New issue of the Corporate & Business Strategy Review journal

The editorial team of Virtus Interpress is happy to present a new issue of the journal Corporate & Business Strategy Review. This issue includes studies on actual topics of innovation, technology, digitalization, human resources capabilities, public and private investment, and macroeconomic factors, among others.

In particular, the papers published in this issue investigate such issues as corporate governance, business strategy, digital banking, data mining, machine learning, Big Data, internal audit, transformational leadership, fraud prevention, firm performance, macroeconomic indicators, Composite Stock Price Index, banks, profitability, agency costs, board of directors, key success factors, revenues, VAT increase, environmental management process, SMEs, organizational challenges, innovation performance, ChatGPT, artificial intelligence, social media and social capital, human capital, higher education governance, online education, digital education, new digital age, service quality, government investments, private investments, real interest rates, etc.

The full issue of the journal is available at the following link .

Bambang Agus Sumantri, Suliyanto, and Dwita Darmawati examine the role of adaptive creative capabilities in the relationship between dynamic capabilities and innovation performance on competitive advantage.

Pongsakorn Limna, Tanpat Kraiwanit, Kris Jangjarat, and Yarnaphat Shaengchart aim to explain the advantages and disadvantages of ChatGPT, conducting qualitative approach, using interviews with ten key informants and employing purposive sampling.

Amrita Sidhu, Akanchha Singh, Sayeeduzzafar Qazi, and Pretty Bhalla aim to understand the impact of social media usage on social capital, measured by using three variables, i.e., shared vision, trust, and network collaboration.

James Rianto Situmorang aims to analyze the influence of service quality and promotion on social media on customer loyalty, with brand image as an intervening variable.

Alban Rakipi, Olimpjon Shurdi, and Julian Imami study and measure the usability level of new technologies such as machine learning and data mining in the banking sector.

Vichaya Lipipun and Chatwarun Angasinha aim to elucidate current obstacles faced by Thai educators and learners in the digital age and provide suggestions to enhance learning experiences.

Brunela Trebicka, Altin Gjini, and Shkelqim Fortuzi examine the crowding-out effect in Albania from 2000 to 2022, specifically investigating the relationship between government investment and private investment.

Siti Noor Khikmah, Abdul Rohman, and Indira Januarti conduct a quantitative research to analyze the role of internal audit and transformational leadership style on fraud prevention from a stewardship theory perspective.

Mohammad Falah Samar Aljaman, Mohd Saiful Izwaan Saadon, Mohamad Rosni Bin Othman, Jehan Ahmad Kheiro Aburasul, Ahmad Heider Hussein Issa, and Aysheh Hassan Abu Ayyash aim to determine the key attributes of the performance enhancement of the logistics sectors.

Julia Safitri, Heffi Christya Rahayu, Jayadi Jayadi, Yuli Triastuti, Yoyo Indah Gunawan, and Anik Ariyanti approach to test and analyze the effect of inflation, exchange rate, the Bank Indonesia rate, and money supply on the Jakarta Composite Index in the period from January 2017 to March 2022.

Michael Sunday Agba, Augustine Eze Bassey, John Thompson Okpa, Godfrey Ekene Odinka, Terrence Richard Eja, Joy Uyo Ata-Agboni, Otu Offiong Duke, Lily Nnenna Ozumba, Agnes Ubana Enang, Pius Otu Abang, Grace Eleojo Michael Agba, and Chris Iwejuo Nwagboso focus on university governance with specific interest in the contributions of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to human capital development in Nigerian public universities.

Tafirei Mashamba and Chisinga N. Chikutuma examine the determinants of bank profitability in Zimbabwe, a country that has faced severe economic challenges in the past decade.

Samapti Nath and Ram Chandra Das examine the impact of credit diversification strategy on cost of intermediation of the Indian commercial banks.

Fadi Shehab Shiyyab, Ayah Mohammad Abed Alnabi, Abdallah Bader Mahmoud Alzoubi, and Mohammad Jamal Azzam present evidence that agency costs can arise because of directors’ limited competence and the problem of specification of objectives, independent of information asymmetry and director independence.

Blessing Takawira and Emmanuel Mutambara aim to develop a strategic framework to address COVID-19-induced supply chain disruptions within the South African pharmaceutical industry.

Nongnuch Boonklum identifies and explores the key success factors (KSFs) that provide an operating framework of the KSFs as contributing to business success and empirically develop analytical KSFs.

Phindile R. Nene and Nthabiseng Violet Moraka deal with a strategic impact of tax regulation on the performance of a telecommunication company.

Nadia Abdelhamid Abdelmegeed Abdelwahed, Mohammed A. Al Doghan, and Bahadur Ali Soomro explore the firm performance directly through business strategy and environmental management process (EMP) and the mediating role of EMP between business strategy and firm performance among SMEs in Saudi Arabia.

We are grateful to all the scholars who have contributed to this issue, and we hope that you find this issue of the journal useful, informative and educational!