What question did this study set out to answer?

This research aims to understand how change resistance impacts business outcomes in the context of Industry 4.0 and High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS).

April 4, 2026

Industry 4.0, HPWS, change resistance and business outcomes: a mediating and moderating study

Key Points

This research aims to understand how change resistance impacts business outcomes in the context of Industry 4.0 and High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS).
Literature review on Industry 4.0 and HPWS
Analysis of mediating and moderating effects
Quantitative analysis of business outcomes
Identified significant mediating effects of HPWS on business outcomes
Found that change resistance negatively impacts performance
Demonstrated varying impacts of context on change processes

Abstract

Inderscience is a global company, a dynamic leading independent journal publisher disseminates the latest research across the broad fields of science, engineering and technology; management, public and business administration; environment, ecological economics and sustainable development; computing, ICT and internet/web services, and related areas.

Connected Papers

Building similarity graph...

Analyzing shared references across papers

Discussion

Authors

Tanya Sharma

Ashutosh Muduli

Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University

Journals

International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise

Actions

References and Citations

Connected Papers

Building similarity graph...

Analyzing shared references across papers

Industry 4.0, HPWS, change resistance and business outcomes: a mediating and moderating study

Key Points

Abstract

Citation Network

Connected Papers

Discussion

Authors

Journals

Actions

References and Citations

Citation Network

Connected Papers

Discussion

Cite this study