Thanks Victor. I agree that many environmental factors such as noise, but also air quality, thermal comfort, and others, have been relatively underexamined in the managerial literature. This is somewhat surprising given that industry often spends millions improving workplace environments.
In the paper below published in the Journal of Building and Environment (the leading journal in the field, something akin to AMJ), we demonstrate the effects of traffic noise and the corrective impact of automated soundscaping with nature sounds on mental fatigue and restoration.
Importantly: we examine this using self-assessment, performance measures, and objective physiological responses (heart rate variability).
Unfortunately, this rich literature often goes unnoticed by management scholars, who rarely read outside the FT-50 ��.
Interestingly again, this attracted the interest of business who want to use our method to assess their office spaces.
Jabar, S. B., Lee, K. F. A., Chan, E., Ang, J. W. A., Lam, B., Boey, V., ... & Christopoulos, G. (2025). Augmented soundscaping improves psychophysiological markers of mental fatigue and recovery. Building and Environment, 113873.
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Georgios Christopoulos, Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Provost's Chair in Organizational Neuroscience
Associate Professor, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research Director, Culture Science Innovations
NTU-IRB Deputy Chair (Social Behavioral Education)
Director, NTU-IGP Program in Neuroscience
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