Journal of Workplace Behavior

The Mediating Influence of Risk Tolerance on Behavioral Biases and Investment Decisions: Evidence from Pakistan

Syeda Afshan Gillani — 2026-07-21

The Pakistan Stock Exchange faces persistently low participation of investors in past few years and high market volatility, which hinder its development and stability. To address these challenges, the purpose of this study is to investigate how behavioral factors affect investors’ investment decisions. The study also examines risk tolerance role as a mediator in the relationship between behavioral factors and investors’ investment decisions. Non-probability sampling was used to collect responses from 310 investors. The findings of the study reveal that biases such as herding bias, overconfidence bias and self-control bias significantly and positively impact investors’ decision making while risk tolerance significantly mediates between behavioral biases and investors’ decision making. Discussions, conclusions and implications of the study are presented based on the results.

Inclusive Leadership and Project Success: A Bibliometric Analysis of Global Research Trends

Noor Ul Haya Adnan — 2026-07-21

Many organizations have begun to value inclusive and participative leadership in their workplace, which has led to an increased focus on comprehending the effects that inclusive leadership has on the success of projects. This study mimics as closely as possible the structure of the uploaded benchmark bibliometric article, but uses a different topic and set of data in order to use the same overall logic. In Scopus database, 359 journal articles in English are identified and analyzed between 2011 and 2026. The purpose of the paper is to perform a bibliometric review of the inclusive leadership and project success research, focusing on publication trends, influential authors, journals, countries, affiliations, research themes and the similarity of the most cited documents. Analysis is performed with the Bibliometrix set of performance measures, VOSviewer-based keyword mapping, thematic mapping, trend analysis, and a clustering exercise based on the Pearson correlation of the top cited documents. The results reveal a significant increase in the field since 2021, which can be conceptualized as being centered around inclusive leadership, psychological empowerment, project success, transformational leadership, and psychological safety. The thematic analysis also suggests that the themes of psychological safety, innovation, job satisfaction and authentic leadership are emerging or are evolving rapidly, with project success, psychological empowerment and transformational leadership emerging as motor themes. Finally the study pinpoints the hotspots for the current research, potential for future research and the primary constraints in metadata-based bibliometric analysis.

Do Influencers Enhance or Harm Consumer Well-Being? Implications for Purchase Intention in the Cosmetic Sector

Saira Chughtai — 2026-07-21

This research looks at how a long-term relationship with social media influences the consumer decision-making process to purchase cosmetics and considers consumer wellbeing to be an intermediary between social media influencer exposure and purchase intent. Using a quantitative survey-based approach with 295 participants, research hypotheses were tested through regression and mediation analyses. Results indicate that long-term exposure to influencers significantly affects both consumers' intentions to purchase products and consumers' well-being for cosmetic purposes. Additionally, the results suggest that consumers' wellbeing partially mediates the effect of influencer exposure on purchase intent, indicating that there is both an indirect and direct effect of the influencer on the consumer. Findings indicate that for marketers to shape consumer behavior in the cosmetic industry, they need to develop thoughtful and authentic influencer relationships; rely on trust; maintain consistent linkages between the influencer and the marketer; and ensure that their overall messaging is cohesive. This research extends the existing influencer marketing literature and provides valuable insight into influences on consumer purchasing behaviour and their impact on their well-being when considering how they utilize influencers to make purchasing decisions in the cosmetic industry.