Vol. 3 No. 1 (2025): Business and Organization Studies e-Journal

The contemporary global economic and business environment is characterised by persistent uncertainty and volatility – manifested through supply chain disruptions, inflationary pressures, digital transformation imperatives, climate‑related financial risks, and shifting workforce dynamics. For organizations, navigating such a landscape demands not only operational resilience but also strategic agility, evidence‑based decision‑making, and a nuanced understanding of the behavioural, financial, and structural factors that shape business outcomes.

Volume 3, Issue 1 of the Business and Organization Studies e-Journal brings together five original contributions that examine distinct dimensions of this challenge across geographical, sectoral, and methodological contexts. In the first article, Lambino and Murcia employ path analysis within the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) framework to identify determinants of online food ordering system acceptance among consumers in Davao City, Philippines. Their findings highlight system quality and perceived usefulness as the strongest predictors of positive user attitudes, offering actionable insights for digital service providers in highly competitive, post‑pandemic markets.

The second contribution, by Mativo, Dadong, Di Cuaresma, De Guzman, and Suan‑Timosa, investigates the influence of entrepreneurial skills and entrepreneurial alertness on entrepreneurial tendency among senior high school students in a rural Philippine municipality. Using a descriptive‑correlational design, the study demonstrates that both variables significantly predict entrepreneurial tendency, with alertness exerting a substantially stronger effect. These results inform curricular and policy interventions aimed at fostering youth entrepreneurship in resource‑constrained settings.

Srivastav and Patnaik provide a systematic review of green finance mechanisms – green bonds, sustainability‑linked loans, and carbon credit trading – and their transformative impact on business models in emerging markets. Synthesising evidence from 2016 to 2023, the authors document three transformation pathways (resource efficiency optimisation, renewable energy integration, and circular economy adoption) while identifying regulatory fragmentation, institutional capacity gaps, and underdeveloped capital markets as persistent structural barriers.

Carillo and Gil address the problem of employee attrition through a binary logistic regression model applied to the IBM HR Analytics dataset. Achieving 89% overall classification accuracy, their analysis reveals overtime work and frequent business travel as the strongest positive predictors of voluntary resignation, whereas high job involvement and environment satisfaction are most protective. The study provides an empirically grounded predictive framework for human resource analytics and retention strategy.

Finally, Jain, Bechthold, and Werth examine post‑implementation challenges in innovation management through a qualitative single‑case study of a small scientific institution in Germany. Drawing on 17 semi‑structured interviews, the authors identify a distinct set of post‑implementation barriers – notably insufficient customer engagement, limited employee time and capacity, and absent feedback loops – and argue that sustaining innovation requires governance capabilities qualitatively different from those needed for initial implementation.

Collectively, these five studies contribute to a richer empirical and theoretical understanding of how organizations, consumers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers can respond to uncertainty and volatility. We thank the authors, reviewers, and editorial board for their rigorous work, and we invite continued submissions that advance scholarly and practical knowledge in business and organization studies.