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Table 6

Theory used in previous literature

Sr. No.	Theories used	Total no. of papers	Sample references
1	Stakeholder Theory	17	Chang and Wang (2024), Korzeb et al. (2024)
2	Sustainable Development Theory	14	Saad et al. (2023), Suman et al. (2020)
3	Decision Theory	14	Gonzalez-Pozo et al. (2025), Nabeeh et al. (2021)
4	Systems Theory	08	Nabeeh et al. (2021), Zhang et al. (2019)
5	Legitimacy Theory	07	Ragulskis et al. (2026)

Sr. No.	Theories used	Total no. of papers	Sample references
1	Stakeholder Theory	17	Chang and Wang (2024), Korzeb et al. (2024)
2	Sustainable Development Theory	14	Saad et al. (2023), Suman et al. (2020)
3	Decision Theory	14	Gonzalez-Pozo et al. (2025), Nabeeh et al. (2021)
4	Systems Theory	08	Nabeeh et al. (2021), Zhang et al. (2019)
5	Legitimacy Theory	07	Ragulskis et al. (2026)

Source: Authors’ Own Compilation