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EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF JUMIA COMPANY IN NIGERIA
Full text linkThe current study comprehensively investigated the impact of logistics management practices adopted by Jumia digital logistics management company in Nigeria on the overall performance of the company. The study elicited primary data from 768 respondents with the help of online Google Forms. Moreover, the research also surveyed two distinct categories of participants, comprising 384 Jumia customers and 384 Jumia staff members. It employed SPSS Amos to analyze the collected data to construct a Structural Equation Model (SEM). The estimated results showed that all the four dimensions of logistics management– namely, inventory management (IVM), warehousing (WHS), transport logistics (TPL), and information flow management (INF) exert positive and significant impact on Jumia's organizational performance. Furthermore, the study also evaluated the impact of each logistics management practice on Jumia's performance indicators, which encompasses customer satisfaction (CUS), expansion of market share (MKS), and reduction of costs (COM). It also determined that, each of the logistics management practices has a positiveinfluence on all three organizational performance indicators, with the exception of TPL, which did not yield minimum cost. The study also identified a limited distribution of warehousing facilities across Nigeria forJumia. Consequently, it recommended that Jumia-Nigeria should expand its warehousing network nationwide. Moreover, the study sued for enhanced internet-based information flow management with tangible mass media channels, such as handbills. Lastly, it underscored the need for logisticsmanagement companies to employ diverse strategies, given their complementary nature, to collectively enhance the company's overall performanc
An Application of Contingent Valuation Method for Reduction in Risk of Premature Mortality due to Air Pollution: A Case Study of Gujranwala, Pakistan
Full text linkIn contemporary Anthropocene Epoch air pollution (AP) has crossed the environmental safety standards in most of the urban areas of Pakistan and resulting serious threats to human health. Gujranwala, one of the major cities of Pakistan, also faced many adverse health consequences in terms of respiratory and cardiac diseases, which resulted premature mortality. Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) opted to find trade-off between income and risk of premature mortality. Stratified Random Sampling technique followed to survey 174 respondents in total. Logistic regression was followed for estimation by taking WTP as dependent variable and it was estimated that household’s monthly income, health cost, air pollution effects health or not, air pollution result premature mortality or not had significant impact on WTP, while education and employment nature had insignificant impact. The monetary values estimated against each risk reduction option were as follows; PKR 387286 for 1-in1000, PKR 664000 for 5-in-1000 and PKR 931000 for 10-in-1000. A diminishing trend had been observed in trade-off among marginal resources forgone and minimization of risk associated to additional life
Testing for homogenous or heterogenous doers in Longitudinal latent class regression framework
Full text linkLatent class regression analysis is applied in context of conditional and unconditional analysis. The empirical analysis is conducted in novel way for exploratory and confirmatory perspective utilizing longitudinal British household data of Understanding society. The study aims to explore the profile differences for subjective satisfaction towards work and confirms the absence of differential effects of job-related variables across the explored broad classes of satisfied and non satisfied job doers. For further insights into behaviour of selected classes, conditional models are employed. Step 3 approach is utilized in this regard for investigating the contribution of background variables such as gender, age, occupation and quality of life for shaping their response of being satisfied or non satisfied with their jobs. This study overall tests and confirms the absence of heterogenous triggers for job satisfaction in British society.
 
Empirical Assessment of Business Competitiveness and Income Distribution: A Case of Selected Lower-Middle-Income Economies
Full text linkThe present study attempts to quantify the quadratic nexus between income distribution and business competitiveness. The study also adds interaction term of development expenditure with business competitiveness to examine impact of both on income inequality. The present study uses yearly panel data from 2008 to 2018 for 27 lower-middle-income economies. The results of the study are based on Quantile Regression for Panel Data (QRPD). The findings of the study reveal a U-shaped pattern between business competitiveness and income inequality. Further, an insignificant negative impact of development expenditure on income inequality is observed. However, if lower-middle-income economies take into account development expenditure with business competitiveness then the impact on income inequality gets significant with the same sign. The variable urban population is significant and decreases income inequality while broad money (proxy of financial development), trade, and rule of law have a significant role in increasing income inequality. The study suggests that development expenditure and business competitiveness may increase simultaneously for more equal distribution of income. Moreover, standardization of rule of law in lower-middle-income economies is also very important for equal distribution of income. 
Impact of Workplace Violence on Sustainable Performance of Nurses with the Mediation of Social Well-being in the Pakistani Context
Full text linkThe current study investigated the impact of the predictors of workplace violence (harassment, physical violence, stalking, and ostracism) on sustainable work performance with mediating the role of social well-being of Pakistani nurses considering the ‘hierarchy of need’ theory. A survey method was used to conduct the current study. The data was collected from 400 respondents of four nursing teaching colleges, affiliated with hospitals of Lahore, Pakistan. The data was analyzed in Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and Smart Partial Least Square (PLS) software using structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique. The results revealed a negative influence of workplace violence on the performance of nurses. Moreover, it tends to dissatisfy their safety and social needs, the most important human needs according to Maslow’s theory. Since Maslow’s time, researchers continued to explore how safety and social needs impact the well-being of nurses. Social well-being is related to better physical, mental, and social health and conversely, feeling isolated (unmet safety and social need) bears negative consequences for health and well-being. Eventually, it became the reason for low performance. The findings confirmed that workplace violence is the strong predictor of sustainable performance. Whereas, nurse’s social well-being mediates the relationship between the predictors (workplace violence) and the outcome variable (performance). Therefore, the study concluded that when safety and social needs are fulfilled, nurses perform their duties enthusiastically. This is the first endeavor to use the “hierarchy of need” theory in order to mediate the effect of violence, performance, and social well-being of nurses. Therefore, the current study served as a baseline for further research in this area. The findings helped the higher authorities and hospitals’ management to devise such policies which help nurses towards organizational growth and sustainable work environment
The Outbreak of Covid-19 Pandemic: A Discourse Analysis of Economic Impact in Africa
Full text linkBackground: The outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic has brought serious consequences on the socioeconomic conditions of many countries across the globe due to the stringent measures taken to curb its spread by governments at various levels. However, these consequences varied across regions and sectors.
Objective: This study therefore attempts to analyse the trend of Covid-19 and the economic burden caused by the pandemic on 54 African countries using the cross-sectional data of covid-19 update report of 1st and 11th November, 2020.
Method: The study employed descriptive statistical techniques as well as discourse analysis approach to analyze the impact of the pandemic on African countries.
Results: Although Africa has not been enormously affected in terms of the incidence and prevalence rates of the covid-19, the findings indicated that the pandemic has significant negative impact on various sectors of African economy notably aviation, education and health which consequently brought a serious setback in the overall growth and development in the region. Also, a strong correlation was found to exist between the number of covid-19 cases and deaths associated with the pandemic.
Conclusion: The fact that the pandemic still exists and some countries have already entered into second wave, the study recommends for additional investment in the health sector in order to sufficiently equip the isolation centers with all necessary facilities to fast-track the treatment process. Also, the study calls for rigorous commitments on the part of governments to invest massively particularly in the highly affected sectors and come up with policies for ease of doing business in the region. This will provide more job opportunities thereby reducing the level of poverty especially in the post covid-19 period
Influence Of Spiritual Leadership on Green Behavior: The Mediating Role of Green HRM and the Moderating Role of Individual Green Values
Full text linkGiven the importance of fostering green behavior among employees in multinational corporations (MNCs), the current study aimed to determine how spiritual leadership influences employees' in-role and out-of-role green behavior. The data was gathered from MBA executives’ programs with at least one year's experience working in the pharmaceutical industry. The sample size was 658 and PLS-SEM software was selected to perform the analysis. According to the findings, MNCs may develop in-role and extra-role green habits with the support of spiritual leadership and adopting green Human Resource Management (HRM) practices. Additionally, this relationship may be restrained by individual green values. Organizations can encourage to promote a culture of environmental sustainability by utilizing green HRM techniques, fostering spiritual leadership, and inspiring people to adopt green behavior through training programs and eco-friendly policies and practices. The results further emphasized that how crucial it is to include spiritual leadership in the creation and application of HRM practices. By doing this, companies may encourage a culture of sustainability and green behavior among their staff which can enhance both organizational performance and social responsibility. The current study added to the body of knowledge by providing new reasons to determine the relationship between spiritual leadership and staff members’ environmentally friendly behaviors (both inside and outside the workplace). Due to environmental concerns, the corporate sector now has a larger role in protecting the environment
Exploring and Evaluating the Association between Environmental Sustainability and Economic Progress: A Cross-Country Analysis of Green Tourism
Full text linkEnvironment plays a critical role in sustaining the natural resources of both developed and developing countries. In this regard, climate change poses a significant threat to the entire world, depleting the natural resources of countries and making the land inhabitable. This study is a cross-sectional study. It employed ordinal regression using the least square method to examine the impact of the threatened species, environmental performance, tourism income, tourism expenditure, GDP per capita, environment related treaties, and CO2 emissions on tourism income and selected dependent variables in different clusters of 106 countries in 2019. The study included countries from Sub Sharan Africa; South and Southeast Asia; South America; Oceania; North Asia; North America; North Africa; Mesoamerica; East Asia; Caribbean Islands; and West and Central Asia. The results varied across regions and countries. The study was based on three clusters. These clusters were based on the highest number of threatened species, higher GDP per capita, and the highest environmental sustainability score on a 1-7 scale as measured by WEF. Various sources of data were used to collect secondary data including WEF reports, World Bank, UN Red List, and Atlas big. In all three models for all the clusters, improvement in environmental performance had a positive impact on GDP per capita and tourism income. For all clusters poor climatic conditions in terms of CO2 emissions and poor environmental performance further increased the number and percentage of threatened species. A policy was proposed to protect endangered species through improved environmental conditions and quality tourism infrastructure, tourism expenditure, and increased environment related treaties
Impact of Credit Risk Management on Bank Performance: An Empirical Study on Commercial Banks Listed at Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX)
Full text linkCommercial banks are involved in uncontrolled credit risk management that negatively affects their sustainable banking performance. Many guidelines, strategies, and judgments have been made, such as the Basel Accords, to control these issues and adequately manage their lending and borrowing policies. This study aims to analyse the impact of credit risk management on the sustainable performance of commercial banks. For this purpose, secondary panel data was collected from the annual financial reports of 27 commercial banks out of the 31 listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) for the period 2017-2021. E-views 10 software was applied to perform descriptive correlation and multiple regression analyses. In the current study’s model, credit risk management proxies, return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE), and net interest margin (NIM) were employed as dependent variables. At the same time, capital adequacy ratio (CAR), loan and advances (LA), non-performing loans (NPL) ratio, market profit opportunity (MPO), and bank liquidity (BL) were employed as independent variables. The study concludes that bank liquidity has a significant positive relationship with bank performance. Comparably, capital adequacy ratio, non-performing loans, bank liquidity, market profit opportunity, and loan and advances harm the sustainable performance of commercial banks. The research suggests that implementing stricter policies and strategies, such as the regulation of customer loans, is required to control these issues
The Impact of Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs) on the Market Value of Palestinian Public Shareholding Banks
Full text linkThis study aimed to explore the financial soundness of the Palestinian banking sector. It also aimed to examine its impact on the market value of banks listed on the Palestine Stock Exchange (PEX) which lists six (6) banks. For this purpose, Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs) were utilized including capital indicators, asset quality indicators, profitability indicators, and liquidity indicators. The study employed a descriptive-analytical approach, utilizing the published financial statements of these banks to calculate the necessary ratios for measuring FSIs. Additionally, publications from the PEX were used to measure market value for the period of 2012-2021. The study revealed several noteworthy findings, including the adherence of listed banks on PEX to the Basel III Committee's regulations regarding FSIs. The data also showed that the Palestinian banking sector ranks at intermediate to advance level in terms of banking safety. Furthermore, FSIs have a significant impact on the market-to-book value ratio