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Effect of Strategic Change on Performance of Media Firms in Nairobi Kenya
No full textPurpose: Given the rapidly evolving media landscape in Nairobi, Kenya, which presents a unique opportunity to explore the impact of strategic change on organizational performance, this study addresses the effectiveness of various change strategies thereby offering valuable insights for media managers and policymakers striving to enhance the resilience and growth of media enterprises in Nairobi.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Employing descriptive and correlational research design, the study used closed ended questionnaires with a sample of 122 departmental heads out of a target population of 176 departmental heads from 6 major media firms in Nairobi; Nation Media Group, Standard Group, Royal Media Services, Mediamax Network Limited, Radio Africa Group and Capital Group Limited. The departmental heads for editorial, technical, sales and marketing, administrative and public relations formed the target and sample. Simple random sampling and stratified sampling techniques were adopted. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Data was presented using tables.
Findings: Strategic Change significantly affected performance in media firms P 0.00<0.05. This suggests that strategic change variables had a significant effect on performance of media firms hence rejection of null hypothesis.
Implications/Originality/Value: The study recommends that media firms should adopt a systematic change management strategy to facilitate seamless transitions and cultivate leadership abilities at all levels to enable leaders to proficiently initiate and oversee changes
Employment Challenges and Opportunities for Persons with Visual Impairment in Pakistan
No full textPurpose: The employment challenges and opportunities for persons with visual impairment (PWVI) in Pakistan were investigated in this study.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Quantitative approach through a structured survey of 70 respondents was used. Influencing factors of job acquisition, types of employment, and available support mechanisms for PWVI were determined.
Findings: Predominant presence of PWVI in provincial government roles and teaching was found. PWVI face challenges such as societal attitudes, infrastructure accessibility, and limited training opportunities. It was suggested that there should be enhanced educational access, inclusive hiring, improved workplace and public accessibility, expanded vocational training, and awareness campaigns about disability rights.
Implications/Originality/Value: These actions are needed to foster a more inclusive employment environment to empowering PWVI for achieving greater socio-economic integration and professional success in Pakistan
Barriers towards Adoption of E-Government Services
No full textPurpose: Despite growing access to e-government services, people must learn how to use them. Previous studies have engrossed mainly on the motivations for using e-government but the reasons why such services may not be used, have not been researched much. Therefore, this study aims at identifying the impediments to e-government services’ adoption in Pakistan.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Semi-structured interviews with the Pakistani citizens were conducted to develop an understanding of how individuals appraise e-government and what inhibits its acceptance.
Findings: The research identifies eleven main hurdles to e-government’s adoption, the most significant of which are a lack of need for occasional use of government services, a lack of a personal adviser, and a lack of trust. The findings imply that the quality of service is vital in the decision to utilize e-government. In contrast, technical problems such as data security or a lack of usability have little influence.
Implications/Originality/Value: The uniqueness of this study lies in the exploration of how people in Pakistan perceive the barriers they face while utilizing e-government services
Mapping the Evolution of Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) and its Appointment Impact on Performance: A Bibliometric Analysis
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this study is to synthesize literature and results about chief sustainability officer (CSO) appointment on performance of leading US companies that comprise the S & P 500 Index and to summarize the current trends, main topics, the most influential journals, and the authors.
Design/Methodology/Approach: In our research, 233 studies from 144 scientific journals recruited for bibliometric analyses and covered three decades from 1998 to 2023. Our study has identified three influential streams: (1) The CSO as a top management team (TMT) member, the effect of appointment on its performance and; (2) Importance of sustainability and performance; and (3) Sustainable and performance. Thematic map classifies the CSO appointment and performance relationship themes into four categories: For instance, they can include niches themes (appointment of CSO and sustainability); motor themes (appointment of CSO and sustainable development); emerging/declining themes (appointment of CSO and corporate governance); and the foundation/transversal themes (appointment of CSO and sustainability reporting).
Implications/Originality/Value: Through this study, scholars, public authorities, directors of companies, and advisers to businesses will have understanding about CSO appointment based on the performance in accordance with the accounting based, market based and economic based perspective. Finally, we point out the most important practical conclusions and provide research gaps in this area.  
Exploring Determinants of theory of Planned Behavior in Understanding Green Consumption in Organic Food Industry of Pakistan: Emphasizing Role of Environmental Knowledge and Perceived Price as Key Determinants to Organic Food Consumption
No full textPurpose: This research study presents empirical evidence supporting the practicality of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) when it comes to predicting intentions and behaviors in Pakistan's organic food industry. The study builds upon prior research by conducting a comprehensive examination of the various components of the TPB.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The data collection process involved selecting 350 consumers as the target sample using the purposive sampling technique. The data collection period spanned over a duration of two months. To analyze the data, Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) using Smart PLS 4.0 was employed.
Implications/Originality/Value: The study highlights the importance of attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control in predicting intentions related to organic food consumption. It provides theoretical contributions by extending the research on the TPB model, emphasizing the role of environmental knowledge as a moderator, and revealing insights into the significant relationship between attitude, subjective norms, perceived control behaviour and purchase intention and shows significant and positive impact of environmental knowledge between independent and dependent variables
Effects of Business Innovation and Technology Adoption on Libyan SMEs’ Performance: Mediation by Sustainable Development
No full textPurpose: This research examines the reliability of a developed questionnaire intended for use in a large-scale application. Also, existing literature has underscored the relationship between Business Innovation and Technology Adoption in the performance of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Libya. Also, SMEs encounter various challenges that impede their growth and success, including constraints related to capital and business development.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This study used SPSS software to analyze demographic attributes and internal consistency validity and validate all constructs as determine Pearson’s correlations.
Findings: The results revealed that 50% of respondents were owners and 50% were managers. Internal consistency reliability ranged from 0.961 to 0.974, indicating strong consistency across all components. Specifically, reliability coefficients were 0.961 for Strategic Planning, 0.966 for Business Innovation, 0.961 for Technology Adoption, 0.968 for Sustainable Development, and 0.974 for SMEs. Pearson’s correlations ranged from 0.961 to 0.974, confirming the validation of all questionnaire elements with Cronbach's alpha coefficients predominantly exceeding 0.6, a widely accepted threshold among researchers.
Implications/Originality/Value: The results support advancing the study to broader testing and analysis phases
Risks of Using Digital Payment Method Using the Perceived Risk (PR) Theory Approach
No full textPurpose: Most studies focus on the advantages of adopting innovations, such as Internet banking and mobile banking, assuming that new technology should be adopted because it is good enough. However, very few have specifically examined the risks perceived by customers when using DPM, especially mobile banking. Therefore, this study aims to determine the influence of privacy risk, security risk, access risk, personalization risk, and trust risk on the use of digital payments.
Design/Methodology/Approach: This study is explanatory. The sampling technique used is purposive sampling where the sample is taken with certain considerations or conditions. The criteria are as follows: 1) the millennial generation aged 18 to 45 years and 2) the selected sample is an active user of DPM such as SMS, internet, and mobile banking. The distribution of questionnaires used purposive convenience sampling to select samples. Convenience sampling is based on the availability of elements and the ease of obtaining them. To test the hypothesis, the Partial Least Square (PLS) technique was used using the smart PLS 3.0 application.
Findings: personalization risk and trust risk variables have a significant positive effect on the use of digital payments. At the same time the access risk, security risk, and privacy risk variables do not affect the use of digital payments.
Implications/Originality/Value: This study can enrich the literature on Perceived Risk (PR) theory by providing insight into how the risk perceived by users affects the adoption and use of digital payment methods. This can help understand the psychological and emotional factors that influence consumer decisions and open up opportunities to integrate PR Theory with other theories, such as the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) or the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), to get a more comprehensive picture of technology adoption
A Retrospective of Earnings Management: Bibliometric Analysis
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this study presented bibliometric analysis of earnings management (EM) research and provides information on main results and new developments in this field of study. Deliberate manipulation of financial reports, known as earnings management (EM), has received widespread attention from the academic community in recent decades.
Methodology/ Design/ Approach: This study utilizes VOS viewer software for bibliometric analysis of 1975 articles archived in the Scopus database between 2001and 2023.
Findings: The results show significant relationships between EM with corporate governance, performance metrics, and information quality. The study serves to trace publications and categories as a kind of context for understanding development and EM research emphasis. It also indicates the most productive authors, countries, Institutions and journals on the topic. An analysis of clusters using keywords highlighted new trends in EM research. Notably, this study identified a possible class of real activities that had never been studied in EM before, warranting future work.
Research Limitations/Implications: The major limitations of this research are that it uses a single database Scopus and only one search term (“earnings management”), and the selection of journal articles, excluding other publication types, is another limitation.
Originality/ value: This study identified a global perspective that is unique in the existing EM literature, and other similar bibliometric studies were limited in their focus on specific subtopics of EM. It discusses the demand for arranging this unorganized domain of study. Additionally, it is an important contribution to the scientific literature on EM research and an excellent source for studies based on the current state of knowledge
Profitability, Investment Factors and Trading Volume Adjustment on Equity Risk Premium an Empirical Evidence from Nairobi Stock Exchange
No full textPurpose: Equity markets have always fascinated and challenged financial researchers with their complexities and broad implications. This Study investigated the effect of profitability measures and investment factors on the Equity Premium of companies listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) from 2011 to 2022.
Design/ Methodology/Approach: The research design used in this study was the time series regression approach of Black, Jensen, and Scholes (1972). The target population comprises companies in the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). Secondary data was obtained from the NSE database. This study used panel data from over ten years of cross-section analysis. An autoregressive integrated moving average model (ARIMA) of controlled variables methodology was used on the FamaMac Beth portfolio formation.
Findings: The finding implied a significant relationship between profitability and the Equity Premium of listed companies on the Nairobi Securities Exchange during the period of Study. The Study found no significant relationship between investment policies and the Equity Premium of listed companies on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). There was significant relationship between trading volume as measured by liquidity and the Equity Premium of listed companies on the Nairobi Securities Exchange.
Implications/Originality/Value: The study will be helpful to those who seek to rebalance their portfolios, given the Fama French Model factors. Regulators and the policymakers could adopt appropriate policies to limit the damage to the real economy
Performance of Women Entrepreneurs: Does Financial Literacy Really Matter?
No full textPurpose: The aim of the research is to investigate the impact of financial literacy and its dimensions on the women entrepreneurial success. The focus of the study is on the women entrepreneurs of Pakistan and examines the relationship between the dimensions of financial literacy like financial management, saving, debt, insurance and investment literacy and the performance of the women run enterprise. The inclusion and participation of the women is a key indicator for the progress and development of a country.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The study employs a quantitative approach where survey questionnaires were the primary research method employed to collect the data. Data was collected from 284 women entrepreneurs form the major metropolitan cities in Pakistan. These women were selected using purposive sampling and the data was then analysed using the partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique.
Findings: The finding of the study suggests that the overall financial literacy level of women entrepreneurs is impacting the success and growth of their ventures. Moreover, all the dimensions of the financial literacy were positively and significantly related to the success.
Implications/Originality/Value: This research advances the argument that the financial literacy is a contributing factor in the entrepreneurial success of the business