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Personality and Leadership: A Critical Review and Future Research Agenda from a Dynamic Perspective

"Organizational research on personality and leadership has been heavily influenced by the great man theory of leadership and predominantly assumed that personality traits, as well as other individual difference variables including abilities, values, and interests..." – By Wendong Li and others

Generative AI and Business: A Review and Research Agenda

"Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI or GenAI) is an emerging and fast-growing technology with important consequences for workers, businesses, and society. GenAI is a subset of Machine Learning, which is a branch of Artificial Intelligence..." – By Jennifer Woolley

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On October 23, after a successful free period during development, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies has been made available via subscription and perpetual access to libraries and institutions worldwide.

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