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    The Nordic power system is undergoing a rapid transition toward high shares of variable renewable energy and widespread electrification of heating, transport, and industry. While extensive hydropower resources provide a strong foundation for system flexibility, declining synchronous inertia and pronounced winter demand peaks introduce new challenges for both operational stability and long-term adequacy. Consequently, ensuring reliable operation increasingly depends on the coordinated deployment of complementary flexibility resources across multiple temporal horizons rather than expansion of any single technology. This paper presents a systematic review of literature published between 2019 and 2026 and develops a review-based multi-timescale classification that links grid service requirements with the operational capabilities of battery energy storage systems (BESS), district heating with thermal energy storage (TES), and hydropower reservoirs. The synthesis shows that BESS primarily supports fast frequency response and short-term congestion management, TES provides demand shifting and peak reduction over hourly-to-daily timescales, and hydropower delivers long-duration balancing and seasonal adequacy. The review further identifies that current electricity market structures tend to prioritize short-duration stability services while undervaluing longer-duration flexibility, potentially creating a mismatch between investment incentives and evolving system requirements. By integrating evidence across multiple operational timescales, the proposed classification provides a unified framework for evaluating complementary flexibility resources and offers practical insights for system planning, market design, and the reliable operation of renewable-dominated low-carbon power systems.