Christian Harrison

The study critically examined the effect of the pandemic and lockdown on the performance and operations of farmers' markets in Southwest, Nigeria. Primary data were used and the information was sourced using questionnaires. A multistage sampling technique was used to randomly select farmers for the study. Descriptive statistics, budgetary technique and two-stage least squares regression were used for the analysis. The results showed that age, revenue, perceived COVID-19 effect, household size, experience, market space acquisition, and frequent visits to farmers markets were the significant factors that influenced the performance of the farmers in the study area. Challenges faced by the farmers after lockdown on farmers markets were increased price, high cost of farm input, reduced quantity of farm products and high transportation cost. Therefore, there should be more government intervention/assistance programs as a way of assisting the farmers to boost food production and alleviate poverty in the area.

Purpose - In this era of rapid technological advancement, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged
as a crucial factor in reshaping organisational dynamics, notably in the realm of leadership. This
systematic literature review (SLR) aims to investigate the emerging relationship between AI and
leadership, focusing on defining AI-powered leadership, identifying prevalent themes, exploring
challenges, and uncovering research gaps within the relevant literature.
Design/methodology/approach - A sample of 73 papers was chosen after carefully applying the
inclusion and exclusion criteria to 1387 research articles that were initially sought. Using the
methodological framework presented by Denyer and Tranfield (2009), our study adopted a fourstep procedure to obtain insights from the corpus of literature. The papers were analysed by
employing content and thematic analysis to address four key questions.
Findings - The review explores various definitions of AI-powered leadership proposed in the
literature base

Purpose -
This paper critically examines the distributed leadership literature, identifying its conceptual foundations, thematic developments, and research gaps. Synthesizing existing studies aims to advance theoretical and practical understandings of distributed leadership across diverse contexts.

Design/methodology/approach -
A rigorous three-step systematic literature review (SLR) process was employed to analyze 111 peer-reviewed studies published between 2002 and 2022. This approach integrates descriptive and thematic analyses to address key research questions on distributed leadership's conceptualization, thematic trends, and research gaps.

Findings -
The review highlights distributed leadership as a dynamic and context-dependent concept, emphasizing its social, collaborative, and performance-driven dimensions. Three primary themes emerged: behavioral perspectives, contextual influences, and performance implications. Gaps were identified in empirical, theoretical, population, and methodological domains. These include insufficient research in noneducational sectors, limited exploration of distributed leadership's applicability in developing nations, and the need for empirically validated frameworks and qualitative methodologies.

Originality/value -
This review is among the first to systematically map distributed leadership's evolution across multiple contexts using an SLR approach. It provides a robust synthesis of the field, offering a validated baseline for future research. The study's methodological rigor and its focus on underexplored areas contribute significantly to advancing the discourse on distributed leadership.

This empirical study explored how actors in specific human resource practices (HRPs) such as line managers (LMs) impact employee productivity measures in the context of Financial Institutions (FI) banks.
This cross-country study adopted a qualitative methodology. It employed semi-structured interviews to collect data from purposefully selected 12 business-facing directors (BFDs) working in the top 10 banks in Nigeria and the United Kingdom. The data collected was analysed with the help of the trans-positional cognition approach (TPCA) phenomenological method.
The findings of a TPCA analytical process imply that in the UK and Nigerian FIs the BFDs line managers? human resources practices (LMHRPs) resulted in a highly regulated workplace, knowledge gap, service operations challenges, and subjective quantitatively driven KPIs, considered service productivity paradoxical elements. Although the practices in the UK and Nigeria FIs had similar labels, their aggregates were underpinned by different contextual issues.
To support line managers in better understanding and managing financial institutions BFDs productivity measures and outcomes, we propose the Managerial Employee Productivity Operational Definition? (MePoD) framework as part of their toolkit. This study will be helpful for banking sectors, their regulators, policymakers, other financial institutions? industry stakeholders, and future researchers in the field.
Within the context of the UK and Nigeria?s FIs, this study is the first attempt to understand how line managers? human resource practices impact BFDs productivity in this manner. It confirms LMHRPs result in service productivity paradoxical elements with perceived or lost productivity implications.

Entrepreneurial leadership (EL) is a relatively new paradigm of enquiry. The research on entrepreneurial leadership skills and competencies and their development is dispersed. This study, following an evidence-based approach, aims to address this issue by applying a systematic literature review. The findings of the SLR show that entrepreneurial leadership skills and competencies are critically important for the success of organisations regardless of their nature, size and contexts. Results of the review identify that proactiveness, innovativeness, risk taking propensity, articulating vision, motivation, communication, influence, teamwork, creativity, and risk-taking are important skills of entrepreneurial leaders. Whilst personal, functional, technological, and interpersonal competencies were identified as essential competencies for entrepreneurial leaders; entrepreneurship education and courses, as well as experiential, socially interactive and project-based learning approaches are regarded as processes of EL competencies’ development. Drawing on extant literature, this research identified various research gaps and proposes future research streams on entrepreneurial leadership skills and competencies