University of Human Development lecturer, Mr Farooq Hussein Muhammed who teaches at the Department of Business Management at the College of Administration and Economics, co-authored a research paper titled ‘Critical categories of nostalgia and their negative impact on green manufacturing intentions for processed food products’, and published in the Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management. The journal is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and it has an Impact Factor of 7.3 on Clarivate Analytics and a CiteScore of 14.3 on Scopus.

This is a significant achievement considering the difficulties of publishing articles in high-Impact Factor and CiteScore journals, marking a milestone in the history of article publication by Iraqi researchers. Below is the abstract of the paper:

Purpose

The main purpose of the current study is to get a better understanding of how the set of crucial categories of nostalgia can negatively impact on green manufacturing intentions in the food industry field, taking three food factories as a case study.

Design/methodology/approach

Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected using semi-structured interviews and a questionnaire to fulfill the study’s objectives. The questionnaire has previously undergone testing.

Findings

The study results showed that nostalgia categories, especially personal nostalgia, significantly hinder the intention to create green manufacturing system requirements. This, in turn, reduces the intention to produce green products and, consequently, to buy and consume them by an audience that is dominated by nostalgia traits.

Originality/value

This paper’s originality enables the introduction of a brand-new contribution in terms of providing sponsoring facts and information, which goes a long way toward filling the gap in the literature regarding the essential effect that can be achieved by way of the set of nostalgia categories. This includes using a modern look inside the inexperienced manufacturing intentions for processed food products. The current study focused on food sector factories in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region to accomplish this goal.