Research in Globalization最新文献

Global development at work: introduction 工作中的全球发展：导论

Q1 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Research in Globalization

Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.resglo.2026.100334

Johan Fischer , Eva F. Nisa

This Special Issue critically examines how development is practised, contested, and reconfigured in a period of geopolitical rivalry, institutional retrenchment, and uneven global engagement. Rather than treating global development as a coherent or settled paradigm, the Special Issue approaches it as a field shaped by fragmentation, shifting power relations, and material constraints. The contributions move beyond abstract debates by grounding analysis in empirical case studies that show how development takes shape in concrete settings. The eight papers engage with four interrelated themes: (1) education and pedagogical citizenship, highlighting the role of learning and knowledge in development; (2) markets and middle-class formations, showing how global economic processes and local values shape aspirations and consumption; (3) gender and globalization, exploring the ways global forces intersect with local gender relations; and (4) global politics and state power, investigating governance, inequality, and state strategies in a globalized world. By foregrounding empirical research and methodological diversity, this Special Issue reframes global development as an open and contested process. Its ‘at work’ approach highlights how development knowledge and practice are assembled under conditions of uncertainty, offering a critical and forward-looking contribution to development studies in a rapidly changing world.

本期特刊批判性地审视了在地缘政治竞争、制度紧缩和全球参与不平衡的时期，发展是如何实践、争论和重新配置的。本期特刊没有将全球发展视为一种连贯的或既定的范式，而是将其视为一个由碎片化、权力关系变化和物质约束形成的领域。这些贡献超越了抽象的辩论，以实证案例研究为基础进行分析，展示了发展如何在具体环境中形成。这八篇论文涉及四个相互关联的主题：(1)教育和教学公民，强调学习和知识在发展中的作用；(2)市场和中产阶级的形成，显示全球经济进程和当地价值观如何塑造愿望和消费；(3)性别与全球化，探讨全球力量与地方性别关系的交叉；(4)全球政治和国家权力，研究全球化世界中的治理、不平等和国家战略。通过突出实证研究和方法多样性，本期特刊将全球发展重新定义为一个开放和有争议的过程。它的“在工作”方法强调了如何在不确定的条件下汇集发展知识和实践，为快速变化的世界中的发展研究提供了关键和前瞻性的贡献。

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Effect of Globalization on Poverty Reduction: Global Threshold Evidence for Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 1 全球化对减贫的影响：实现可持续发展目标1的全球阈值证据

Q1 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Research in Globalization

Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100329

Sodiq Olaide Bisiriyu , Adviti Devaguptapu , Manzoor Hassan Malik

Global human development has improved, partly due to the transformative wave of globalization. However, despite progress in poverty reduction over the past two decades, recent United Nations SDG reports highlight substantial setbacks among developing countries, especially low- and middle-income economies. This study investigates the threshold impact of globalization benefits on poverty and demonstrates the non-linearity of the benefits to poverty at different regimes of institutional quality. The Hansen panel threshold model is employed to analyze data of 116 developing countries from 2000 to 2021, with complementary regional estimates. The reliability and validity of the findings are reinforced using panel-corrected standard errors and dynamic GMM estimators as robustness checks. The results establish non-linear poverty-reducing benefits of globalization, with more pronounced impacts under high global interconnectedness. Additionally, the study provides nuanced evidence of globalization’s diminishing marginal social welfare returns to poverty at higher thresholds of integration. Finally, it argues that strong institutions are essential to amplify globalization benefits towards achieving sustainable development goal 1 and to mitigate the negative externalities associated with intensified globalization.

全球人类发展得到了改善，部分原因是全球化的变革浪潮。然而，尽管过去二十年来在减贫方面取得了进展，但最近的联合国可持续发展目标报告强调了发展中国家，特别是低收入和中等收入经济体的重大挫折。本研究考察了全球化利益对贫困的阈值影响，并证明了不同制度质量制度下的贫困利益的非线性。采用Hansen面板阈值模型分析了116个发展中国家2000年至2021年的数据，并进行了补充的区域估计。使用面板校正的标准误差和动态GMM估计器作为鲁棒性检查，增强了研究结果的可靠性和有效性。研究结果表明，全球化的减贫效益是非线性的，在全球互联程度高的情况下，其影响更为明显。此外，该研究还提供了细致入微的证据，证明在较高的一体化门槛下，全球化对贫困的边际社会福利回报正在递减。最后，报告认为，强大的机构对于扩大全球化对实现可持续发展目标1的好处和减轻与全球化加剧有关的负面外部性至关重要。

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Do individual and country-level factors cushion the impact of COVID-19 financial worry on digital financial inclusion in Africa? 个人和国家层面的因素是否缓解了2019冠状病毒病金融担忧对非洲数字普惠金融的影响？

Q1 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Research in Globalization

Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100332

Chimwemwe Chipeta , Ganesh Mani , Patrick McSharry , Edith Luhanga , Yudhvir Seetharam , Kingstone Nyakurukwa

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital onboarding and FinTech adoption, reshaping financial behaviours. However, the pandemic also introduced financial hardships, leading to negative impacts on digital financial inclusion. Using the 2021 World Bank’s Findex data on 31 African countries and a series of probit models, we find that COVID-19 financial worry has a significant negative effect on the adoption of digital financial services and that this phenomenon is likely to negatively influence post-COVID-19 digital financial inclusion in Africa. We also show that demographic and country-specific factors are significantly likely to cushion the negative effects of COVID-19-related financial worries on digital financial inclusion. We show the behavioural channels bridging the connection between COVID worry and digital financial inclusion. The findings underscore the need for targeted policy interventions aimed at enhancing financial resilience and inclusion during crises.

2019冠状病毒病大流行加速了数字入职和金融科技的采用，重塑了金融行为。然而，疫情也带来了财政困难，对数字普惠金融产生了负面影响。利用2021年世界银行31个非洲国家的金融包容性指数数据和一系列probit模型，我们发现COVID-19金融担忧对数字金融服务的采用产生了显著的负面影响，这种现象可能会对后COVID-19非洲的数字普惠金融产生负面影响。我们还表明，人口和具体国家因素极有可能缓解与covid -19相关的金融担忧对数字普惠金融的负面影响。我们展示了架起COVID担忧与数字普惠金融之间联系的行为渠道。研究结果强调，需要采取有针对性的政策干预措施，以增强危机期间的金融韧性和包容性。

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The co-optation of critique: African universities’ bibliometric contestation within global academic capitalism 批判的合用：全球学术资本主义下非洲大学的文献计量学之争

Q1 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Research in Globalization

Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100330

Eutychus Ngotho Gichuru , Archangel Byaruhanga Rukooko

This research employs a critical-theoretical analysis based almost solely on Herbert Marcuse’s concept of repressive tolerance to explore the paradox in which African universities are increasingly vocal about sophisticated critiques of bibliometric limitations in academic promotion but are in turn incapable of implementing alternative evaluation systems. Employing a secondary data review of peer-reviewed literature from 2010 to 2024, we analyse this discourse, finding that the implementation gap bears witness to asymmetrical globalization and the systematic co-optation of dissent within higher education. This study points to an expansive African scholarship cataloguing the epistemic violence of bibliometrics while also demonstrating how these structural constraints against the critique inhibit real institutional autonomy. Our analysis demonstrates how critical discourse becomes complicit with the systems it seeks to challenge, negotiating from within knowledge economies that ritualize such oppositions while constraining actual transformations. The findings show that top-down reform failures speak of coordination challenges, lack of resources, and path dependency created by a globally uniform academic system that neutralizes transformative potential through subordinate incorporation. We propose coordinated continental evaluation authorities and strong journal infrastructures and strategically position themselves to counter this co-optive logic and forcefully set the stage for moving global knowledge economies from asymmetry toward reciprocity.

本研究采用了一种几乎完全基于赫伯特·马尔库塞（Herbert Marcuse）的压抑性容忍概念的批判理论分析，以探索非洲大学越来越多地对学术推广中的文献计量学局限性提出复杂批评的悖论，但反过来又无法实施替代评估系统。通过对2010年至2024年同行评议文献的二次数据回顾，我们分析了这一论述，发现实施差距见证了不对称的全球化和高等教育系统地接纳异议。这项研究指出了一个广泛的非洲学术编目文献计量学的认识暴力，同时也证明了这些反对批评的结构性约束如何抑制真正的机构自治。我们的分析表明，批判性话语是如何与它试图挑战的体系沆瀣一理的，从知识经济内部进行谈判，使这种对立变得仪式化，同时限制了实际的变革。研究结果表明，自上而下的改革失败涉及协调挑战、资源缺乏和路径依赖，这是由全球统一的学术体系造成的，这种体系通过从属合并来中和变革潜力。我们建议协调大陆评估机构和强大的期刊基础设施，并在战略上定位自己，以对抗这种合作逻辑，并有力地为将全球知识经济从不对称转向互惠奠定基础。

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An outlook on assessing the trend of rainfall and temperature variability in coastal Ghana 评估加纳沿海地区降雨和温度变化趋势的展望

Q1 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Research in Globalization

Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.resglo.2026.100333

Daniel Tetteh Atsu , Denis Worlanyo Aheto , Gloria Essilfie , Michael Provide Fumey

As climate change intensifies worldwide, understanding how coastal communities adapt and build resilience has become a critical issue in global sustainability and development research. Coastal communities are vital for food security, poverty alleviation, and cultural integrity, especially in coastal emerging nations such as Ghana. Nevertheless, these communities face increasing vulnerability to climate change, characterized by intensifying temperatures, varying rainfall patterns, and extreme weather events, all of which threaten their livelihoods. This study focuses on the trend analysis of climate variability in the Ablekuma West Municipal Assembly and the Shama District in Ghana, utilizing historical climate data. Secondary data (time series) was obtained from the Ghana Meteorological Agency on climate variables such as rainfall, maximum and minimum temperature, ranging from 1984 to 2023, and the Modified Mann-Kendall Test and Sen’s Slope were used to determine the trends of rainfall and temperature, which revealed that both have significantly increased over time. The Ablekuma West Municipal Assembly and the Shama District exhibited significant rainfall variability, with the Ablekuma West Municipal Assembly ranging from 419.4 mm to 973.8 mm and the Shama District from 701.8 mm to 1456.6 mm. The Ablekuma West Municipal Assembly recorded maximum temperatures ranging from 28.9°C to 31.5°C, with an annual mean of 30.1°C. In the Shama district, the maximum temperature ranged from 29.3°C to 30.8°C, with an annual average of 30.2°C. Meanwhile, the minimum temperature ranges from 22.3°C to 24.2°C. The study highlights potential adaptive strategies and proposes policies to enhance resilience. The research informs the design of targeted interventions to protect the livelihoods of vulnerable fishing communities in Ghana and other similar regions worldwide.

随着全球气候变化的加剧，了解沿海社区如何适应和建立抵御能力已成为全球可持续性和发展研究中的一个关键问题。沿海社区对粮食安全、扶贫和文化完整至关重要，尤其是在加纳等沿海新兴国家。然而，这些社区越来越容易受到气候变化的影响，其特征是气温升高、降雨模式变化和极端天气事件，所有这些都威胁到他们的生计。本研究利用历史气候数据，对加纳阿伯库马西部市议会和沙马地区的气候变率进行了趋势分析。从加纳气象局获得了1984年至2023年的降水、最高和最低温度等气候变量的二次数据（时间序列），并使用修正Mann-Kendall检验和Sen 's Slope来确定降雨量和温度的趋势，结果表明两者都随着时间的推移而显著增加。西部阿伯库马市议会和沙马区表现出显著的降水变异性，其中西部阿伯库马市议会在419.4 ~ 973.8 mm之间，沙马区在701.8 ~ 1456.6 mm之间。Ablekuma West市政议会的最高气温为28.9°C至31.5°C，年平均气温为30.1°C。沙马地区最高气温29.3 ~ 30.8℃，年平均气温30.2℃。最低气温22.3 ~ 24.2℃。该研究强调了潜在的适应性战略，并提出了增强韧性的政策。该研究为设计有针对性的干预措施提供了信息，以保护加纳和世界其他类似地区脆弱渔业社区的生计。

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The role of foreign direct investment in promoting economic growth: Evidence from Poland, Ukraine, and Vietnam (2004–2024) 外国直接投资在促进经济增长中的作用：来自波兰、乌克兰和越南的证据（2004-2024）

Q1 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Research in Globalization

Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.resglo.2026.100337

Roman Chornyi , Nelya Chorna

This study investigates the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in promoting economic growth using data from 2004 to 2024 for Poland, Ukraine, and Vietnam. Employing a mixed-method approach that combines quantitative and qualitative comparative analysis, the research examines how FDI is associated with GDP growth and related growth channels, including infrastructure development, job creation, and technology transfer, while also considering risks such as economic dependence, regional concentration of investment, and uneven development. Using country-level annual time series, the quantitative results indicate that FDI co-moves with long-run economic expansion across the cases, but the strength of the short-run FDI-growth relationship differs by country and is sensitive to shocks and model specification. Poland’s and Vietnam’s annual series show mixed correlations between FDI inflows and GDP growth, suggesting that short-run growth variation is shaped by additional macroeconomic and policy factors beyond investment volumes alone. Ukraine’s experience highlights how conflict conditions can destabilise the FDI-growth relationship, while also showing a positive association in non-outlier periods. Qualitative evidence suggests that institutional stability, sectoral composition of investment, and absorptive capacity influence whether FDI translates into productivity gains and sustained growth. Policy recommendations emphasise strengthening institutions, improving investment quality through sectoral diversification, and reducing regional disparities by supporting investment beyond major urban hubs, thereby promoting more inclusive and resilient economic growth.

本文利用2004年至2024年波兰、乌克兰和越南的数据，考察了外国直接投资（FDI）在促进经济增长中的作用。本研究采用定量和定性比较分析相结合的混合方法，考察了FDI与GDP增长以及相关增长渠道（包括基础设施建设、创造就业和技术转让）的关系，同时也考虑了经济依赖、投资区域集中和发展不平衡等风险。使用国家级年度时间序列，定量结果表明FDI与长期经济扩张在所有案例中都是同步的，但短期FDI与增长关系的强度因国家而异，并且对冲击和模型规格很敏感。波兰和越南的年度数据序列显示，FDI流入与GDP增长之间存在复杂的相关性，这表明短期增长变化受到投资量以外的其他宏观经济和政策因素的影响。乌克兰的经验突出了冲突条件如何破坏外国直接投资与增长的关系，同时在非异常时期也显示出正相关关系。定性证据表明，体制稳定性、投资的部门构成和吸收能力影响外国直接投资是否转化为生产率提高和持续增长。政策建议强调加强制度建设，通过部门多样化提高投资质量，通过支持主要城市中心以外的投资来缩小区域差距，从而促进更具包容性和韧性的经济增长。

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Industrial Policy in a Globalized Era: Integrating Power, Institutions, Agency, and Transnational Forces 全球化时代的产业政策：整合权力、制度、代理和跨国力量

Q1 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Research in Globalization

Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.resglo.2026.100339

Mohsen Mohammadi

Industrial policy has re-emerged as a central concern of economic strategy, yet dominant frameworks − most notably the developmental state and political settlements − still offer only partial explanations of how states pursue industrial transformation under the pressures of globalization. This article develops a multi-level perspective that connects domestic politics, institutional capacity, leadership agency, and transnational forces within a single analytical frame. It argues that the effectiveness of industrial policy depends not on any one of these domains alone, but on how they interact and reinforce − or undermine − one another across scales of governance. Drawing on the experiences of South Korea (1961–1979) and Malaysia (1981–2003), the paper shows how similar developmental ambitions yielded varying degrees of success, reflecting differences in bureaucratic autonomy, coalition cohesion, and the ability to navigate global regimes and value-chain dynamics. The analysis suggests that successful industrial policy in a globalized world requires both embedded and autonomous institutions, adaptive and committed leadership, and the capacity to negotiate a viable policy space within transnational constraints. The framework thus contributes to a broader research agenda on global industrial policy, linking domestic governance to the evolving architecture of globalization that now shapes industrialization itself.

产业政策已重新成为经济战略的核心关注点，但主流框架——最显著的是发展型国家和政治解决方案——仍然只能部分解释各国在全球化压力下如何追求产业转型。本文发展了一个多层次的视角，将国内政治、制度能力、领导机构和跨国力量在一个单一的分析框架内联系起来。它认为，产业政策的有效性不仅取决于这些领域中的任何一个，还取决于它们如何在治理尺度上相互作用、相互加强或相互破坏。根据韩国（1961-1979）和马来西亚（1981-2003）的经验，本文展示了相似的发展目标如何产生不同程度的成功，反映了官僚自治、联盟凝聚力以及驾驭全球制度和价值链动态的能力的差异。分析表明，在全球化的世界中，成功的产业政策需要嵌入式和自主的机构，适应性和坚定的领导，以及在跨国约束下谈判可行政策空间的能力。因此，该框架有助于更广泛的全球工业政策研究议程，将国内治理与正在形成工业化本身的全球化架构的演变联系起来。

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Diplomacy in the age of AI: Legal and strategic approaches to techno-nationalism, regulatory soft power and the AI chips race 人工智能时代的外交：技术民族主义、监管软实力和人工智能芯片竞赛的法律和战略途径

Q1 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Research in Globalization

Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.resglo.2026.100335

Jon Truby , Andrew Dahdal , Rafael Brown , Imad Ibrahim

This article explores how the Artificial Intelligence (AI) race has intensified global com- petition but also created avenues for international cooperation and developments in inter- national law. The study refines the concept of ‘Tech Diplomacy’ and introduces a novel definition of ‘AI Diplomacy’ as distinguished from ‘AI Statehood’ and ‘AI Sovereignty’. The examination concludes by identifying how ‘AI Diplomacy’ through governance and capacity-building can become a tool for international stability and improved relations rather than a divider of nations and considers future trends in AI governance. AI has emerged as both a strategic industrial and technological asset of global competition and an increasingly relevant negotiating instrument of international trade. AI infrastructure, tools and regulations are now influencing international diplomacy and various aspects of international relations including governance, policy and global security. Adopting a qualitative, comparative approach, the study examines the approach of major actors’ (United States, China and the European Union) and their various strategies of techno-nationalism, infrastructure and standards-driven outreach, regulatory diplomacy, and initiatives in emerging regions such as the Middle East and Africa; all illustrative of how the AI race is shaping diplomacy and international law.

本文探讨了人工智能（AI）竞赛如何加剧全球竞争，但也为国际合作和国际法的发展创造了途径。该研究细化了“技术外交”的概念，并引入了“人工智能外交”的新定义，以区别于“人工智能国家地位”和“人工智能主权”。最后，研究确定了通过治理和能力建设的“人工智能外交”如何成为国际稳定和改善关系的工具，而不是国家的分水岭，并考虑了人工智能治理的未来趋势。人工智能已成为全球竞争的战略性产业和技术资产，也是日益重要的国际贸易谈判工具。人工智能基础设施、工具和法规正在影响国际外交和国际关系的各个方面，包括治理、政策和全球安全。该研究采用定性、比较的方法，考察了主要行为体（美国、中国和欧盟）的做法及其在中东和非洲等新兴地区的各种技术民族主义战略、基础设施和标准驱动的外联、监管外交和倡议；所有这些都说明了人工智能竞赛如何影响外交和国际法。

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Sustainability indicators in a globalised poultry sector: production, consumption, trade openness, and GDP across 126 countries 全球化家禽业的可持续性指标：126个国家的生产、消费、贸易开放和国内生产总值

Q1 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Research in Globalization

Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.resglo.2026.100340

Yasodara Silva , Nisal Perera , Kalana Mendis , Himaya Susan , Ruwan Jayathilaka

The sustainability of the meat industry relies on consistent demand and the desire for meat. In recent years, chicken was produced around 104.2 million metric tons and expected to increase by 2% in the upcoming years with a record of 109.6 million tons worldwide. Also, global chicken meat export will increase by 3% with a record of around 14.7 million tons. Therefore, this research focuses on investigating the causal relationships that have a significant impact on chicken production, considering independent variables as chicken consumption, trade openness, and GDP. This study is conducted across several income groups, encompassing 126 countries, for a 30-year period from 1993 to 2022. To strengthen the study, the demand theory and international trade theory were utilised. This study employs multiple methodologies, including panel Granger analysis, cross-country Granger causality analysis to identify the direction of causality, and thereafter the Wavelet coherence analysis to determine the time variance and the nature of the coherence between the variables. According to the study, the results have revealed unidirectional relationships between production and trade openness, chicken meat consumption, and GDP. Accordingly, policy suggestions are provided for farmers, policymakers, relevant organisations, and legislators to make an impact on the chicken meat industry by enhancing production, optimising operations, and maintaining high quality to improve nutritional value. All the implementation suggestions are given to support the Sustainable Development Goals, established by the United Nations.

肉类行业的可持续性依赖于对肉类的持续需求和渴望。近年来，鸡肉产量约为1.042亿吨，预计未来几年将增长2%，全球产量将达到创纪录的1.096亿吨。此外，全球鸡肉出口将增加3%，达到创纪录的1470万吨左右。因此，本研究主要考虑鸡肉消费、贸易开放程度和GDP等自变量，探讨对鸡肉生产产生显著影响的因果关系。这项研究是在几个收入群体中进行的，涵盖126个国家，时间为1993年至2022年的30年。为了加强研究，本文运用了需求理论和国际贸易理论。本研究采用了多种方法，包括面板格兰杰分析和跨国格兰杰因果分析来确定因果关系的方向，然后使用小波相干性分析来确定变量之间的时间方差和相干性。研究结果显示，生产与贸易开放、鸡肉消费和GDP之间存在单向关系。因此，为农民、决策者、相关组织和立法者提供政策建议，以通过提高生产、优化操作和保持高质量来提高营养价值，从而对鸡肉行业产生影响。所有的实施建议都是为了支持联合国制定的可持续发展目标。

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Organizational performance optimization: An AI-enabled framework for employee compensation and benefits management 组织绩效优化：支持人工智能的员工薪酬和福利管理框架

Q1 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Research in Globalization

Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100328

Prabodh B. Nayak, Itam Urmila Jagadeeswari

An organization’s long-term success is primarily tied to employee performance, creating a mutually beneficial relationship. High-performance employees drive organizational excellence, whereas effective organizations foster employee growth and development. Strategic compensation and benefit management enable employee performance by fostering trust, well-being, and engagement. This productivity gain translates to a sustainable competitive advantage, as high-performance and engaged human resources consistently deliver superior outcomes and innovations. Therefore, this study proposes an innovative Big Data Analytics (BDA)-enabled Organizational Performance Optimization (OPO) framework for compensation and benefit management. Integrating two technological models–Big Data Enabled Decision Support Architecture (BD-DSA) for secure beneficiary verification, and Contextual Recurrent-Value Learning Unit Gated Recurring Unit (CR-VLU-GRU) for accurate pay-grade classification–this framework addresses critical gaps in Human Resource (HR) decision-making. To balance operational efficiency and employee trust, this study incorporates data privacy-preserving techniques and efficient structuring into the model. The findings of the study show significant improvements in the proposed model when compared with the existing models, with – 50 % faster data retrieval for employee queries, 70 % reduction in employee digital signature creation and verification time, and 99 % accuracy and fairness in compensation allocation based on pay-grade classifications. The study highlights how data-driven compensation and benefit management strategies directly contribute to employee performance, reducing employee turnover, and eventually boosting the productivity and performance of the organization. Limitations and future direction discussions indicate that the integration of corporate social responsibility dimensions and cross-sectoral validations would strengthen the proposed framework to broaden generalizability.

一个组织的长期成功主要与员工的表现联系在一起，创造一种互利的关系。高绩效的员工推动组织的卓越，而有效的组织促进员工的成长和发展。战略薪酬和福利管理通过培养信任、幸福感和敬业度来提高员工绩效。这种生产力的提高转化为可持续的竞争优势，因为高性能和敬业的人力资源始终提供卓越的成果和创新。因此，本研究提出了一个创新的大数据分析（BDA）支持的组织绩效优化（OPO）框架，用于薪酬和福利管理。该框架集成了两种技术模型——用于安全受益人验证的大数据支持决策支持架构（BD-DSA）和用于准确薪资等级分类的上下文循环价值学习单元门控循环单元（CR-VLU-GRU）——解决了人力资源（HR）决策中的关键空白。为了平衡运营效率和员工信任，本研究将数据隐私保护技术和高效结构纳入模型。研究结果表明，与现有模型相比，所提出的模型有了显著的改进，员工查询的数据检索速度提高了50%，员工数字签名创建和验证时间减少了70%，基于薪酬等级分类的薪酬分配的准确性和公平性提高了99%。该研究强调了数据驱动的薪酬和福利管理策略如何直接促进员工绩效，减少员工流失率，并最终提高组织的生产力和绩效。局限性和未来方向的讨论表明，将企业社会责任各方面和跨部门的验证结合起来将加强所提议的框架，以扩大其普遍性。

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